Your choice, your voice!

Get ready

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Read the question: "What does it mean to be a citizen?". Click on the right answers. A citizen...

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can be elected to government jobs.

is always very calm.

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can vote.

always lives in a city.

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has rights and responsibilities.

2

Drag the words related to responsibilities in the first category and those related to rights in the second one.

3

Rephrase the question: What does it mean to be a citizen?

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Brainstorm from the title of the chapter.

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Check with this table what you already know.

Observe and listen

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Identify the key elements of the artwork. What can you say about the colours?

Shepard Fairey, Yes We Did, 2008.

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Listen to the audio guide and fill in the chart with key information about the artwork.

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Right or wrong? Write in the correct answer.

a) The artist is an American citizen.
b) Shepard Fairey is a painter. 
c) His portrait of Obama was published in The New Yorker magazine.

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Do you know another great American visual artist? Another American President?

Let’s have fun

1

Listen to the audio and choose the correct word.

a) It was a (creed / plead) written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a (nation / passion).
b) It was (sung / done) by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed  (westward / eastward) against an unforgiving wilderness.
c) It was the call of (dockers / workers) who organised; (women / men) who reached for the ballots; a President who (close / chose) the moon as our new frontier.