African Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestors who came from Africa. Their forefathers were brought to American colonies as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries. About 40 million African Americans, 13% of the total population, live in the USA today.

Contents (24 pages)

• Introduction
• Age of Slavery and the Civil War
• The Reconstruction Period
• The World Wars and the Great Depression
• The Civil Rights Movement
• Black Power
• African Americans Today
• Exercises
• Word list
• Key
• Interactive PDF – Let your students do the exercises directly in the PDF file !

Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963
Image: Rowland Scherman, Public domain,
via Wikimedia Commons

Sherpas are people who live in the northeastern part of Nepal, in the valleys of the Himalaya Mountains. There are about 40,000 sherpas , many of whom live near Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain.

Contents (12 pages)

• Text
• Exercises
• Word list
• Key

Tensing Norgay in 1953
Image: original : OeiJamling Tenzing Norgay,
CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons