25.1.15
Rodney King tape on national news
Yale Black Men's Union share message to their unborn sons
Video Listening -- Exam Training: Watch the video and write a detailed account in French. Make sure you answer the journalist's questions (5Wh + 1H) and try to put the content into the present context of race relations in the US.
Fight goes on for Liberia's former child soldiers
Watch the video and answer the questions below.
1. What’s Abdul’s job today? What did he use to do before?2. What happened to him when he was 15?3. How old is he now? Does he have a home? What does he spend his money on?4. How many people were forced to fight in the 1999-2003 civil war?5. How many people got killed in the conflict? What were its consequences for “an entire generation”?6. What percentage of Liberian youths is uneducated? According to the social worker interviewed “all they want now” is….?7. How old was Augustin when he was forced to fight?8. When did the siege of Monrovia take place? How many civilians were killed then?9. What’s the ‘stigma’ of the war he still suffers from today?10. A study by two charities in 2009 found that two illnesses are still common among former child soldiers in Liberia. What are they?
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