The Torch of Peace: exercises

Fill the gaps

Choose the missing word for each gap. The words are in the box.

Every night Choose…AbrilhuipilIndigenousjusticeMayaNobelplantationrefugee writes in her secret diary under the sheets, lighting the pages with a small torch topped by a white dove carrying an olive branch. It was a gift from a woman who spoke at her school, a Choose…AbrilhuipilIndigenousjusticeMayaNobelplantationrefugee from a war-torn country, who told the class that peace, hope, Choose…AbrilhuipilIndigenousjusticeMayaNobelplantationrefugee and smiles go hand in hand. The story then moves to a magnificent hall where Rigoberta Menchú hears her name called to receive the Choose…AbrilhuipilIndigenousjusticeMayaNobelplantationrefugee Peace Prize. In the pocket of her colourful Choose…AbrilhuipilIndigenousjusticeMayaNobelplantationrefugee she touches a bundle of tattered scraps of paper, and the memories come flooding back. She began picking cotton at five, from sunrise to sunset, under a cruel foreman. Her mother secretly taught her to read and write and told her about their Choose…AbrilhuipilIndigenousjusticeMayaNobelplantationrefugee ancestors. One night a desperate man ran into their hut, pressed paper and a pencil into her hands and whispered something in her ear before he was dragged away. What did he tell her, and how will she end her speech? The story is inspired by Rigoberta Menchú.