A freedom fighter(三)
Teaching Aims:
1.Learn and master the following:
dream, side by side, unfair, speech, make a speech, content (n. ), feeling, clerk, chairman, admit, tour, give in
2.Grammar: Review the Attributive Clause.
3.Improve the students’
reading ability.
Teaching Important Points:
1.How to improve the students’
reading ability.
2.Review the Attributive Clause.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1.How to help the Ss understand the text better.
2.How to introduce an Attributive Clause and how to choose proper
relative pronouns or adverbs.
Teaching Methods:
1.Question-and-answer activity to help the Ss to go through with the
learning content.
2.Practice to help the Ss master the use of the different
relative pronouns and adverbs.
3.Individual or pair work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1.a tape recorder
2.a projector
3.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ.Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step Ⅱ.Revision and Lead-in
T: Yesterday we
learnt the passage about Martin Luther King, Jr. By
reading it, you’ve already known something about him and the situation of the black people living in the south in his time. Now I want someone to tell us something about the black people. Xiao Fang, you try, please.
S: In King’s time, the blacks were not treated equally. The law of continuing the
separation of blacks and whites had been passed. The mixed race marriages were forbidden. Only one fourth of the money for white children’s education was spent on the black children. They had no right to vote.
T: Then, what did King do to help them? And what’s the result? Wang Wei, you try, please.
S: King supported and led them in their struggle for civil rights. And after the struggle, the situation of the black people was improved.
T: Perfect answers. Sit down, please. Today we are going to read about three important events in King’s life in Lesson 75. (Bb: Lesson 75)
First let’s learn the new words.
(Show the new words on the
screen and let the Ss read them after the tape. Teacher can give a brief
introduction to the Ss if necessary. )
Step Ⅲ.Reading
T: All right. Now, please open your books at Page 40. I’ll give you four minutes to read the text quickly and
silently to get the general idea of the text. After that I’ll ask you to tell me what the three important events in King’s life were.
(The Ss begin to read the text. After four minutes, teacher says the following. )
T: Well, time is up. Who knows the first important event? Wang Hong, you try, please.
S: The
peaceful “bus-revolution” in Alabama.
T: The second? Li Fang.
S: The revolution in Birmingham.
T: What about the third? Zhao Ye.
S: King’s “dream” speech.
T: Very good. Next, I’ll give you another 3 minutes to read the text; then answer some detailed questions on the screen.
1.Why did the police take Parks away when she was
taking a bus?
2.Why did the black people in Alabama refuse to take the city buses?
3.How long did the
movement last?
4.What happened in the end?
5.Why was Martin Luther King, Jr. put in prison in 1963?
6.Why did he lead a big civil rights
movement in Birmingham?
7.Why did King never give in even when he knew his life was in danger?
Suggested answers:
1.Because she sat in the “whites-only” section, and refused to move.
2.Because they wanted to demand that bus company should change its
unfair practices in this way.
3.The
movement lasted a whole year.
4.In the end they won the equal rights to the white people. Government lawyers in the capital said that the bus company hadn’t the right to
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