Workbook chapter 6

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

 

Task 1       

What do you consider to be the most important facts about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Discuss it with a fellow student.

Task 2       

Make sentences out of these words:

                  

a) one year in the incident been Rosa Parks with before Luther King happened had Montgomery          

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b) helped Dr. Martin Luther King boycott the bus organizing

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c) he a massive in arranged 1963 on Washington DC march

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d) killed a gunshot rights one of the spokesmen for to the foremost neck Black

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e) man wrong they the in the possibly end caught

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Task 3      

Write down the headlines of the paragraphs. Then sit in pairs and try to retell one another the story, based on the headlines.

 

Task 4       

What information can you find about Rosa Parks?

 

Task 5       

What similarities do you find between Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi?

 

Task 6       

It has been indicated that the assassination of Dr. King is still an unsolved case. Can you try to find some of the theories? You could try the ssearch engine www.google.com or www.yahoo.com. In the search window you can write “Martin Luther King” and “assassination”.