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Who is Michael Moore? (nationality, city of origin, jobs, role in the film…) ……………………………………………………..…...................…………………………………………………………………………………………………...................…………………………………………………………………………

CHAPTER 1. MORNING IN AMERICAWhat happened? “The farmer _______________his chores … the milkman ____________his deliveries … the President ______________ another country whose name we couldn’t pronounce,… Carey Mc Williams ___________________ on his morning walk,… Mrs Hughes ____________________ her students for another day at school, … two boys _________________________at six o’clock in the morning.”

Moore introduces a typical day in America. One of the images of a ‘typical day’ shows bombed out buildings as Michael Moore says, “and the President ordered the bombing of another country we couldn’t pronounce”. This is an example of ____________________ .

CHAPTER 2. NORTH COUNTRY BANK

Fill in: "I spotted an _____ in the local __________ paper that said if you ________ an _________ at the North Country ________, the _________ would give you a _______."

Number of weapons they have :_______ What sort of questions is he asked by the lady? (tick)

o What's your race?o Do you have a criminal record?o Have you already been imprisoned?o Are you mentally ill? o Have you already been in a mental institution?o Have you already killed someone?o Do you have a gun licence?o What do you want to do with a gun?

What does Moore want to show in this extract? ____________________________________________________

CHAPTER 3: MIKE’S FIRST GUN

Moore’s voice-over: “I grew up in Michigan, a gun lover’s______________ — and so did this man—Charlton Heston”.

Charlton Heston was the president of the: a) National Educational Association b) National Hunting Association c) National Rifle Association.

CHAPTER 4: CHRIS ROCKWhat would happen if a bullet cost $5,000? ………………………………………………………………………..

CHAPTER 5: MICHIGAN MILITIA Listen and circle the right answer : they are policemen / members of the FBI / members of the Michigan militia /

soldiers of the Michigan army Moore visits the Michigan Militia because two Michigan men who had participated in the Michigan Militia

training blew up the ____________________________ in Oklahoma in _________ and killed _________ people. Listen to the first man. What are his arguments in favour of carrying arms? (underline the correct answers) : It's

written in the Constitution ; it's an American tradition ; it's lawful ; it's your responsibility to be armed ; You have to help the army ; everyone should arrest criminals

Fill in the sentences of a man of the Michigan militia with words from the list:job – American – responsible – defend – armed“If you’re not ……………………, you’re not ……………………. Who’s going to …………………… your kids? It’s your …………………… to defend you and yours. If you don’t do it, you’re not doing your duty as an……………………”

Kristin Stonero When did she have her first gun? ________________________________________________o Why does she believe she needs a gun? ___________________________________________o What is the name of the calendar? ________________________________________________o She notes that most people think first about calling the police when they are in danger. “Hey! Cut out

the ____________________! Take care of your own family yourself”.

CHAPTER 6: JAMES NICHOLS

Music = Battle Hymn of the Republic

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Throughout the film, Moore collects various testimonies: for example he interviews the brother of one of the terrorists of Atlanta bombing Littleton massacre Oklahoma city bombing

James Nichols, the tofu farmer, sleeps with a …………………… under his pillow. a handkerchief a teddy bear a 44 magnum

James Nichols says, “I use the pen, because the pen is mightier than the sword. But you always have to keep the sword handy for when the pen fails.” What does this statement mean? ____________________________________________________________________________________________

He says that “there are wackos out there”. ‘Wackos’ are: Crazy people Old people Blind people Rich people

CHAPTER 7: OSCODA BOYSBrent

Why did he get expelled from school? _______________________________________________ He says that he didn’t “know Eric, but knew of him”. What does he mean?

_______________________________________________________________________________ What ‘cookbook’ does Brent own? __________________________________________________

CHAPTER 8: HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN

Happiness Is a Warm Gun montageDuring this violent montage we see footage of people ____________ and shooting guns, including a _______ man.In detail:

people buying guns residents of Virgin, Utah, a town that passed a law requiring all residents to own guns people firing guns at carnivals and shooting ranges footage of Denise Ames firing an Assault rifle while wearing a bikini bottom footage of Carey McWilliams, a blind man who is a gun enthusiast footage of Gary Plauche murdering Jeff Doucett, a man who had kidnapped his son and possibly molested him the suicide of Budd Dwyer the suicide of Daniel V. Jones a 1993 murder where Emilio Nuñez shot his ex-wife Maritza Martin to death during a television interview a man who takes his shirt off and is shot during a riot

CHAPTER 9: LITTLETON

Littleton is the home of the company, _____________ ________________, the biggest weapons manufacturer in the world.

Lockheed spokesperson: “What happened in Columbine is a _____________ of what happens throughout the world.”

Michael Moore: “So you don’t think our kids say to themselves, Dad goes off to the factory every day, he builds missiles of mass destruction. What’s the difference between that mass destruction and the mass destruction over at Columbine High School?” What does Moore suggest when he conducts this interview with the Director of Communications at the plant? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Moore cuts to a shot of a sign: “It has to be ________ __________ __________.” When questioned by Moore about the purpose of the missiles, the spokesperson claims that they are used

“against _________________ “. He claims: “We don’t irritated with somebody ‘cause we’re mad at ‘em, and drop a ___________ or ____________ at ‘em—or fire a ___________ at them.”

What a Wonderful World Montage

Ironic montage showing Moore’s opinion that the USA is aggressive towards other countrieso ___________: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq of Iran. U.S. installs Shah as

__________________.

Music = Happiness is a Warm Gun

Music = What a Wonderful World

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o 1954: U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed. o 1963: U.S. ___________ assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem. o 1963-1975: American military kills 4 ___________ people in Southeast Asia. o September 11 1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile. Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende

assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. ___________Chileans murdered. o 1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and four ____________ nuns killed. o 1980s: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billion. o ______: Reagan administration trains and funds "contras." 30,000 Nicaraguans die. o 1982: U.S. provides billions of dollars in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill

Iranians. o 1983: The White House secretly gives Iran ___________to kill Iraqis. o 1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys

orders from Washington. U.S. invades Panama and removes Noriega. 3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties.

o _______: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S. o 1991: U.S. enters Iraq. Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait. o 1998: Clinton bombs "weapons __________" in Sudan. Factory turns out to be making aspirin. o 1991 to present: American planes bomb Iraq on a ________ basis. U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children

die from bombing and sanctions. o 2000-2001: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in "_________."

How often do the missiles move through Littleton? __________________________________________________ What is NORAD? ______________________________________________________________________________

CHAPTER 10: COLUMBINE What happened on April 20th, 1999? (2 events) ……………………………………………………………………………….…

………………………………………………………….………………………

Who were responsible for the massacre? ________________________________________________ How many people were killed or wounded? ______________________________________________ How many bullets did they use? _______________________________________________________ What did the 2 shooters do in the end? __________________________________________________ Where had they purchased their weapons? _______________________________________________ What technique does Moore use in this section to show what happened? _______________________

CHAPTER 11: HESTON AT THE NRA RALLY

What organization held a major rally in Denver 10 days after the shooting? ______________________________ Heston holds a gun and says: “I have only five words for you! From my _______ ________ _____________!” Who is Wellington Webb? a senator / the governor of Colorado / the mayor What message did he send? “Don’t..._____________________________________________” What did Charlton Heston answer? “I say to the mayor: this is our ________________. As __________________

we’re free to travel wherever we ____________ in our broad land.”

Who are the people marching? _________________________________________________ Who is the man speaking? _____________________________________________________ He says: “I am here _______________ because my ______ _____________ would

__________ me to be here today. Something is _______________ in this country. When a _______________ can grab a ____________so easily and ______________ a _______________ into the middle of a _______________’s face (...) something is _____________”.

Listen to Charlton Heston's speech and fill in: "We have ________ to _____, ________ to heal, _______ to defeat and a _____________ to _________. We may have _____________ yes and we will again __________ _____________ almost beyond ____________. But when the _________ sets on Denver tonight and ____________ more, let it always set on we, the ________ ________ in our land of the ___________ and home of the ____________".

Here's a short description of this speech. Cross out the words which do not correctly describe it.

"In his speech, Charlton Heston is using highly: down-to-earth / pragmatic / rhetorical language, full of images / examples / descriptions, so as to appeal to people's anger / ideal of freedom / desire for revenge / vision of Americans as brave men. He seems moved / cold-minded / angry / sad / emotionless. This speech aims at convincing people to vote for him / defending people's right to carry weapons / encouraging people to buy weapons."

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CHAPTER 12: SOUTH PARK/MATT STONE Who is Matt Stone? ____________________________

CHAPTER 13: SCARY KIDS Michael Moore’s voice-over: I guess we’ll never know why they did it, but one thing adults should never

forget: It still sucks to be a __________, and it really __________________________________. What’s your view on high school? ……. I love it. I learn…I get ____________________ by bastards who

hate me…and the principal’s a __________. Voice-over: Schools nation-wide have extended zero-tolerance policies, _______________ and

_______________ students for all kinds of behaviour…. A Michigan high school ____________________ may be expelled late today at a high school __________________________. … Having a well-conceived and strictly enforced _______________ can dramatically improve the safety of a school… Having a __________ policy about dress makes it easy for a student to __________ a weapon and makes it difficult to identify __________ on campus.

School staff person: Our policy requires that students _______________ their shirts. …. Our students may not wear __________ pants or colors or insignia associated with __________ activity.

CHAPTER 14: MARILYN MANSON Moore interviews Marilyn Manson on why the USA has become such a violent nation ...

What could be responsible for this violence? Circle the causes you hear in the video.

Heavy-metal subculture The Government Parents

Violent movies “the Simpsons” "South Park"

Video games Television The radio

Entertainment Depression Satan

Financial problems Cartoons School Society Drugs Marilyn Manson

Listen to the interview:Marilyn Manson: When I was a _____________ growing up, _____________ was the escape. That's the only thing that had no ______________. You can put on a record and it's not gonna yell at you for dressing the way you do. It's gonna make you feel _______________ about it.

Religious Spokesperson: Some will be so __________ to ask if we believe those who listen to Marilyn Manson will go out and commit violent acts. The answer is no. But does everybody who watches a Lexus _____ go and buy a Lexus? No, but a few do.

Marilyn Manson: I definitely can see why they would pick me…because I think it’s easy to throw my face on a TV. Because I’m, in the end, sort of a ____________________ for fear. Because I represent what everyone’s afraid of. Because I do and say what I want. …. The two by-products of that whole tragedy were violence in entertainment and gun control. And how perfect that that was the two things we were going to talk about with the _______________ election.. And also then we forgot about Monica Lewinsky. And we forgot about the President was shooting bombs _______________. Yet…I’m a bad guy, because I sing some rock and roll songs. And who’s a bigger _______________, the President or Marilyn Manson? I’d like to think me, but _______________ with the President.

Moore: Do you know that the day Columbine happened, the U.S. dropped more _______________ in Kosovo than any other time during that war?

Marilyn Manson: I do know that and I think that’s really _______________ that nobody said well, “Maybe the Present had an influence on this violent behavior. Not, because that’s not the way the media wants to take it and spin it and turn it into fear. Because then you’re watching TV…you’re watching the news, being _______________ full of fear. There’s floods, there’s AIDS, there’s murder. Cut to ________________, buy the Acura, buy the Colgate if you have bad breath, they’re not gonna talk to you If you got pimples, the girl’s not gonna f**k you. And it’s just a ____________________ of fear and ____________________.That’s what I think it’s all based on, the whole idea that … keep everyone afraid and they’ll _______. And that’s as simple as it can be boiled down to.

Moore: What would you say if you were to talk to the ___________ of Columbine and the people of that community, what would you say to them if they could hear you now?

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Marilyn Manson: I wouldn’t say a single _________ to them, I would listen to what they have to say. And that’s what __________________ did …..

Today, how is Marilyn Manson presented through the media? Tick the right answers.

as a monster as a symbol of fear as a shock-rocker as a free-thinker

According to Manson, what are the two consequences of the Columbine Tragedy?o _________________________________________ o _________________________________________

What was the US President doing while the Columbine tragedy was happening?He was bombarding another countryHe was flying overseasHe was trying to leave Kosovo

According to Manson, what is the role of the media in the US society?It contributes to creating fear by showing too much violenceIt incites people to buy to compensate their fearsIt encourages people to reproduce what they see on TV

CHAPTER 15: WAS IT THE BOWLING? What class were the boys enrolled in the morning before they killed at Columbine? _________________ Moore includes this scene to show that it is silly to blame music for the boys’ violence; it would make just

as much sense to blame ______________________ .

CHAPTER 16: WE’RE #1

Write each country opposite the right number of people killed by guns each year. The United States – France – Germany – Australia – Japan – Great Britain – Canada ……………………….. : 381 ……………………….. : 255 ……………………….. : 165 ……………………….. : 68 ……………………….. : 65 ……………………….. : 39 ……………………….. : 11,127

CHAPTER 17: A BRIEF HISTORY OF AMERICA

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CHAPTER 18: FEAR OF EVERYTHING What does the news media want people to feel? _________________________

CHAPTER 19: FEAR OF BLACK MENMoore talks to Professor Barry Glassner who wrote a book called “_____ _________________ _____ ______________”.

Who is the most common suspect on television? _______________________

CHAPTER 20: SUBURBAN GUNSMoore talks to Arthur Busch - Flint, Michigan’s county prosecutor.

Who most often gets in trouble for gun possession—kids in the city or kids in the suburbs? ______________ What do most people believe? __________________________________ Who conditions people in the United States to believe that their communities are dangerous? Dr Glassner believes that _____________ is a bigger problem.

CHAPTER 22: CORPORATE COPS 29. What does the former TV producer of Cops say sells in the media?

CHAPTER 23: OH, CANADA! 30. How many gun murders were there in Sarnia, Canada, in the past three years? How many in Windsor?

___________________________________________________________________________

CHAPTER 24: UNLOCKED DOORSThe biggest difference between the USA and Canada is the lack of ___________ in Canada.

CHAPTER 25: LITTLE KAYLAMoore visits Buell Elementary School in Flint, Michigan.Moore tries to explain the murder of

a young teacher by a six-year old boy a young boy by his uncle a six year old girl by a six year-old boy

…….by accusing Lockheed factory which builds weapons of mass destruction the welfare policy* of the US government The shooter’s family of a lack of education

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CHAPTER 26: THE OTHER VICTIMHeston says to his audience: “_____________ has never seen greater _____________.” CHAPTER 27:WELFARE TO WORKMoore’s voice-over: Tamarla Owens was the ______________ of the six-year-old boy. In order to get food stamps and _______________ care for her children, Tamarla was forced to work as part of the state of Michigan's Welfare-to-Work Program.

How many miles did she travel to work every day? __________________________

CHAPTER 28: FEAR AND AMMOMoore believes that the state of fear in the USA increased after _____________________ (what event)?

CHAPTER 29: RETURNING THE MERCHANDISELISTEN and FIND what happened to the two boys. (use passive verbs): “Well, I ________________________________________ by a Tech 9”“…both of these boys _______________________ the day of the Columbine massacre.” “Richard _________________________ for life!” “Mark and Richard __________________________ and suffering from the 17 K-mart bullets …”

CHAPTER 30: K-MARTAs a result of Michael Moore’s intervention, Kmart was going to phase out the sale of ______________ _______________.

CHAPTER 31: CHARLTON HESTON

Moore: “You don’t have an opinion as to why we are the only country that __________ each other on this level with guns?Heston: “Well, we have probably a more mixed ________________ than other countries.”Moore: “You think it’s an ethnic thing?Heston: “No, I wouldn’t go so far as to say that. We had enough problems with Civil ____________ in the beginning--but I have no answer for that—“Moore: “What do you mean, you think it’s a ______________ ethnicity?”Heston: “We have a history of _________________, perhaps more than most countries—certainly more than Canada.”

15) Did Charlton Heston apologise? What did Michael Moore leave him as a souvenir? …………………………………………………………………………………………………...................……………………………………………………………...............

CHAPTER 32: MIKE/BOWLING CREDITS

One of Moore’s conclusions is that: Gun violence is due to a lack of education Some artists are responsible for urging teenagers on violent behaviours Fear leads to acts of violence, domestically and internationally.

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VocabularyMatch the words to the corresponding definitions: National Rifle Association / gun nut / vault / Caucasian / mental institution / bullet / militia / cop / life sentence / radical / massacre / burglar / weapons of mass destruction / convention / carnage / gang / Goth music / The Second Amendment of the US Constitution / Ku Klux Klan / segregation / paranoia

massacre a violent attack in which many people diewell known and powerful lobbying group that tries to preventgun control lawsthe tiny metal missiles or projectiles fired from gunsa common slang word for a policemanthe official term for a white person (as opposed to black or Asian)person who has political or religious beliefs most people think are extremewell secured and safe room, often found in a bank, for storing valuable things such as jewellerysays that the people have “the right to bear arms,” which is an 18th century way of saying the right to have gunscan kill thousands of people in minutes, such as nuclear bombs or chemical and biological weaponsa large assembly or meeting between people who come together to discuss a particular subjectcrazy about or obsessed with gunsgreat violence and bloodshed in which lots of people are killeda group of people who often commit crimes together or cause lots of troublehome for emotionally or psychologically troubled peoplethe act of separating people from one another, especially people of different races (blacks, whites, etc.)an armed group of private citizens, who often practice in the use of weaponsbreaks into people’s houses in order to steal thingsa racist and horrible group that terrorized black people, they were infamous for wearing sheets over their headsa punishment in which a judge says the convicted person must spend the rest of his/her life in prisonthe irrational belief that somebody (or everybody!) is trying to hurt or harm youa type of loud rock music in which the song lyrics often are about magic and death