COLÉGIO FRANCISCANO SANTÍSSIMA TRINDADE

106 anos ensinando valores

ara toda a vida.

1. Read the text and check () the correct statements about it.

WANGARI MAATHAI

Facts
Job: Environmental activist, assistant minister for Environment and Natural Resources in
Kenya
Born: April 1st, 1940
Died: September 25, 2011
Why she’s important: She was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which campaigned
for the planting of trees, environmental conversation and women’s rights. She was the first woman n
East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. She was the first African woman to receive the
Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, peace and democracy.
Source: <www.historyextra.com/100-women/100-women-results/2/>. Accessed on: Aug. 19, 2019.

a.  The text is an online profile.

b.  The main idea of the text is to inform about the life and work of a person.
c.  Wangari Maathai was a Kenya ambassador.
d.  Wangari Maathai was an activist in England.
e.  Wangari Maathai was a talented student.
f.  Wangari Maathai was an influential woman.

2. Unscramble the words to find the four occupations below.

.
a. DCANRE __Dancer_________
b. CTAESRS __Actress___________
c. DIERCTRO _ Director_____________
d. ANTERPI __Painter____________
e. ANPOTILICI _Politician___________

3. Complete the information about Frida Kahlo with at, in, or on.

a. Frida Kahlo was born __at___ July 6, 1907.

b. She contracted polio _or____ the age of 6.
c. She died _in___ 1954.
d. ___on__ November 2002, a movie named Frida was released.
From: <www.fridakahlo.org/frida-kahlo-biography.jsp>. Accessed on: Aug. 20, 2019.

4. Complete with the correct form of the verb to be in the past simple, in the negative or
affirmative form.

a. Indira Gandhi ______ Malaysian, she ______ Indian.

b. Agatha Christie and Virginia Woolf ___ famous English writers.
c. Maria Quitéria ______ a Brazilian lieutenant, she ________ a general.
d. Emmeline Pankhurst and Rosa Parks ______ singers, they _____
activists.
5. Write questions for the answers about Rosa Parks.
a.
___________ What did Rosa Parks work with ________?
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist.

b. ___ What country was Rosa Parks born in_______?

She was born in the USA.

c. ____What year was she_born_____________?

She was born in 1913.

d. Why was she important__________?

She was important because she was “the mother of the freedom movement.”

6. Use the information from exercise 1 to write a fact file about this inspiring woman.

Facts
Job: _Activist for the black civil rights _movement in the EUA.
________________________________________________
Born: ____February 4,_1913________________________
Died: ____October_24, 2005________________________
Why she’s important:
because he married Raymond Parks, one of the members
of the NAACP, an organization that fought for the civil rights
of blacks, who rose to become a militant and activist for the
the black civil rights,and “mother of freendom movement._
______________________________________________
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7. Listen to the story of an inspiring woman. Choose the correct option to complete each
statement.
a. The inspiring woman is
 Marie Claire.  Marie Louise.  Marie Curie.

b. She was a famous

 scientist.  journalist.  writer.

c. She was
 married.  single.  divorced.

d. She was a professor at the University of

 Warsaw.  Paris.  London.

a. She was born on… and died on…

 November 7,1867 / July 4, 1934.
 November 17,1867 / July 14, 1934.
 July 7,1867 / November 4, 1934.
b. She was the only person to
 identify radium and polonium.
 help people during the First World War.
 receive two Nobel prizes.