MARTIN LUTHER KING S

I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH

(August 28, 1963)

INTRODUCTION:

THE MARCH ON WASHINTON, DC : Lets RECAP !

Complete the following introduction with the missing information.
Conjugate the verbs in brackets ( was/were + V-ING)

What ..

(HAPPEN) in the US in the early sixties?

Even though ......... had been abolished in 1863 by President , Black people
..

( still / SUFFER) and they

equal for Blacks and Whites.

( FIGHT) for

People .

( DEMONSTRATE) non-violently for and

250 000 demonstrators led by Martin Luther King .

. On August. , . ,

(MARCH) peacefully to

.
MLK delivered his famous which was titled :

Washington D.C, Aug. 28, ..

In the largest civil . .ever, more than 200,000 non- . protesters
gathered at the. of the. . to hear Dr. King Jr., president of the .
Christian . Conference, describe his . of the . of. relations in the United
States.

 LISTENING COMPREHENSION

(PART 1) I HAVE A DREAM

( I say to you today my friends .. south with )

GLOBAL
COMPREHENSION

What was MLKs Dream all about ? Listen and write down the keywords to help, you find out .
What was he fighting for or against ?

FIGHTING

ADJECTIVES

Lets RECAP!

FOR

NOUNS

FIGHTING

ADJECTIVES

AGAINST

NOUNS

(PART 2) I HAVE A DREAM ( With this faith .. we are free at last !)

Listen to the last part of Dr. Kings speech.

DETAILED COMPREHENSION
Listen and complete the chart with the keywords that

a-

will help you describe his American Dream .

GROUPS OF PEOPLE

VERBS

ADJECTIVES or ADVERBS

VALUES

Use the keywords to describe MLKs Dream for the Future at that time.
( he hoped (that) / he believed / he was convinced (that)/He dreamt that .)

a- Fill in the Blanks in the following excerpts

b-Pick up the intonation in the sentences marked *: for rising intonation and for falling intonation

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of a stone
of . With this faith, we will be able to . the jangling discords
of our nation into a beautiful .. of .
With this we will be able to together *(
together * (

) to

), to together* (

) , to go

to jail together, to up for .. together* (

) knowing

that we will be one day. This will be the . all Gods

..will be able to sing with new meaning: My country, this of thee, Sweet
.. of, of thee I sing; Land where my died,
Land of the Pilgrims .. , from every mountain side, ..
freedom. !And if America is to be a great nation, this .
become. .And so let freedom * (
*(

) Let freedom * (

* (

) from the prodigious hilltops of

) from the mighty mountains of

) Let freedom * (

) from the heightening

Alleghenies of Let freedom * (

snow-capped Rockies of * (
(

) from the

) Let freedom *

) from the curvaceous slopes of But not only that. Let freedom

from Stone Mountain of

Let freedom * (

) from lookout mountain of * (

Let freedom from every hill and molehill of ,

from every mountainside * (
ring * (

) let freedom ring * (

) And when we allow

), when we let it ring from every and every hamlet, from every

and every , we will be able to

speed up that day when all of Gods _ black men and
, Jews and Gentiles, and
_ will be able to join and in the
words of the old Negro spiritual: at last, * (
last, * (

) at

); thank God Almighty, * (