A woman's struggle

A. Introduction :

1. Tick what you hear.

“We are not here because we are □ lawbreakers    □ lawmakers. We are here in our efforts to become □ lawbreakers    □ lawmakers.”

2. Who said this sentence? _________________

3. Who does “we” refer to (= fait référence à) in this sentence? We refers to __________ in general.

B. A woman's struggle.

1. Right or Wrong ? Circle the correct answer and justify with keywords.

• This document deals with women and American politics.
  R/W : ____________________________________
• Emmeline Pankhurst was married.
  R/W : ____________________________________
• She had no children.
  R/W : ____________________________________

2. Tick what you hear.

• She was a political □ activist    □ pacifist
• She led a women's □ suffrage    □ suffragette    movement
• Without her, ideas of political □ equality    □ inequality    for women would have remained theoretical (= seraient restées théoriques)

3. Complete :

"No women would ______ been ______ to ________, let alone _________ some of the _____est political offices in our ___________. She _________ a ___________ of _________ for __________.

4. Tick what you hear:

• She repeatedly risked her □ health (= santé)     □ wealth (= richesse)
• She risked her □ responsability     □ respectability
• She risked her life □ because of    □ for the cause of     votes for women

5. Complete:

"Many are quick to _______ the less ________ and more ___________ methods of the __________, but we should ___________ that as with many __________ movements against ____________ the _________ over throughout _________, ___________ was simply ______ available (= accessible) to those __________."

6. Tick what you hear:

• Emmeline Pankhurst transgressed the □ ephemeral    □ traditional    role of wife and mother
• She paved the way (= le chemin) for future □ feminists    □ activists
• She contravened the limits of □ political    □ conventional     gender roles (= les rôles de chaque sexe).
• She gave the women of □ Brittany    □ Britain    the first political □ voice    □ choice   of their own
• She changed our understanding of a woman's □ face    □ place    forever.