TASK 1 * TASK 2 * TASK 3 * TASK 4 * TASK 5 * TASK 6 * TRANSLATE * DICTIONARY * SYNONYMS

 

TASK 5 * GANDHI'S DEATH * AUDIO ACTIVITY 1....


Some help with the vocabulary: "a comrade: un camarade * beloved: bien aimé * advice: des conseils * to seek: rehercher/chercher * solace: consolation * a blow: un coup"

Listen to this extract : HERE 1948: Mahatma Gandhi assassinated Prime Minister Nehru announces Gandhi's death (extract)

ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THE AUDIO CLIP HERE

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Choose the correct answer while listening:

1. Friends and
Candidates,
Comrades,
 
2. The light has gone out of our
lives.
lies.
 
3. There is darkness
somewhere.
everywhere.
 
4. I do not quite know what to
say to you or how to say it.
tell you and how to say it.
 
5. Our beloved leader,
Bapu as we called him,
Bamboo as we called him,
 
6. ...the father of the nation,
is no more.
not anymore.
 
7. Perhaps I am wrong to say that, nevertheless
we will not see him again,
we would see him again,
 
8. ...as we have seen him for these many
months,
years,
 
9. ...we will not run to him for
advice
surprise
 
10. ...or seek solace
from him,
for him
 
11. ...and that is a terrible
bloke,
blow,
 
12. ...not to me only, but to
millions and millions in this country.
hundreds and hundreds in this country.
 
13. A madman has put
an end to his life,
a hand to his file,
 
14. for I can only call him mad ,
who did it.
who killed him.
 

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