5 Two great lives

Before you watch

1 SPEAKING   Work in pairs. Look at the photos below and answer the questions.
1 Who are these two men?
2 Where were they from and what did they do?
3 Do you know any other famous protesters in history?

Comprehension check
2 ⊲   Watch the DVD clip. Choose the correct answers.
1 Where was Martin Luther King born?
a  Washington DC   b Boston   c Atlanta
2 What happened at the Washington Monument?
a  Martin Luther King died.  ​b  King made an important speech.   c  King was arrested.
3 How long did Nelson Mandela spend in prison?
a  63 years   b  43 years   c  27 years

3 ⊲   Watch again. Match the events (a–f) with the dates (1–6) when they happened.
1 In 1929 a Martin Luther King gave his ‘I have a dream’ speech.
2 In 1955 b Martin Luther King was murdered.
3 In August 1963 c Nelson Mandela became president.
4 In 1968 d Nelson Mandela went to prison.
5 In 1963 e Martin Luther King joined the civil rights movement.
6 In 1994 f Martin Luther King was born.

4 ⊲   Watch again. Complete the sentences with the correct words.

1 Martin Luther King was the of the civil rights movement in the USA.
2 He went to in Boston.
3 250,000 attended a at the Washington Monument.
4 In South Africa at that time, white people had all the .
5 Black people couldn’t vote in .
6 Nelson Mandela believed that was sometimes necessary to change the world.
7 Today, South African society still isn’t .
8 The in South Africa is now improving.

Round up
5 SPEAKING   Work in groups. Answer the question.
What do you think are the biggest social problems in your country?

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 Vocabulary
6 RECYCLE   Choose the correct words or phrases.
1 I think it’s important that you respect / admire everyone you meet, even if you don’t like them.
2 Nelson Mandela looked down on / had a lot in common with Martin Luther King.
3 But they didn’t see eye to eye / admire each other about everything and disagreed about some things.
4 For hundreds of years, white people respected / looked down on black people in the USA.
5 Mandela’s supporters talked / turned him into running for president.
6 I admire / have a lot in common with people who try and make the world a better place.

7 Complete the text with the words below.

citizens election inequalities poverty speech

The welfare state in the UK

During the Second World War, there were huge 1 between the rich and
the poor and many people in Britain lived in 2
 . Poor children weren’t
able to get a proper education, poor families lived in very old houses with few
facilities, it was difficult to find a job, and too many people were still dying
from diseases.
In a 3 in 1942, the politician William Beveridge asked people what they
wanted to see after the war, and said that there were five important things that
needed to change. He suggested that the country needed a welfare state that gave
its 4 free healthcare, schools, good quality housing, money for the poor
and jobs for everyone. In 1945, the Labour Party won the general 5 and
began to build this welfare state.

Extension
8 Work in groups. Go online and find a photo of an important moment in the history of your country.
Find out about:
• the people in the photo and what you think they are doing and feeling
• when it was taken
• what was happening at the time
• why it was important

9 Present your photo to the class. Use the key phrases for speculating and deducing.

Speculating and deducing

He/She must be …
He/She might / could / may be …
It looks as if …
Judging by their expressions, I’d say that …

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 5 DVD teacher’s notes

DVD clip summary

The DVD clip is about the lives and achievements of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King.

Background
In 1955, in many southern states of the USA, black and white people were segregated and couldn’t attend the
same schools or sit together in restaurants or on buses. On 1 December that year, Rosa Parks, a black woman,
refused to give her seat on the bus to a white man. She was arrested and charged. This led civil rights leaders
to begin a boycott of buses across the city. Martin Luther King Jr, who was taught by his father that everyone
was equal, was chosen to lead this boycott and soon became a well-respected leader of the movement,
travelling across the country giving speeches before eventually making his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech in
Washington in 1963.
Nelson Mandela was working as a lawyer in Johannesburg when in 1948, the whites-only government of
South Africa introduced new apartheid laws to keep black and white people apart.
Mandela joined the African National Congress, an organisation that campaigned for equal rights, and soon
became one of its leaders. The authorities accused him of trying to overthrow the government and in 1964 he
was sentenced to life in prison.
In the late 1980s, after huge international pressure, and support across the world for Mandela, the South
African government began to realise that it had to change. In 1990 Mandela was freed, and four years later he
became president.

Before you watch

Exercise 1
• Read the questions with the class and elicit answers from individual students. Encourage the students to expand
on their answers and use their suggestions to start a class discussion.
• Answers: 1  Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela  ​2 Students’ own answers  ​3 Students’ own answers

Comprehension check
Exercise 2
• Pre-watching: Go through the questions with the students.
• ⊲   Play the whole DVD clip. The students choose the correct answers. Check their answers.
• Answers: 1  c  ​2 b  ​3 c
Exercise 3
• Pre-watching: Ask the students to read the exercise and to try and remember the order that they saw the things
in the DVD clip.
• ⊲   Play the DVD clip to check the answers.
• Answers: 1  f  ​2 e  ​3 a  ​4 b  ​5 d  ​6 c
Exercise 4
• Pre-watching: Ask the students to try and complete the sentences with the correct words before they watch the
DVD clip again.
• Weaker classes: Write the answers on the board in the wrong order and ask the students to match them with the
sentences. Or give them the first letter of each word. Then play the DVD clip and pause after each answer.
• ⊲   Play the DVD clip to check the answers.
• Answers: 1  leader  ​2 university  ​3 demonstration  ​4 power  ​5 elections  ​6 violence  ​7 equal  ​8 situation

Round up
Exercise 5
• Put the students in groups. Give them a few minutes to discuss the question.
• Answers: Students’ own answers

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 Vocabulary
Exercise 6
• Ask the students to read the sentences first and then choose the correct words or phrases.
• Weaker classes: Elicit the meanings of the words/phrases before the students choose the correct answers.
• Answers: 1  respect  ​2 had a lot in common with  ​3 see eye to eye  ​4 looked down on  ​5 talked  ​6 admire
Exercise 7
• Ask the students to read through the text first before they complete the sentences. With a weaker class, you could
elicit the meanings of the words first.
• Answers: 1  inequalities  ​2 poverty  ​3 speech  ​4 citizens  ​5 election

Extension
Exercises 8 and 9
• Materials needed: Internet access
• Preparation: Put the students in groups of three or four. Tell them they are going to research and talk
about a photo of an important moment in the history of their country.
• Language: Elicit phrases we use for speculating and deducing. Focus on the key phrases.
• Activity: Ask the students to nominate one note-taker in the group. Give the students 5–8 minutes
to find a photo and some information about it online. Alternatively, you could ask them to do this for
homework and do the presentation during the next lesson. Then give the students another 5 minutes
to talk about the points. Encourage them to use the language to speculate and deduce things in the
photo. Then ask one student from each group to summarise the discussion for the rest of the class.
• Extension: Ask the students to do some research on the internet and find out more about some
famous protestors from their country.

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 5 DVD script

Two great lives

In the first half of the 20th century, many African Americans didn’t have the same civil
rights – the rights that we all have to be equal – as white people. A lot of white people
looked down on black people and they were unequal economically and politically. A
movement started to change this and its leader was Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He went to university in
Boston, Massachusetts, but after he received his degree, he returned south and
worked as a minister in Montgomery, Alabama. It was there, in 1955, that he joined
the civil rights movement. He was a great speaker and quickly became famous. He
asked the American public a simple question – wouldn’t it be better for everybody if
every American citizen was treated equally? Didn’t everybody deserve to be treated
fairly? He travelled across the south of the USA fighting for equality. But it wasn’t
until he reached Washington that he achieved major change.
Here, on 28 August 1963, some 250,000 people went to a demonstration at the
Washington Monument. Here King gave his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech,
standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The speech made Martin Luther King an
international symbol of civil rights, respected and admired by most of the people,
but hated by some. He was murdered on 29 March 1968, but his words continued to
inspire people all over the world.
At the time, the apartheid regime ruled in South Africa. This system of racial
discrimination meant that although white people were a smaller part of the
population, they had all the power and almost all of the money. They lived in large,
beautiful houses in rich suburbs. Black people, on the other hand, had almost none
of the things white people had. They lived in poor areas with very poor houses. They
couldn’t go to the same schools, see the same doctors or use the same beaches as
white people, and they couldn’t vote in elections.
As in America, a movement began to fight against this injustice and at its head was
Nelson Mandela. Mandela had a lot in common with King. He was a great leader and
fought against inequality. But they didn’t always see eye to eye, because Mandela
believed violence was sometimes necessary.
In 1963, he was arrested and spent 27 years in prison, most of them on Robben Island,
a prison just off the coast of Cape Town. When he left prison his supporters talked
him into running for election. On 10 May 1994 Nelson Mandela became the first black
president of the country.
Today, South African society is still in no way equal. Just under 43% of South Africa’s
population live in poverty – and most of these people are black. In fact, although
79% of the population is black, black people earn less than 10% of the income. But the
situation is improving. It will take a long time to change this inequality, but Nelson
Mandela’s victory against apartheid was the first important step.

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