The hamburger as a murder weapon... + recap Gun Culture + Beginning of new text (with pictures)

Hey,

today we first watched a new video awareness campaign about junk food. You can watch it again below:

Here is what we said about it:

The document is an ad campaign against fast food restaurants and in particular Mc Donald's (the Golden Arches).
It aims at denouncing the bad quality of junk food and it intends to warn people about the consequences for our health -> high cholesterol / high blood pressure / heart attack.
The video features a man lying dead at the morgue with his wife / widow crying. He is holding the murder weapon in his hand: a left-over of a hamburger.

The slogan reads: McDonald's, I was loving it instead of "I'm loving it" to show that it can be the cause of our death.
It also states: "Tonight, make it vegetarian" to warn us that meat can be dangerous for health. It recommends us to have a healthy diet.

Additional vocabulary:
(to) be moved
chest
scar
a commercial = an ad on TV
(to) commit suicide
(to) poison

Then we continued working on the notion of American gun culture and here is what we said:

The values conveyed by guns in the American culture:

They are symbols for...:

- independence -> the American revolution made the US a free state. The British government didn't have power over them.
- democracy -> the United States was not under the control of the British Crown anymore.
- survival -> During the conquest of the West, people used to hunt buffalos to feed.
- protection -> They used guns to "protect" themselves against the "enemies" and exterminated the Native Americans where were a threat for them.
- freedom -> The Civil War marked the end of slavery and the slaves were freed thanks to this war.
- unity -> It also unified the country (North and South).

That's why guns are deeply-rooted into the culture and that now the N.R.A is a very influent and powerful political lobby.

HW: for tomorrow, you need to focus your work on speaking about the two pictures illustrating our new text and to compare them.