Reading activities

Watch this sequence …

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.

page 108

Before reading activities

2. The book is about SA in the

1970’s.

TRU

ETRU

E3. Steve Biko died of hunger.FALS

E

4. Before 1994, SA had a white

government.5. The 50% of the people in SA

are black.6. SA is rich in gold and

diamonds.7. Donald Woods was a political

leader.

TRU

E

TRU

E

FALS

E

FALS

E8. Steve Biko was forbidden by

the government to speak freely

about his ideas.

TRU

E

9. This book is based on a film.TRU

E

10. This is a story about people

who are afraid to die.FALS

E

It’s one of the poorest countries

in AfricaThere are many more black

people than white people.

Which of these statements about SA today

do you think are true?

FALS

E

Page 108

activity 2

TRU

E

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%

Mandela became the 1st black

president.Most black people in SA are now

rich.Most whites have left SA.

Rugby, football and cricket are

popular sports.

TRU

E

TRU

E

FALS

EFALS

E

Main

questions:1. Why did the police raid (= assaltar)

Crossroads?

Page 2. Lines 4 to 13.

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 = BANto 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 (n/v)

2. Release (n/v)

3. Refusal

4. Raid (n/v)

5. township

6. Bulldozer

7. Beat (n/v)

demanda, apel·lació alliberament desestimaci

ó, rebuigAssalt, batuda, redada, atac ...A South African town where only black

people lived during apartheid

excavadora

golpejar, pegar

Interesting vocabulary in chapter 1:

1. chase

2. dare

3. Prevent (from)

4. Stare at

5. expenses

6. nod

7. lawyer

perseguir

gosar

evitar

Mirar fixament, observardespeses

Moure al cap per afirmaradvocat

Interesting vocabulary in chapter 1:

1. Threat (on)

2. hesitate

3. confidence

4. amazed

5. Lose your temper

6. sigh

7. anger

Amenaça(r)dubtar

confiança

sorprès, impressionatPerdre els

nervissospirar

Enuig, ràbia

                   /

/saɪ/

Ken Robertson has taken ____________ from the __________ in Crossroads, a township in Cape Town.

Donald Woods, the _________ of the Daily Dispatch, decides to publish them. He also publishes an ___________ attacking Steve Biko, the leader of the movement “_______________”.

Mamphela R. visits Woods to ______________ 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 _________ Biko and talk to him in his ____________, in King William’s Town.

Summar

y:photograhspolice

raid editoreditori

al Black Consciousness

complain

visit township