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Map of the UK
Maps of Australia and New Zealand
1 Culture Countries of the UK
2 Culture Great British Food
3 Culture Halloween
4 Culture Bonfire Night
5 Culture Christmas around the world
6 Culture Hogmany
7 Culture Pantomime
8 Culture An English village
9 Culture Two schools in India and Pakistan
10 Culture February Festivals
11 Culture A nice cup of tea
12 Culture A walk through London
13 Culture Robin Hood – England’s most famous 8B Culture Australia – Going to live Down Under
folk hero
14 Culture New Zealand
15 Literature Roger McGough – The Mafia Cats
16 Literature Mark Twain – The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer
17 Literature Wendy Cope – Three poems
18 Literature Oscar Wilde – The Canterville Ghost
19 Literature John Cooper Clarke – I wanna be
yours
20 Literature Bram Stoker – Dracula
Glossary
Maps of USA and Canada
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Map of the UK Map of the UK Map of the UK
Maps of Australia and New Zealand Maps of Australia and New Zealand Maps of Australia and New Zealand
1 Culture Scotland, Wales and Ireland 1A Culture The British Empire 1A Culture English – a global language
English – a global language
2 Culture Football over the world 1B Literature Sujata Bhatt – Search for My Tongue 1B Culture Multicultural Britain
Multicultural Britain
3 Culture/Literature Three famous characters in British 2A Culture The Queen’s Honour’s List 2A Culture Three islands
Three tourist sights
fiction
2B Culture Queen Elizabeth I 2B Literature
2B Literature Eat Pray Love
Gulliver’s – Elizabeth Gilbert
Travels
4 Culture The Caribbean
3A Culture Art in the UK – Anthony Gormley 3A Culture Journalism in the 21st century
The British Press
5 Culture The Story of English 3B Literature Notting Hill screenplay
3B Culture/Literature The Globe Theatre 3B Literature The Clinging Woman – Richard
6 Culture From Glastonbury to Glyndebourne Curtis
4A Culture Education in the UK and US 4A Culture Great British Myths
7 Culture Englishness 4A Culture Old Wives’ Tales
4B Literature Pride and Prejudice 4B Literature The Importance of Being Earnest
8 Culture Young people’s rights 4B Literature The Importance of Being Earnest –
5 Culture Super size America; super size world? 5A
Culture British Youth and the Future
Oscar Wilde
9 Culture From castles to cottages
6 Literature John Keats – Ode on a Grecian Urn 5B Literature
5 Literature Louis MacNeice – Prayer
Still I Rise – Maya AngelouBefore Birth
10 Culture Public holidays in the USA
7 Culture London West End Theatre 6
6A Culture
Culture Working hours in Britain
Teenagers at work
11 Culture Stonehenge
8A Culture English-speaking capitals 7 Literature
6B Literature A sonnet by William Shakespeare
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
12 Culture Britain’s most famous graffiti artist
8A
7 Culture
Literature The British weather
A sonnet by William Shakespeare
13 Culture Systems of government in Britain and
the USA 9A Culture Britain’s unruly teenagers 8B
8A Literature
Culture William Wordsworth – Composed
Conversation conventions
Upon Westminster Bridge
14 Literature Three poems, three poets 9B Literature Carol Ann Duffy – We Remember 8B Literature Composed Upon Westminster Bridge –
your Childhood Well 9
Culture Social networking in Britain
William Wordsworth
15 Literature Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
10A Culture Transport in London 10A Culture
9 Culture Binge-drinking Britain
Tiger mothers and turbo-charged
16 Literature Two poems from the Caribbean fathers
10B Literature Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum 10B Literature The War of the Worlds
17 Literature A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Est 10A Culture Binge-drinking Britain
11A Culture Great British Inventions
18 Literature Rabbit-Proof Fence – Doris Pilkington 11 Literature Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Hound of 10B Literature The War of the Worlds – H.G.Wells
Garimara the Baskervilles 11B Literature Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
11A Culture Inventions
19 Literature My Oedipus Complex – Frank 12A Culture The American Revolution 12 Literature Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian
O’Connor 11B Literature Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Gray
12B Literature Samuel Pepys’ Diary
20 Literature Notes from a Small Island – Bill 12 Literature
The Call – Charlotte Mew
Glossary
Bryson Glossary
Glossary
Maps of USA and Canada
Glossary Maps of USA and Canada
Maps of USA and Canada
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CULTURE
Countries in the UK Places to visit are under 16) to visit the Roman want to go higher, try Ben Nevis in

UK
baths. Scotland (1343 metres), the highest
Start your visit in London. First, go Take a train to Newquay in mountain in the UK.
1 Try and answer the questions before you look on the London Eye. It’s a big wheel. Cornwall. Spend a whole day Visit Edinburgh and walk along
at the texts. Britain, Great Britain United Kingdom Take some photos from the top. surfing, swimming and relaxing the Royal Mile, from Edinburgh
1 Which has more countries in it – the United = England, Scotland, = England, Scotland, You can see all over London. on the beach. The average Castle to the Palace of Holyrood
Kingdom (UK) or Great Britain (GB)? Wales Wales, Northern Ireland The Romans in Britain? Well, temperature in August is 16ºC, so House, through the medieval heart
they’re not there now, but in Bath it’s not too hot and not too cold. of Edinburgh. But don’t expect to
2 Match the countries and capital cities: POPULATION you can see the beautiful Roman The train journey from London see the Queen at the Castle or the
1 England a Cardiff United Kingdom total baths. The city is good for shops, takes five hours. Palace. When she’s in Scotland,
is 60.6 million. too. But don’t spend all your money Climb Mount Snowdon in north she stays at Balmoral, a castle
2 Scotland b London
83.8% live in England. at the shops. It costs £6.80 (if you Wales. It’s 1085 metres high. If you surrounded by forests and rivers.

S C O T
3 Wales c Belfast
4 Northern Ireland d Edinburgh 8.4% live in Scotland.
Balmoral Castle
3 Which has the highest population, Ben Nevis 4.9% live in Wales. 6 Where are these places? Write the name under each photo. What do you think?
Scotland or Wales? 2.9% live in Northern ▶ Look again at the information
4 Do people in the UK use the euro? Ireland. on these pages. Is there anything

L A
EDINBURGH that surprises you?
5 How many official languages are there N O R T H E R N
in the United Kingdom? I R E L A N D It surprises me that ... (there are

N
Glasgow
more than 60 million people in
2
D
Money
Money the UK).
BELFAST
UKthe
UK thepound
pound(sterling)
(sterling) Edinburgh Castle ▶ Look at the words and phrases
E
in Exercise 7. On holiday, which
Say:‘a‘apound’
Say: Write:£1
pound’Write: £1 things are important for you?
N
Liverpool I like going to places with good
DUBLIN shops.
G
Mount oni
a Manchester
Snowdon I enjoy spending all day at the
Snowd
W A L E S

Birmingham beach and I love surfing.

A

Republicof
Republic ofIreland
Irelandthe
theeuro
euro ▶ You’re planning to go to the UK
for a week. Where would you
LONDON
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like to go, and why?

CARDIFF Bath 7a Write the words and phrases under the correct heading. I want to go to ... because ...
D

ll
I’d like to go to ...
Newquay r nw
a Roman baths shops national parks surfing
Co forests mountains palaces restaurants relaxing on the beach What about you? Where do you
Which is worth more, one pound castles rivers swimming want to go?
or one euro?
3 Can you work out the answers? OFFICIAL LANGUAGES Facilities Beach life Buildings Landscape and scenery Project
1 Welsh and Cornish use the same OF THE UK shops Design a leaflet or a web page for
word for ‘good’. What is it? someone visiting your country. Use
2 In Scots Gaelic and Cornish, Main language Minority languages these headings as a guide:
what are the words for English Welsh (Wales) • Population
‘morning’? Gaelic (Ireland, Scotland) • Languages
3 In Welsh, what is the word Cornish (Cornwall) 7b spend and take
• Money
for ‘you’? spend
English Welsh Scots Gaelic Cornish • Places to visit
4 In Welsh and Scots Gaelic,
You can spend money, but you can also spend time.
what are the words for ‘and’? Good morning! Bore da! Madainn mhath! Myttin da!
How are you? Sut rydych chi? Ciamar a tha thu? Fatla genes? Find an example of each in the text.
4 Look again at the questions in Very well, thanks. Da iawn, diolch. Tha gu math, tapadh leat. Yn poynt da, meur rasta.
Exercise 1. Were your answers take
And you? A chi? Agus thusa? Ha ty?
correct? Find three uses of the verb take in the text.

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3 Try to work out the meaning of
CULTURE these words and phrases from their
contexts.
Public holidays in the USA 1 to honour
2 settlers
1 When are the public holidays in your country? What do they celebrate? Martin Luther 3 harvest
e
King Day 4 landing
2 Public holidays are of particular importance in the USA as most workers New Year’s Day
only get two weeks holiday a year.Some start on only one week a year. 5 creation
The third 6 sacrifices
Match the public holidays in the USA to the descriptions. January Monday in 7 armed forces
a This holiday officially celebrates the birthday of the man who led America to victory
in the War of Independence. He was the first President of the USA. It is sometimes called
Presidents’ Day, to honour all the great American leaders.
1st January 8 a day off
9 assassinated
10 speech
b In 1621 English settlers in Massachusetts had a special meal to celebrate their first 11 brotherhood
harvest after a long hard winter. They sat down together with the Wampanoag Indians, who Washington’s 12 graves
had helped them survive their first year. Today it’s one of the major celebrations in the USA Birthday Memorial Day
and Canada. Families travel hundreds of miles to share the traditional dinner of roast turkey 4 Answer the questions.
followed by pumpkin pie.
The third The last 1 Why was the Roman god Janus
important to the celebration of
c This celebrates the great explorer’s landing in the New World in 1492. However, not Monday in Monday in New Year?
everybody thinks that it should be a cause for celebration. Some say that there were already
people living in ‘the New World’, so how could he have ‘discovered’ it? Others believe that he February May 2 Who was Martin Luther King?
was not the first explorer to arrive there. And there are those who ask why we should honour a 3 Who is known as the father of
man who was responsible for genocide and slavery. the USA?
4 Which war took place in
d This day celebrates the end of British colonial rule in 1776 and the creation of the Independence Labor* Day America in the 1860s?
United States of America. Day 5 What happened in 1776?
The first
e This day has its origins in ancient Roman times, when people offered cakes and wine July Monday in
6 When does the new school year

4th
start in the USA?
to Janus, the two-faced Roman god of doors and gates, who looked back on the past and
forward to the future. The month of January (Latin: Januarius) is named after him. Today, September 7 When did Columbus reach the
the focus of the celebrations is Times Square, New York. Americas?
8 Who do people remember on
f This day remembers all the men and women who have served in the country’s armed Veterans’ Veterans’ Day?
forces in times of war and peace. Day 9 What was the reason for the
Columbus Day first Thanksgiving celebration?
g This day was originally ‘a day off for the working man’ in 1882, and it became an official November 10 Why don’t some Americans

11th
holiday in the whole of the USA in 1894. It also marks the end of the summer holiday season The second say ‘Happy Christmas’ to each
as the new school year starts the following day. Monday in other?

October What do you think?

h This holiday honours the civil rights leader who was assassinated by a gunman on April 4th
in 1968. He demanded equal rights for black Americans. His most famous speech included the ▶ Which official holidays in your
line: “I have a dream that the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will Christmas own country are similar to the
sit together at the table of brotherhood.” His birthday was January 15th. It has been a federal American holidays?
holiday since 1986. Thanksgiving Day
▶ If you could create a new official
holiday for your country, what
December
The fourth
25th
would it be and why?
i This holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus. However, there is a big argument in America
about whether this time of year should be officially celebrated as a Christian festival, because Thursday in
Christianity is only one among many religions. In public, Americans will often wish each other Project
‘Happy holidays’, rather than referring to the festival by name. November
Write a page for a website about your
country, giving readers a list of the
j This began in 1868 as a day when people went to the graves of soldiers who died in the American public holidays, with short descriptions
Civil War (1861-1865) to put flowers on them. Later it became a holiday dedicated to all war dead. * Labor is the American
of what they are and how they began.
spelling of labour.

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3 Read the text more carefully and answer the questions. 4 Match these words from the text with their meanings.
CULTURE 1 Who were the first people to live in Australia?
Where did they come from? 1 soil 7 fortune
Australia: Going to live Down Under
2 What did early Dutch explorers think of Australia? 2 claimed 8 conflict
3 Why did the British decide to colonize it? 3 inhospitable 9 brutally
4 What factors attracted settlers in the 19th century?
4 settlement 10 deported
5 How did the settlers treat the Aboriginal people?
6 Why did Australia bring in language tests for 5 overcrowded 11 policy
immigrants? 6 convicts 12 monocultural
7 How did Australia encourage European
immigration after World War 2? a with too many people inside
8 Where have more immigrants come from recently? b consisting of people of only one race, language, or
Why? religion
c land
d forced to leave a country, by law
e a place where people have come to live
f people who have been found guilty of a crime
1 What do you know about Australia? Complete
the paragraph with these words and numbers. g said to belong to you
h plan of action chosen by a government or company
harbour 19 coral 7.6 outback i a very large amount of money
32 marsupials 2,600 monolith 348
Immigration to Australia j unpleasant to live in
k fighting
With a land mass of roughly (1) million The word ‘aboriginal’ means ‘from the beginning’, and the Aborigines were l with great violence and cruelty
km2, Australia is (2) times larger than the indeed the original inhabitants of Australia. They themselves were once
United Kingdom, but with a population of only about immigrants, originally from Africa, and first settled in Australia over 42,000 What do you think?
(3) million people. years ago.
Australia is famous for its landmarks of natural beauty,
▶ What do you think are the factors, apart from work,
The first ship to land Europeans on Australian soil, the Eendracht, was Dutch, that attract people to Australia nowadays?
such as the Great Barrier Reef, which at (4) and arrived there in 1616. In 1642 another Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman,
kilometres is the world’s biggest (5) ▶ Would you like to live there? Why? / Why not?
discovered the island we now call Tasmania. However, the Dutch did not
reef – and also the largest living organism on Earth. ▶ How should people treat the original inhabitants of
think that the land they called ‘New Holland’ was worth formally occupying, countries they settle in?
The hot, dry interior of the country is known as the
and it wasn’t until 1770 that it was officially claimed for Britain by Captain
(6) , and right in the middle is Ayer’s Rock,
James Cook. Britain formally colonized the area in 1786, calling it New South The Immigrants’ Ship 1884, by John Charles Dollman
or Uluru, the world’s biggest (7) . This huge
Wales. The British were mainly interested in this seemingly inhospitable Project
red rock stands (8) metres in height, and
is a sacred site to the aboriginal people. Australia is also land because it was an ideal place to start a new prison settlement. Britain In groups, imagine you have established a new country on
known for its unusual animals, including (9) was suffering from overcrowded prisons at home, having lost their prison language chosen by the immigration officer, and if the immigrants were seen an island. What would your immigration policies be? Think
such as kangaroos, which carry their young in pouches. colonies in the United States after the War of Independence. as unwelcome, it was easy to choose a language they didn’t know. The most about the following options and write a speech explaining
Sydney, the biggest city, has the world’s largest natural In 1788, the first fleet of 11 ships and 1,350 people (the majority of them famous case was in 1934, when Egon Kisch, a left-wing Czechoslovakian your country’s immigration policy. Give your speeches to the
(10) , crossed by the famous bridge facing its convicts) arrived in Australia at Sydney Cove. From about 1815 the colony journalist, tried to enter Australia. He could speak five languages, but failed a class and see which policy gets the most votes.
unique opera house. began to grow. Although the journey from Europe took over a year and was test in Scottish Gaelic, and was deported as illiterate! 1 only allow in people who have skills that are needed on
very difficult, people began to hear that Australia wasn’t just a prison colony, the island
After World War II, as its economy expanded, Australia established a huge
2 For over 200 years, people have emigrated to Australia. but also a fine place for anyone to make a fresh start in life, and that some immigration programme. More than two million Europeans emigrated
2 only allow in people from your country of birth, or who
Which of 1–6, do you think, are reasons why many people were making a fortune there from the free land they could use for to Australia between 1945 and 1965 to escape post-war poverty and
speak your language
people went to live there? sheep farming. In 1850 the discovery of gold attracted many more Europeans unemployment. Most of them came from Britain and Ireland, but there were 3 allow in certain numbers of people of different ages,
1 to become sheep farmers – 2% of the population of Britain and Ireland moved to Australia during the also large numbers arriving from the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Italy,
professions, salaries, etc
2 to fish in the seas
following Gold Rush. Yugoslavia, and Turkey. The Australian government helped many of them 4 allow in anybody who was unemployed or living in
Inevitably there was increased conflict with the Aborigines, who were brutally financially by paying for their journey and giving them somewhere to live poverty in their own country
3 to find gold
hunted and poisoned by the settlers. Aboriginal children were taken away until they found a job. The White Australia Policy ended in 1973, and this 5 only allow in people who have artistic or other creative
4 to find jobs talents
from their parents to be educated by white people. Australians had also been greatly changed the character of Australian society, which became much less
5 to convert people to their religion alarmed by the numbers of Chinese immigrants during the Gold Rush, and conservative and monocultural. Later waves of immigration have brought the 6 allow in anybody who wants to live on the island
6 to serve prison sentences the White Australia Policy was established in 1901 to restrict non-white total number of settlers since 1945 to nearly 7 million, with a recent increase
Now read the text quickly to check your answers. settlers. Any new immigrant had to pass a dictation test in a European in those arriving from Asia.

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5B LITERATURE
Louis
Still I MacNeice – Prayer
Rise – Maya AngelouBefore Birth
4 Answer the questions.

6 Complete the text

1 When the baby says ‘O hear me’, who might
he/she be addressing?
2 What are the childhood fears in the first
aboutWhat
stanza? Mayaeffect
Angelou
do thewith these words.
monosyllabic
1 Look at
What arethe pictures
people youand
know themost
title afraid
of the of
poem. What do
? Why? 3 This extract from Prayer Before Birth has six stanzas. nouns give the sound of the poem?
raised assassinated spokesperson activist varied
you think
What kindstheofpoem
thingsisare
about? Readoften
children the poem
scaredtoof?
see if Quickly read the poem and match summaries A–F You may write me down in history 3 What, in the second stanza, does the child
overcome change celebrated movement disadvantaged
you were right. you as a child? fear will happen to him/her in life? What is

Still I Rise
What frightened with each one. With your bitter, twisted lies,
A a plea for the good things in life You may trod me in the very dirt the connection with world events at the time
2 Find words
Read in about
this text the poem withcentury
the 20th these meanings.
poet Louis the poem was written?
MacNeice, filling
1 distorted, in thechanged
meaning gaps with these words: B a plea for evil people to stay away from him/her Prayer Before Birth
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
4 The poet uses alliteration – the same sound
2 stamp (v) C a plea for forgiveness for all the terrible things the 5 Does my sassiness upset you? or letter in words that are close together – in
fears producer masterpiece world will make him/her do Why are you beset with gloom?
3 boldness Maya Angelou tall walls wall. Find more examples of this in
lecturer totalitarianism height death I am not yet born; O hear me.
4 overcome D a plea to be saved from real and imaginary fears ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells the second stanza.
playwright dictator democracy Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
of the night Pumping in my living room. 5 What kind of things does the child ask for in
5 jumping
E a plea for guidance on what to do in life and how club-footed ghoul come near me. the third stanza? Why might they be difficult
6 bent over to react to others
Just like moons and like suns,
to provide?
7 deeply emotional and sad 10 With the certainty of tides,
F a plea for sympathy for all the terrible things that I am not yet springing
born, console me. 6 What does the child fear being forced to do in
8 arrogant pride Just like hopes high,
society might do to him/her the modern world?
Still II’ll
fearrise.
that the human race may with tall walls wall me,
9 really (US English) 7 Find a metaphor at the beginning of the fifth
with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me,
10 garden (US English) Did you want to see me broken? stanza. What does it mean?
Bowed head on black
andracks rack me,
lowered eyes?in blood-baths roll me. Maya angelou is a (1) African-American
11 rising up poet, writer, and8 public
Find three
speaker.example
She has of been
personification
a bus conductor,
12 growing bigger 15 Shoulders falling down like teardrops, nightclub singer, dancer, actress, magazine they
(describing objects as if editor, were human)
screenwriter,
I am notby
Weakened yetmy born; provide
soulful me
cries? in the fifth
and director in her long and (2) stanza. What is their overall
career, and has
13 carry
With water to dandle me, grass to grow for me, trees tobroken talk many boundariesmeaning? forWhat
black impression
women during of human life is
the course
14 amazingly Does my haughtiness offend you?
to me, sky to sing to me, birds and a white light of it. Born in 1928given
and (3)in this stanza? in segregated rural
Don’t you take it awful hard
3 Discuss and answer the questions about the poem.
’Cause I in the back
laugh likeofI’ve
my got
mindgold
to guide
mines me. 9 Who might
Arkansas, she managed to (4) the people referred to in the
her humble andlast
1 Who do you think the speaker of the poem is? Why? severely (5) stanza be? beginnings in the American South
20 Diggin’ in my own backyard. to become an 10 important (6) the rhythm and and lead figure style
2 Who do you think the speaker is talking to? Why? How does the repetitive
I am not
You may shootyet born;
me withforgive
yourme words, in the African-American Civil Rights
of the poem add to(7)
the message? which
3 What is the mood of the poem? For the sins achieved huge social (8) between 1955 and
You may cut methat in me
with the world
your eyes, shall commit, my words
4 What is ‘history’s shame’? thoughts when they think 1968. me, She worked
You may when
killthey
me speakwith me,
your myhatefulness, Whatalongside
do you think?both Martin Luther King and
5 What is the poem’s main message? Malcolm X before each was (9) . Respected as a
But still,my like air, I’ll
treason rise.
engendered by traitors beyond me, (10) ▶ Whatfordoblack
you most like, Prayer
people andortheir
dislike, about
culture, she was
4 Find examples of the following in the poem: my life when
Does my sexiness theyyou?
upset murder by means of my Before Birth?
awarded the Presidential Why?
Medal Why is it by
of Freedom so President
effective to put
Barack

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1 Metaphor – a word or phrase
ouis MacNeice, used to describe
the Anglo-Irish poet and Does it comehands, as a my death when they live me.
surprise Obama in 2010. these words into the mouth of an unborn child?
somebody
(1) / something else, in
, was born in a1907.
way that
He isstudied
different That I dance like I’ve got diamonds ▶ Do you think the fears of the unborn child in
from its normal use, in order
at Oxford and went on to work as a (2)
to show that the two the poem are still relevant today? Why? Why
At theI ammeeting of myrehearse
not yet born; thighs?me What do younot? think?
things have the same qualities.
in classics, before taking a position with the BBC as In the parts I must play and the cues I must take when
2 Simile – a word or phrase that compares something Out of the huts of history’s shame ▶ How did you reactfears
▶ What to this poem?
about Do world
today’s you like it? Why?
could /
be added
a writer and (3) of radio programmes. In
to something else, using the words like or as. 30 I rise old men lecture me, bureaucrats hector me, mountainsWhy not? now?
1939 he was in Barcelona, shortly before the fall of the
5 Answer Up from frown a pastatthat’s rooted
me, lovers laughinatpain
me, the white ▶ How relevant do you think it is today?
to thethe
(4)questions about theand
poem.
▶ Will there▶ be
city Franco his Fascist troops What might people fear most in 10, 20 and 50
I rise waves call me to folly and the desert calls an end to racial and other forms of
1 the
at What endimages of nature
of the Spanish does
Civil sheand
War, usewrote
in herAutumn
similes years from now? Why?
I’m a black me ocean, leaping andbeggar
wide,refuses discrimination in the future?
and metaphors and why? What effect do they have? to doom and the
Journal – considered by many to be his (5) . Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
2 What
The collectively
rise of the Nazisare oil wells, gold
in Germany mines
and the and on
attacks
my gift and my children curse me.
Project Project
diamonds? What does she use these similes to 35 Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
(6) elsewhere led to his strong opposition to Choose a poem or novel that makes predictions or
How did these people further the civil rights movement in the US?
describe and why? I riseI am not yet born; O hear me,
(7) becoming a powerful theme of his work. expresses fears about the future. Use the work itself,
3 What is the main rhyming sound of the poem? How Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear Benjamin Franklin Rosa Parks
the Internet or literature textbooks to find out more
This can be seenused?
in Prayer Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God
is repetition WhatBefore
effectBirth,
does written
it have?at the I rise Martin Luther King Malcolm X
about it. Write a review of it for your school library,
(8) of the Second World War, in which the come near me.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
4 How and when does the structure of the poem including the following:
poet describes
change? Whattheeffect
(9) do you thinkof anit unborn
has? child. I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
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• when and where it was written, and by whom
Choose one figure to write more fully about. Include information on:
MacNeice continued working for the BBC for many I rise • its vision of the future, and how it does this
• what part he / she played
years after, almost until his (10) in 1963. I rise Louis MacNeice • how likely you feel this vision is to become reality
• what changes came about as a result of his / her actions
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