Grammar Worksheet Name: ____________________________________________________ No.

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1 Rewrite the following sentences starting them as suggested: a. In the 60s parents ordered their daughters to be submissive to their husbands. In the 60s parents ordered that __________________________________________________________ b. I insisted Ana to go and read Betty Friedans book. I insisted that __________________________________________________________________________ c. Betty Friedan advised her readers to think about the distress of most women of her generation. Betty Friedan advised that ______________________________________________________________ d. Feminists suggested going out to tell the world about their distress. Feminists suggested that ________________________________________________________________ e. The publishers recommended Betty Friedan to be cautious when speaking in public meetings. The publishers recommended that _______________________________________________________ f. The police ordered the demonstrators to stop the noise at once. The police ordered that _________________________________________________________________ g. Married women wanted their husbands to give them a respectable way of life. Married women wanted that _____________________________________________________________ h. My teachers suggested going to the seminar on the 60s. My teachers suggested that ______________________________________________________________ i. The government recommended more tolerance towards activism. The government recommended that ______________________________________________________ j. The spokesperson requested more restraint from activists because they were disturbing other people. The spokesperson requested that ________________________________________________________ k. In my opinion women should demand their rights no matter what their social condition. I insist that ____________________________________________________________________________ l. The police ordered the people at the demonstration to be less aggressive in the way they addressed authority. The police ordered that _________________________________________________________________ m. I hope I wont have to be responsible for something I did in the 60s! Heaven forbid __________________________________________________________________________ n. It is enough to say that the ideals of womens activism of the 60s live on. Suffice it to say ________________________________________________________________________ o. No matter what happens, I will always fight for womens rights. Come what may ________________________________________________________________________ p. If my daughter chooses to have different ideals, I will have to accept them. _______________________________________________________________________________ so be it. q. You should always stand up for your rights, no matter what happens. Come what may ________________________________________________________________________ r. I hope women wont have to depend on men to survive. Heaven forbid __________________________________________________________________________ s. It is enough to say that I am proud of what these women did in the 60s. Suffice it to say ________________________________________________________________________ t. If the price for being a feminist is freedom, I will have to accept it. _______________________________________________________________________________ so be it.

2 - Complete the sentences with it, one, you or they: a. __________ must feel art in order to appreciate it. b. __________ should always think that art reflects society. c. By analysing a painting __________ knows exactly what the artist wants to transmit. d. __________ is said that Portuguese people appreciate art. e. __________ is a long time since I read such a good article on the relationship between literature and music. f. __________ can easily be disturbed when looking at some modern forms of art. g. When __________ are visiting an art gallery, the world outside becomes irrelevant. h. __________ say that The Feminine Mystique was a very important work in the 1960s. i. __________ is said that Pop Art is difficult to accept as an artistic movement. j. __________ must be prepared to be shocked when visiting an installation room. k. __________ say that Portuguese literature is very popular among African students. l. __________ must understand installation art to appreciate it. m. __________ needs to do some research before writing about any art form. n. __________ say that Graffiti is a form of art but, personally, I think the opposite. o. __________ say that the exhibition at Tate Gallery is fabulous. p. How can __________ make me accept that an unmade bed is art? Choose one of the options and write between 150 and 220 words on it. Before you start writing make some notes. It will surely help you organise your main ideas. 1. Comment on one of the following statements by Betty Friedan, considering what you have studied about the feminist movement: a) When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. b) Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. c) The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. d) The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. e) The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. 2. Why was Woodstock so important for the young people of 1969? 3. The Beat generation was a very important social and literary movement in the 50s. Why was it so important? 4. You have studied several social movements in the 1950s and 1960s. Choose one of them and talk about its importance to nowadays society.