Watch the video and answer the questions. Check your answers in "comments".
1. What are the five high school students accused of?
2. What have they been charged with?
3. Who's being held in jail?
4. How are they being tried?
5. What did their lawyers enter?
6. How old was the victim?
7. What did the victim do?
8. Did the victim have children?
9. When did it happen?
10. What happened?
11. What did the suspects do after the incident?
12. How do the teenagers (the defendants*) feel according to their lawyers?
13. What do the defendants face?
14. Is this the only crime they have committed?
15. How does the news reader describe the story?
*Defendant: the person in a trial who is accused of committing a crime, or who is being sued by another person
1. They are accused of throwing rocks over an overpass and killing a man.
ReplyDelete2. They've been charged with second degree murder.
3. The oldest suspect (17-year-old Kyle Anger).
4. They're being tried as adults.
5. They entered non-guilty pleads.
6. The victim was 32.
7. He was a construction worker.
8. He had four children.
9. It happened at 8.30 pm, when he was coming back home from work.
10. A six-pound rock was thrown and the victim was struck on the face and chest. He was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.
11. They went to McDonald's.
12. They are scared and devastated for the victim and the family.
13. They face life imprisonment.
14. They also threw a tyre and car engine parts, damaging other vehicles.
15. She says it's really disturbing.