FILM TRAILERS - ESL: Selma



Here's what you do:
  1. Click on the video below.
  2. Watch the first 1:10 of the video, and pay attention to it! (You can pause and rewind the video.)
  3. Answer the listening comprehension questions below the video.
  4. Check your answers.



QUESTIONS:

1. Hoover tells the president that Martin Luther King _________________.
2. President Johnson tells Hoover that he is curious about ___________________.
3. Dr. King tells President Johnson that there have been ___________________ of racially-motivated murders in the South.
4. Does President Johnson offer Dr. King any help?
5. What does Governor Wallace think of the protests?
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