Unit2BookIII.ppt

Unit Two Civil-Rights Heroes Warm-up Activities Cultural Background Discussion on the Text Structure of the Text Language Study (Text A) Follow-up Activities Language Study (Text B) Good sentences for students to remember:? Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ---- Martin Luther King 无论何处的不公正，对于任何地方的公正都是一种威胁。 Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ---- Martin Luther King 自由不会由压迫者自愿送上门；自由必须由被压迫者去争取。 Warm-up Activities 1. Invite the students to listen to the song “Abraham, Martin John”; ? The song ? The words of the song Raise the questions in class: (1)?? Who are the people mentioned in the song? (2) What the texts in this unit are going to be about? Possible answers: The unit we are going to study is all about civil-rights heroes. The song you have just heard is about four of them. The first one is Abraham Lincoln, the American President who freed the slaves and was assassinated. The second one is John F. Kennedy, another leader who supported civil rights and helped people to free themselves. He too died young, assassinated like Lincoln. The third one is a great speaker, Martin Luther king, another civil-rights leader who died young, once again assassinated. And finally is Bobby Kennedy, John Kennedy’s brother, another supporter of civil-rights. He was running for president when, like his brother before him, he too was gunned down. Cultural Background 1. the Underground Railroad: (1)? a secret system used in the US before the Civil War for helping thousands of slaves to escape to the free northern states or Canada. The slaves were called “passengers”, the people who helped them were “conductors”, and the slaves hid in “stations” (safe houses) along the way. (2) Watch the video so that the students may have a better understanding of the Underground Railroad. 2. Grand Central Terminal: the