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Murder Heightens Racial Tensions in S. Africa (5th April, 2010)The murder on Saturday of South Africa’s far-right leader Eugene Terre'Blanche has heightened racial tensions in the country. Mr Terre'Blanche was hacked to death on his farm by two of his employees. Terre'Blanche was head of the white supremacist group the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, which believed in a separate white state in South Africa. Officials from the group believe the killing is linked to an anti-apartheid era song that has the lyrics “Shoot the farmer, kill the Boer”. The Boer are the white Europeans who settled in South Africa in the 1800s. The African National Congress party’s youth leader, Julius Malema, recently revived the song. President Jacob Zuma has called for calm. He does not want violence ahead of the soccer World Cup Finals in June. Eugene Terre'Blanche was a controversial figure in South Africa’s politics for many decades. He believed in the supremacy of the white race and racial segregation. He spent his political career trying to create a state for whites only, starting the Afrikaner Resistance Movement in 1973 to try to achieve this aim. This organization had as many as 70,000 members at its height. In 2001, Terre'Blanche was sentenced to six years in prison for a number of crimes including attempted murder. He served three years of this term. One of his followers, Mauritz Oberholzer, predicted there would be violence in the days and weeks to come: "There is going to be a lot of blood flowing. They took out our leader. We are all hungry for revenge," he warned. WARM-UPS1. RACIAL TENSION: Walk around the class and talk to other students about racial tension. Change partners often. Sit with your first partner(s) and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. TENSIONS: What do we do about them? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners and talk about what you wrote. Change again and share what you heard.
4. RACIAL TENSION: Students A strongly believe racial tension will one day be a thing of the past; Students B strongly believe the opposite. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 5. CONTROVERSIAL: Who is controversial? Write the names of controversial people below. Rate them and share your ratings with your partner: 10 = extremely controversial; 1 = slightly controversial. Change partners and share your ratings again.
6. VIOLENCE: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word ‘violence’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. BEFORE READING / LISTENING1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.
3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)
WHILE READING / LISTENINGGAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.
LISTENING Listen and fill in the gapsThe murder on Saturday of South Africa’s ____________________ Eugene Terre'Blanche ____________________ tensions in the country. Mr Terre'Blanche was hacked to death on his farm by two of his employees. Terre'Blanche was head of the white supremacist group the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, which believed ____________________ state in South Africa. Officials from the group believe the killing is linked to an anti-apartheid era song ____________________ “Shoot the farmer, kill the Boer”. The Boer are the white Europeans who settled in South Africa in the 1800s. The African National Congress party’s youth leader, Julius Malema, _______________________. President Jacob Zuma ____________________. He does not want violence ahead of the soccer World Cup Finals in June. Eugene Terre'Blanche was ____________________ in South Africa’s politics for many decades. He believed in the supremacy of the white race and racial segregation. He spent his political career ____________________ state for whites only, starting the Afrikaner Resistance Movement in 1973 to try ____________________. This organization had as many as 70,000 members at its height. In 2001, Terre'Blanche was sentenced to six years in prison ____________________ including attempted murder. He served three years of this term. One of his followers, Mauritz Oberholzer, predicted there would be violence in the days ____________________: "There is going to be a lot of blood flowing. They took out our leader. We are all ____________________," he warned. AFTER READING / LISTENING1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘racial’ and ‘tension’.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…? 4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings. 5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:
STUDENT RACIAL TENSION SURVEYWrite five GOOD questions about racial tension in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.
RACIAL TENSION DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
LANGUAGE MULTIPLE CHOICEThe murder on Saturday of South Africa’s (1) ____-right leader Eugene Terre'Blanche has heightened racial tensions in the country. Mr Terre'Blanche was hacked (2) ____ death on his farm by two of his employees. Terre'Blanche was head of the white supremacist group the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, which believed in a separate white (3) ____ in South Africa. Officials from the group believe the killing is linked to an (4) ____-apartheid era song that has the lyrics “Shoot the farmer, kill the Boer”. The Boer are the white Europeans who settled in South Africa in the 1800s. The African National Congress party’s youth leader, Julius Malema, recently (5) ____ the song. President Jacob Zuma has called for calm. He does not want violence (6) ____ of the soccer World Cup Finals in June. Eugene Terre'Blanche was a controversial (7) ____ in South Africa’s politics for many decades. He (8) ____ in the supremacy of the white race and racial segregation. He spent his political career trying to create a state for whites (9) ____, starting the Afrikaner Resistance Movement in 1973 to try to achieve this aim. This organization had as many as 70,000 members at its (10) ____. In 2001, Terre'Blanche was sentenced to six years in prison for a number of crimes including attempted murder. He served three years of this (11) ____. One of his followers, Mauritz Oberholzer, predicted there would be violence in the days and weeks to come: "There is going to be a lot of blood flowing. They took out our leader. We are all (12) ____ for revenge," he warned. Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
WRITINGWrite about racial tension for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about the situation in South Africa. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson. 3. RACIAL TENSION: Make a poster about racial tensions in your country. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 4. EQUALITY: Write a magazine article about a perfectly racially equal society. Include imaginary interviews with people from different races. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s). 5. LETTER: Write a letter to Jacob Zuma. Ask him three questions about racial tensions in his country. Give him three ideas on how he can make things better. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions. ANSWERSTRUE / FALSE:
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
GAP FILL: Murder heightens racial tensions in S. AfricaThe murder on Saturday of South Africa’s far-right leader Eugene Terre'Blanche has heightened racial tensions in the country. Mr Terre'Blanche was hacked to death on his farm by two of his employees. Terre'Blanche was head of the white supremacist group the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, which believed in a separate white state in South Africa. Officials from the group believe the killing is linked to an anti-apartheid era song that has the lyrics “Shoot the farmer, kill the Boer”. The Boer are the white Europeans who settled in South Africa in the 1800s. The African National Congress party’s youth leader, Julius Malema, recently revived the song. President Jacob Zuma has called for calm. He does not want violence ahead of the soccer World Cup Finals in June. Eugene Terre'Blanche was a controversial figure in South Africa’s politics for many decades. He believed in the supremacy of the white race and racial segregation. He spent his political career trying to create a state for whites only, starting the Afrikaner Resistance Movement in 1973 to try to achieve this aim. This organization had as many as 70,000 members at its height. In 2001, Terre'Blanche was sentenced to six years in prison for a number of crimes including attempted murder. He served three years of this term. One of his followers, Mauritz Oberholzer, predicted there would be violence in the days and weeks to come: "There is going to be a lot of blood flowing. They took out our leader. We are all hungry for revenge," he warned. LANGUAGE WORK
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