Reading activities
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page 108
Before reading activities
Read the back cover and the story introduction on the
first page of the book.
Are theses statement TRUE or FALSE?
1. Steve Biko talked of peace and friendship. TRUE
2. The book is about SA in the 1970’s.
3. Steve Biko died of hunger. FALSE
TRUE
4. Before 1994, SA had a white government. TRUE
5. The 50% of the people in SA are black. FALSE
6. SA is rich in gold and diamonds.
TRUE
7. Donald Woods was a political leader.
8. Steve Biko was forbidden by the
FALSE
TRUE
government to speak freely about his ideas.
9. This book is based on a film. TRUE
10. This is a story about people who are
afraid to die.
FALSE
Which of these statements about SA today do you think
are true?
Page 108 activity 2
It’s one of the poorest countries in Africa FALSE
MID-YEAR POPULATION ESTIMATES 2010
Population group
Number
% of total
African
39 682 600
79.4%
White
4 584 700
9.2%
Coloured
4 424 100
8.8%
Indian/Asian
1 299 900
2.6%
TOTAL
49 991 300
100%
There are many more black people than
white people.
TRUE
Mandela became the 1st black president.
TRUE
Most black people in SA are now rich. FALSE
Most whites have left SA. FALSE
Rugby, football and cricket are popular
sports.
TRUE
Main questions:
Page 2. Lines 4 to 13.
1. Why did the police raid (= assaltar) Crossroads?
2. Why did Woods think about black people?
Page 3. Lines 9 to 15.
3. Why did Mamphele want Woods to visit Biko?
Page 5. final paragraph.
Chapter 1: question on pack of
photocopies.
1. What’s an editor?
An editor is a person who corrects or changes pieces of
text or films before they are printed or shown, or a
person
who is in charge of a newspaper or
magazine.
Chapter 1
2. What are the rights of black people so far?
Chapter 1
3. What kind of political sytem is described?
Apartheid:
Legal racial segregation enforced by the
National Party government of South Africa
between 1948 and 1994.
4. banned?
Verb = BAN
to forbid (= refuse to allow), especially officially.
The film was banned (= the government prevented it from being shown) in several countries.
[+ from + -ing verb] = I was banned from driving for two years.
Chapter 1
4. What is Wood’s opinion on black people?
He didn’t think that black people should be allowed to vote.
He accepted segregationist laws, too.
(page 3)
5. How does he work against Apartheid?
He doesn’t like police brutality, so he has accepted to
publish one of the pictures on the newspaper.
Interesting vocabulary in chapter 1:
1. Appeal
2. Release
(n/v)
5. township
6. Bulldozer
7. Beat
(n/v)
alliberament
desestimació, rebuig
Assalt, batuda, redada, atac ...
(n/v)
3. Refusal
4. Raid
demanda, apel·lació
(n/v)
A South African town where only black
people lived during apartheid
excavadora
golpejar, pegar
Interesting vocabulary in chapter 1:
1. chase
perseguir
gosar
2. dare
3. Prevent (from)
4. Stare at
evitar
Mirar fixament, observar
5. expenses
despeses
6. nod
Moure al cap per afirmar
7. lawyer
advocat
Interesting vocabulary in chapter 1:
1. Threat (on)
2. hesitate
Amenaça(r)
dubtar
3. confidence
4. amazed
confiança
sorprès, impressionat
/
5. Lose your temper
6. sigh
/saɪ/
7. anger
Perdre els nervis
sospirar
Enuig, ràbia
Summary:
photograhs from the
Ken Robertson has taken ____________
__________
police raid in Crossroads, a township in Cape Town.
Donald Woods, the _________
editor of the Daily Dispatch,
decides to publish them. He also publishes an
editorial attacking Steve Biko, the leader of the
___________
movement “_______________”.
Black Consciousness
Mamphela R. visits Woods to ______________
complain
about his
editorial about Biko and his political movement.
She regrets (penedir-se, lamentar) that Woods writes
without getting first hand information, and invites him to
visit Biko and talk to him in his ____________,
township in
_________
King William’s Town.