Listening and practice

Martin Luther King

Instruction:

1.-Listen the audio

2.-Listen and complete the text.

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Open Ended

It's all (1)________on a bus. A black woman was returning home from work after (2)_________She sat near the front of the bus(3)___________ she was tired and her legs hurt. But the bus belonged to the city of Montgomery in the (4)_______Alabama. And the year was nineteen fifty-five.

Instruction:

1.-Listen the audio

2.-Listen and complete the text.

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​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Open Ended

And the year was(5)___________

In those days, black people could sit only in the back of the bus. So the driver ordered the woman to (6)______ her seat. But the woman refused, and (7)________

Incidents like this had happened before. But no one(8)________ spoken out against such treatment of blacks. This time,(9)________, a young black (10)_______ organized a protest. He called on all black citizens to stop riding the buses in Montgomery until the laws were changed.

The name of the young preacher was Martin Luther King. He led the protest movement to end injustice in the Montgomery city bus system. The protest became known as the Montgomery bus boycott. The protest marked the beginning of the civil rights movement in the United States.

​This is the story of Martin Luther King and his part in the early days of the civil rights movement.