38. Using the written out sentences make up a dialogue and act it out.

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39. Imagine that you are a journalist and you should ask questions about Patricia Ryan Nixon. What questions would you ask?

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40. You are going to read the text about First wife of an American president elected to public office, the U.S. Senate in 2000; re-elected in 2006 by wide margin and ….. What else do you know about this charming woman?

Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Women are always being tested . . . but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it”.

Hillary Clinton

This charismatic woman is now much spoken about and it’s no wonder. She is respected not only by her country­men, but also by a lot of people abroad, especially women. During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, “Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service”.

Hillary Diane Rodham, Dorothy and Hugh Rodham’s first child, was born on October 26, 1947. Two brothers, Hugh and Tony, soon followed. Hillary’s childhood in Park Ridge, Illinois, was happy and disciplined. She loved sports and her church, and was a member of the National Honor Society, and a student leader. Her parents encouraged her to study hard and to pursue any career that interested her.

As an undergraduate at Wellesley College, Hillary mixed academic excellence with school government. Speaking at graduation, she said, “The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible”.

In 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action, interned with children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman, and met Bill Clinton. The President often recalls how they met in the library when she strode up to him and said, “If you’re going to keep staring at me, I might as well introduce myself”. The two were soon inseparable – partners in moot court, political campaigns, and matters of the heart.

After graduation, Hillary advised the Children’s Defense Fund in Cambridge and joined the impeachment inquiry staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. After completing those responsibilities, she “followed her heart to Arkansas”, where Bill had begun his political career.

They married in 1975. She joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School in 1975 and the Rose Law Firm in 1976. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of the Legal Services Corporation, and Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas. Their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1980.

Hillary served as Arkansas’s First Lady for 12 years, balancing family, law, and public service. She chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Legal Services, and the Children’s Defense Fund.

As the nation’s First Lady, Hillary continued to balance public service with private life. Her active role began in 1993 when the President asked her to chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. She continued to be a leading advocate for expanding health insurance coverage, ensuring children are properly immunized, and raising public awareness of health issues. She wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled “Talking It Over”, which focused on her experiences as First Lady and her observations of women, children, and families she has met around the world. Her 1996 book It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us was a best seller, and she received a Grammy Award for her recording of it.

On September 5, 1995, she stood before thousands at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and declared that “Women’s rights are human rights.” Then she took direct aim at China’s shameful record on female infanticide, saying, “It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.” In Pakistan, India and Nepal, women waited for hours just to catch a glimpse of her. Hillary had found her platform and her self-confidence – and she made up her mind to run for public office herself.

As First Lady, her public involvement with many activities sometimes led to controversy. Undeterred by critics, Hillary won many admirers for her support for women around the world and her commitment to children’s issues.

She was elected United States Senator from New York on November 7, 2000. She is the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate.

In the 2008 presidential nomination race, Clinton won more primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but she narrowly lost to Senator Barack Obama. As Obama’s Secretary of State, Clinton is the first First Lady to serve in a president’s cabinet.

In 2008 year Hillary Clinton did something very rare for a politician: She won while losing. No, she didn’t reach the White House – but she motivated a new generation of women of every political stripe. Former GOP congresswoman Susan Molinari told Glamour, “I’m a Republican, but I’m also a mother of two girls, and now my daughters have no doubts that they could grow up to be president.”

And of course, she’s not done yet. She continues to be a huge force on every topic she cares about, and her stature remains undiminished throughout the world. “Hillary has emerged as an international symbol of the endeavour to give globalization a more human face,” says Michelle Bachelet, the president of Chile. Hillary’s famous “18 million cracks” in the glass ceiling – the number of votes cast for her in the primaries – represent the closest any woman has ever come to the greatest prize in the world, the presidency of the United States. Her candidacy defined the high-water mark of the women’s movement in American political life – so far.

Why every time you read about Hillary Clinton is so refreshing? Her confidence provides safety and empowerment to so many. Did she really loose the nomination of the Democratic National Committee or was it the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton? Hundreds of years will pass to see the phenomenon again. She exemplifies strength, courage and candor given to her by the people and the leaders of the world.