37 1 Leading and following chest, he wore a small badge that read “Olympic Project for Human Rights”. This organisation opposed racism in sport. Norman became outcast when he returned to Australia and he never competed in the Olympics again. In the summer of 2016, the 49ers’ backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick remained seated during the US national anthem in silent protest of racial oppression and police brutality. At that time, there had been a number of shootings of black men by white police officers. Kaepernick has since begun kneeling during the anthem instead of sitting. Several other NFL players and a number of high-school and college players have followed his example. TALKING 31 Describe the photos Work with a partner. Student A describes what they see in one of the photos. Student B transcribes what their partner is describing. Next, student B describes the other photo and student A transcribes. 32 Compare Work with a partner. Read the captions for each picture. Use the caption information, in addition to your answers in task 31, to compare the two protests. What do the images have in common? What do they tell us about American and Australian society? WRITING 33 Leading and following How do these photos connect with the topic of this chapter? Freewrite for a couple of minutes. a badge – merki to oppose – andmæla outcast – utanveltu to transcribe – skrifa niður Hæfniviðmið • Tekist á við margs konar aðstæður í almennum samskiptum, miðlað og tekið á móti upplýsingum. • Skrifað skilmerkilega um efni sem hann hefur lesið, séð eða heyrt.
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