Reading: “Voting and elections” Reading for detailed information. Vocabulary: Getting acquainted words related to reading passage. Speaking: Poster presentation

Reading questions.
1.Continue the sentence:
Under the Constitution…
a) only white male americans are able to vote
b) only citizens who over the age of 21 are able to vote
c) All American citizen who over the age of 21 were able to vote
d) African Americans were not able to vote
2. The franchise was first extended to …
a) African Americans
b) Women
c) Citizens who over 18
d) Temporary citizens
3. When African Americans were assured basic voting rights?
a) When the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified
b) When Reconstruction began
c) in 1965
d) When Lynden Jonson were elected
4. When women gained voting rights?
a) When the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified
b) When the Ninth Amendment was ratified.
c) When the Fifteenth was ratified.
d) When the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.
5. Federal elections …
a) are administered by local government
b) differ between states
c) are the same between states
d) are administered by the State government
2.VOCABULARY:

Write the definitions to the given words.
Eligible
Franchise
Amendment
Literacy
Discrimination
Prior to that
struggle
Treatment
Assure
Reelection
Widespread
Violent

Make a speech about elections and their role in society

3.SPEAKING TASK:

Prepare poster presentation with your partner.

4 .GRAMMAR. Unreal past

Complete using the correct form of the verb in brackets.

1.Don't you think it's time you ……(tell) Andrea the truth?

2.What if we …… (rent) a villa by the sea for the summer?
3. I'd rather people….(send) me e-mails than…. (phone) me.
4.Suppose you ….(be going to) open a clothes shop. What kind of
clothes would you stock?
5. It's time to ….. (go) now.
6.If you …..(have) a time machine , which era would you want to go
back to?
7. Shelia would come with us if she….(not have to) work tomorrow.
8. We'd rather you ……. (not lend) Brenda any more money - she's got to
learn not to spend what she doesn't have.
9. It's high time I (leave).
10. What if we……(get) married? Would that make you happy?