CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words are most interesting and which are most boring. What interesting things did you find out?ģ. After you have finished, sit down and share your findings. What do you know about them? Walk around the class and ask other students about them. FAMOUS AMERICANS: Below is a list of famous Americans. Introduce yourselves and chat about your lives, achievements and greatness. Walk around the class meeting the other “great people”. GREAT PERSON: Choose a great person in the world today. In 1999, the US Senate described her as “a living icon for freedom in America.” WARM-UPSġ. Simultaneous legal challenges led to a Supreme Court decision that forced Montgomery to desegregate its bus system and quashed other discriminatory laws throughout America’s South. Her action sparked a now famous bus boycott that lasted 381 days. I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.” She was convicted of breaking the law and fined $10. Ms Parks refused to comply with the bus driver’s demands for her to move, saying: “No. The law required black passengers to make room for white passengers. Shortly after, a white man boarded and had to stand. Ms Parks was a 42-year-old seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, when she caught a bus in December 1955. He said: “Just by a simple act of sitting down she stood up for so many people.” The mayor of Detroit hailed her courage and strength and said she symbolized the civil rights movement, which gained increasing momentum in the late 1950s and 1960s. She had been suffering from progressive dementia in recent years and was rarely seen in public. The actual cause of death is as yet unknown. Ms Parks reportedly passed away in her sleep at her home in Detroit. She was one of the first people to actively challenge America’s segregation laws, both in deed and in court. Her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus sparked a revolution in the US civil rights movement. Rosa Parks, the mother of America’s civil rights movement, has died aged 92.

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