Period 2：Reading II

Step 1.Lead-in

T: Do you still remember some details about what we learned yesterday? Now let me have a check.

Step 2. Review two readings

1. ( T or F )

1. Elias met Nelson Mandela at school.          ( F )

2. Nelson Mandela was a black lawyer.          ( T )

3. Nelson Mandela believed that black people were being treated as well as white people in South Africa. ( F )

4. Nelson Mandela thought violence was a good way to help black people.    ( F )

5. Nelson Mandela helped Elias keep his job.              ( T )

6. The government were happy with Nelson Mandela and the ANC.          ( F )

2. Listening and learning about language points

(Discover useful words and expressions, and then complete the passage with some of the words above)

(go on, some time, feel hopeless, lose one’s job, brave man, in fact, be ready to, agree to take, go against a law, quiet and calm, be taken to prison, tell somebody what to do, what people do in a war, always doing new things, have some difficult problems, money paid for going to school, a yellow metal for making a ring, group of people organized for a special purpose)

T: Let’s listen to the whole story. Would you please find out the similar expressions in the text to the ones on the screen? Then complete the passage with some of the words.

When Elias lost his job and was__________, his wife was very unhappy. She knew this meant he was_________ when all she wanted was a _______ life with enough money every month. She tried to ______him not to fight the government as she thought it was better to _______ that in South Africa black people were not as important as white people. But he was willing to ________ the fight and help Nelson Mandela win equal rights for black people. For a ______ of time she felt helpless and_________, but Elias encouraged her with stories of how good life would be when white and black people worked and played together. 

Step 3. Listening

T: We know, at that time, Elias was in a difficult situation and the background was very different from today’s. With what you have known, can you predict some?

u       What is a passbook?

u       Is it important?

u       Is it easy to get for Elias?

u       What job did Elias want to do?

u       Who worked underground?

u       Who worked on the surface?

u       Where did Elias live?

T: Will your answers be all right? Now listen to one statement of Elias.

1 What is a passbook? ( B )

  A. A book to help you pass exams            B. A book to show your identity

  C. A book to tell you where to live            D. A book to tell you how to live

2. Why is it important? ( C )

  A. For traveling outside South Africa        B. For showing where you were born

  C. For traveling inside South Africa         D. For getting a job

3. What job did Elias want to do? ( D )

  A. To work with other black workers         B. To work as a cleaner

  C. To teach in a primary school             D. To work in the mines

4. Who worked underground? (C )

  A The white workers                      B. The black and white workers

  C. The black workers                      D. Foreign workers

5. Who worked on the surface? ( C )

  A. The black workers                     B. The black and white workers

  C. The white workers                     D. Foreign workers

6. Where did Elias live?  ( C )

  A. In a classroom                        B. In a home of his own

  C. In a large room with beds               D. With his family 

Q: Why did Elias join the ANC Youth League?

   ( He wanted to be the same and equal to the white people in their own land.)

Q: Why did he support violence when he did not agree with it ?

( Because it was only with violence that they could get the equal right. )

Step4. Further Discussion

T: So to Elias, Nelson Mandela is a great man and he is important in Elias’ life, and he changed his life.

And what have you learned from Nelson Mandela? For what quality do you admire him most?

(Show 4 pictures in Pre-reading: William Tyndale, Norman Bethune, Sun Yat-sen, and Gandhi )

T: Are they great people too? What qualities do they have? What qualities do you think are needed to make a great person?

n       Conclusion: A great person is one who has followed his/ her ideas and sacrificed something so that they could be realized. He/ She has qualities as follows: intelligent, determined, generous, kind, unselfish, brave, hard-working, confident, persistent, modest, one who has an idea, helps others, unselfishly gives up something to achieve his/her goal).

n       Look at the list of the qualities that are set out above. You are going to choose four that you consider are the most important for a great person. While you are choosing each one, think of someone you know or have heard of that has that quality. Then when you have finished choosing, prepare to give a talk to the class. You should explain why you chose each one and who shows it.

Step5. Homework

1.       Review two readings

2.       Recite good sentences from the readings

3.       Preview the next reading in WB.

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