How far can you go?
Objectifs
- Text comprehension
- People and dwellings of South Africa
Resources
Contents
People of South Africa
- Compréhension de texte : Les habitants d’Afrique du Sud
- Vocabulaire nouveau : les types de habitations
- Culture : l’histoire et les peuples d’Afrique du Sud
Vocabulary Kit
- Cradle = Berceau
- Township = Quartier défavorisé (réservé aux populations noires pendant l’apartheid)
Take and read your copy of the texts
1. Question Time
Read and answer these questions.
- a. What are the two expressions you can use to talk about South Africa?
- b. Who explored Southern Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries?
- c. Which side of the road do they drive on in the UK and Australia?
- d. Can you name other countries where people also drive on the left?
- a. Rainbow Nation, Cradle of Humankind
- b. Portuguese, Dutch, British, French, and German explorers
- c. On the left-hand side
- d. United Kingdom, South Africa, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cyprus, Malta
2. Speed Reading Challenge – 2 minutes!
- a. Take a look at this page and find two things that archaeologists discovered to prove that people lived in the area more than 100,000 years ago.
- b. Find the name of four big cities in South Africa.
- a. Ancient tools and human remains
- b. Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town
3. Vocab Time
On reading these two pages, you’ve learned terms that refer to the places where South African people live. Write three of them. What do they mean?
- Township = a part of a town where black people live
- Shantytown = a very poor area with makeshift housing
- Cradle of Humankind = a prehistoric area where the earliest humans lived