Cuba in the News
2004 - 2007
Questions and Websearch:
1. Match the following people with their names. TRY NOT to look back in the web unit:
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a. Evo Morales b. Fidel Castro c. Jimmy Carter d. George Bush e. Bartholomew I f. Mariela Castro g. Richard Branson h. Hugo Chávez
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2. For each of the people listed in activity 1, identify his/her job titles [or labels that help us identify them].
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3. Put the following events in chronological order using numbers 1 - 7, with one being the oldest event and 7 being the most recent event.
| _____ | Castro falls and breaks his knee and arm. |
| _____ | Cuba finishes as the runner-up in the World Baseball Classic. |
| _____ | The Marielitos celebrate their 25th anniversary. |
| _____ | Hugo Chávez signs a deal to buy 100,000 guns from Cuba. |
| _____ | Jimmy Carter calls on the U.S. to close down Guantánamo. |
| _____ | Hurricane Ivan rips through western Cuba. |
| _____ | Audioslave plays the Malecón in Havana. |
4. Websearch: Select one of the items below, search for information about it on the Web, and write five sentences about it.
a. a biography of Hugo Chávez
b. the Jimmy Carter Center in Atlanta
c. a biography of Audioslave
d. the Bolivarian Alternative Trade Agreement of the Americas
e. the leftist government in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, or Uruguay
f. Mariela Castro's fight for AIDS education and other issues in Cuba.
