Pre-reading part
Task
1. Listening
comprehension.
Task 2. Comment on the statements. Explain
the meaning and say whether they are related to the content of the article.
a) Violence exists with the tacit
consent of society.
While-reading part
Task 1. Read the article and be ready to translate it.
Task 2. Write out the words and phrases given in
bold. Explain the meaning in English. Translate into Russian.
Task
3. Make
up a dialogue/interview using new vocabulary.
Five
people dead, including child, after shooting at Wisconsin Christian school
Police
say suspected shooter is among the dead, and several others injured, at
Abundant Life Christian in Madison
Guardian staff and agencies
Mon 16 Dec
2024 18.50 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/16/wisconsin-school-shooting-madison
Five people, including a child, are dead and several others injured after a shooting Monday at a
Christian school in Wisconsin, a local police chief said.
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said
the suspect shooter is also among
the dead.
Earlier multiple injuries were
reported Monday in the shooting at Abundant Life Christian school in Madison, the
state capital, police said.
“This remains an active and ongoing investigation,” Madison police
said in a statement. “More information
will be released as it is available. We currently need people to avoid the
area.”
The school has about 390 students,
from kindergarten through high school, according to its website.
It sits on a 28-acre campus that
hosts students from about 200 families in the Dane county area.
Local TV footage of the scene outside
the school showed dozens of police cars, ambulances
and fire service vehicles pulling up
in the streets outside the school.
America has long had an epidemic of
school shootings, on a scale unlike any other country in the world but has
struggled with any meaningful efforts to
curb the phenomenon, especially when it comes to limiting access to
powerful firearms.
Post-reading part
Task 1. Divide the text of the article into logical parts. Make
up questions to each logical part. Provide a summary sentence to each logical
part.
Task 2. What
is the main idea of the article?
Task 3. Does
the author of the article sound objective or subjective?
Task 4. Write a rendering of the article. Mind the rules of a rendering writing.
Task 5. Learn the new
vocabulary from the article be ready to write the dictation-translation.
