Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Listen to the song and complete it with the names of states and cities from the map in 1. 3 Read the following extract from “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939) by John Steinbeck, one of America’s best-loved authors. In this classic novel, John Steinbeck describes the epic journey of an American family who lose their farm in Oklahoma. Along with thousands of other poor American families, they make their way along the newly constructed Route 66 to the promises of the fertile Californian valleys. In the book, Steinbeck called Route 66 “the mother road”, a name which is still used today. Read the extract from chapter 12 and make lists of: 4 1/20 • the different types of landscape 66 passes through, e.g. red and gray lands • the things the people are running from, e.g. dust and shrinking land If you ever plan to motor west: Travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks on Route 66! It winds from ___________ to _____, More than 2,000 miles all the way, Get your kicks on Route 66! Now you go thru _________, Joplin, _________! ___________ is mighty pretty. You’ll see _________, Gallup, __________. _________, _________: don’t forget Winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino. Won’t you get hip to this timely tip: When you make that __________ trip. Get your kicks on Route 66! to get your kicks: Spaß haben tributary [ }trçbjWtWri ]: hier: zubringend rutted: zerfurcht, ausgefahren Highway 66 is the main migrant road. 66 – the long concrete path across the country, waving gently up and down on the map, from the Mississippi to Bakersfield – over the red lands and the gray lands, twisting up into the moun- tains, crossing the Divide and down into the bright and terrible desert, and across the desert to the mountains again, and into the rich California valleys. 66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, and the desert’s slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there. From all of these the people are in flight, and they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight. 104 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eig ntum des Verlags öbv