Lesson 9
1. Listen to the conversation and match the names with their descriptions.
- E 4. С
- D 5. A
- В 6. F
5. Look through the texts «Faces on Mount Rushmore» and «Crazy Horse» and put the events in the correct order.
6; 2; 7; 8; 9; 5; 4; 1; 10; 3.
6. Answer the questions.
- These were areas of dry land that the Europeans didn’t want.
- Gold was found in the Black Hills and the US government broke the treaty with Sioux.
- They came for gold.
- Crazy Horse was a Sioux chief who led his tribe in the war.
- He earned the respect of his people not only by his skill in battle but also by his determination to preserve the traditional way of life and culture.
- The US government won the war with Sioux.
- In 1923 the monument to the four Presidents was started.
- The Black Hills were the sacred place for Sioux. That’s why it was a deep insult to them when white men came into the Black Hills and dynamited the faces of the four presidents there.
- In 1939 Sioux Chief Standing Bear decided to create a Native American memorial in the Black Hills.
- The Crazy Horse monument is not completed yet.