Tuesday, November 18, 2008




Your listening and speaking homework links. Here are some suggestions. All these poems and speech excerpts are around 2 minutes long. You ll have to choose just one to work on.

This is for Poetry lovers. I ve chosen four quite short poems.
Sydnee Stewart The Truth
Staceyann Chin And These Are Just Some Of The Things I Believe
Saul Williams When The Clock Strikes Me
Daniel Beaty Black Poets Truth Poets

http://www.blackvoices.com/blackhistory2007/poetrycafe/

This one is for those interested in having their conscience shaken up a bit and those who d like to know a bit more about black people in the USA.

Malcom X Who are you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7iHxAwPhpU&feature=related

This is for the dreamers.

Martin Luther King I have a dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZLvSnr6s50

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ana Belén Partal Lorente 4th year. B2
This is my homework about a Malcon´s speech:


You can do it for yourself. What a white man is doing for himself don´t think you are equal with the white man.
If you face front a Frankling and he face front a Frankling don´t………………………


Why? Do you know? Don´t tell me negro, that´s nothing. What do you report a white man mean do a negro?
And Where were you? And what was your head? What were tours? What language do you speak, then? What was your name, because name is Smith or Johns or Poncho or Power, that was your name. We don´t have those kind of name where you and I come from.
Not, what was your name? And why don´t you know more what your name was then.
Where did they go? Why did you loose it? who took it? And how did they come?
What tongue do you speak? How did the man take your tongue? What is your history?
How did the man ………….your history?
How did the man, what do the man do for make you are down.

This is american justice, this is american democracy, and those of you who are familiar with it know that in America, democracy is hypocrisy.
Now, if I´m wrong, put me in jail. But if you can´t prove that his democracy is not hypocrisy, don´t put your hands on me.
Democracy is hypocrisy.
If democracy means freedom, why are not people free.
If democracy means justice, why don´t we have justice.
If democracy means be equality, why don´t we have be equal.