Tuesday 29 January 2019

" The Prohibition" a bit of American History.


Hello Everyone!!!

Do you recognize this word ? Since I know you are doing some research on the setting of the film "Chicago" for your Final Task, I picked this short documentary on " The Prohibition", which not only you can use foryour project but also will count as a classwork grade. Watch it using subtitles as many times as you need and answer the questions below. Post the answers as a comment by Friday February 1st. Enjoy the film 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿






1. What was exactly the law known as " The Prohibition?

2. Pay attention to the sign behind the group of women at the beginning of the documentary, What does it say? or what does it mean?

3. Who weere the "wets" and the "Dries"?

4. How many different words have you spotted to refer to alcoholic drinks?

5. What was  Valentine's Day massacre?

6. Think of a newspaper headline to report any of the different pieces of information given on this documentary.




25 comments:

  1. 1. The Prohibition was a american constitutional ban of elaboration, introduction and sale of alcoholic drinks in United States from 1920 to 1933

    2. "Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours", it means that women refused alcohol, because of the excess alcohol their husbands drank

    3. The "Wets" were people who criticized the ban of alcochol and the "Drys" were the opposite of "Wets", the "Drys" were people who supported the alcohol ban

    4. Liquor, wine, cider, brewing, beer

    5. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929 was murder of members of Chicago's North Side Gang that was supposedly ordered by Al Capone to eliminate Bugs Moran

    6. The Prohibition affects the American population

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    1. Thank you. Could you please sign the exercise. Your comment is unidentified.
      Please, try to give a response according to the I formation mentioned on the documentary.Remember , this is s listening comprehension activity.

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  2. María Pérez, 2.A
    1. A law that banned the production and the sale of alcohol all over the United States
    2. Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours
    3. Conflicting religious factions that were separated in those two groups
    4. Liquor, drink, wine, cider, beer.
    5. It was an attack ordered from the Capone’s to the Moran’s gang in the 14th of February in 1929
    6. The alcohol banned in all the country

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  3. Marta Ponce Luna 2° A

    1- An american constitutional ban that prohibited the production and the sale of alcohol in the country

    2- Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours (the womens were against the alcohol because their husbands were usually drank)

    3- Conflicting religious factions that had opposite thoughts about the prohibition of alcohol

    4- Liquor, drink, wine, cider, beer

    5- It was a murdered of few members of the Chicago's North side gang. People said that it was probably performed by the Capone's gang in the Saint Valentine's day of 1929

    6- The country divided by the ban of alcohol

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  4. Alba Moreno Domínguez 2° A

    1- The prohibition was exactly the elimination of alcohol in United States.

    2- "Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours" refers to women who refused to kiss men or husbands who were drunk.

    3- Conflicting religious for having different opinions on the prohibition of alcohol.

    4- Liquor, drink, wine, cider, beer.

    5- Order supposedly directed by the Capone to assassinate the opponents on February 14, 1929.

    6- "Without alcohol? And now that?"

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  5. 1- It was a law which banned the production and sale of alcohol in the USA.

    2- "Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours" (referring to women who were sick of their husbands'attitude while being drunk).

    3- They were conflicting religious factions with opposite thoughts about the prohibition of alcohol.

    4- Liquor, drink, wine, cider and beer.

    5- It is known as the day when some members of the Chicago's North side gang were murdered, probably by Capone's gang, in Saint Valentine's day, 1929.

    6- "Was alcohol almost a need?"

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  6. Hi! I’m Carolina Villadóniga Díaz and here are my answers from the exercise:
    1.- Prohibition, in the United States, was the government attempt to outlaw the production, sale and shipment of alcohol and intoxic alcoholic beverages across the country.
    2.-“Lips touch liquor shall not touch ours”. It’s an expression used to manifest the some women’s support to the “Prohibition” and who didn’t want to have drinking husbands.
    3.- There were two differents groups , religious factions, that had differents points of view about “The Prohibition” and the alcohol’s intake.The “wets” were the people who was against “Prohibition”, and the “dries” were the people who were in favor of the law.
    4.-Liquor, cider, wine, drink and beer.
    5.- It’s the day, 14th February 1929, know for the murdered of some members of the Chicago’s North side gang by Capone’s gang.
    6.- “What is your gang? Drier or wet?”

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  7. 1.- A law consist of not being able to drink alcohol
    2.- Them said, "Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours". This mean that if you was a men thaht drank alcohol , you didn´t had a women.
    3.- They were conflicting religious factions, them wanted the prohibition of alcohol
    4.-Liquor, drink, wine, cider and beer.
    5.- Is a evident of 1929 when sevenral members of Moran´s wob were murdered, probably by Capone´s gang.
    6.- Prohibition or regulatory?

    Patricia Fernández Correa 2ºB

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  8. Fabian Bermudez Piscoche 2-A
    1. The Prohibition was an American constitutional law. That law banned the production, sale and shipment of alcoholic beverages.
    2. It says "Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours", this means that women were against the liquor that her husbands drank until there were drunk
    3.The "Drys" were the faction that disapproved drinking and the saloons and another spots of alcohol consumption politically corrupt, in the other hand we have the "Wets" were the faction in favour of the alcohol
    4.Liquor, wine, cider and beer.
    5.St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929) was the murder of a several members of Moran's mob allegedly by Al Capone's gang.
    6.No alcohol, more dignity!

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  9. Alejandro González 2ºB

    1-The Prohibition was a government law that banned the production and sale of alcohol in the United States

    2-"Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours". It means that the women didn't want their husbands to drink alcohol.

    3-The "wets were the ones who were against the law and the "dries the ones that supported it

    4-Liquor, cider, wine, drink and beer.

    5-The day when members of Al Capone's gang murdered members of their rival mob, Moran's gang

    6- Alcohol makes people slaughter each other!

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  10. Rocío Rodríguez Martínez
    2°B

    1- It was an american government's attempt that banned the production, shipment and sale of alcohol, that was in USA from 1920 to 1933.

    2- It said "Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours", it means that they refused alcohol because their husbands usually drink (maybe in excess).

    3- The "drys" and the "wets" were two opposite religious factions.
    The "drys" were the part of people, who disapproved drinking and the sallons or another alcohol consumption politically corrupt. And the "wets" were people, who criticized the ban of alcohol.

    4- The words are: liquor, wine, cider and brewing.

    5- In that day, 14th February 1929, was known for the murdered of some members of the Chicago’s North side gang, probabily by Al Capone’s gang.

    6- "Do we need the alcohol like a daily basis?" or "What's wrong with the alcohol?"

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  11. Sandra Castaño González 2ºbach A

    1. It was a law in USA that prohibited sale and production of the liquor.
    2. The group of women have a sign behind them where is written “Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours”. This mean that their husbands drink they can’t kiss their wife because their wives hate the alcohol.
    3. Conflicting religious factions that were separated into the wets and dries.
    4. Liquor, drink, wine, cider and beer.
    5. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929 was the day where several members of Moran's mob were murdered allegedly by Capone's gang.
    6. “Was alcohol necessary?”

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  12. Ana Prieto Márquez 2ºA

    1. "The prohibition" is known as the government's attempt to outlaw the production sale and shipment of alcohol.

    2. The sign behind the group of women say: “Lips touch liquor shall not touch ours”. The behaviour of some men change when they take alcoholic drinks, so many of their wives suffer the consequences.

    3. Clashes arose between conflicting religious faction that were separated into the wets and drys. The drys disapproved of drinkings and considered saloons and other popular sports of alcohol politically corrupt, while the wets wanted the state to remain uninvolved in discussions of morality support for prohibition.

    4. Liquor, drink, wine, cider and beer

    5. The ban did succeed in reducing alcohol consumption however it caused a spike in violent criminal activity. The valentine's day was the most evident. When several members of Moran's were murdered

    6. "People move heaven and earth for a drop of alcohol"

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  13. 1. A law that prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the United States
    2. "Lips that touch liquor should not touch ours", women rejected alcohol because their husbands drank a lot of alcohol.
    3. The "Wets" were people who rejected the prohibition of alcohol and the "Drys" were people who supported the prohibition of alcohol.
    4.Licor, cider, wine, beer.
    5. It was the murder of members of Chicago's North Side gang that was allegedly ordered by Al Capone to eliminate Bugs Moran.
    6. The United States prohibits alcohol.
    Marta Fernández Franco 2°B

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  14. Belén González Domínguez 2ºB

    1. The Prohibtion was a law wich banned the production and sale of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933.

    2.The sign says “Lips that touch alcohol shall not touch ours”. That means that those women were against people that drank alcohol during The Prohibition (specially their husbands).

    3.They were conflicting religious factions with differents opinions about The Prohibition. The “wets” were against the law and the “dries” aproved that law.

    4.Liquor, cider, wine, drink, beer.

    5. It was the murder of members of Chicago’s North Side Gang orderer frome the Capone’s gang in the 14th of February of 1929.

    6. “Living without a drop”

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  15. 1. The Prohibition was a law from 1920 to 1933 in United States that consisted in the banned of the production, sale, importation... of alcohol.

    2. It said "Lips that touched alcohol shall not touch ours" It means that they didn't want that people drank alcohol, especially their husbands.

    3.They were conflicting religious factions, for and against the Prhibition.

    4.Liquor, wine, cider, beer.

    5. On 14th February 1929 many members of the Moran's gang were murdered by the other band ordered by Al Capone.

    6. Alcohol don't need us, we need it?

    Marta Ruiz

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  16. 1) a law prohibits the sale and manufacture of alcohol in EE.UU
    2) The sign says: "the lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours" women reject alcohol because their husbands drank
    3) the "wets" rejected the alcohol prohibition and the "drys" supported it
    4) liquor, cider, wine and beer
    5) was the murder of Chicago's North Side gang allegedly ordered to kill Bugs Moran
    6) EE.UU prohibits alcohol

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  18. 1. The prohibition was a constituinal law where prohibited alcoholic drinks

    2. It means that the womens don't want a alcoholic husband's and they don't want alcoholic drinks in the estate where they stay.

    3. Coflicting factions with opposites opinions about alcoholic drinks in his estate.

    4. Wine liquor drink beer

    5. The valentine massacre was a murder where will supposed alcapone assassinate moran

    6. One law affects all community

    Marina clavijo 2B

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