Réponse :
Bonjour,
1/
a. someone who fight for a cause = an activist
b. challenge someone or a government = to dispute /to tackle / to call out
c. a metal container in which you can put letters = mailbox
2/
1. engagement = INVOLVEMENT
2. forbid = BAN
3. battle = FIGHT
4. protest = RIOT
5. danger = T H R E A T
6. jail = IMPRISON
3/
a. He has delivered a speech.
b. He has won a prize.
c. He has started writing a blog.
d. He hasn’t gone to demonstrate.
4/
Before becoming the leader of an organisation for women’s rights, she had become an activist, because she had always wanted to fight for equal rights. She had delivered a lot of speeches and had won a lot of prizes. By 2010 she had found an international movement.
Grammar
Repère et récapitule
- That’s why signifie « c’est pourquoi »
- However signifie « cependant » et est suivi d’une virgule.
- Whereas signifie « alors que »
3/
a. She had started writing a blog whereas it was strictly forbidden.
b. We were sacred to death however , we didn’t give up the fight.
c. They devoted their lives to human rights that’s why they are remembered today.
Relie le pronom relatif à son antécédent
who —> une personne
which —> une chose
when —> une date
where —> un lieu
Complète avec un pronom relatif
a. Malcom X was a black activist who used violent methods.
b. Selma is the place where Martin Luther King started his marches.
c. Segregation was a system which separated black and white people.
d. The bus boycott started the day when Rosa Parks was arrested.
Complète par un mot de liaison
a. White people could sit at the front of the bus whereas black people could only sit at the back.
b. Black people wanted to show their discontent that’s why they boycotted the buses in Montgomery.
c. Angela Davis broke the law several times that’s why she was arrested.
d. Malcom X disagreed with Martin Luther King however he respected him.
Read the story and put the sentences in order.
( Attention : je n'ai pas juste mis les numéros, j'ai aussi mis le texte dans l'ordre ;) )
1 / Emmeline Pankhurst was born in 1858, when British women couldn’t vote in elections.
2 / She wanted women to have the same rights as men.
3 / In 1888, the girls at the Bryant and May match factory in London went on strike.
4/ Emmeline formed the Woman’s Social and Political Union in 1903.
5 /They fought for women’s rights, especially the right to vote.
6 / They published a newspaper called Votes for Women and held demonstrations.
7/ In 1918, the British government gave women aged over 30 the right to vote.
8 /Women were finally allowed to vote at the same age as men in 1928.
Choose the answer
a. When Emmeline was born, women couldn’t ( vote ).
b. She became interested in ( politics ) when she was growing up.
c. She wanted women to have the same rights as ( men )
d. The girls at the match factory were often fined or got ill.
e. They went on ( strike ) and Emmeline supported them.
f. Emmeline started a group to fight for women’s ( rights )
g. The group published a ( newspaper ) and held demonstrations.
h. Women got the right to vote in Britain in ( 1918 )
i. Women got the right to vote as the same age as men in (1928 )
j. Emmeline was a very ( influential ) person.
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