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                                  To mostpeoplearound her, Roca        Imagine  you are a black person sitting  on a
                                   Parks  was  an ordinarywomanwith  an  bus.The bus is fuII, and a white  p€rson climbs
                                   ordinary life in Montgomery, Alsbama  on.  The bus &iver  says to yor.r,'Stand up and
                                   in the U.S.Withher  slim figure,hlack  give this person your seat.-What  do you do?
                                   hair and brown eyes, she  loeked $ke
                                                                       Rosa's decision  was to stay in her seat-The
                                   a  qpical  African American woman
                                                                       bus driver was very angry and Rosa was in
                                   in the 1950s. But Rosa  Parks was  not  trouble with  the police. But the incident
                                    ordinary. Life for African &ncrican
                                                                       was soon very famous all over America.  And
                                    people was  verydlfficult  in thcee;,ears,  with  support from other black people in her
                                    and Ras* wa$ one solution to their
                                                                       communiry  there was a boycott of the bus
                                    problems.                          company, too  for over a year! Now  it w1s
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                                    In 1950s America, trlack  people's  lives  clear to all Americans that black people rarere
                                     were  very  different  from thrrse of white  not  happy with  their  lives. After  a change
                                     people.Theirjobs  were  bad,  and their  in the law in  1956, there were more egual
                                     schools were  trrrible. Everything for  rights for black people in the U.S. Ros* Parks'
                                     white people  was  better.  But Rosa's  story shows that one person's  simple action
                                     actlons 0n one evening ia 1955  were  can make a great difference fqr millions  of
                                     very  important  for change.      people.

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                              I  Scan the article and       ffir.ze   ffi*m* ffiffi# {!s€#st to the article. Then
     Find these  words  and
                                 choose the correst         answer the questions.
     check their  meaning.
                                 answers.                     Where was Rosa Parks from?
      in trouble
                                   Rosa Parks was             the  w  as f rom Mo  nt gom  e ?y, Alab am a.
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      boycott                      Enstish  r@g@
      law                        'l                         1 What  did she  look like?
     equal rights                  She was in trouble  /    2  Why  was  life  difficult  for Rosa  and many  others  like her?
                                   happy with the police.
                                                            3  How long was  the Montgomery  bus  boycott?
                                 2  Rosa's  decision  was   4  lmagine  you  are another black  person  on the bus.
                                   bad /  good for black      You hear  the conversation between Rosa and the bus
                                   people  in  the U.S.
                                                              driver, What  do you  think  about  Rosa? What  do you
                                                              think about the driver?


                               3  FregenAagF#ft Look at the pictures of   1  What  / the classroom  in picture  1 like?
                                 two American classrooms  in the 194Os    2  What  / the  classroom in  picture  2like?
                                 and 195Os.  Make  questions  with the
                                                                          3  What  / the classrooms  (not)  have?
                                 prompts below.  Then write answers       4
                                 to the questions. Use  your answers  to    What  / life  like  / children  in  the
                                                                             pictures?
                                 prepare a short presentation.
                                                                             How  / life  / different for American
                                   Who  / in the  pictures?                 children  now?
                                   \Nho
                                       are in  Ahe  pictures?
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