lesson “An exceptional destiny” (p.50-51) 2GT1-6

28 11 2011

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An exceptional destiny

Barack Obama’s mother was born in 1942 in Kansas, in the USA. She married Barack Obama Sr, a Kenyan with whom she had her first child, Barack Obama. Then, they divorced and she married again to an Indonesian; that’s why she moved to Jakarta. She had a daughter with him and she died of cancer in 1995.

She was generous, optimistic, humorous, tolerant and open-minded .

Barack Obama spoke in positive terms of her and he said that he inherited his ideas from his mother.

 

VOCABULARY:

- (to) move to (vb) = démménager à

- optimistic (adj)

- humorous (adj) = qui a de l’humour

- open-minded ≠ narrow-minded (adj) = ouvert/fermé d’esprit

- (to) inherit … from … (vb) = hériter … de …

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