Martin Luther King - hero of civil rights

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Martin Luther King - hero of civil rights

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What do you know about ... ?

Martin Luther
King Jr.

Who is this lady
and what does 

she stand for?

Find:  blindfold,  sword,

(set of) scales,  robe

(and equality)

This is lady justice.

She stands for fair 

and equal treatment under the law.

fair = eerlijk

equal = gelijk

the law = de wet

laws = wetten/ regels

blindfold

(set of) 

scales

sword

robe

Use with automated subtitles in English.

Do you believe that the rules
you have to follow are fair?

Use with automated subtitles in English.

he was influenced by: he followed the ideas of

to hate: to really not like

to threaten: to say nasty things  

determined: to make a decision and to stick with it.
Act: a law in the US

Jr.: junior,  same name as father

civil rights: the right of all people to be treated in the same way

equality: being equal (=gelijk)
segregate: to separate, on the basis of race

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Important vocabulary before reading

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Read the text along with the speaker.

QUIZ on important info!

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1. Martin Luther King ____________
in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, on January 15 1929

1. born
2. was born
3. was borne
4. was bored

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2. In those days, parts of the southern USA _______________ .

1. were segregated
2. were segregating
3. segregated
4. was segregated

3. Black children and white children _________________
to the same school together.

1. could not go
2. not could go
3. do not go

4. King _______________
by his Christian parents, and later by the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi.

1. strongly influenced
2. was strong influenced
3. was strongly influenced

5. He began ______________
as a leader in 1955.

1. to be seen
2. be seen
3. to see

6. One day, a black lady __________
off a bus in the city of Montgomery,

1. was throwing
2. was throwed
3. was thrown

7. because she ________
in a seat for whites.

1. sits
2. sat
3. sitted

8. In protest, all the city's black people
_____________ the buses.....

1. stopped to used
2. stopped using
3. stopping use

9. The bus boycott was successful, and the bus company _______________
segregated seats.

1. stopped have
2. stopped to have
3. stopped having

10. America's "Civil Rights" movement had started, and nobody
________________ it.

1. can stopped
2. could stopping
3. could stop

11. He ___________
to prison, and threatened; yet King always stayed calm and determined.

1. was sending
2. was sent
3. was send

12. Finally, in 1964, the American Civil Rights Act __________ .

1. was passed
2. was passing
3. has passed

13. Four years later, Martin Luther King
_____________ by a gunman in Memphis Tennessee.

1. killed
2. was killing
3. was killed

14. But by then he ____________
to change the USA for ever.

1. had already helped
2. had always helped
3. had almost helped

MLK's speech - 'I have a dream'   (1963)

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

MLK's speech - 'I have a dream'   (1963)

Evaluation:

Have you learned anything new about 

Martin Luther King Jr.? What exactly?

Why is it important to fight for civil rights?

Do we still need to fight?

What types of things would

YOU like to read about?

more texts
about _____, please!