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AMAZING PEOPLE

Match the names below with the corresponding dates

ABRAHAM LINCOLN : ROSA PARKS: BARACK OBAMA: THOMAS JEFFERSON: MARTIN LUTHER KING,JR: GEORGE WASHINGTON: JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY: SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL: SEAL: MICHELLE OBAMA: WILL I AM: EMMELINE PANKHURST: (1929-1968) - (1963 - ) - (1917-1963) - (1732-1799) - (August 4, 1961) ( March 15, 1975) - (1858-1928) (1874-1965) 1964) (1913-2005) - (1809-1865) - (1743-1826) - (January 17,

Read and say who the following statements may apply to .

a- His refusal to consider or admit defeat during WW II , as well as his speeches and radio broadcasts helped inspire British confidence and resistance.

b- In his victory speech, that he delivered before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of his supporters in Chicago, he proclaimed that Change has come to America . ..

c- He raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. .. d- When he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 at the age of 35 , he was the youngest man to receive this Prize. e- Their protest led to the desegregation of the buses on December 21, 1956. fHe was president at the beginning of the Vietnam war and he supported the Civil Rights Movement headed by MLK. ..

g- He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the only PM to have been made an honorary citizen of the United States by president Kennedy in 1963. h- A leading activist and a figurehead for the Suffragette Movement whose WSPU (the womens Social and Political Union) advocated acts of civil disobedience. Prior to her death, all women in Britain won equal voting rights. iHe was the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809 who wrote the Declaration of Independence (1776) when the US became independent from GB . .. Her act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and she became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.

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k- Hes a British soul singer and songwriter whose full name is Henry Olusegun Kwassi Olumide Adelo Samuel whose"A Change Is Gonna Come" was originally a 1964 single by R&B singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. The song which came to exemplify the sixties Civil Rights Movement, quickly became a symbol of Hope and Change during the 2008 presidential campaign. ... lA famous Black American singer and song-writer whose " collage-style music video entitled Yes, We Can was inspired by a speech delivered by Senator and now President-elect Barack Obama following the 2008 New Hampshire primary. The song was released on February 2, 2008 in support of Obamas campaign. ..

m- He was only 43 when he was elected President and became the youngest American president. .. n- He wanted to give Black people the right to vote. His dream was the dream of everyone involved in the Civil rights Movement: peace, Justice, and Equality. ... o- He is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. p- On December 1, 1955 , a Black woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man . ... q- His "Yes We Can" speech, which famous American artists set to music in a popular video produced by Will.i.am, was viewed by 10 million people on Youtube in the first month, and received an Emmy Award . ... r- He became Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and remained in office until 1945. . sShe was imprisoned several times but never gave up the fight . ...

He was shot dead on November 22, in Dallas, Texas. .. . u- This freedom fighter who was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004. ... tv- An African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" and who became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. .. . w- He was the sixteenth President of the United States who successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. His assassination was the first presidential assassination in U.S. history and as a result Lincoln is seen as a martyr for the ideal of national unity. .. x- He delivered a speech at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. y- A Chicago-born Black figurehead who is a committed wife and president Obamas first Fan.

HOMEWORK : AMAZING PEOPLE

Turn the information given into a mini biography for each famous person as in the example :
( Seal)

British soul singer songwriter voice / stunning (sing) A Change is Gonna Come

Seal is a British soul singer-songwriter whose voice is stunning and

is Gonna Come to support Barack Obamas campaign in 2008 .

who sang A Change

Use the past tense and the following linkwords THAT/WHOSE/AND/BECAUSE) N 1

(Rosa Parks)

(WHO /

Black American woman from the South (refuse) to give up her seat to a white man on a bus non-violent action( lead) to the boycott of the buses with Martin Luther King


N 2
(John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

president of the Unite States of America wife / French origin (be)assassinated (1963)

HOMEWORK : FAMOUS PEOPLE

Turn the information given into a mini biography for each famous person as in the example :
( Seal)

British soul singer songwriter voice / stunning (sing) A Change is Gonna Come

Seal is a British soul singer-songwriter whose voice is stunning and

is Gonna Come to support Barack Obamas campaign in 2008 .

who sang A Change

Use the past tense and the following linkwords (WHO / THAT/WHOSE/AND/BECAUSE) N 1
(Abraham Lincoln)

American President

 (sign) the Emancipation proclamation abolish slavery

N 2
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Black American leader of the Civil rights Movement 1929 (be)assassinated (1968) (oppose) violence in fighting for equal rights for Black people