Mahatma Gandhi

BEFORE LISTENING: Activating previous knowledge:

What do you know about Mahatma Gandhi?

a. Where is he from? What is his nationality?

b. Is he alive? How do you know?
c. Who was he? Why is he important?

Listening : Tick the right answer:

Global understanding:

What is the purpose of the video?

c To illustrate Gandhi’s life during school.

c To show some important points of Gandhi as a historical figure.
c To illustrate one of the most important moments of Gandhi’s life.

Listening for specific information:

1. Mahatma Gandhi was known for ___.

A] His non-violent campaigns of civil disobedience.
B] His violent campaigns of civil disobedience.
C] His non-violent campaigns of civil obedience.

2. Mahatma Gandhi became an international symbol of___.

A] Justice and human rights
B] Peace and human rights
C] Peace and humanity

3. In what country was he thrown off a train?

England India South Africa

4. Gandhi organized the ___ to oppose prejudice and racial discrimination through
non-violent resistance.
Indian festival Indian community Indian project

5. Gandhi stayed in South Africa for more than ___.

Twelve years Ten years Twenty years
 Listen and match the words and the spaces

Community - Government - Great Soul - Humanitarian - Independence

- Oppressor - Political - Protest - Together - Violence

Gandhi was arrested six times for his acts against the South African
_______________ . –What Gandhi means by non-violence is to not respond to
your _______________ or your attacker with equal _______________ but he
used his body, he used his words and he used the _______________, because
when you get a lot of people rising _______________, to stand in
_______________, there is a power there. –When Gandhi returned to India in
1915 he became known as a _______________ and rising
_______________figure. Gandhi worked for Indian _______________ of the
British rule and later was given the name Mahatma, meaning
“_______________”.

Listen and match Years and Event mentioned in the video.

1930 - 1915 - 1922 - 1948 - 1893 - 1947 - 1869
a. _____: Mahatma Gandhi was born.
b. _____: India gained independence on …
c. _____: he was imprisoned for conspiracy for two years.
d. _____: he returned to India.
e. _____: he began to work as a lawyer.
f. _____: Gandhi was killed when an assassin fired three bullet into his chest at point-
blank range.
g. _____: Gandhi organized a revolutionary 23 day – 241 mile Salt March to the sea. In
that same year he was named by Time Magazine man of the year.

Listen to complete the missing information.

1. The Salt March was a protest against __________________________________

2. What did Gandhi’s peaceful acts of resistance include?
___________________, ____________________, and ____________________.
3. Who are some of the famous people, shown in the video, who were inspired by Gandhi?
_____________________________________________________________
 Organize and express your own ideas.

1. What was the greatest contribution from Gandhi to humanity? Justify with 3 reasons.

2. In your opinion, who can take good ideas from Gandhi’s life? Justify with 3 reasons.

SCRAMBLED SENTENCES : Put the words back into the correct order.

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8. leading   British   protests   taxes   against
9. and   arrested   was   He   unrest   creating   for   imprisoned
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