Number 66, exercise 21.0:07
Listen to the final part of the text, two American presidents.0:12
And try to read it in the same manner.0:18
Two American presidents.0:25
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the USA.0:28
Like George Washington, he takes a special place in the list of American presidents.0:33
Abe grew up in the Middle West.0:39
His first home was a small one room house in the woods.0:42
His family were pioneers who helped to fight Indians and push the borders of the United States from farther west.0:46
The family lived in poverty.0:54
His parents moved from Kentucky to Indiana when Abe was seven and this was his home for 14 years.0:57
Thomas Lincoln, Abe's father, hoped to make a better living there.1:06
Soon the mother died.1:12
Abe and his sister were lonely until their father married again.1:14
Abe's stepmother encouraged the boy to study.1:20
Although he had little chance to go to school, he liked to read.1:24
He taught himself by reading the books he could get, such as the Bible, Aesop's Fables and Robinson Crusoe.1:29
He often walked miles to borrow a book.1:38
He learned to do the hard work of the pioneer such as cut trees and take care of the crops.1:45
He usually won in tests of strength with other boys.1:53
Everyone liked him and everyone said he was a born storyteller.1:57
But no one could say that this shy young man with a quiet voice would become one of the greatest and American presidents.2:03
When abe Lincoln was 21, his family moved to Illinois.2:13
From then on, Abe called Illinois his home.2:19
For a while he worked in a store.2:23
Later he joined the militia and fought in an Indian war.2:26
After the war, he walked home with an educated young lawyer.2:32
This new friend gave Abe advice to study law.2:37
Abraham Lincoln became a lawyer and a politician.2:42
Many people brought their problems to him.2:46
They began to call him Honest Abe and trusted him to do what was right and honest.2:49
He was also an excellent speaker.2:57
He was elected to the House of representatives in the U.S. congress.3:00
He became the 16th American president.3:06
In the same year, the Civil War began.3:10
So Lincoln had to lead the country through the four terrible years of war.3:14
He wanted the Northern and Southern states to stay together.3:20
And he hated slavery.3:24
In 1863, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the document that made all the slaves free.3:27
This was a great event in the history of the United States.3:36
In 1865, the north won the Civil War.3:39
Five days after the war ended, President Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre, Washington.3:44
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