FESTIVAL WORKSHEETS
Elementary
–What does this text refer to? Who are ‘we’ and what will they overcome?
We shall overcome, we shall overcome
We shall overcome some day!
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe
–There are some more clues for you.
· "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character."
· "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
Designed by Bartosz Michałowski for Pearson Longman PHOTOCOPIABLE 2
–Can you fill in the missing words without looking at the cut-up text?
Europeans began to import slaves from the African continent in the fifteenth century. The discovery of the Americas increased the demand for cheap l __ __ __ __ r and therefore increased the slave t __ __ __ e. In 1620, the first ship carried twenty Africans to America, but by 1865 there were 4 million slaves in America. The vast majority of slaves lived in the South, where they worked in tobacco, and sugar-cane, and c __ __ __ __ n fields.
In 1865, when the Civil War came to an end, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution freed all slaves. A few years later, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments gave the f __ __ __ __ r slaves full civil rights, including giving African-American men the right to v __ __ e. White people in the South, though, were afraid of mixing with black people, so they p __ __ __ __ d “Jim Crow” laws.
–The “Jim Crow” Laws separated black and white people. Under the laws, black people had to do certain things and could not do other things. Complete the sentences with had to and could not.
They:
(a) …………………… live in the black part of town.
(b) ………………… drink the same drinking water.
(c) …………………… sit in the back of city buses.
(d) …………………… go to the white people’s restaurants, hotels, churches etc.
(e) …………………… use the back entrance to theatres and sit upstairs.
–During the mid-1950s, blacks throughout the nation began demanding equal rights and taking steps to accomplish this goal. There were:
· boycotts
(a) busloads of northern liberals coming to the South to force integration of public facilities.
· sit-ins
(b) large number of people refusing to buy certain products or services.
· freedom rides
(c) large groups of people walking in the streets carrying signs that stated their goals.
· protest marches
(d) groups that included African-Americans sitting peacefully for hours at lunch counters or in restaurants that refused to serve them.
–You will hear a short text about King’s last speech and his death. Can you guess how he died before your teacher starts reading the text aloud?
What happened on?
· April 3, 1968 …………………………………………………………………
· April 4, 1968 …………………………………………………………………
· June 8, 1968 …………………………………………………………………
True or False?
· The city offered higher wages for the workers. …………
· King and his friends wanted to go to a restaurant. …………
· The murderer was arrested in the US. …………
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