Book 1 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela--a modern hero Period1 warming up and Reading Learning Goals : 1. Enable the students to describe a great person with the order of time. 2. Help the Ss how to describe a great person. Learning Guidance: 1. By skimming and scanning, we students will grasp certain information and summarize the main idea of the passage. 2. With systematic and patient guidance, we students will master the basic reading ability to solve common problems in comprehension. Teaching Procedures: Step1: lead in 1. Guessing game. Who is he ? Give some details about some person then guess who is he? 2. Tell the differences between famous person and great person. 3. What qualities do you think a great person should have? Step2 ：Fast-reading Ⅰ Ⅰ. .Read fast to prove your guess and get the main idea. 1. What’s the relationship between Mandela and Elias? A. Strangers B. Friends C. Father and son D. Teacher and student 2. What is the general idea of the story? The story is about __________ . A. the poor life of black people in South Africa. B. the life of Mandela. C. how Mandela helped black people. D. how Elias met Mandela. Ⅱ Ⅱ.Divide the text into two parts Part I before Elias met Mandela Part II after Elias met Mandela Step3 ：Careful reading Part1. Time line of Elias’ life 1.1940 Elias 2.1946 Elias 3.1948 Elias 4.1952 Elias 5.1963 Elias Part2. Read the text carefully and tell whether the statement is True or False. 1. Elias went to see Nelson Mandela when he was in trouble. （ ） 2. Elias left school because the school was too far from his home. （ ） 3. Nelson Mandela helped him keep his job. （ ） 4. Elias trusted Nelson Mandela and he joined the ANC Youth League. （ ） 5. Elias was willing to blow up government buildings. （ ） 6. Nelson Mandela thought violence was a good way to help black people. （ ） Part3: choose the best answer. 1. From Mr. Mandela’s saying, we can get such a conclusion that_______ . A. Mr. Mandela wanted to break the law in a violent way in the beginning B. black people had been given not any right C. black people should rise up to fight for their own rights after years of being ruled D. they could force the government to give up easily 2. What disadvantage did Elias have in finding a job? A. He helped Nelson Mandela blow up the government buildings. B. He had poor education. C. He was very young. D. He didn’t want to live in Johannesburg. 3. Which best describe Mandela’s ambition(抱负)？ A. I disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend to death your right to say it—Voltaire. B. Don’t ask what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country—Kennedy. C. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal—Martin Luther King. D. Love rules his kingdom without a sword—Herbert. 4. What’s the author’s purpose of writing this passage? A. To describe his miserable childhood life. B. To prove violence is a proper way to a fair society. C. To draw people’s attention to poor conditions of the blacks. D. To describe his experience in memory of Mandela Step4: Summary Elias is a poor _______ worker in South Africa. He studied only _____ years in a school. He had to ______ school because of his family’s ________ of money to pay the school _____ and the bus fare. When he was 12 years old, he was in _______, and he ____ met Nelson Mandela, a black lawyer who offered _________ to poor black people on their ______ problems. Nelson Mandela gave him so much help that he didn’t lose his ____. When Mandela _________ the ANC Youth League, he ______ it as soon as he could. Finally, he realized the truth: the last 30 years has ____ the greatest number of laws stopping their rights and progress, and they had almost ___ rights at all. When Mandela saw it was no use fighting in a ________ way, he changed to ________, and Elias helped _____ ___ government buildings. __________ he did not like violence, he was happy to help because he knew it would help them achieve their ________ of making black and white _______. Step5: Discussion What qualities does Mandela have? And why do you think so? I think / In my opinion,/To my understanding,/I feel that → he is … because… What can we learn from the text about Nelson Mandela? bravery, /persistence ( 坚韧不拔） ,/kindness, /determination ， /belief… … Self-assessment: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
