典范英语6-18-My friend, Mandela（2up打印）

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My friend, Mandela

Introduction:

Nelson Mandela was the most famous

prisoner in the world. he is probably now one of the most famous grandfather in the world! Here he is celebrating a birthday with his family.

This book is about another grandfather, who is not world-famous. He is talking to his young grandson about nelson Mandela. The young grandson is called andile(and-eel-ay) and he is growing up in a very different south Africa to that of his grandfather and nelson Mandela.

Andile has friends who are both black and white, and knows little of the struggle that nelson Mandela fought for a better life for South Africa’s black people. So, andile’s grandfather tells him that story.andile calls his grandfather tamkbulu, which means grandfather.

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Chapter1 Childhood (1918-1941)

Nelson Mandela was a country boy. When I first knew him he lived in a small village near the India Ocean, in a hut shaped like beehive.

With his mother and his three sisters , he ate meals out of a communal pot. The food was usually samp, a porridge made from corn on the cob. Mmm, it was delicious!

He was five, even younger than you, when he became a herd boy. He looked after the sheep and cows. It wasn’t all hard work. He played tag and hide-and-seek with his friends, just like you do. The writers were cold, I remember, so sometimes he would wear a blanket. And he loves to drink the warm milk straight from the cow.

When he turned seven his father sent him school. He was the chief of the village and he

wanted his son to look good. He cut down a pair of his trousers and tied them with string round his tummy to hold them up.

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it was a Methodist hurch school and he began to learn English. The teacher, miss mdingane, gave each pupil an English name. who knows why she did this? But suddenly, he was called nelson. Did you know, he was a famous English admiral?

The nelson’s father fell ill and died. It was a blow, but now he had a stroke of luck. His father was a cousin of the king.

Andile: asb, so he was a prince?

Not really…so the regent, the king’s son, invited him to live in the royal palace. He had a good education. And he learnt about his own people, the Xhosas, how they had fought bravely against the British, though they lost much of their land.

The regent liked him-maybe because he

worked hard and was ready to pull his weight. One job he liked doing was to iron the regent’s trousers. People have always said Mandela is fashionably dressed.

The regent sent him to boarding school , and afterwards to a university for black students. But

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then he found a wife for nelson. He was only 22, too young to get married. So he ran away. Of

course, the regent was cross, but what could nelson do?

Andile, his xhosa name is roliblabla. Do you know what it means?...”the troublemaker”. That’s what people said he would be.

Chapter 2 a leader (1941-1962)

So he went to Johannesburg, the city of gold. It was a good place for rich white people but hard work for the black man who dug out the gold in the mines a mile below the ground.

He decided to study law. He had barely enough money to buy candles for light to read in his room. But he passed the exams, and with his friend, Oliver Tambo, they opened a lawyers’ office.

Apartheid is gone now, audile, but it was bad. It meant separating white and black people, but whites got the better things. Black children often went to school without breakfast, walking barefoot

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for miles. There could be a hundred pupils in one classroom. Think of that!

So nelson joined the African national

congress, which helped black people. He became one of its leaders. He was away from home and married by then. One day his son asked his

mum:”where does daddy live?” he was only five. It made nelson sad.

You have heard how he liked to keep fit by doing exercises every day? He was a keen boxer.

Andile: why did he like it,tamkhulu?

He’s over six feet tall and was quite strong. He said boxing taught him to stand up to bullies.

Eventually, he and his friends realized that peaceful protests would not change the laws. They decided to fright the government. Nelson became the commander-in-chief of the army, the spear of the nation.

Andile: a soldier!

It was long age, my boy.

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