Class: Additional Post for the Saturday group (20th Dec.
2014)
Vocabulary: to swarm, stingy, succinct, concise, to cry over split milk, household
(chores), life expectancy, worth(y), worthless, valuable, invaluable,
priceless, value, consumerism, bias, to be biased, praise, ice pick, remodel, home
improvement
To review definitions given in class
and see further examples, click on the following link:
OR
simply look them up in Google.
Extras, if you have time:
Jamie Oliver: Teach every child
about food
Class: 19th December/10th January
Review of the exam
Unit 8A: Finding time
Pages: 76
Grammar: Past forms with present or future meaning
Vocabulary: Phrases with ‘Time’
Homework: Merry X-mas! My gift to you: NO HOMEWORK.
Extras, if you have time:
Marie Curie
Rosa Parks and the Bus
boycotts
Martin Luther King "I have a dream" with Subtitles
Glee - Jingle Bell
Segregation on public transport.
ResponderEliminarIn 1952, segregation on interestate railways was abolished by the US Supreme Court. In 1954, a similar judgment was passed concerning interstate buses, however, states in the Deep South continued their policy of transport segregation. This usually involved whites sitting in the front and blacks in the back. Blacks sitting nearest the front had to give up theirs seats to whites that were standing. Anyone breaking the law could be arrested and fined.
The Civil Rights Movement.
Slavery was officially abolish in the USA in 1865. But blacks Americans, although no longer slaves, continued to be treated as second-class citizens for almost 100 years. Segregation laws in the southern states allowed for racial separation in schools, parks, playgrounds, restaurants, hotels, theatres, public transport an so on. This situation continued until the 1950s and the birth of the Civil Rights Movement, headed by Martin Luther King. The movement would fight for liberty and equality for the next ten years until these laws were finally overturned in 1964.
There is a lot to do for this fight.
ResponderEliminarI know I am always recomening documentaries, but that´s life!! There is a fantastic Sweedish documentary about Black Power history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUTfYXCyEdw
And if you have the oportunity, please read "Women, race and class" by Angela Davis. She is just brilliant!!