6 minute English - Women’s right to Vote

Here are some questions that I have prepared for a 6 minute English listening on the BBC website.   Follow the instructions below:

1. Read the questions.
2. Read the specific vocabulary.
3. Follow the link below and try to answer the questions as you listen. You might need to listen twice.                                                                                                             http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-161124
4. Scroll down the BBC web page  and listen again with the transcript so you can check your answers.

Women’s right to Vote - 6 minute English
Questions

1.      What is the name of the women who fought for the right to vote in the UK?

2.      What are the 3 countries in the question?

3.      When did women win the right to vote in the UK?

4.      At that point in time, what percentage of men didn’t have the right to vote?

5.      What was the name of the most famous female activist?

6.      What is the name of the book that Julia Bush has written?

7.      According to Julia what else did women want apart from the vote?

8.      What is June Purvis a professor of?

9.      According to June, what did women do to try to get the vote?

10.    What was Lyons Corner House?

11.   How long after the first world war did women get the vote?

12.   In what year did answer to question 3 give women the right to vote?

Vocabulary (if there are any words you don't understand, look them up before you start)
role models
lobbied
electorate
plight
raised their profile
impromptu
militant
direct action