人教版Module 1 Unit 5

　　Nelson Mandela-a modern hero

　　Elias’ Story

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　　Teaching aims:

　　1. Ss can gain some basic information aboutElias including the changes of his life and his feelings before and after he met Nelson Mandela. They can also learn to appreciate the greatness of Mandela through Elias’ story. .

　　2. Ss can get the main idea through the title and fast reading. The basic information of Elias can be obtained through scanning. They can also carry out simulate communicative activities based on the obtained information about Elias and Mandela.

　　3. Ss can be inspired to respect and admire Nelson Mandela. They can realize the noble qualities possessed by great people and aspire to devote themselves to being a great person.

　　Teaching key and difficult points:

　　Ss can grasp the basic information of Elias and Mandela and their reading ability can be improved through the employment of various reading strategies.

　　Teaching procedures:

　　Step 1 Lead-in

　　Teacherinvites Ss to Play a Guessing Game. A brief introduction to two persons will be given and Ss need to guess who they are to present the topic of great person and famous person. For instance,

　　T: He comes from Twain. His performances were four times selected to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala Show.He plays magic.

　　T: He was a prisoner. He passed away on December 5th, 2013. He devoted to his life to helping black people get the same rights as the white people.

　　Targets:Use riddles and pictures to lead in the topic of great person to get Ss interested in the topic.

　　Step 2 Pre-reading

　　Teacher raise the following two questions for Ss to ponder over.

　　1. Are both of Liu Qian and Nelson Mandela are great people?

　　2. Are great people and famous people the same?

　　3. What makes a person great?

　　Targets:The topic-related questions can easily and readily prepare the Ss for the following study of the text. In the meanwhile, motivate Ss’ relevant cognition can be stimulated.

　　Step 3 While-reading

　　Skimming

　　Ss skimthe first several lines of the text to find out the main characters told in Elias’ story.

　　Scanning

　　1. Ss scan thetext to answer the two questions and think over what happened during the lapse of 11 years.

　　①What help did Mandela offer to black people in 1952?

　　②What did Elias do in 1963?

　　2. Ss scan the text to find out the changes of Elias life and feelings at the different three stages, namely, before Elias met Mandela, after Mandela helped him and when Elias joined ANC.

　　①What was his life like before he met Nelson Mandela?

　　Poor, difficult, worrying.

　　②How did he feel at that time?

　　Helpless, sad, worried.

　　③What help did Mandela offer to Elias? How did he feel about his life after receiving the help from Mandela? (Hopeful)

　　④What was his life like after he joined ANC? How did he feel about his new life?

　　⑤Was Elias just a particular example? How about other black people living in South Africa? What was their life like before and after ANC was founded?

　　⑥Who brought these changes to Elias and South Africans?

　　Targets:To enable Ss to develop reading comprehension ability and information-processing ability.

　　Step 4 Post-reading

　　Give a speech

　　Teacher creates a situation in which Elias was hurt when blowing up the government building yesterday. Nelson Mandela is going to give a speech about Elias. Ss need to complete the speech for Nelson Mandela. The first and last paragraph of the speech have been given as follows.

　　My fellow South Africans, today I want to share the story of our hero, Elias, who was hurt yesterday.

　　….

　　I am proud of Elias, of you all. Let’s unite to realize the ideal for which we are prepared to die.

　　Targets:Through the meaningful of activity of completing and delivering the speech, task-based teaching method is adopted to provide Ss with a real-life situation to use the language to improve their communicative and cooperative abilities.

　　Step 5 Summary

　　Ss are encouraged to summarize the key points involved in this lesson. Teacher makes supplements if necessary. Teacher also emphasizes the admirable qualities possessed by great people and encourage Ss to cultivate them so as to be great someday.

　　Targets:Consolidate the knowledge they have learned today and achieve the emotional aims.

　　Step 6 Homework

　　Ss search online for more information about Nelson Mandela or other great people and write it down. They are supposed to share it next time.

　　Targets: Use the language they learn and improve their English writing skills.

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