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PROJECT 2: A NATION OF GUNFIGHTERS

CULTURAL BACKGROUND

GUN VIOLENCE IN THE USA

: Let's find out what you know about BASIC GUN FACTS

1) The SECOND AMENDMENT to the U.S CONSTITUTION

Listen to a recording of the second amendment and put the balloons in the right order.

a- being necessary b- shall not be infringed.

d- to the security of a free state c- the right of the people

e- a well regulated militia, f- to keep and bear arms,

Rewrite the amendment correctly.

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2) Identify the main clause and the supporting argument.

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3) Explain what a militia is.

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 4) Fill in the blanks with the right figures :
a) 100,000 b) 20 times c) one million d) 30,000

The firearms homicide rate in the US is ......................................... higher than in other rich
countries . On average, more than .................................. people are shot each year an
......................................... of them die. More than .......................................... people
in the US have been killed with a gun since 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F.
Kennedy were assassinated.

A Very Powerful Lobby.

1) Listen to the recording and report about the National Rifle Association of America.

definition

what they want

what they provide

their arguments

what they do to counterbalance their position

their mode of action

2) According to you why do NRA members quote this amendment?

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NOUNS : gun shooting : le tir / fusillade / gun control : le contrle des armes feu / rifle : fusil /
pressure group : groupe de pression / citizen : citoyen

VERB : to bear arms / to carry guns : porter /possder des armes / to infringe : enfeindre /violer /
to shoot : tirer / to provide : fournir / to claim : revendiquer /to threathen : menacer

ADJECTIVE : well-regulated : bien rglement / tough : dur

An Old Wild West Tradition

Read the text and answer the questions below.

1) Comment on the picture and the frontier tradition it illustrates.
2) What are the traditional American ideals quoted in the text ?
3) State the consequences of guns being everywhere.
4) Pick out the two examples of gun use for trivial reasons .
5) Give the equivalents : espace sauvage / force / survie / foyer /blessures /charges / corve

MAKE A TWO-MINUTE PRESENTATION ABOUT GUNS IN AMERICA

Make a presentation on guns in the US. Use information from the documents you

have studied so far. Try not to stop talking for one minute. Ask your friends to time
you.