Exercise 1: Watch the video a first time and complete

The film

Date of release (month + year):

What sort of document is the video? It is a

Famous actors: (white man) and (white woman)

Music by:

The story

Where do these women work? They work at .

What do they do there? They trajectories.

Who is John Glenn? He is an .

Exercise 2: Listen and complete 

Katherine’s maths teacher: ‘I    a like the one your daughter has. You    see she becomes.’

With the police officer: ‘They’ve got women working in    .’

Jim Johnson: ‘You’re a at NASA. ‘

Katherine’s Director: ‘In 14 days will be here for .   we do can matter to the , to the , to the damn .’

John Glenn: ‘What are you doing for NASA?’ ‘ your launch and Sir’    

White male engineer: ‘There is no for women .’ 

Katherine: ‘There is no for men the , Sir.’

Engineer to Mary Jackson: ‘If you were a white would you wish to be an ?’ 

‘I ; I be .’

Exercise 3: Complete the text with what you've learnt.

Hidden Figures is a film based on true events happening in the offices, in the early s, while the US was still segregated. 

Katherine is a very skilled (her specialty) working as a  (her skin color)     (her job) for NASA. 

She participated in the Friendship 7 mission: she helped calculating the and of the first American astronaut in space,   .