ROSA PARK’S BIOGRAPHY 1
Watch the video as many times as you need and complete the text below (cross the wrong answers). 2
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I / UPBRINGING (0’ to 55’) 8
1/ Rosa Parks was born in ______________ (year) in ___________________ (state). 9
2/ She was the … youngest / eldest …of 2 children. 10
3/ She was raised on her grand parents’ … house / farm / corporation. 11
4/ As a kid, she … took the bus to school every day / she walked to school every day 12
/ she rode a bike to school every day. 13
5/ She had to drop out of her high school because …. it was prohibited for black women to attend 14
high school / it was too expensive / her mother and grandmother were ill. 15
6/ At __________ years old, she met Raymond Parks and they got married in ___________(year). 16
Raymond was working for the Montgomery … NAACP / NACCP / NNACP … chapter. 17
7/ After getting her high school diploma, Rosa worked in the organization as …. a leader / 18
a secretary / an accountant. 19
8/ Based on the first part of the video, circle the adjectives that best qualify Rosa’s personality : 20
quiet silly educated talkative rebellious 21
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II / THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT (56’ to 2’31) 27
1/ On ___________________________ (exact date), as she was on a bus going back home after work, 28
Rosa was told to … give up her seat / leave the bus / drive the bus. 29
2/ She was … alone / with 2 other persons / with 3 other persons. 30
3/ She refused and was _________________. 31
4/ A bus boycott was organized on … the day she was arrested / the day of her trial 32
/ the day she went back home. 33
5/ She was found _______________ and had to … pay a fine / go to jail / apologize to the driver. 34
