Unit 5 Nelson Mandela
--- a modern hero
Period 6 writing
By Pengqian （彭茜）
From Futian Middle School

一、教学目标Teaching aims
1． 教学内容 （Teaching contents）
Writing on page 39 and page 75
2．能力目标 Ability aims
1) Learn to write a short passage of a great man
2) Let them know how to choose a great person in their eyes and how to write a short passage.
3．语言目标Language aims
1) Teach the Ss how to choose their words to write a short passage of a great man.
2) Teach them to know how to write a persuasion letter.
3)Use what they have learnt in this unit in their speaking and
writing.
二、教学重难点 Teaching important points
Let the students know how to choose a great person in their eyes and how to write a short passage .
三、教学方法Teaching methods
Task- based method, group work
四、教具准备 Teaching aids:
A projector and a computer
五、教学步骤Teaching procedures

Step I. Greeting:
Greetings
Step II. Lead in
Ask the students to play a game. （This will get the students to know how to describe a person.)
Show some pictures of some important or great people to the whole class.
Each group will choose one student standing with his back to
the blackboard. If he or she can guess the name of the person
by listening to other students’ description, he or she will get one point. (We can ask the students to choose only some of the pictures describe.)
Step III. Writing (p.39)
1. Tell the Ss some steps when writing:
Before writing you can follow these steps:
• collect ideas for the letter
• write them down in any order
• Sort them out in an order
• Put those idea into a form so that you can easily see them
• Use the form to help you as you write.
2. Show them how to get some ideas before writing:
1) In this unit we have learned a lot about the modern hero--- Nelson Mandela. Can you give me some information about him?
2) After the Ss give some information about Nelson Mandela with the
help of the text, the teacher may add some more information in a form.
3) Enjoy the sample letter.

Suggested answer
Jinan No. 1 Middle School
Shandong, China
May 27, 1989
Dear President,
I am writing to ask you to free Nelson Mandela. Here are some reasons why I think he should be free.
As we all know, people with different colors should be equal. Nelson Mandela devoted all his life to realize this dream. In 1944, he founded the ANC Youth League to call on people to struggle for their rights to vote. In 1952, he opened a law office to help the poor black people in Johannesburg on their problems. The black people loved him.
In 1962, Mandela encouraged people to use violence against anti-black laws to get their rights, so he was sentenced to 5 years hard labor. One year later, as one of the leaders of ANC, he led them to blow up the government buildings to realize their dream of making black and white people equal, so that he was again sentenced to prison for life on Robben Island until now.
I think, what he did was for his people, his country, not for himself. He has an unselfish and brave heart. As he is a great man, you should set him free.
Best whishes!
Yours truly,
Li Hua
4) After reading the sample, ask them to tell me how to write a persuasion letter.
5) Tell them the structure of a persuasion letter in general to make the writing easy.
Structure of such letters
Part 1. A small paragraph (Reason for the letter)
Part 2. Body paragraphs (reasons in detail )
Personal information
Hard work achievements
Good qualities
Part 3. Closing paragraph
( your opinion)

Step IV. Writing Task
Ask them to try to write a persuasion letter
1.Suppose you are going to
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