PACE WORK FORM 7 29/04/20

Тема: Вбивство президента Авраама Лінкольна.

 Today we are going to learn some facts about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. We are going to do some tasks to improve your knowledge.

1. Reading

Pre-reading task

     T.: In order to learn new items we start to work with lexical cards. (cards #1) Here you can see some new words:

- Illinois – a state of the USA

- to defeat – to overcome in a contest or competition; win a victory over

- Democratic Party – a Civil War political party

- to threaten – to say that harm will be done

- South Carolina – a state of the USA

- to secede - to make a formal withdrawal of membership, as from a political alliance, church, organization.

Reading

     T.: Now we are going to read the text.

Abraham Lincoln Is Killed.

All over the country, people expressed joy that the war had finally ended. The people of the South, though sad at losing the war, were thankful to welcome home fathers and sons.

Happy people filled the streets of Northern cities. People attended church that day because a special holiday had been declared. Most people in the North were thankful to God for the fact that the Union had been saved, not that the South had fallen. In a short time, however, happiness turned to mourning.

Five weeks after beginning his second term in office, President Lincoln attended a play with Mrs. Lincoln in Washington, D.C. An actor, Mr. John Wilkes Booth, walked onto the balcony where President Lincoln was seated. Mr. Booth shot the President and jumped down from the balcony onto the floor. Mr. Booth broke his leg when he jumped, but escaped through a back door and rode quickly away on his horse. Federal troops searched for Mr. John W. Booth and at last caught him at a barn in Virginia. He was killed trying to escape. The President died the next morning from the wound he had received earlier. The nation mourned the tragic death of President Lincoln.

The evening of the play, Mr. Booth had stopped for a drink of liquor. During the play, Mr. Lincoln's bodyguard left and also went for a drink of liquor. Those two drinks of liquor cost the life of one of America's greatest Presidents. Had Mr. Booth not taken a drink and had the bodyguard not left the side of the President, the terrible act might never have occurred. Those two drinks of liquor were said to be the costliest drinks in American history.

On the last day of his life, President Lincoln had stated that the next giant problem which lay ahead was to get rid of the sale of liquor. He did not feel that control of liquor was the answer, but only the complete abolishment of it.

The nation mourned President Lincoln's death. Many people had called him "Father Abraham," and they mourned for him as they would have mourned the death of a father.

While – reading task

     T.: While reading the text, make some notes to speak about the life and the running of Abraham Lincoln.

Post – reading task

  2. Writing

     T.:   You have got the cards with the task. We have just read the text and now let’s complete the sentences. (card #2)

 Card #2.

Task: Fill in the blanks with the right answers.

1. The Northerners formed a political group in the 1850’s called the ……………..
2. Another name for the Republican Party is the G.O.P., which stands for …………
3. The Republican Party wanted to elect a man for President who would……………. and …….
4. Mr. Lincoln’s only experience in national politics was as a …………….. from Illinois.
5. The days following Mr. Lincoln’s election have been called the ……………..in American history.
6. The first of the Southern states to secede was…………….
7. The total of seceding states after Mr. Lincoln’s election was………………
8. When national problems became too heavy to bear Mr. Lincoln ………………………..
9. Had not Mr. Lincoln been given ……………….., our nation, as we know it today, would probably not exist.