21 61 Famous speeches Word formation Complete the grid below. Verb Noun (thing) Noun (person) Adjective to speak speech speaker speechless to challenge to domination to competitor to protest ––– to ––– struggling to growth grower to talkative to ––– successful Proofreading: Martin Luther King, Jr. Read the text about Martin Luther King, Jr. In most lines (1–20) there is a word that should not be there. Write these words in the spaces provided. 7–9 lines are correct. Make a ✔ in the space if the line is correct. There are three examples (0, 00, 000) at the beginning. On 4 April 1968 a bullet ended the life of Martin Luther King, ✔ 0 Jr., but it did not put to an end to his revolution. Since the 1950s to 00 when Martin Luther King, Jr. started his campaign for Civil Rights ✔ 000 in America, the situation of African Americans has always changed 1 considerably. Eventually, the non-violent protest of the 2 Civil Rights campaigners has paid off. In the next 21st century 3 President Obama showed that it is possible to become an African 4 American President in the US. The campaigners of the 1950s and 5 1960s did not expect to that the changes they longed for 6 would happen so quickly. 7 Today African Americans enjoy equal rights on the paper but in 8 reality they are still not disadvantaged. The prison population for example 9 still consists predominately of black and males. In general, black 10 Americans are less well-off doing than their white fellow citizens. 11 More black people join the US forces to combat unemployment 12 and bear the tax burden in case of a war. 13 In his times then Martin Luther King, Jr. was also fighting for 14 economic rights of African Americans because he knew that legal 15 regulations alone cannot bridge the gap year between the rich 16 and the poor, between white and black America. 17 When he was killed in 1968, the Civil Rights Movement was lost 18 one of its charismatic leaders, but there were others who continued 19 his struggle to gain for equality and recognition. 20 Tip T See unit in the coursebook • Prime Time 6: Unit 8 page 102 1 2 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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