Underage Drinking What is the legal drinking age in the US? 21
• • In France? 18 • What can you say about the situation in the US? Enforcement problems ( fake Ids, ask
relatives or friends, «pushed underground»)
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Although many believe that anyone under the age of 21 is prohibited from consu in the United States, underage drinking is allowed in 29 states if done on private with parental consent, 30 states if for religious purposes, and 13 states if for edu purposes. Between 1970 to 1975, 29 states lowered their Minimum Legal Drinking Age (ML to 18, 19, or 20. The enactment of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 prompted stat their legal age for purchase or public possession of alcohol to 21 or risk losing m federal highway funds.
Last fall ( automne), a group of over 100 college presidents including the heads directeurs) of Dartmouth, Virginia Tech and Duke -signed a declaration stating the 21-year-old drinking age is not working, and fireworks( feux d’artifice) wen But the college presidents got what they wanted: a national debate about the drinking age. When the age was raised to 21 in the mid-1980s, the goal ( obje was to reduce highway fatalities( morts). But everyone knows that the21 age hasn't stoppedminors from drinking. And now some experts believe it's actual contributing to an increase inextreme drinking. This is what the former ( ancien)president of Middlebury College in Vermont, John McCardell believes an it's why he started the movement dedicated ( consacré) to lowering ( abaisse age back to 18. What do College Presidents want? They want the 21-year-old drinking age to be lowered to 18 ( the situation on campuses is unmanageable. Why was the legal drinking age raised? •In order to reduce highway deaths
1. The current situation is compared to: Prohibition Prosecution Probation Persecution
4. Parents could teach kids: abstinence moderation good manners the chemistry of alcohol
2. The settings of college drinking are seen as: Risky but manageable Risky and unmanageable Not that risky and manageable Not that risky but unmanageable
5. Boulder is a: Town like any other one The capital city of Colorado College town City with the highest rate of DUIs.
3. Which one is not a favourite place to get drunk? Locked dormitories Gardens Fraternity houses Basements
6. The Chief of police believes they should spend less time on: teenagers having a cup of beer in their hands. the abuse of alcohol DUI driving
Prohibition periodfrom1920-1933 duringwhich the sale, manufacture, andtransportationof alcoholforconsumptionwerebannednationallyasmandatedin theEighteenthAmendmenttotheUnitedStatesConstitution. The"VolsteadAct",prohibitedthesaleofalcohol,itdidlittleto enforcethelaw. By1925, inNewYorkCityalone, 30,000to100,000speakeasyclubs
therewereanywherefrom
Prohibitionbecameincreasinglyunpopular Depression.
duringtheGreat
OnDecember 5, 1933, the ratificationof the Twenty-first AmendmentrepealedtheEighteenthAmendment.
Answerthequestions Giveexamplesofdrinkinggames. beerpong,beerbonging,sixinten
Whatispre-loading? Drinkingalotbeforeleavinghome(toload=charger)
Giveanexampleofenforcementtechniques. Crackdowns:descentes Thecircleahousetomakesurenoonecanleaveandthen issueticketstoeveryonewhoisunder21.
Say whether the following statements are right or wrong. Justify. In the US, you can vote, be selected as a juror and enrol ( engager)in the army at eighteen. R lowering the drinking age to 18 which after all, he says, is the age when we're considered adults for most things Why don't we trust these young adults to make the same kind of responsible decisions about alcohol that we believe them capable of making in the voting booth, in the jury box, on the battlefield
Chuck Hurley and John McCardell share ( partager) somewhat similar opinions. W
The inconvenient truth is that a drinking age at 18 would cause more funerals
Over a thousand families would lose a child if the drinking age was lowered back to eighteen. W MADD was created in 1984.
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MADD was a major force behind raising the drinking age to 21 back in 1984 ( so they needed to have been there before the law was passed)
When the legal drinking age was lowered in some states, there was a progressive increase in highway victims ( victimes de la route). W Nine hundred families a year would have to bury a teenager
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, is a non-profit organization that seeks to stop drunk driving, support those affected by drunk driving and prevent underage drinking. The Irving, Texas–based organization was founded in1980 by Candice Lightner after her 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunk driver. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 required all states to raise their minimum purchaseand public possession of alcohol age to 21. States that did not comply faced a reduction in highway funds under the Federal Highway Aid Act.... It does not prohibit persons under 21 from drinking.
Whyareorganisationsliningupagainst(sepositionnercontre)McCardell? Because they believe he doesn’t have enough information to support his position
Giveexamplesofoff-highwaydeathslinkedtoalcohol? Suicides, homicides and alcohol poisoning ( coma éthylique)
IsMcCardellinfavourofabstinence? No, he believes that abstinence is not the answer, moderation is. He thinks abstinence isn’t enforcable.
Aremandatoryclassesagoodidea?Whataboutthelicensetodrink?
We're not in a situation where we can stop it. The best we can do is try to contain it," Mark Beckner told Stahl. Mark Beckner told Stahl that they weren’t in a situation where they could stop it. He added that the best they could do was try to contain it "Why don't we trust those young adults to make the same kind of responsible decisions about alcohol that we believe them capable of making in the voting booth, in the jury box, on the battlefield?" John McCardell wondered why they/ Americans/adults didn’t trust these young adults to make the same kind of responsible decisions about alcohol that they believed them/ young people capable of making in the voting booth, in the jury box, on the battlefield?"
It is so widespread that it's the norm. It is such (phenomenon) a widespread phenomenon that it’s the norm It is so regularly and routinely avoided, that enforcement results in two arrests for every thousand violations. It is avoided in such (way) a regular way that enforcement results in two arrests for every thousand violations. Include so or such to stress the following sentences It's a bad social policy It's sucha bad social policy! Beckner has tried many different kinds of enforcement techniques Beckner has tried somany different kinds of enforcement techniques!
Une récente étude de la fondation Robert Wood Johnson affirme que/ la limite des 21 ans a permis de/ réduire de 11% /le nombre d'accidents de la route liés à l'ivresse. According to a recent survey by Robert Wood Johnson foundation/, the 21-yearold age limit/21-year-old minimum drinking age HAS allowed/ the number of road accidents/ traffic casualties due to drunk driving /to decrease by 11 % . Cette limite des 21 ans /est en vigueur dans tous les Etats américains /depuis qu'une loi de 1984/ a supprimé des subventions pour les autoroutes /à tout Etat qui ne l'appliquerait pas. This 21 –year - old limit /has been in force /in all American states /since a law dated 1984 /suppressed / cancelled highway subsidies/federal highway apportionment /to any state which would fail to implement/enforce it. Dans les années 70/, l'âge légal pour boire avait été abaissé entre 18 et 20 ans/ dans de nombreux Etats /parce qu'il était devenu intenable/ de refuser une bière aux jeunes anciens combattants du Vietnam/ de retour du front. In the 1970s/, the legal drinking age had been lowered to between 18 and 20 /in lots of states /because it had become impossible/unbearable / to refuse a beer to Vietnam vets /back from the front (line).
