In a park, ____ to the Houses of Parliament in London, ____ a statue of a woman called Emmeline Pankhurst. She grew up during a time ____ women in England couldn’t vote. In fact, if it hadn’t ____ for women like Pankhurst, this would never ____ changed. She was a suffragette and dedicated her entire life to ____ for the right to vote. When Emmeline was ____ years old, she attended a lecture on the Women’s ____ Movement. If she hadn’t gone to this lecture, her life ____ have been very different, but the meeting ____ her to become a hard-working suffragette. A few years ____, when she was twenty-one, ____ married a lawyer called Richard Pankhurst. He was also a supporter of ____ rights and helped to form various political parties ____ to fighting oppression. Sadly, he died suddenly in 1898. Emmeline and her ____, Christabel and Sylvie, continued the struggle for ____ voting rights for women. In 1903, they started a group ____ the ‘Women’s Social and Political Union’. There were many ____ suffragette groups in the country at this ____, but this was one of the largest and ____ militant. In 1908, there were big ____ for women’s rights, but nothing ____. The Pankhursts were very disappointed. ____ felt that they would have had more success if they had acted ____ aggressively. She ____ civil disobedience and called for women to break the law, if it was ____ and worthwhile. She organized a demonstration at the ____ of Parliament in London where she was ____ and sent to prison for a month. In 1910, the police arrested 156 women at another demonstration outside the ____ Minister’s house in Downing Street. But ____ still didn’t get the vote. Emmeline and ____ decided that if civil disobedience was to be a ____, the group would have to become more violent. A lot of ____ rose to this challenge. They weren’t violent ____ people, but they broke windows and started fires as acts of ____. Many members of the group were arrested and sent to prison, but that didn’t always mean they ____ up the struggle – some women continued to support the ____ by going on hunger strike. The suffrage movement was not always popular, and a lot of people were upset by the ____ campaign. Emmeline herself spent years hiding ____ the police. In 1913 a ____ called Emily Davidson died when she jumped in ____ of the King’s horse at a famous race called the Derby. This drew a lot of ____ to the struggle for women’s rights, both ____ and negative. But in 1914, the First World War started, and the group ____ their campaign in support of the ____ effort. The war changed attitudes to women, and ____ started working with the government. Finally, in 1917, the British government changed the voting law to enable ____ over the age of thirty to vote. Men could vote at ____. For Emmeline, this was not ____. She persisted in her ____ for fully equal rights between men and women. Sadly, she never saw this ____. She died in June 1928 when she was ____ years old. If only she had lived for one more month, she ____ have seen her life-long dream come true. In July 1928, the ____ passed the ____ of the People Act, which finally gave women the same rights to vote as men. The struggle for ____ suffrage was one of the most powerful political ____ of modern times. It united women from all backgrounds and ____ and inspired other civil rights movements for ____ to come.

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