Roots

Step I: Listen for the first time and answer: 1.What did he find when he travelled around the USA? 2.Why did he go to Africa? 3.In most parts of Africa, how did people keep the record of the family history?

II:Listen for the second time and answer: 1. Kunta Kinte travelled into the forest alone ___. A.to hunt animals and gather some food B.B. to help the white men catch the black men C.C. to work in the fields D.D. to cut down a tree to make a drum D

II :Listen for the second time and answer(II): 2.When Alex Haley became a writer he decided to_______. A. travel around the USA B. look for information about his ancestors C. find out the word for “root” in his own language D. find out who had caught his ancestor as a slave B

3. Alex Haley did NOT find out ____until he came to Gambia. A.where his ancestors died and were buried B. how many children his ancestors had had C. which part of Africa his ancestor had come from D. what the words for “river” and “guitar” meant C

4.Alex Haley’s “roots” were ____. A. in the east of Africa B. in the west of Africa C. in the east of Gambia D. in the west of Gambia B

5. Which of the following statements is WRONG?_____. A.Gambia is a small country on the west coast of Africa. B.B. most of the people in Gambia can read and write. C.C. In most parts of Africa stories are passed on by word of mouth. D. Haley was financially supported by his boss, who shared the same family name — Kinte. D

III.Listen to the last paragraph and fill in blanks. Paragraph7: One day, a young man ______Kunta Kinte went____ into the forest to cut down a tree ____he wanted to make a drum. He was ______seen again. Haley jumped up and cried, “That was my ancestor”.He had found his family,and his “roots”_______! named off never as at last