Five people dead, including child, after shooting at Wisconsin Christian school

 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.