Enough is enough! Reading and language in use: Malala’s story CB, p. 11 a) Read Malala Yousafzai’s story about her life and fill in the gaps with the correct past tense forms of the words below. Use past simple or past progressive. I was born in Pakistan in 1997. When I was a young girl, my father taught 1 at a girls’ school in our village. I just loved going there! But things changed when the Taliban, a violent religious group, 2 very powerful. We weren’t allowed to watch TV or play music. And girls weren’t allowed to go to school anymore. But going to school is a right all children have! So I 3 to write blogs and I often 4 about our rights in front of many people. One day in 2012 I 5 to school by bus when suddenly a man 6 on the bus and asked: “Who is Malala?” And then he tried to kill me. Ten days later, I 7 up in a hospital in Britain. The doctors 8 me that people all over the world 9 for me to get better. For months, I 10 for my life. When I felt better again, I 11 what I wanted to do. I wanted every girl to be able to go to school. For years, I 12 very hard for that to happen. For my work I got the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. But my work isn’t done yet. There are still a lot of girls who aren’t allowed to go to school. That’s not fair! b) Find the correct order. Then highlight all the verbs in the past progressive. right to go to school. But then, a man from the Taliban group hurt her when she was because they weren’t allowed to. For some time, Malala was informing others about the 1 When Malala was a child, her father was working at a school for girls. When the Taliban girl was slowly getting better. Then she started to fight for girls’ rights again. became powerful in Malala’s village, girls couldn’t go to school anymore riding on the bus. Some time later she discovered that she was in Britain. The 6 go become get pray know fight teach start tell work speak wake 18 Revision eighteen Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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