Unit 5 Nelson Mandela - a modern hero教案

Reading

Knowledge aims:

1. Get the students to learn and grasp the important new words and expressions: hero　quality　willing　active　republic　fight　peaceful　prison prisoner　period　law　advise continue　fee　gold　youth　league　stage vote　position accept violence　equal　lose heart　in trouble　worry about　out of work　Youth League　as a matter of fact　blow up put. . . in prison

2. Get the students to learn the following useful sentence patterns:

1) Do you easily lose heart when you are in trouble?

2) The time when I first met him was a very difficult period of my life.

3) As a matter of fact, I was worried about whether I would be out of work.

4) The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.

5) Only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.

6) The parts of town where they lived were places decided by white people.

Ability aims:

1. Enable the students to use some useful words and expressions correctly.

2. Enable the students to make sentences after the useful sentence patterns.

Emotional aims:

1. Stimulate the students' interest in learning English.

2. Develop the students' spirit of cooperation and teamwork.

1. Skimming and scanning

2. Asking-and-answering activity to check the Ss' understanding of the text.

3. Discussing, summarizing and practicing

4. Cooperative learning