South Africa at 30 - Language Focus

1. Pronunciation of nouns ending in -ion.
a. Read the article again and pick out the three new nouns ending in -ion.
b. Add them to your list of words.
If necessary, check the pronunciation of these words on:  https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/

2. Speaking about concession.
a. To express concession, you can use linking words.

• Apartheid ended more than thirty years ago. Yet/However, serious inequalities persist in South Africa.
• Although / Even though Apartheid ended more than thirty years ago, serious inequalities persist in South Africa. 

b. Practise.
Rephrase the following sentence using "although" or "even though."

• Black South Africans were granted equality in 1994. But many of them still live in poverty.
  
• Write two other sentences expressing  the paradoxes of South African society today as described in the article. Use the link words seen in Activity 2.a.