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Barack Obama Photocopiable LEVEL 2 Activity worksheets Teacher Support Programme Barack Obama Photocopiable While reading e What job did Obama’s grandmother do? EASYSTARTS Chapters 1–2 ……………………………………………… 1 Put the underlined letters in the right place to f What things did Obama remember from his make a word. first day in Jakarta? a Obama’s letoecni ……………… changed the ……………………………………………… LEVEL 2 future of the United States. g What did Obama write when his teacher b Martin Luther King wanted trbete asked him about his plans for the future? ……………… homes and jobs for black ……………………………………………… LEVEL 3 people. h Where did Obama live when he went back c American election apgamcsni ……………… to the United States? cost a lot of money. ……………………………………………… LEVEL 4 Obama, Sr. got a free place in mnoceosic d 4 Are these sentences right (✓) or wrong (✗)? ……………… classes at Harvard. a There is a new American president every e Obama, Sr. got a good job in the Kenyan four years. c LEVEL 5 mevontgnre ……………… . b After the war between the North and the f Lolo Soetoro went to New Guinea to gihtf South, black people could get good jobs. c ……………… in the war there. c Obama had more money to fight the LEVEL 6 g Ann wanted Barry to have a good atunoicde campaign than the Clintons. c ……………… . d In 1961, it wasn’t normal for a black h Barry loved playing basketball behind his person to marry a white person in the grandparents’ trapematn ……………… . United States. c 2 Put a word on the left with a word on the e Ann didn’t talk about Obama, Sr. after right. her married life with him ended. c better quietly f When Ann was a child, she loved reading sick future about people from other countries. c past cheap g First Obama went to a Catholic school, rich worse and then a Muslim school in Jakarta. c win bored h Obama was very happy when his father started well went to stay with him at Christmas in excited stupid 1971. c sold poor Chapters 3–4 loudly forget 5 Find the right words in Chapters 3–4. smart lose a A place where you can get money. (p. 9) remember bought ………………… expensive finished b The sister of your mother or father. (p. 10) 3 Answer the questions. ………………… a What happened when the war between the c When you do something badly, you make North and the South ended? these. (p. 10) ………………… ……………………………………………… d You have these when you talk with other b How many Democratic presidential people. (p. 11) ………………… candidates were there in the beginning? e Something you can read. (p. 13) ……………………………………………… ………………… c Why did Obama, Sr. first go to the United f This person lives in the house next to your States? house. (p. 14) ………………… ……………………………………………… g The way a person puts words on paper. d How many children did Kezia have when (p. 15) ………………… Obama, Sr. married Ruth? h When many animals are free, they are this. ……………………………………………… (p. 16) ………………… pearsonenglishreaders.com © Pearson Education Limited 2016 Barack Obama - Activity worksheets 1 of 2 LEVEL 2 Activity worksheets Teacher Support Programme Barack Obama Photocopiable 6 Underline the wrong words and put the right b a his Obama money book get lot could of EASYSTARTS ones. from a Obama wanted people to use his American ……………………………………………. name in Harlem. ……………… c stopped the White drivers road policemen b Obama helped black people in South more black on LEVEL 2 Chicago make changes for better hospitals. ……………………………………………. ……………… d weather city Orleans Very bad hit the of c When the government took Obama, Sr.’s New LEVEL 3 job away, he started working in bars. ……………………………………………. ……………… e his didn’t problems Obama life have he liked d Michelle wanted her older brother to play and money LEVEL 4 football with Obama. ……………… ……………………………………………. e Obama visited South America on his way to f to people phone across voters Young country Kenya. ……………… made the calls LEVEL 5 f One of Ruth’s two daughters died in a car ……………………………………………. accident. ……………… g was important country The problem g When Onyango had a lot of money, he economy the in most the LEVEL 6 bought a restaurant in Kendu. ……………… ……………………………………………. h Barack and Michelle married in Kenya in h spoke a party the After for Obama family big 1992. ……………… left ……………………………………………. 7 Finish the sentences with the right words. hoped powerful called different 9 Answer the questions. stranger newspapers disciplined freely a What was the name of Obama’s first book? a When Barry was a college, he was a ……………………………………………… ……………… student. b How many daughters did Barack and Michelle b Obama tried to work with the churches, but Obama have? the ……………… men didn’t want his help. ……………………………………………… c Obama sent Michelle flowers and notes, and c What did Michelle and the girls do when he ……………… her on the phone. Obama moved to Washington? d Some important ……………… wrote about ……………………………………………… Obama and it opened a door to his future. d Why were many Americans angry about e Obama felt like a ……………… when he New Orleans? visited London, Paris, and Barcelona. ……………………………………………… f Onyango ……………… to learn English e What did Michelle live for? from the white people. ……………………………………………… g Obama’s visit to Kenya opened his eyes to a f What did Obama have on the wall of his ……………… world. Senate office? h The South African government didn’t want ……………………………………………… black people to live ……………… with g What did Hillary Clinton vote on the war in white people. Iraq? ……………………………………………… Chapters 5–6 What did McCain do when the American 8 Put the words in the right place to make a h banks had problems? sentence. ……………………………………………… a wanted for Obama law Many them to offices work ……………………………………………. pearsonenglishreaders.com © Pearson Education Limited 2016 Barack Obama - Activity worksheets 2 of 2 LEVEL 2 Progress test Teacher Support Programme Barack Obama Photocopiable 1 What’s first? Number the sentences 1–10. h ………………… worked in a white man’s house EASYSTARTS a c Barack goes back to law school and is elected in Nairobi. president of the Harvard law magazine. i ………………… fought in New Guinea and then b c Barack becomes a Senator and then fights moved back to Jakarta. against Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic j ………………… took Barack to their LEVEL 2 candidate for the presidency. grandfather’s farm in Kogelo. c c Obama, Sr. moves to the United States and 3 Are these sentences right (✓) or wrong (✗)? meets Ann. They marry and have a son called LEVEL 3 a Obama, Sr. had two American wives and one Barack. African wife. c d c Barry, now Barack again, lives in a black b Ann’s parents were from Kenya. c community in Harlem, New York, and looks c When Ann left Lolo, she went back to LEVEL 4 for a job as a community organizer. Honolulu with Maya. c e c Barack takes Michelle to Kenya to meet his d The powerful men in the churches of Chicago family and then they go back to the United didn’t want Obama’s help. c LEVEL 5 States to get married. e Michelle’s brother didn’t like Obama after f c Barack, now a law student, gets a summer job he played basketball with him. c in Chicago and meets a beautiful, black lawyer f Sarah told Obama about his grandfather in called Michelle. LEVEL 6 English. c g c Barack, now called Barry, learns Indonesian and g When Obama married Michelle, he didn’t goes to school in Jakarta. invite his family. c h c The Obama family walk hand-in-hand in front h Obama didn’t vote for a war in Iraq. c of more than 200,000 people. Obama is the i When Obama moved to Washington, his first African-American President. wife and daughters stayed in Chicago. c i c Barack’s first book starts selling very well but a j Obama didn’t say bad things about Hillary short time later his mother, Ann, dies. Clinton and the Republicans. c j c Barry goes back to the United States to live with his grandparents and study at an expensive 4 Circle the right words. school called Punahou. a Obama, Sr. went to the United States to work / study / marry. 2 Write the names to finish the sentences. b Barry was very angry / sad / excited when they Barack Obama Michelle Obama, Sr. moved to Jakarta. Martin Luther King John McCain Ann c Obama had an angry conversation with his Lolo Soetoro Auma Onyango Malia father / sister / mother at Christmas in 1971. a ………………… taught her children to be good d Obama went to Harvard to study Economics / and kind and about the problems of African- English / Law. Americans. e The first time they went out, Obama took Michelle b ………………… lost his job with the government, to a church / party / basketball game in Chicago. started drinking, and then died in a car accident. f Obama stayed with Obama, Sr. / his grandmother / c ………………… didn’t like politics but loved her Auma when he went to Kenya. community. g Michelle cried when she saw the poor animals / d ………………… spoke in 1963 about a better children / government in Kenya. world for African-Americans. h Obama finished writing his first book in Chicago / e ………………… became a community organizer Kenya / Bali. because he wanted to help poor people. i Obama and his campaign people were richer / f ………………… discussed important things with younger / cleverer than Clinton and her people. Obama on TV. j Barack Hussein Obama is the 34th / 44th / 54th g ………………… was born in 1999 and has a president of the United States. sister called Natasha. pearsonenglishreaders.com © Pearson Education Limited 2016 Barack Obama - Progress test 1 of 1.
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