SEGREGATION IN THE US

The Thirteenth Amendment to the American Constitution put an end to slavery in the US. However, African Americans' plight wasn't over for all that!

Watch a video on the period of racial segregation that followed the period of slavery:
(the documentary is shown after an advertising message)

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/5959-civil-rights-segregation-in-america-video.htm

And another video on the return of segregation in US schools today some fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement had managed to defeat segregation in the 1950s and 1960s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxSsxwKZxCI

Get familiar with the phonetic transcription of English vowels and consonants!

• Memorize how the the different sounds are symbolized by repeating the following clusters (=groups of words). When you look up new words in a dictionary, don't forget to check their pronunciation. Have fun!

http://fd.guerin.free.fr/poster_phonologique.htm

How do US elections work?

• Everything you've always wanted to know about US elections!
  Listen to this very clear presentation here:
  
  http://dotsub.com/view/0c504c81-cebc-4370-bf94-b20fce57c38f

US Gun Culture

• Here is some information about this very sensitive issue:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/ihavearightto/four_b/casestudy_art29.shtml

Keep yourself posted about US elections

• What are some of the differences between Barack Obama's and John McCain's policies?

Listen to this short BBC news report:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7437337.stm