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Negro Leagues team

Negro Leagues team. A Reading Lesson. Pair up and answer the following. What are the 2 most famous sports in the US? What do you know about baseball? What do you think “ Negro League Baseball Team” means ?.

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Negro Leagues team

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  1. Negro Leagues team A Reading Lesson

  2. Pair up and answer the following • What are the 2 most famous sports in the US? • What do you know about baseball? • What do you think “Negro League Baseball Team” means?

  3. In groups of 3, organize the text according to the paragraphs. You have 5 minutes 

  4. Complete the chart with the main event for each year

  5. Find in the text • 5 cognate words – • 2 countries – • 2 occupations – • The name of the first African-American in the modern era to play on a Major League roster- • The decade the Negro Leagues teams ended-

  6. True or False? Correct the false ones. • The first professional African-Americans were Moses Fleetwood Walker and Bud Fowler. • Andrew “Rube” Foster and other Midwestern team owners formed the Negro National League. • The Negro Leagues did not help to develop economy in many black communities. • Because the best black players were recruited for the Major Leagues, the Negro Leagues multiplied.

  7. Answer the following questions • Why was the Negro Leagues such an important movement? • What kind of problems do you think the black players suffered at that time?

  8. Create a tagxedo using 5 to 10 words in english related to the questions you`ve just discussed and/or from today`s lesson.

  9. My tagxedo

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