1 Find these words in the wordsearch below, and draw lines through them. The words go from left to right, and from top to bottom.
ambassador, attack, candidate, courage, Democrat, election, hero, lawyer, peace, politician, promise, speech, torpedo, vote, war
1 Which three words are types of jobs?
2 Which two nouns are the opposite of each other?
Write down all the letters that do not have lines through them. Begin with the first line, and go across each line to the end. There are 32 letters, making a phrase of 9 words.
3 Who said these words?
4 When did he say them?
2 Read these two newspaper reports about things which happened in Kennedy’s life. Complete them using the words below (one word for each gap).
admire, because, choose, country, crowd, excited, great, hard, leaders, moon, peace, rights, Space, speech, spoke, streets, University, walk, White, win
3 Do you agree or disagree with these sentences? Why?
1 The Kennedys are a very unlucky family.
2 Lee Harvey Oswald was working alone.
3 Kennedy was the greatest US president of all time.
4 Kennedy’s biggest mistake was the Bay of Pigs.
5 The best thing that Kennedy did was to start the Peace Corps.
4 You are going to make a film about Kennedy’s life. Answer these questions about your film.
1 Who are the main characters?
2 Which actors would you choose to play these characters?
3 Which parts of Kennedy’s life would be the most important parts in your film?
5 Find out some more information about one of these people. Give a talk to your class about their life.
• Martin Luther King Junior
• Fidel Castro
• Jackie Kennedy (Onassis)
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Robert Kennedy
Here are some websites that can help you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev
http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/Life-of-Jacqueline-B-Kennedy.aspx