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Exercises - Nelson Mandela

 

Nelson Mandela long walk to Freedom:

 

 

Make a list of such pairs of nouns and verbs in the text:

Nouns                                                                           Verb

Rebellion                                                                     rebel

Constitution                                                                constitute

Contribution                                                               contribute

Prohibition                                                                  prohibit

Transformation                                                                        transform

Humiliation                                                                  humiliate

 

 

Use the following phrases to complete the sentences given below:

1.       It requires such depths of oppression  to create such character

2.       Courage was not the absence of  fear  but the triumph over

3.       The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid  but he who conquer

4.       If people can learn to hate  they can be taught to love

5.       I was not born with hunger to be free  I was born free

 

Given below are sentences carrying one part of the contrast. Find in the text the second part of the contract, and complete each item. Identify the words which signal the contrast. This has done for you in the first item.

1.       For decades the Union Buildings had been the seat of white supremacy and now , it is the Blacks

2.       Only moments before, the highest generals of the South African defence force and police.. Saluted me and pledged their loyalty.. not so many years before they would not have saluted but arrested me

3.       Although that day neither group knew the lyrics of the anthem…they would soon  learn by heart

4.       My country is rich in the minerals and gems that lie beneath its soil, but I have ,,, is its people

5.       The Air Show was not only a display of pin point precision and military force but a demonstration.. a new government

6.       It was this desire for the freedom of my people,,,, that transformed frightened man into a bold one, that drove slow  abiding  attorney    to become a criminal, that turned a family loving man  into a man without a home.

 

 

 

Read the paragraph below. Fill in the blanks with the noun forms of the verb in brackets:

 

Martin Luther King’s contribution to our history as an outstanding leader began when when he came to the assistance of Rosa Parks, a seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. In those days American Blacks were confined to positions of second class citizenship by restrictive laws and customs. To break these laws would mean subjugation and humiliation by the police and the legal system. Beatings, improvement and sometimes death awaited those who defied the System. Martin Luther King’s tactics of protest involved non – violent resistance to racial injustice.

 

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