Bonjour,
I/ Dans la perspective de notre sortie au cinéma voir le film sur Mandela, je vous propose de vous rendre sur le site "TIME for kids" pour en savoir plus sur l'Afrique du Sud. Cliquez ici : link
II/ Vous traiterez ensuite, toujours à partir de ce site, les exercices de compréhension écrite (I, II et III) sur les documents distribués en classe.
III/ CO : Puis, vous écouterez la biographie de Nelson Mandela (en class) et renseignerez le questionnaire IV, CO.
IV/ CE : Vous lirez les phrases et ferez les 2 exercices proposés (classement des formes verbales et T or F).
IV/ Enfin, vous lirez les 2 petits textes ci-dessous et remplirez les tableaux puis irez chercher, imprimer et coller une ou deux illustrations sur ces 2 événements (events 1 & 2) :
The Sharpeville massacre took place on 21 March 1960, at the police station in the township of Sharpeville, in Transvaal.
After a day of demonstrations, a crowd* of about 5,000 to 7,000 black protesters went to the police station.
The South African police opened fire on the crowd, and 69 people were killed.
Sources disagree as to the behaviour of the crowd; some say that the crowd was peaceful, but others say that the crowd was throwing stones at the police, and that the shooting* started when the crowd started advancing toward* the fence around the police station.
In present-day South Africa, 21 March is celebrated as a public holiday in honour of human rights and to commemorate the Sharpeville massacre. *une foule
*les tirs
*vers/en direction de
The Soweto Uprising, also known as 16 June, is a series of protests led by high school students in Soweto, an urban area of Johannesburg.
The protests began on the morning of 16 June 1976.
Students from many Sowetan schools began to protest in the streets of Soweto because they refused to be taught in Afrikaans (the language of white opressors). They wanted to continue to learn in English, the official language in South Africa. An estimated 20,000 students* took part in the protests.
Officially, 176 people died. In reality, around 700 people died.
16 June is now a public holiday, Youth Day, in South Africa, in remembrance* of the events of 1976.
*around 20,000 students
*en souvenir
Have a pleasant virtual (!) and cultural trip !
M.S
