Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2016

Cliff Divers Jump 30 Metres from Victoria Falls! (video)

March 18, 2016. Two cliff divers have practised their skills near Victoria Falls as they leap 30 metres into the Zambezi River.

Task 1

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Task 2




Vocabulary
  • Caution is care that you take in order to avoid danger or mistakes. e.g. You should use caution when operating the electric saw.
  • When you cast/throw caution to the wind(s), you stop being careful and do something that you know has risks. e.g. After thinking about it for years, he finally threw/cast caution to the wind, quit his job, and started his own company.
  • If you up something, you make it higher. e.g. The restaurant upped [=increased] its prices.
  • When you tackle something difficult, you deal with it. e.g. We found new ways to tackle the problem.
  • A boundary is something (such as a river, a fence, or an imaginary line) that shows where an area ends and another area begins. e.g. Those two trees mark the boundary of our property.


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Victoria Falls (multiple choice quiz)


WORKSHEET
Here is a worksheet based on the activities above.


To download the worksheet click here.


Victoria Falls (multiple choice quiz)

How much do you know about Victoria Falls? Take the quiz below and find out.



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Cliff divers jump 30 metres from Victoria Falls! 

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Nelson Mandela's Life Story (video + comprehension exercises)

Dec. 5 - South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela dies at the age of 95.

 


Here is a short documentary about Nelson Mandela and his legacy.


Comprehension questions

  1. Why was Nelson Mandela able to get a good education?
  2. Where did he work while he studied law in Johannesburg?
  3. When did the Nationalist Government come to power in South Africa?
  4. What was the Freedom Charter?
  5. What charge did the Freedom Charter organisers face in 1956?
  6. What happened in Sharpeville in 1960?
  7. What sentence did Mandela receive in 1964?
  8. Where was he sent as a prisoner?
  9. What event signalled the beginning of the end to apartheid?
  10. When was Mandela released from prison?

Vocabulary

  • apartheid: a former social system in South Africa in which black people and people from other racial groups did not have the same political and economic rights as white people and were forced to live separately from white people
  • blueprint: a detailed plan of how to do something e.g.  a blueprint for reforming the public school system
  • martial law: control of an area by military forces rather than by the police e.g. The government has imposed/declared martial law throughout the city to stop the riots.  

Now you can try the following quiz:



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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

East Africa hunger crisis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14249733
The UN has declared a famine in parts of Somalia - the first in East Africa this century. Two years of drought have displaced 25% of Somalia's population, while other countries in the region have also been badly affected.

Raising awareness about the famine in Africa
Watch the video: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44148244#44148244

FEWS Eastern Africa July-September projection.png
"FEWS Eastern Africa July-September projection" by Famine Early Warning Systems Network - USAID - http://www.fews.net/pages/region.aspx?gb=r2. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.