Unit 14 Roots

Teaching aims and demands

1. Go over everyday expressions of intentions and wishes.

2. Words and expressions

in chains, high in the wall, on the shore, seize, reason(v.), be in danger, unable, roll over, give out , open wide, in his youth, pass down , go back over centuries, go off into, be fixed to, off the ground, hit on the head, shock , fall sick with fever, What was to become of them all, two bars that ran the length of the ship, arrive in a portan old smelly cloth, on hard wooden boards, There is … living in… , on his arrival, provide… with, the moment

3. Grammar is about the use of “It”.

Teaching Procedures:

The First Period

Step 1 fast reading

Get the Ss to read the Passage “ Journey into the Unknown” and find the flowings:

Pick out the proper topic for each paragraph in the column

　　para 1__________________________________

　　para 2__________________________________

　　para 3__________________________________

　　para 4__________________________________

　　para 5__________________________________

　　para 6__________________________________

　　A. on the sea journey

　　B. the prisoner were to be carried away

　　C. He was in horror

　　D. How was he taken away.

　　E. the situation in prison

　　F. Kunta's suffering

Then get the Ss to discuss the answers.

Step 2 Reading comprehension

Get the Ss read the passage again and try to find the answers to the following questions:

1. What happened to Kunta in this story?

2. What do you think happened to many of the black people on the ship?

The suggested answers:

1. He was caught in a forest in Africa, put in chains and sent by ship to Africa.

2. About a third of the black people on the ship die of during the journey.

Step 3 Read and discuss

Read the passage and finish the task on Page 8, SB 3b

Part One

Get the Ss to read the passage carefully and put these events into the correct order.

1. The ship arrived in a port.

2. He was tied up and carried to a small boat.

3. The ship sailed for two months.

4. He heard some women and children crying.

5. He was then chained up in a castle.

6. Kunta was caught in the forest one day.

7. Long ago, people in Africa said it was dangerous to walk alone in the forest near the coast.

8. He was chained up in the ship

9. He was hit on the head.

10. A few days later he was put on a sailing ship.

11. About a third of the black people had lost their lives.

The order: 7→6→9→2→5→4→10→8→3→1→11

Part Two

Discuss these questions with the partners:

1. What was unknown about Kunta’s journey?

2. Do you think Kunta could understand all the prisoners in the castle?

3. What did Kunta find shocking about being caught in the forest?

4. What was the role of the black men Kunta met in the forest?

5. Why do you think women were caught as well as men?

6. Why do you think they were chained up in the ship?

7. What were conditions like for the prisoners on the ship?

8. Why did the sailors come down to where the prisoners were kept?

9. What did Kunta think the sailors came down for?

10. 10. How many black people were alive when they reached the port?

The suggested answers:

1. Where he was being taken, why he was being taken, what was going to happen to him, ect.

2. No, because of the phrase “ Another, whose language Kunta understood”. [ There are hundreds of different Africa languages]

3. He was caught and carried away by black men whom he expected would usually help him.

4. To catch black men.

5. If women were caught and became slaves as well as men, they would produce babies[ young slaves]

6. So that they could not try to jump off the ship.

7. Terrible-no light, food and water once a day only, nothing to lie on except hard board, diseases and death.

8. To carry upstairs the bodies of people who had died and to throw them into the sea over the side of the ship.

9. Kunta thought that the sailors came down to carry sick men upstairs for treatment.

10. About 94. A third of the original 140 black people had died In fact the exact number of black people who arrived in America on this ship alive was 98.

Step 4 Workbook

1. Get the Ss read the passage and finish the Exercises 1-2 in the workbook.

2. Then check the answers with the Ss

Step 5 A test

Choose the best answers:

1. Kunta knew

A. where he was being taken when in a ship

B why he was caught by the white men

C. what was going to happen to him

D. it was unsafe to travel alone in the forest near the coast

2. Why were the black women and children caught as well?

A. In order to let the black men not feel lonely.

B. Because they wanted to keep their families together.

C: Because they did not easily die during me terrible long sea journey

D. The reason is not mentioned in the text.

3. What shocked Kunta most was that ____.

A. he was born free, but caught as a slave

B. the white people did not just catch black men, but also women and children.

C. it was native black people who helped the

white men catch the slaves

D. the black people suffered a lot from the long sea Journey

4. The number of the black people who arrived in America alive on the ship was about ____.

A. 98 B. 94 C. 60 D. 140

5. Sometimes the sailors came down to where the slaves were kept in order to ____.

A. carry sick men upstairs for treatment

B. bring enough food and water for sick people

C. carry the dying men and throw them into the sea

D make sure no slaves wanted to escape

6. The castle on the coast was a place where ___.

A. the white people lived B. the black men were caught

C. the rich black people live

D. the black people were held prisoners

[The answers: DDCBCD]

Homework

Read the next passage