1. I HAVE A DREAM

2. Scan the reading passage and decide which of the following sentences are true and correct false ones.
1. Martin Luther King ,Jr went to university when he was eighteen.
2. Black people refused to take buses for more than 18 months.
3. Black girls could not marry white boys.
4. Rosa Parks was arrested for hitting a white man.
5. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1965. F F T F F

3. 1929 1944 1955 1963 1964 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. was born.
Won a scholarship and went to university.
Organized a boycott of a bus company and succeeded in the following year.
During the March on Washington DC,he gave the speech “I have a dream”.
Received the Nobel Prize for Peace .
Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered.

4. The main idea of each paragraph2
The background of the speech.
King’s action against racial discrimination.
The famous speech “I have a dream”.
Martin Luther King’s message.
King’s death.
King’s success.
King’s opinion.
Rosa Park’s event. 6 1 3 8 7 4 5

5. What was the blacks’ situation in the southern states before 1964?
Law .
Marriage
Public places
Education
Vote
The southern passed their own law to
separate the whites and the blacks.
Mixed marriage was forbidden.
There were separate sections for blacks in
shops, restaurants, hospitals and buses.
Black children were educated in separate
schools.
Black people had no right to vote.

6. Martin Luther King fight for civil rights for black people.

7. Speech, boycott, demonstration
King believed that he could reach his goal through peaceful actions, not through violence. Give three examples of such peaceful actions.
Speech, boycott, demonstration

8. Discussion Are there any great people in the history of China
who devoted themselves to fighting for freedom?
What did they do?

9. Homework
Talk to your parents or grandparents to find out who they think are freedom fighters in our history?
Learn more about Martin Luther King, Jr after class.
We’ll share tomorrow!

10. That's all for today! Thank you!