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Unit 7
Breaking away Reading

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Write on the board: prison. Ask
7.03 Read the article again. At each point

students to imagine they are in READING 3 1–6, choose the best answer. Then listen to check
prison and discuss the following 1 Look at the photos and the title. What do you your answers.
in pairs: How is your life different? think the article is about? 4 Answer the questions.
A two men who built a prison
Describe a typical day. What was B a man whose father went to prison and became 1 Where did Brand spend his childhood?
difficult to get used to when you first president 2 What kind of prisoners was Brand told he was going
to work with?
went to prison? C a friendship between a prisoner and a prison warden 3 What did Brand and Mandela have in common?
D a friendship between two prisoners
4 Why did Mandela and Brand have to keep their
2 Read the article quickly. Check your answer to friendship secret?
Exercise 1. 5 What did Mandela do for Brand when he became
1 Check/clarify: prison warden. president?
Before students do the task, get
MY PRISONER,
them to cover the article and just MY P R IS ON E R ,
look at the title and photos. In
MY FRIEND,
pairs, give students two minutes MY FRIEND,
to think about the answer to the
question. Encourage them not to MY PRESIDENT AND MY FATHER
focus on every word for now.
In 1978, Christo Brand joined the prison service. He was an
18-year-old white South African boy who had grown up on
2 Tell students to read quickly and a farm. Now he was being sent to work as a warden in the
not worry about understanding famous prison on Robben Island. There, he was told, he was
going to work with the biggest criminals in South African
every word, but just focus history, including political prisoners. Brand didn’t know very
on checking their answer to much about 1 politics / prisoners – he just knew that he was
Exercise 1. going to work with some dangerous people.
And then he met prisoner 46664, a quiet 60-year-old black man
C who started to talk to Brand and ask him questions – questions
about his family, his education, his plans for the future / prison.
2
3 7.03 Once students have Prisoner 46664 was Nelson Mandela, who would one day
become the first black president of South Africa.
finished, it is a good idea to read
3
the article with their answers to ‘There was no language / colour barrier between us,’ said Brand, who
later worked as a guide showing tourists around Robben Island. ‘Like
check it sounds correct. me, Mandela came from a farm. We understood that we shared the
1 politics 2 future 3 colour same sky and the same air.’ The two men got on well and became
4 short 5 all the people in the room quite close, although this wasn’t allowed by the prison authorities.
They had to keep their friendship secret and their conversations had
6 friend to be 4 short / fascinating. Brand found that Mandela was a warm and
thoughtful person, even a little shy sometimes.
4 Ask students to try to answer as Mandela was also a generous man and he never forgot his friend.
When he became president, he got Brand a job. One day, at a meeting
many of the questions as they of important politicians, Brand was in the room and was putting
can from memory before reading documents on the table. When Mandela came in, he saw Brand, went to him and hugged him. Mandela
looked at Brand / all the people in the room and said, ‘This person was my warden. This person was my
5
again to check. 6 friend / teacher.’ Brand says that he felt very proud at that moment.
1 He spent his childhood on a farm in Nelson Mandela died in December 2013, aged 95. Like so many
South Africa. people around the world, Brand was very sad when he heard
the news. He said at the time, ‘Mandela was my prisoner, my
2 Brand was told he was going to work friend, my president and my father.’
with the biggest criminals in South
African history, including political 70
prisoners, and that some of them
would be dangerous.
3 They had both grown up on a farm.
4 Because close relationships Culture notes
between prisoners and wardens Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918–2013) was a South African anti-apartheid
weren’t allowed by the prison activist, political leader and humanitarian. In 1944 he joined the African National
authorities. Congress (ANC) – a political group that strived for equal rights for whites
5 He got Brand a job. and blacks. His activism made him very unpopular with the authorities and in
1962 he was arrested and sent to prison. Mandela served 27 years as a political
prisoner. He was released in 1990 and became president of the ANC a year
later. In 1994, in the first fully representative democratic election, he became
President of South Africa and was the country’s first black head of state, serving
until 1999. His government focused on breaking down the legacy of apartheid
(institutionalised racial segregation). Nelson Mandela is widely regarded as an
icon of democracy and social justice. Over the course of his life, he was given
over 250 awards in recognition of his political achievements including the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1993.

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Reading p68, Ex.1–4

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