Desmond tutu childhood biography questions and answers
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Learning English
Introduction
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end the racist regime in South Africa, died last year aged 90. Neil and Sam talk about the life of this hero of the 20th century and teach you related vocabulary.
This week's question
Nelson Mandela was sometimes affectionately called by his clan’s name, Madiba, but do you know what nickname Archbishop Desmond Tutu was given?
a) The Des
b) The Bish
c) The Arch
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary
pamper
give someone special treatment, make them very comfortable by giving them whatever they want
spoil (a child)
allow a child to do and have whatever they want – considered to have a bad effect on the child’s character
take advantage (of somebody)
treat someone unfairly for your own benefit
humiliate
make someone feel ashamed or stupid
acquitted
declared to be not guilty of committing a crime
toughie
(slang) a person who is tough and determined
Transcript
Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript.
Sam
Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Sam.
Neil
And I’m Neil.
Sam
In this 6 Minute English we’re celebrating the life of one
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Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu’s voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.
–Nelson Mandela
This God did not just talk. He showed Himself to be a doing God. Perhaps we might add another point about God. He takes sides. He is not a neutral God. He took the sides of the enslaved, the oppressed, and the victims. He is still the same, even today. He sides with the poor, the oppressed and the victims of injustice.
–Desmond Tutu (Sparks & Tutu, 73)
We must resist the temptation to impose our own “sweetness”—often a camouflage for our lack of courage—on to Desmond Tutu. Before the formal end of apartheid, Tutu was primarily the voice that demanded justice for the oppressed on the one hand and the boycott of, divestment from, and sanctions against the apartheid regime on the other. Only after the end of apartheid, when the regime was forced by our collective resistance to relent, free our leaders from prison, and get their boots off our necks, did Tutu, the reconciler, emerge.
Since the late seventies, I have had the enormous privilege of encountering and working with many of the giants of South Africa’s liberation struggle, including Desmond Tutu. I’m moved that Tutu, on more than one occasion, described me a