Worksheet Week 4: Drinking Age COMPREHENSION 1) Introduction

Duke - signed a declaration stating that the 21-year-old drinking age is not working, and ... 3. Which one is not a favourite place to get drunk? a). Dorm rooms b). Gardens .... Nouns abuse alcohol poisoning basement battlefield binge drinking.
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Worksheet Week 4: Drinking Age COMPREHENSION 1) Introduction: Fill in the blanks Last fall, a group of over 100 college _______________ - including the heads of Dartmouth, Virginia Tech and Duke - signed a declaration stating that the 21-year-old drinking age is not working, and _______________ went off. But the college _____________ got what they wanted: a national ________________ about the drinking age. When the age was raised to _______________ in the mid-1980s, the goal was to reduce highway _____________________. But everyone knows that the _____________ age limit hasn't stopped minors from drinking. And now some ____________ believe it's actually contributing to an increase in ________________ drinking. This is what the _________ president of Middlebury College in ________________, John McCardell, _______________ and it's why he started the movement ______________ to lowering the age back to _______________. Comprehension questions What do College Presidents want? _____________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Why was the legal drinking age raised? _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ 2) Enforceability: Choose the correct answer 1. The current situation is compared to: 4. Parents could teach kids: a) Prohibition a) abstinence b) Prosecution b) moderation c) Probation c) good manners d) Persecution d) the chemistry of alcohol 2. The settings of college drinking are seen as: 5. Boulder is: a) risky but manageable a) a town like any other b) risky and unmanageable b) the capital city of Colorado c) not that risky and manageable c) a college town d) not that risky but unmanageable d) the city with the highest rate of DUIs. 3. Which one is not a favourite place to get drunk? 6. The chief of police believes they should spend less time a) Dorm rooms on: b) Gardens a) teenagers having a cup of beer in their hands. c) Fraternity houses b) the abuse of alcohol d) Basements c) DUI driving Comprehension questions Give examples of drinking games.______________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ What is pre-loading?________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Give an example of enforcement tactics._________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ 3) MADD: Say whether the following statements are right or wrong. Justify. 1. In the US, you can vote, be selected as a juror and enrol in the army at eighteen. R/W _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Chuck Hurley and John McCardell share somewhat similar opinions. R/W _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Over a thousand families would lose a child if the drinking age was lowered to eighteen. R/W _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. MADD was created in 1984. R/W _______________________________________________________________________________________ 5. When the legal drinking age was lowered in some states, there was a progressive increase in highway victims. R/W _______________________________________________________________________________________

Comprehension questions What is MADD?___________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ When was the legal drinking age raised? What were the consequences?________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ 4)Lack of support: Who said what? Match the words in the left column with those in the right: Organisations There is no obvious solution to the problem. McCardell Driving aside, alcohol-related issues are on the increase. Stahl Driving aside, alcohol is the cause of thousands of deaths. The Surgeon General There is no proof lowering the legal drinking age would work. Comprehension questions Why are organisations lining up against McCardell?_______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Give examples of off-highway deaths linked to alcohol? ____________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ 5) Education: Correlation: Match the words in the left column with those in the right: Alcohol abuse License to drink Temperance lectures Taken away Chemistry of alcohol Binge drinking Passing an exam Sitting on AA sessions Violation Prohibition Comprehension questions Is McCardell in favour of abstinence? __________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Are mandatory classes a good idea? What about the license to drink?__________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ 6) PAIR WORK STUDENT A STUDENT B 1. What do you associate with the expression underage 1. Were you surprised to see how widespread drinking ? binge-drinking was? 2. What do you think the legal drinking age should be? 2. What is the position of John McCardell on the 3. What is MADD? What is their position on the issue? Why? issue? Do you understand why? 3. Why is the situation compared with the 4. Is underage drinking a problem in your country? Prohibition era? Compare with the US. 4. Do you think alcohol is dangerous? 5. Explain what pre-loading is. 5. What bad experiences have you had or 6. Have you ever been asked for an ID when buying a witnessed involving drunk people and drunk drink? Do you think it is normal? teenagers? 7. What are the social problems caused by underage 6. What responsibilities do parents have in their drinking? children's drinking? 8. Why do several interviewees say the current law is 7. Why do you think college students drink that unworkable? much? 9. Do you think taking an exam before being allowed 8. Some people believe that if a person can go to to drink is a good idea? war, he or she should be able to have a beer. Do 10. What was your reaction when the head of MADD you agree? said that when they lowered the drinking age in the 9. Why was the legal drinking age raised to 21 in 1970s the death rate increased by 10 to 40%? the 1980s? 11. In the UK authorities are thinking about increasing 10. Can you think of other measures that could the legal drinking age to 21, do you think it would be a reduce drunk-driving? good idea? 11. Do you think a similar reform would be possible in France? Adjectives abysmal

current effective

impractical manageable

mandatory reckless

underage unsupervised

unworkable crackdown probation Verbs Adverbs/expressions widespread drinking age prohibition to aim basically Nouns drunk driving prosecution to avoid fireworks went off abuse DUI rate to bury to have a crackdown alcohol poisoning enforcement setting to contribute including basement enforceability suburb to down put your life on the battlefield failure support to line up against line binge drinking fall temperance to lower regularly chemistry heads voting booth to raise routinely conundrum goal weapon to wonder conviction lecture 7) GRAMMAR: Indirect speech: “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__________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ "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?" John McCardell wondered___________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ So and Such So + adjective/adverb + that Subject & verb so Adjective/adverb that (result) The ice-cream was so good that I ordered a second bowl Such + adjective + noun + that Subject & verb such It was such It's such

adjective + noun good coffee a great restaurant

that that that

(result) I drank three cups I'll definitely go again

Rephrase the following sentences using such and adding the necessary elements It is so widespread that it's the norm. ___________________________________________________________ It is avoided so regularly, that enforcement results in two arrests for every thousand violations. _________________________________________________________________________________________ As and Like Change when possible As McCardell puts it, it's so widespread, it's the norm. John McCardell points to the story of Gordie Bailey as one reason he supports lowering the drinking age to 18. Lives are being put at risk off the highways in increasing numbers year by year as a result of this law. So what you're saying is alcohol education would be like driving education. It's like the old days of prohibition. 18 is the age when we're considered adults for most things, like firing a weapon and putting your life on the line in battle. 8) TRANSLATION 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. 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. 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.

9) CROSSWORDS :

Across Down 2. to move something into a low position 1. the lawyers in a trial who try to prove that a person accused of 4. a small container filled with explosive chemicals which produce committing a crime is guilty of that crime bright coloured patterns or loud noises when they explode 3. existing or happening in many places and/or among many 7. doing something dangerous and not worrying about the risks people and the possible results 5. any object used in fighting or war, such as a gun, bomb, sword, 8. the contrary of success etc 9. a problem that is difficult to deal with 6. describes a plan that is not practical or that you cannot really do 10. describes something which must be done, or which is successfully demanded by law 7. used in order to describe what often or usually happens 12. easy or possible to deal with 11. to watch a person or activity to make certain that everything is 13. driving under the influence done correctly, safely, etc. 14. a place where a battle is being fought or has been fought in the past

9)LETTER TILES: Legal drinking age (Wikipedia definition) Unscramble the tiles to reveal a message.