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Unit 8
Crime and punishment Culture

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Write on the board: Have you or Famous prisons
your family ever been the victim of 22
a theft? What was stolen? What can
we do to stop people breaking in to
our homes? If you were the victim of
a theft, what would you do? Students 1 Scan the article and find one famous prisoner from each prison.
discuss in pairs.
2 8.04 Read and listen to the article to check your answers.

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FAMOUS
Famous prisons FAMOUS PRISONS
3 THE TOWER OF LONDON, UK

The Tower of London, which was built in the 11th
1 Give students two minutes to 1 ROBBEN ISLAND, SOUTH AFRICA century, is now one of the city’s most popular tourist

attractions, with people coming from all over the
read the article and write the Robben Island is known all over the world because of one of world to see the Crown Jewels that are kept inside it.
names. Encourage them not to its former prisoners. From 1964 until 1982 this island prison, However, up until the mid 20 th century, it was a prison
11km off the coast of Cape Town, was home to perhaps the
and home to many famous prisoners, including King
focus on every word for now. most famous prisoner in the world, Nelson Mandela, who in Henry VI and two of King Henry VIII’s wives, Anne
1994 became the first black president of his country. Robben
Do not give the answers yet. Island was used mainly for political prisoners and more than Boleyn and Catherine Howard, who were also both
executed in the Tower. Visitors see the cells and enjoy
3,000 of them spent time there before it was finally closed in interactive displays that show what life was like in this
1996. These days it is a museum and it is visited by thousands ancient prison.
2 8.04 of tourists each year. CHÂTEAU D’IF, FRANCE
1 Nelson Mandela 2 Al Capone / 2 ALCATRAZ, US 4 Although Château d’If is a real island, most people know

Robert ‘Birdman’ Stroud Another island that was home to a prison is Alcatraz, which of it because of a fictional prisoner. The island prison,
is situated 2km off the coast of San Francisco. Probably
which is situated off the coast of Marseilles in the south
3 King Henry VI / Anne Boleyn / America’s most well-known prison, Alcatraz had many famous of France, was home to many criminals from the mid
Catherine Howard 4 Edmond Dantès inmates, such as the gangster Al Capone and Robert ‘Birdman’ 17 th century to the end of the 19 th century, but it is really
Stroud, a murderer who was also one of the country’s biggest
famous for one prisoner who was never actually there.
5 Henri Charrière experts on birds. Alcatraz closed in 1963 and in its 29 years of In his novel The Count of Monte Cristo, French author
being a prison, no one ever escaped, although 36 prisoners Alexandre Dumas tells the story of Edmond Dantès,
tried. These days it is open to the public and tourists can take an innocent man who is sent to the prison for a crime
3 Before students read the text a short boat journey across the San Francisco bay to visit it. he did not commit. In the book, Dantès manages to
again, get them to read the escape, something that no prisoner was ever able to do
in real life.
questions through. Tell students 5 DEVIL’S ISLAND, FRENCH GUIANA

not to worry about difficult Devil’s Island is off the coast of French Guiana in the
vocabulary at this stage as this Caribbean. For the hundred years that it was open, it
was known as one of the toughest prisons in the world
will come up later. and fewer than 25% of all prisoners who went there left
the island alive. The prison was set in the middle of a
1 Alcatraz, Château d’If, Devil’s jungle and the waters around it were full of man-eating
Island 2 Robben Island 3 Robben sharks, which made escape almost impossible. One man
who managed to escape and write a book about his
Island, Alcatraz, the Tower of London, experiences was Henri Charrière and the film Papillon
Devil’s Island 4 The Tower of London 3 Answer the questions. tells his story. Since it was closed in 1953, Devil’s Island
has become a tourist attraction for passengers on the
5 The Tower of London 6 Château According to the texts, which prison or prisons … many cruise ships that pass nearby.
d’If, Devil’s Island 1 was impossible to escape from? 4 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.
2 was home to a future politician?
SPEAKING
3 can now be visited by members of the public? 1 What other famous prisons do you know of either in
4 At the end of the exercise, 4 is not on an island? real life or in films/books?
listen to some of the students’ 5 contains really valuable objects? 2 Would you like to visit any of these prisons? Why or
ideas and encourage open class 80 6 appeared in a book? why not?
discussion.
Culture notes
Nelson Mandela – see Culture Notes in Unit 7, page 70.
Henry VI became King of England in 1422 at the age of nine months when his
father, Henry V, died. He reigned until 1461 when he was deposed during the
War of the Roses (a civil war in England). He was restored to the throne again in
1470 and remained king until his imprisonment and death in 1471.
Anne Boleyn was King Henry VIII’s second wife. She was Queen of England from
1533 to 1536. Their marriage, and the annulment of his first one, began the
breaking of the Catholic Church’s power in England and made Anne a key figure
in the disorder that instigated the English Reformation. In 1533, she gave birth
to the future Queen Elizabeth I, but Henry was disappointed not to have a son.
Anne was imprisoned and then executed in the Tower of London in 1536.
Catherine Howard was Henry VIII’s fifth wife. She was a teenager and he was
49 at the time of their marriage. They were married for just over a year when
she was executed on the king’s orders.
The Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, kept in the Tower of London,
Social Responsibilities are 142 royal ceremonial objects. They contain 23,578 gem stones including
Understanding personal responsibilities as
part of a group and in society – including Cullinan I – the largest clear, cut diamond in the world.
citizenship
Understands various aspects of society.
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