必修一 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela
—a modern hero
Using language
I. Teaching aims:
Read the passage: The Rest of Elias’ Story
2. To master the following expressions:
escape; educate; beg; reward;
come into power(office) ; set up ; be sentenced to …
3. To do the listening exercises in this unit.
II. Teaching methods:
Reading; Listening ,speaking and writing
III. Teaching important and difficult points:
Important points :
Learn the expressions in this part:
escape; educate; beg; reward;
come into power(office) ; set up ; be sentenced to …
Difficult points:
Understand the passage “The rest of Elias’s story” better.
IV. Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
Check the answers to the homework
Step 2 Listening
Students listen to the listening material for the first time, just in order to get the mian idea.
Let the students listen again and fill in the blanks:
I joined the ANC Youth League because it fought for _____ _____ for black and white people in South Africa. Here are ______ reasons:
First, white people did not have to carry _________ and could work anywhere. As a black person I could not work without a passbook. This passbook had your name, _______ and birthplace in it. If the police found me ________ it or if I was living in the wrong town, I could be put __ ______. So I went to the ANC Youth League for help.
Secondly, in the _____ mines where I worked, the ______ workers sat in their offices whiles the black South Africans worked ____________. When we worked at the mines we could not live with our _______ like the white people did. We had to live in large rooms with beds placed like desks in a _________. I wanted to live in a home of my ____ just as white workers did. I _______ the ANC Youth League could help us _____ this problem.
Thirdly, the white people could live anywhere they _____ in South Africa. They owned almost all the land ________ they were fewer in _______ than the black people. They had the best _______. They had the best _______. They made the laws. We wanted to have the same rights and __ _____ ____ the white people in our own land. Those are the _______ why I joined the ANC Youth League.
(Teacher give the passage on PPT .students just write the answers on their exercise book. Then listen again and check)
3. According the above exercise ,listen the material again and discuss the chart 3 on page 38.
Step 3 Reading
1.Teacher introduce some information of Robben Island.
罗本岛（Robben Island）处于南非西开普省桌湾中，是南大西洋上的一座小岛，面积13平方公里，距南非立法首都开普敦11公里。从17世纪开始，罗本岛成为殖民者关押土著反抗运动首领的地方。 1960年以后，罗本岛成为南非当局关押政治犯的监狱，先后关押过3000多名黑人运动领袖和积极分子。1964年6月，曼德拉被当时南非白人政府判处终身监禁，开始在罗本岛服刑，直至1982年才被转移到波尔斯摩尔监狱
2.Read the passage again and make notes about what happened to Elias in prison. Finish exercise 1 the chart on page 39.
How does Wang Kun feel about the trip now?
Discussion :
1). What would you have done if you were Elias？
2). How do you think his wife and family felt when he was in prison？
Students discuss these two questions in pairs, then share their answer .
Step 4. Deal with the language points in this part.
1. escape vi. 逃跑；逃脱；避免；漏出；流出(+from/out of)
2. escape from/out of 从……漏出/溢出
escape doing 避免做某事
3. educate vt. 教育；培养；训练
educated adj 受过教育的；有教养的
education n. 教育；培养；训练
4. beg vi. 乞讨；请求；恳求( for)
vt. 乞讨；请求；恳求(+to-v)/(+that)
5. reward n. 报答；奖赏；酬金；奖品（+for）
reward sb. for sth. 因某事报答某人
reward sb. with sth. 以某物酬谢某人，后加介词with
6. come into power(office) 掌权；开始执政
= take power 上台；当权
7. set up （1）建立，创立（组织、机构等）
（2）竖起来；支起来（put up）
8. be sentenced to … 被判处……（徒刑）
Step 6. Speaking & Writing
Doing a guided writing task
Imagine now Mr. Mandela is in prison. If you are going to write a letter to the President of South Africa asking him to free Nelson Mandela, what would be included? Do you remember the format of a letter? What should be the main content of this letter? How would you try to persuade the president?
Now go over Life of Nelson Mandela on page 39 for any useful information.
(Students try their best to write the letter. Then share their letters with their partners.)
Step 7. Homework
Finish writing the letter
Review the whole unit
Read the passage in workbook( page 73) “A Follower of Bill Gates ”
必修一 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela
—a modern hero
Using language
Introduction
Language is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the students not only listen but also read and write in English. The most attention goes to reading and writing.
Objectives
To help the students listen about the same topic as is read in the first period
To help students read another passage about the same person covered in the first period
To help students write an imaginary letter making use of the learned words and structures
Procedures
1. Warming up by listening
We have read a story about Elias. Do you remember why it was difficult for him to get a job? Yes, you are right. He didn’t have a passbook. But what is a passbook? Why is it important?
Let’s listen to a short passage and find out. Now turn to page 38. Listen to the tape for the text.
2. Reading and copying
On page 38 you see a passage entitle THE REST OF ELIAS’ STORY. Go over it to find the sentences you can’t understand. And copy down all the useful expressions at the same time.
Useful expressions
make…afraid, escape from…, spend the hardest time, help…in one way, begin a school for…, study very little, during the lunch break, under one’s blanket, make candles, study for one’s degree, allow…to join…,stop…from…, pass the exam, get a degree, feel good about…, finish four years in prison, find a job, work in…, blow up…, lose one’s job, come to power, beg for…, take …round…, feel bad, work for…, show…over…, make …free in one’s own land
3. Acting a text dialogue
Next we are going to do a group activity. We will do it in groups of four. Suppose one of you is Elias and works as a tour guide. The other three of you are tourists who are very interested in the prison and Mandela’s life.
Tourist: How did you get to know Nelson Mandela?
Elias: It was in 1950. I was working as a miner in Johannesburg but I hadn’t a passbook to live there. So I went to Mandela’s law firm to ask for advice.
Tourist: Can you explain to me some of Nelson Mandela’s political ideas or beliefs?
Elias: Yes. He found that we black people were not treated as equally as the white people and he would fight for our rights. However, he said that we should fight in a peaceful way. Only when this was not allowed did we decide to answer violence with violence.
Tourist: How did he help you through your life?
Elias: First, he helped me to get the correct papers to stay in Johannesburg and keep my job as I mentioned above. Then he taught me to read and write when I was in prison. This is very important to me because it enables me to get more job opportunities. Later he gave me my present job.
Tourist: What was life like on Robben Island?
Elias: Miserable and cruel. The guards and soldiers treated us badly, beat us violently for no reasons and insulted us in different ways.
Tourist: How did you manage to study on Robben Island?
Elias: We studied during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have asleep. We read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the words.
Tourist: What kinds of job have you ever done?
Elias: A miner, an office worker and now a tour guide.
Tourist: What do you think of your present job?
Elias: I like it very much. And I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I helped to make our people free in our own land.
4. Doing a guided writing task
⑴Preparing for writing
Imagine now Mr Mandela is in prison. If you are going to write a letter to the President of South Africa asking him to free Nelson Mandela, what would be included? Do you remember the format of a letter? What should be the main content of this letter? How would you try to persuade the president?
Now go over Life of Nelson Mandela on page 39 for any useful information.
⑵ Writing the letter
Doctor 26, 2007
The Honorable President of South Africa
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing you because we think South Africa’s policy toward Mr Mandela is not right, and that we may soon face a threat in our country more serious than any we have known since the end of last century.
Mr Mandela is a great person. He works for the equal rights of the black people. The blacks are human beings. They have the same right as the whites’ to live in this land. In your upcoming New Year’s Speech, you have an opportunity to plan a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We ask you to seize that opportunity, and to work out a new policy that would protect the interests of the people. That policy should aim, above all, at the freedom of Mr Mandela. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary effort.
We ask you to act decisively. If you act now to end Mandela’s imprisonment, you will be acting in the most fundamental national interests of the country. If you keep him still in prison, you put our interests and our future at risk.
Sincerely,
Elliott Abrams, Richard L. Armitage, William J. Bennett
5. Closing down by sharing
To end this period share your letter with your partners and make necessary changes.
必修一 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela
—a modern hero
Using language
Teaching goals 教学目标
1.Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语
quality, get on well with, be willing to do, be active in, lose heart, in trouble, Bible, fight against/for/with, invader, the German Nazis, republic, principle, nationalism, livelihood, peaceful, prison, determined, generous, confident
b. 交际用语
Expressing points of view about great people
I think/ don’t think...
I’m afraid...
Why do you think so?
What do you think of?
What’s your opinion?
I agree/don’t agree.
In my opinion, ...
I think ... because ....
2. Ability goals 能力目标
Enable the students to tell what a great person is and help the Ss develop a good quality.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Help the students learn how to tell what a great person is.
Teaching important points 教学重点
Let the students learn to use the structures of expressing points of view.
Teaching difficult points 教学难点
How to tell an important person from a great person.
Teaching methods 教学方法
Looking at the diagram and pictures (individuals).
Pairs work to discuss (cooperative learning).
Teaching aids 教具准备
A computer and a projector.
Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式
Step I Revision
Check the homework of last class.
T: Good morning/afternoon, boys and girls! Please let me check your homework of the last class. I will have a dictation and ask two students to write them down in the blackboard. Now, let’s begin.
The teacher speak them in Chinese, the students write them down in English.
1. The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life.
2. Mandela had opened a black law firm to advise poor black people on their problems.
3. I was worried about whether I would be out of work.
4. We were put in a position in which we had either to accept we were less important, or fight the Government.
5. It was very dangerous because if I was caught I could be put in prison for years.
6. I knew it was to realize our dream of making black and white people equal.
T: So much for the dictation. Today we’ll have a speaking English class, let’s come to Warming up on Page 33.
Step II Warming up
T: Look at the sentences on the slide. Please answer the following questions, decide what kind of person you are.
Questions:
1. Do you always do your own homework?
2. Do you ask for help when you think it necessary?
3. Do you help others with their work if they ask you?
4. Do you get on well with your classmates?
5. Are you willing to do public service work without pay?
6. Your friend needs bus fare home but you want to buy something to eat. Would you refuse to help?
7. Are you active in school activities?
8. Do you have hobbies?
9. Do you easily lose heart when you are in trouble?
10. Do you often help old people or little children when they need help?
T: You can answer them with Yes or No.
(Five minutes later)
T: According to your answers, decide what kind of person you are. Perhaps you are or not. Now, according to the questions and answers, can you find out what qualities there are in a great person? You can choose words from the adjectives on page 33 and have a discuss with your parter.
Discussion
Sa: To my understanding, a great person is someone who should be hard-working, determined, unselfish and generous. If he/she works hard, however great the difficulty he/she meets is, he/she will go on working hard. If he/she is unselfish and generous, he/she will help others without pay and get respect from others. If he/she is determined, he/she will never give up when he/she is in great trouble.
Sb: To my understanding, a great person is someone who should be kind, brave, determined and confident. As a great person, he /she first should be kind-hearted. Only when he /she is kind-hearted, he/she can help others when they are in trouble. Second he/she should be brave, when he /she are facing the danger, fear or terror, he won’t be afraid. Lat he/she should be determined and confident, when he/she has confidence, he will never lose heart in front of failure. In a word, I think a kind heart, bravery, determination and confidence can make a great person.
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T: Now, let’s have a summary. As a great person, he/she should help others, get on well with others, be willing to do public service, be active in society activities and never lose heart when he /she is in great trouble and so on.
Step III Pre-reading
T: Now, please look at the screen. Can you recognize who they are?
Sa: Yes, they are William Tyndale, Norman Bethune, Sun Yat-sen, Gandi, Nelson Mandela and Neil Armstrong. They are all important people.
T: Are they all great people?
Sb: No. In my opinion, Neli Armstrong is not a great person.
T: Why?
Sb: Because he only landed on the moon, which is not only his work, but the work of many people.
T: Any other opinions?
Sc: I agree with him.
T: Now, let’s discuss in pairs and decide who is a great man. Please give your reasons for your opinions.
Five minutes later.
T: Who can answer the questions voluntarily?
Sa: I think Norman Bethune is a great man. He developed several innovative (革新的) surgical instruments which are still in use today. Norman Bethune is best known in China for his work as a field surgeon with the Eight Route Army from 1937-1939. During this time he invented mobile blood banks to provide blood transfusions to wounded soldiers in the field. Dr. Bethune died on November 12, 1939 in China. His sacrifice (牺牲) was commemorated by Mao Zedong in his essay "In Memory of Norman Bethune". Bethune’s spirit of service, courage and innovation continues to inspire Canada-China innovative partnerships today. He is a great internationalist.
Sb: I think William Tyndale is a great man. He gave us our English Bible. Forbidden to work in England, Tyndale translated and printed in English the New Testament and half the Old Testament between 1525 and 1535 in Germany and the Low Countries. He worked from the Greek and Hebrew original texts when knowledge of those languages in England was rare. But he was condemned as a heretic, Tyndale was strangled and burned outside Brussels in 1536.
Sc: I think Sun Yat-sen is a great man. He is the great pioneer of Chinese democratic (民主)revolution. Mr. Sun’s original name is Sun Wen and styled himself Yat-sen. When he took part in the revolutionary activities, he was respectfully and widely called Mr. Sun Zhongshan in China. He put forward the famous guiding principle — "driving the invaders out, restoring the sovereignty of China, establishing a republic and equalizing the land ownership” and the Three People’s Principle — "nationalism; people’s rights; people’s livelihood". He founded the first Republic in China in 1911 after many years’ fighting.
Sd: In my opinion, Gandi is a great man. He was called "Bapu", meaning "Father"— because he was the father of the Indian nation of the twentieth century. He formed an organization leading the Indians’ struggle for equal rights. He gave up a rich life for his ideas and fought for his country to be free from the UK in a peaceful way. Gandhi was much more than a clever lawyer, a fine speaker, a determined fighter for human rights and a political leader. He was a model of a different kind of political leader. At the time of his death, Albert Einstein praised him as follows: Future generations, it may be, will hardly believe that such a person as this walked upon this earth.
Se: I think Nelson Mandela is a great man. He is the former South African president. In order to make the black people get the freedom, he fought many years and was put in prison for thirty years. He helped the black people to realize the dream of making black and white people equal.
Sf: In my view, Neil Armstrong is a great man. Neil Alden Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon. As spacecraft commander for Apollo XI, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon. "That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." With these historic words, man’s dream of the ages was fulfilled.
T: According to what you said just now, I think all the people on our book are great people.
Step III Talking
Talk about your hero/ heroine.
T: Let’s come to Page 69. Please look at the four pictures and answer the following questions, you can talk about each in pairs.
Who is your hero/heroine?
Why do you like him/her so much?
Did he/she do anything for others?
What are his/her best qualities?
Five minutes later.
T: OK, I’ll ask fours students to speak.
Sa: Abraham Lincoln is my hero. He is one of the greatest presidents of the USA. He ended the slavery of the South America and united the South and the North America into a whole state. His best qualities are bravery, confidence and leadership.
Sb: Confucius is my hero. He was a well-known leader in philosophy and he also made many wise 啊ideas and thoughts that talk about the human's behavior, the rules that you should follow to make a successful life, and about the government.
Sc: Albert Einstein is my hero. He is one of the greatest scientists of the century in the world. He put forward the theories of relativity. His theory in physics helped the world to know more about the universe, so he was given the Nobel Prize in 1921. He proved that light does not travel in a straight line, but bends as it passes the sun.
Sd: My hero is Qian Xuesen who is "the father of China’s aerospace" and "king of rockets". He is also one of the pioneers of China’s apace science. Because of his contributions, China launched its first manned spacecraft ——the Shenzhen V.
Step IV Speaking Task
T: Work in pairs and think of a person you both agree is a great person. You can consider some possibilities on page 74. Then consider whether a great man has to be perfect? Do bad qualities make a person less great? And explain why. Minutes later I will ask one pair to report your choice and give your reasons.
Five minutes later.
T: Are you ready? Who’d like to tell us your choice?
Sa: Li Shizhen is our hero. He developed BEN CAO GANG MU by traveling around the country in that undeveloped times. He is determined, brave and devoted.
Sb: Marie Curie is our heroine. She studied radioactive materials and discovered radium. I like her because her discovery of radioactive elements laid the foundation for future discoveries in nuclear physics and chemistry. Her best qualities are persistence, determination and modesty
Sc: And I think a great man needn’t to be perfect. Of course bad qualities do influence a person, but there isn’t a perfect man on the earth. When one do a great more good and something bad of no importance, we needn’t focus on his badness.
T: I think that both of you are right. Thank you!
Step V Homework
1. Tell the students to speak who is the great man in their eyes except the ones in our texts and give their reasons.
2. Preview Learning about language on Page 36.
必修一 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela
—a modern hero
Using language
Introduction
Language is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the students not only listen but also read and write in English. The most attention goes to reading and writing.
Objectives
To help the students listen about the same topic as is read in the first period
To help students read another passage about the same person covered in the first period
To help students write an imaginary letter making use of the learned words and structures
Procedures
1. Warming up by listening
We have read a story about Elias. Do you remember why it was difficult for him to get a job? Yes, you are right. He didn’t have a passbook. But what is a passbook? Why is it important?
Let’s listen to a short passage and find out. Now turn to page 38. Listen to the tape for the text.
2. Reading and copying
On page 38 you see a passage entitle THE REST OF ELIAS’ STORY. Go over it to find the sentences you can’t understand. And copy down all the useful expressions at the same time.
Useful expressions
make…afraid, escape from…, spend the hardest time, help…in one way, begin a school for…, study very little, during the lunch break, under one’s blanket, make candles, study for one’s degree, allow…to join…,stop…from…, pass the exam, get a degree, feel good about…, finish four years in prison, find a job, work in…, blow up…, lose one’s job, come to power, beg for…, take …round…, feel bad, work for…, show…over…, make …free in one’s own land
3. Acting a text dialogue
Next we are going to do a group activity. We will do it in groups of four. Suppose one of you is Elias and works as a tour guide. The other three of you are tourists who are very interested in the prison and Mandela’s life.
Tourist: How did you get to know Nelson Mandela?
Elias: It was in 1950. I was working as a miner in Johannesburg but I hadn’t a passbook to live there. So I went to Mandela’s law firm to ask for advice.
Tourist: Can you explain to me some of Nelson Mandela’s political ideas or beliefs?
Elias: Yes. He found that we black people were not treated as equally as the white people and he would fight for our rights. However, he said that we should fight in a peaceful way. Only when this was not allowed did we decide to answer violence with violence.
Tourist: How did he help you through your life?
Elias: First, he helped me to get the correct papers to stay in Johannesburg and keep my job as I mentioned above. Then he taught me to read and write when I was in prison. This is very important to me because it enables me to get more job opportunities. Later he gave me my present job.
Tourist: What was life like on Robben Island?
Elias: Miserable and cruel. The guards and soldiers treated us badly, beat us violently for no reasons and insulted us in different ways.
Tourist: How did you manage to study on Robben Island?
Elias: We studied during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have asleep. We read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the words.
Tourist: What kinds of job have you ever done?
Elias: A miner, an office worker and now a tour guide.
Tourist: What do you think of your present job?
Elias: I like it very much. And I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I helped to make our people free in our own land.
4. Doing a guided writing task
⑴Preparing for writing
Imagine now Mr Mandela is in prison. If you are going to write a letter to the President of South Africa asking him to free Nelson Mandela, what would be included? Do you remember the format of a letter? What should be the main content of this letter? How would you try to persuade the president?
Now go over Life of Nelson Mandela on page 39 for any useful information.
⑵ Writing the letter
Doctor 26, 2007
The Honorable President of South Africa
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing you because we think South Africa’s policy toward Mr Mandela is not right, and that we may soon face a threat in our country more serious than any we have known since the end of last century.
Mr Mandela is a great person. He works for the equal rights of the black people. The blacks are human beings. They have the same right as the whites’ to live in this land. In your upcoming New Year’s Speech, you have an opportunity to plan a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We ask you to seize that opportunity, and to work out a new policy that would protect the interests of the people. That policy should aim, above all, at the freedom of Mr Mandela. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary effort.
We ask you to act decisively. If you act now to end Mandela’s imprisonment, you will be acting in the most fundamental national interests of the country. If you keep him still in prison, you put our interests and our future at risk.
Sincerely,
Elliott Abrams, Richard L. Armitage, William J. Bennett
5. Closing down by sharing
To end this period share your letter with your partners and make necessary changes.
必修一 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela
—a modern hero
Using language
整体设计
从容说课
This is the fifth teaching period of this unit. As usual, the teacher should check the students’ homework and offer chances for the students to go over what they learned in the last period at the beginning of the class.
In this period, the teaching emphasis will be put on developing the students’ reading ability by reading extensively and getting them learning to use some reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on. As to new words and phrases, the teacher can just find those the students feel most difficult and help them to understand. That’s enough here.
We will deal with two parts: Reading and discussing on Pages 38-39 and Reading Task on Pages 73-74. The purpose of Reading and discussing on Pages 38-39 is to finish the story of Elias and explain what happened to him after he was sent to Robben Island. This proved to be a very hard time in his life and he never worked again until Nelson Mandela and his government came into power. At that point ANC supporters who had suffered like Elias were given jobs and pensions by the government to make up for the years of suffering. In order to lead in the topic of this passage, the teacher can first talk about and discuss something mentioned in Elias’ Story. Then ask the students to find the answers by skimming and to locate particular information by scanning. While checking their answers with the whole class, deal with language problems the students can’t work out by themselves. For Reading Task on Pages 73-74, it provides an opportunity for the students to think about a person or a situation in different respects. This is very important as a lot of university work and research needs students who can look at different points of view and come to a good conclusion. In addition, it means that they must also give reasons for their choice and possibly argue that one side or the other is wrong. Students are asked to give their views of Bill Gates before reading. This is to see what viewpoints they have already. Most will probably think Bill Gates is a good man because they have only heard good things about him. In the two passages they will read both good and bad things about Bill Gates. Do these readings change their minds or do students remain unmoved by them? After reading, ask the students for their reactions again. They should give a reason for any change of mind or for staying with the same opinion. This is one of the most important exercises in this unit and it should be treated seriously.
As to Speaking Task on Page 74, its purpose is for the students to re-examine what qualities they think makes a great person. It is an informal assessment of whether they have understood the point of the unit. It also provides them with the opportunity to consider what priorities they think are important in a person. Remind the students to use the expressions set out in Talking. In order to finish this part, have a debate on whether Bill Gates is a great man or not.
教学重点
Develop the students’ reading skills by extensive reading.
教学难点
1. Enable the students to learn to express their own opinions and ideas.
2. Get the students to learn to grasp the main idea of a text or a passage.
教学方法
1. Task-based teaching and learning
2. Cooperative learning
3. Discussion
教具准备
A tape recorder and other normal teaching tools
三维目标
Knowledge aims:
1. Get the students to learn the new words and expressions: blanket, degree, guard, educated, terror, fear, cruelty, reward, criminal, leader, come to power
2. Get the students to learn some important sentence patterns:
1)I felt bad the first time I talked to a group.
2)We read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the words.
3)As they were not cleverer than me, but did pass their exams.
Ability aims:
1. Develop the students’ reading skills by extensive reading.
2. Enable the students to learn to express their own opinions and ideas.
3. Get the students to learn to grasp the main idea of a text or a passage.
Emotional aims:
1. Enable the students to know about some great people and learn their noble qualities.
2. Develop the students’ moral quality.
教学过程
→Step 1 Revision
1. Check the homework exercises.
2. Ask some students to talk about their heroes or heroines.
→Step 2 Lead-in
Talk and discuss with the students: As we know, in order to support Mandela, Elias helped him blow up some government buildings. Can you imagine what would happen to him if he was caught? Today we are going to read another passage The Rest of Elias’ Story. After reading, you’ll know what actually happened to him.
→Step 3 Reading
1. Skimming for the answers:
What happened to Elias?
Can you describe Robben Island?
Give the students 3 minutes to read the passage fast. Then check the answers with the class.
2. Scanning for detailed information
Give the students 6 minutes to read the passage again, and make notes about what happened to Elias in prison. Fill in the form
Good things Bad things
?Mandela started a school in the prison. ?He was beaten.
Several minutes later, check the answers with the whole class and deal with any language problems that students can’t understand.
3. Discuss the questions in pairs.
1) What would you have done if you were Elias?
2) How do you think his wife and family felt when he was in prison?
4. Some important language points:
1) I felt bad the first time I talked to a group.
the first time在句子中起连词的作用，引导时间状语从句，可译为“第一次……的时候”，the second time, the third time. . . 依此类推。
The first time I met her, I believe her nice.
2) We read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the words.
we could find是省略了关系代词that的定语从句，修饰anything。to make candles和to see the words是动词不定式，作目的状语。
Lincoln’s stepmother did all she could to help him.
3) As they were not cleverer than me, but did pass their exams.
did pass在这里表示强调。在表示肯定的陈述句或祈使句中，可以用助动词do或does, did放在谓语动词前表示强调。
I do hope you have a nice trip.
Do come to see your parents often.
4. Retelling (Choose one of them to retell. )
1) Suppose you were Nelson Mandela, retell the story.
2) Suppose you were Elias’ wife, retell the story.
Give the students several minutes to prepare, and then ask them to come to the front to retell the story.
→Step 4 Role-play (An interview)
Tell the students: Suppose you are Elias and work as a tour guide on Robben Island. Your partner is a tourist who is interested in the island and Nelson Mandela’s life. He is now asking you the following questions.
How did you get to know Nelson Mandela?
What did he do to help you keep your job in a gold mine?
Can you explain to me some of Nelson Mandela’s political ideas or beliefs?
What was Nelson Mandela’s way of fighting?
Why did he change to violence?
What was life like on Robben Island?
Where did you learn to read and write?
Why did you become a tour guide?
What do you think o f your present job?
Give the students several minutes to practice their interviews. The teacher can walk around the classroom and see whether the students need some help. Then ask some students to perform in the front of the class.
Sample:
Tourist: How did you get to know Nelson Mandela?
Elias: It was in 1950. I was working as a miner in Johannesburg but I hadn’t a passbook to live there. So I went to Mandela’s law firm to ask for advice.
Tourist: Can you explain to me some of Nelson Mandela’s political ideas or beliefs?
Elias: Yes. He found that we black people were not treated as equally as the white people and he would fight for our rights. However, he said that we should fight in a peaceful way. Only when this was not allowed did we decide to answer violence with violence.
Tourist: How did he help you through your life?
Elias: First, he helped me to get the correct papers to stay in Johannesburg and keep my job as I mentioned above. Then he taught me to read and write when I was in prison. This is very important to me because it enables me to get more job opportunities. Later he gave me my present job.
Tourist: What was life like on Robben Island?
Elias: Miserable and cruel. The guards and soldiers treated us badly, beat us violently for no reasons and insulted us in different ways.
Tourist: How did you manage to study on Robben Island?
Elias: We studied during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have be en asleep. We read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the words.
Tourist: What kinds of job have you ever done?
Elias: A miner, an office worker and now a tour guide.
Tourist: What do you think of your present job?
Elias: I like it very much. And I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I helped to make our people free in our own land.
→Step 5 Reading task
1. Lead-in
Ask the students: As we know, most of the great people are also important and famous, but are important or famous people the great ones?
(Show some pictures of Bill Gates, his software and his company. )
Do you know who he is?
What else do you know about him?
Is he a great man?
(Show the sentence on the screen. )
I think Bill Gates is/is not a great man because______________.
Possible version:
1)I think Bill Gates is not a great man because he didn’t change the world and made the world fairer.
2)I think Bill Gates is a great man because he will change the world by helping the education and health of many children around the world.
2. Ask the students to read through the two passages on Page 73 and fill in the following information sheet.
INFORMATION ON BILL GATES
Job
Achievements
What did he give up for his beliefs?
Generosity
Why does he have enemies?
Why attacked by the government?
Suggested answers:
INFORMATION ON BILL GATES
Job Chief Executive Officer of a computer company.
Achievements Produced software that is used all over the world.
What did he give up for his beliefs? None.
Generosity Gave money to help children’s education and health.
Why does he have enemies? Other people are jealous of his success.
Why attacked by the government? They thought he was too big and too powerful and that is unfair to his competitors.
3. Having a debate
What does the follower of Bill Gates think of him? Why does he think Bill is great?
What about Bill’s competitor? Why?
Please read the passage again more carefully and find out the evidence to support each point. Fill in the chart.
Great Man Not a Great Man
(The teacher can ask students to finish the chart first, and then ask them to give a short report to explain the reason why Bill Gates is a great man or why not.)
Suggested answers:
Great Man Not a Great Man
He has his own company and software. No one can compete with his software.
He fits his software free in every computer. His software is not the best but used most widely.
He gives money to help children’s education and health. He tries hard to stop others making better software so that he may be a computer bully.
4. Summary
In a word, a great man should be the one who has followed his/her ideas and sacrificed something so that they could be realized. If he/she has not gone through struggles and difficulties for their noble cause, they can’t be called a great person.
→Step 6 Homework
1. Finish off the Workbook exercises.
2. Go to the library or get online to collect more information about Bill Gates.
板书设计
Unit 5 Nelson Mandela—a modern hero
Extensive Reading and Speaking
Role-play
Questions that may help you:
How did you get to know Nelson Mandela?
What did he do to help you keep your job in a gold mine?
Can you explain to me some of Nelson Mandela’s political ideas or beliefs?
What was Nelson Mandela’s way of fighting?
Why did he change to violence?
What was life like on Robben Island?
Where did you learn to read and write?
Why did you become a tour guide?
What do you think of your present job?
活动与探究
Go to the library or get online to collect as much information as possible about Bill Gates. Then hold a class debate on whether Bill Gates is a great man or not.
