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I HAVE A DREAM
I Have a Dream is one of the greatest speech of the 20th century and of the American history.
> What makes that speech so powerful, so inflential and so memorable?
Is it more the words or the eloquence (=the manner to deliver the speech)?
>Do the exercises to help you understand this speech:
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profondément enraciné =
s'élever =
devise/ slogan =
vérités =
se donner la main =
notre espoir =
la foi = the
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prier =
aller en prison =
la fierté des pèlerins = '
se réaliser =
petit village =
Dieu Tout Puissant =
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a. One day our nation will rise and demonstrate.
b. The nation will live the things it has promised to do.
c. One day Black and White will be able to sit together at the same table.
d. This country will be transformed a place of equality.
e. We are impatient. We must speed the arrival of that day.
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a. The name given to anyone who is not Jewish (=juif) =
b. Type of sacred vocal music born anmong the American slaves =
c. Name given to the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the first colony in America in 1620 =
d. Quotation from the Declaration of Independence =
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Puis reconstruisez ce que vous avec entendu.
I Have a Dream is a that was in by Martin Luther King, a of the movement.
He hopes that in the there will be .
He mentions the where blacks are against. He claims that all and he hopes to obtain for the .
He tells people not to people of different , and but to for and .
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> Pour en savoir plus sur Martin Luther King: click here
> Pour en savoir plus sur le mouvement de Martin Luther King/ The Civil Rights Movement: click here
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