MARTIN LUTHER KING S

I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH

(August 28, 1963)

INTRODUCTION:

THE MARCH ON WASHINTON, DC : Lets RECAP !

Complete the following introduction with the missing information.
Conjugate the verbs in brackets
What ..

( was/were + V-ING)

(HAPPEN) in the US in the early sixties?

Even though ......... had been abolished in 1863 by President

, Black people
..
. ( still / SUFFER) and they
.
( FIGHT) for equal for Blacks and Whites.
People . ( DEMONSTRATE) non-violently for and
.
On August. , . ,
250 000 demonstrators led by Martin Luther King .
(MARCH) peacefully to .
MLK delivered his famous which was titled :

Washington D.C, Aug. 28,

..

In the largest civil . .ever, more than 200,000 non- .

protesters gathered at the. of the. . to hear Dr. King Jr.,
president of the . Christian . Conference, describe his . of the
. of. relations in the United States.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

(PART 1) I HAVE A DREAM

( I say to you today my friends .. south with )

DETAILED
COMPREHENSION

What was MLKs Dream all about ? Listen and write down the
keywords to help, you find out . What was he fighting for or against ?

FIGHTING

ADJECTIVES

FOR

NOUNS

FIGHTING

ADJECTIVES

AGAINST

NOUNS

Lets RECAP!

Listen to the last part of Dr. Kings speech.

a. Fill in the Blanks in the following excerpts
b. Pick up the intonation in the sentences marked *: for rising

intonation and for falling intonation

I say to you today , my. , and so even though we face the difficulties of today and
. , I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply . in the
. . I have a dream that one .. this
will . up* (
) and live the true meaning of its
. We hold these .. to be self- .. that all
are created * (
). I have a dream that one day, on
the red of , the sons of former
and the sons of former slave-.. will be able to sit
down at the table of .
I have a dream that one day, even the state of , a state
sweltering with the heat of , sweltering with the heat of
, will be transformed into an oasis of and
.
I have a dream
that my four little will one day live in a .
where they will not be by the color of their but by the
.. of their .
I have a dream
today!
I have a dream that one day, down in , with its vicious
, with its having his lips dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification, one day, right there in. , little
and will be able to join
with little and little
as and .
I have a dream today .
This is our . This is the that I will go back to the .
with.

(PART 2) I HAVE A DREAM ( With this faith .. we are free at last !)

DETAILED
COMPREHENSION

Listen again and complete the chart with the keywords that
will help you describe his American Dream .
GROUPS OF
PEOPLE

VERBS

ADJECTIVES or
ADVERBS

VALUES


Use the keywords to describe MLKs Dream for the Future at
that time.
( he hoped (that) / he believed / he was convinced (that)/He dreamt that .)

Listen to the last part of Dr. Kings speech.

a. Fill in the Blanks in the following excerpts
b. Pick up the intonation in the sentences marked *: for rising

intonation and for falling intonation

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of a stone
of . With this faith, we will be able to . the jangling
discords of our nation into a beautiful ..
of .
With this we will be able to together *(
) to
together * (
), to together* (
) , to
go to jail together, to up for .. together* (
)
knowing that we will be one day. This will be the . all
Gods ..will be able to sing with new meaning: My country, this of thee, Sweet
.. of, of thee I sing; Land where my died,
Land of the Pilgrims .. , from every mountain side, ..
freedom. !
And if America is to be a great nation, this . become. .
And so let freedom * (
) from the prodigious hilltops of
*(
)
Let freedom * (
) from the
mighty mountains of * (
) Let freedom
* (
) from the heightening Alleghenies of
Let freedom * (
) from the snow-capped Rockies of
* (
) Let freedom * (
) from the
curvaceous slopes of
But not only that.

Let freedom from Stone Mountain of

Let freedom * (
) from lookout mountain of *
(
)
Let freedom from every hill and molehill of
, from every mountainside * (
) let freedom ring * (
)
And when we allow ring * (
), when we let it ring from every
and every hamlet, from every and
every , we will be able to speed up that day when all of Gods
_ black men and , Jews and
Gentiles, and _ will be able to join
and in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
at last, * (
) at last, * (
); thank God Almighty,
* (
)

Listen to the recording of the second part of Martin Luther Kings speech and complete :

Kings manner
Kings voice

boring

monotonous

passionate

lively

inspirational

distinctive

Listen again and tick all the notions King mentions

brotherhood despair disbelief

dream faith freedom
hope hostility injustice
justice nightmare opposition
oppression subordination
pride liberty

Sum up Kings message concerning his values

The success of a speech depends not only on what is said (the message), but more
importantly on
how it is delivered (the manner).
Lets study how Martin Luther King expresses his convictions and tries to influence
his audience.
Listen to the speech and mark the text with a slash (/) to indicate each significant pause.

You can use a double slash (//) to indicate longer pauses.

Complete the table below to compare how Martin Luther King makes his speech with

normal
conversation: