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Unit 12
Off the beaten track Reading; Writing

3 12.07 Check/clarify:
personnel, precaution, OFF THE BEATEN TRACK UNIT 12
high-pitched, tree-trunks, 3 12.07 Read and listen to the extract again.
clumsily, amid, rhythmic, Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false). 4 PRODUCE Now write your biography
Then correct the false sentences.
motionless, bronze, nerve- 1 There was not enough room for both (200–250 words).
shaking, threatening, fellow-man. professors to sit together. • Make sure that you include information that
makes it clear why the place was named after
1 F (They were in separate boats to 2 The noise of the insects sounded like the sea. the person.
3 They saw some wild animals hiding amongst
avoid any conflict.) 2 T 3 F (They the trees. • Follow the structure of the biography
about Tambo.
only saw a few animals.) 4 T 4 The guides were terrified when they heard
the drums.
5 F (There was no attack.) 5 The violent attack came at dawn.
4 Match the highlighted words in the extract with
4 Stronger students can look at the definitions.
the words in the extract and 1 never changing, always the same
try to deduce meaning from 2 not ordinary, amazing
3 very serious and a little sad
context before referring to the 4 signs
definitions. 5 difficult to believe
6 decreasing to nothing
1 constant 2 remarkable 7 stop existing
3 solemn 4 indications 8 fierce and eager (wanting) to fight
5 incredibly 6 dying out 5 SPEAKING Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
SPEAKING
Johannesburg is my home city, and the
7 fading away 8 aggressive 1 What about this text tells you it was written more international airport here is called O. R. Tambo
than 100 years ago? Give reasons. airport. It is named after Oliver Tambo, who
2 Which attitudes of the narrator are outdated today? not many people know much about. Almost
5 After students have discussed in everyone has heard of Nelson Mandela, but
pairs, regroup them into small Tambo is not as well known around the world.
groups for students to report WRITING him as O. R.) was born in 1917 in an area of
Oliver Reginald Tambo (everyone knew
A short biography
back on their discussions and South Africa now known as the Eastern Cape.
INPUT Read Joel’s biography of Oliver Tambo
share opinions. 1 and answer the questions. As a young man he studied education and for
a while, he was a teacher. Later, he gave up
1 What did Tambo study during his life? teaching to study law, and in 1952 he joined
Nelson Mandela’s law firm.
2 Where did he live, apart from in South Africa?
These were the years of apartheid in South
1 Check/clarify: ANC (African 3 Why did he give the ANC presidency to Africa. Tambo, like Mandela, was part of the
National Congress), presidency, Nelson Mandela? African National Congress (ANC), which was
ANALYSE Which paragraph is which?
a stroke. 2 Write letters in the boxes in the text. an illegal organisation at that time. Mandela was
sent to prison on Robben Island and Tambo
Ask students to quickly read A Conclusion left the country – he lived at different times in
Zambia and in London. He was the ‘president in
the biography and answer the B Early life exile’ of the ANC and worked very hard to get
questions. C Introduction to the person support from other countries in the struggle to
end apartheid.
D Main achievements
1 education and law 2 Zambia and He went back to South Africa in 1990,
PLAN You’re going to write a short biography.
London 3 Because he had a stroke 3 1 Think of something in your country when the ANC became legal. But he had a
stroke and could not work any longer, so he
and could not work any longer. (e.g. a street, an airport, a square) that has passed the presidency of the ANC to Mandela.
the name of a famous person. Tambo died in 1993, before he could see
the first black government of his country.
2 Point out that the information 2 Make notes about the person’s life. Do research In 2006, the airport was renamed after him
on the internet if you need to.
in the biography is presented 3 Decide which information is most important to honour his achievements. And to sum up,
I think that this honour rightly recognised the
chronologically. to include in a biography. very important role that Tambo played in the
development of the country he loved.
A fourth paragraph B second
paragraph C first paragraph
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3 Elicit the names of some places
in students’ cities which are Homework
named after famous people and
write them on the board. In pairs, If you are short on time, students can do Writing Exercise 4 for homework. If
students choose a subject they you have done this in the class, ask students to exchange their biographies with
are both familiar with and plan another student for them to give feedback on content and structure. Students
their biography. If students have could check if the biography uses the same structure as the model. They should
access to the internet, they can decide which the most/least interesting part of the biography is.
do the research in class. If not,
this could be done at home.
Activity idea Extension
4 Encourage students to use the Give students five minutes to work
biography about O. R. Tambo as in pairs and search for as many more
a template. adjectives as they can find in The
Lost World. When time is up, elicit Practice Extra
answers but don’t discuss meaning or Unit 12 Master it!
what the adjectives refer to yet. Put
students into groups of three pairs. Workbook
Developing Writing p113
Pairs take turns to say an adjective.
The other two pairs race to say what Tests
the adjective refers to in the extract Unit, extension and skills test 12
and the meaning. Final test
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