Book 1 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela

-a modern hero

The title of the reading material is “Elia’s Story”. After reading it, we will achieve the following goals. First, to learn some useful words and expressions, such as lawyer, legal, fee, attack, hopeful, equal, out of work, blow up, as a matter of fact, go to sb for help, be grateful to sb for sth and so on. Second, to improve students’ reading skill and ability. Third, to learn the qualities and abilities that makes Nelson Mandela such a great and famous person. What’s more, the teacher should tell students how to be an outstanding person just like Nelson Mandela.

Next, I will talk about the teaching focuses and teaching difficulties. I will focus on analyzing the passage, including the structure of the material and some important language points. In addition, some Attributive Clauses in it can’t be neglected. The following teaching method will be used: intensive reading, word-guessing and group work. Tape, pictures and multi-media are necessary in the class. The teaching time is 90 minutes.

At last, about the teaching steps, which contain five parts.

Step1: lead-in. In this part, work in groups to discuss the two questions: 1. What is a famous person?

Step2. What is a great person? And what qualities should they have? Step2: pre-reading. Use the multi-media to introduce six men on page 33, which helps students to know more information about them and work in groups to discuss whether they are great men or not.

Step3:

while-reading. There are two main sections in this step. The first one is skimming. Students should try to get the main idea of the passage. The next is scanning. It’s time to deal with some details in the passage.

Step4: Post-reading. After reading, students should finish some related exercises and questions. The last step is homework for students.

1. read the text carefully and try to repeat the story;

2. review what we have learned;

3. try to find some difficult words and sentences in the passage.