Escola Secundário com 3º CEB Dr.

Joaquim de Carvalho – Figueira da Foz 8ºC

Prática Pedagógica Supervisionada de Inglês Maria Miguel V. Rocha October 2010

Name: ______________________________________________
Date: ______________________________________________

Barack Obama
1. Choose the correct verbs below to complete the story of the
life of Obama.
"Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of
America. He is also the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. He
made history in 2008 when he ____1 the U.S. presidential
election. He is the first African American to be President. Obama’s
charisma, intelligence, and powerful speeches _____2 him
extremely popular with many Americans. He ________3 with
his message for change.
Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to a black Kenyan father and
white American mother. His parents _____4 and his mother
_____5 an Indonesian man. Barack’s family _____6 to
Indonesia in 1967. He ______7 schools in Jakarta until he _____8 ten years old, when he _______9
to Hawaii. Obama ______10 in political science and international relations at Columbia University in New York.
After four years in New York, Obama _____11 to Chicago. There, he _____12 as the director of a community
project from 1985 to 1988. He ______13 Harvard Law School and ______14 the first black president of the
Harvard Law Review. Obama ______15 law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years. He
became an Illinois Senator in 1996.
In 2004, the American people ______16 Obama as a U.S. Senator. He _______17 legislation on
conservation, energy, immigration and honest leadership. Obama ______18 with serious issues such as the
economy, the global credit crisis and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Adapted from www.famouspeoplelessons.com/b/barack_obama.html

2. Now, take
take the words under the verbs, according to the order of the first exercise, and put them into the
Speech Box
Box below.

SPEECH BOX
One of the most important things of his speech, that Will.i.am worked on his song, was:
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 Escola Secundário com 3º CEB Dr. Joaquim de Carvalho – Figueira da Foz 8ºC

Prática Pedagógica Supervisionada de Inglês Maria Miguel V. Rocha October 2010

3. Read the following sentences and say if they are true or false according to the text.
text.

True False

A) Barack Obama lost the Nobel Peace Prize.

B) He was born in Hawaii and his father is Kenyan.


C) Obama went to the university in Indonesia.


D) He only studied in the United States of America.

4. Complete the following table with the verbs used in the text.

Simple Past Negative (S. Past) Interrogative (S. Past)

Did ... attend?
Didn’t / did not battle
Divorced
Elected
Did ... enter?
Didn’t make
Returned
Did ... teach?
Didn’t win

5. With the information about Obama given below write an interview to him.

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