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    Reading There Was There Were (RESPONDIDA)

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    The document discusses two Nobel Prize winners, Nelson Mandela and Wangari Maathai. It notes that Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his work fighting apartheid in South Africa and was imprisoned for 27 years before becoming president. It also discusses that Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for planting over 30 million trees in Kenya to combat deforestation.

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    The document discusses two Nobel Prize winners, Nelson Mandela and Wangari Maathai. It notes that Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his work fighting apartheid in South Africa and was imprisoned for 27 years before becoming president. It also discusses that Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for planting over 30 million trees in Kenya to combat deforestation.

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    The document discusses two Nobel Prize winners, Nelson Mandela and Wangari Maathai. It notes that Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his work fighting apartheid in South Africa and was imprisoned for 27 years before becoming president. It also discusses that Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for planting over 30 million trees in Kenya to combat deforestation.

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    Reading There Was There Were (RESPONDIDA)

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    The document discusses two Nobel Prize winners, Nelson Mandela and Wangari Maathai. It notes that Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his work fighting apartheid in South Africa and was imprisoned for 27 years before becoming president. It also discusses that Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for planting over 30 million trees in Kenya to combat deforestation.

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    Did you know…?

    There are more than


    770 Nobel Prize
    winners, but only 34
    are women!

    1. Complete the texts with was/were or there was/there were in the correct form.
    Nelson Mandela was the winner of the Nobel Prize in 1993. He 1._______ was a political
    there was a
    activist- he wanted equality for black people. Years ago, in South Africa, 2.________
    there were black people and white people in the country, but
    policy called apartheid . 3.__________
    Were
    their lives 4.__________ completely separate. Life 5. _________much
    was more difficult for
    black people. Nelson Mandela 6.________ was in prison for 27 years. Then, in 1994,
    there were democratic elections for the first time in South Africa. After that, Mandela
    7.__________
    was
    8.____________ the president until 1999. He has had an extraordinary life.

    Did you know…?


    Did you know…?
    There are six Nobel Prizes every
    year, for literature, peace, Nobel was the inventor of
    economics, medicine, physics dynamite, but he was also a
    and chemistry. pacifist.

    was
    In 2004, Wangari Maathai 9._______ the first African woman to
    win a Nobel Peace Prize. Her great achievement 10.______ was to
    was
    plant trees in Kenya. When Wangari 11._____ young,
    12._________ there wasa
    there were a lot of trees in her country, but later 13.______
    were
    process of deforestation. As a result, 14.________ enough food
    were
    and clean water. Wangari and her friends 15.________ very hard-
    working- they planted 30 million trees!
    2. Answer the questions.
    a. Where was Wangari Maathai born? In Africa
    b. What was her great achievement? Nobel Peace Prize
    c. How long was Nelson Mandela in prison? 27 years

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