diumenge, 22 de març del 2009

BARACK OBAMA

Answer to the questions:


What do you know about Barack Obama?

Barack Hussein Obama II was born in 4th on August of 1961 (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA).
His parents are Stanley Ann Dunham and Sr. Barack Obama. His spouse is Michelle Lavaughn Robinson Obama and his children are Malia Ann and Natasha Obama.
His political party is democratic. Obama and his family live in White House, Washington.
The signature of Obama: Barack Obama's signature

Is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until November 2008, when he resigned following his election to the presidency.

1- Who was Abraham Lincoln? What's the Lincoln route?

-Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and the first Republican president (1860). He successfully led the country through is greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. As the war was a close, Lincoln became the first American president to be assassinated.

-The route was: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvani, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Lowa, Nevraska, Colorado, Wymong, Utah, Nevada and California.

2- Who was Martin Luther King? Continue his famous quotation: "I have a dream..."

-Martin Luther King was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.


A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president.

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3- Write 5 important facts about Obama. Use the present perfect, for and since.

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