Unit 14 Freedom fighters教案

3. demanded

5. murdered

7. prison

2. march

4. set a good example

6. forbidden

8. peaceful

step ii  fast reading(show the questions on the screen.) now, we'll begin a new text. page 30 and read the passage fast and find answers to the questions on the screen.

answer the following questions:

1. which country was the first in the world to give women the right to vote?

2. who wrote two chapters about the rights of animals and vegetables in a novel? and when?

(three minutes later)

get some ss to answer the two questions.

step iii  reading

(show the questions on the screen.)read the text again and discuss the questions on the screen with partners.

discuss the following questions:

1. "each age has its own struggle for right.” what does the word “age" mean?

2. what were the main ideas of the famous books about the rights of men and women, which were published in the late 18th to the 19th century?

3. please describe the rights to vote for women in the 19th and the 20th cen­tury.

4. what is the purpose of the organiza­tions that fight for equal rights in modern times?

5. do you think we should fight for the rights of robots and machines?

(the students read the text and discuss the questions. then the teacher may ask some of the  students to say their an­swers, )

suggested answers:

1. the word "age" means "times", for chinese "時代".

2. the main ideas of these books were that all people are brothers and sisters, and that all people should be equal. from then on, a struggle of more than 200 years for equal rights of men and women of all races began.

3. there was a time when women had no rights to vote. in the 19th century, women all over the world began to ask for equal rights. it is new zealand that is the first country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1893. by 1920, the us, canada and most euro­pean countries allowed the women to vote.

4. they fight for the rights of black peo­ple, women, children, people with aids/h1v and prisoners. their pur­pose is that they ask to be treated with respect, share the rights to work, good housing conditions and education and to be treated equal to other people in all ways.

5. i don't think so. we should protect all the living things, including plants and animals, because all of them are part of nature. if one of them is not well pro­tected, the balance of nature will be de­stroyed. that will perhaps cause an­other living thing to die out. no matter which of them dies out, our nature will lose some of its color. robots and ma­chines are made by man. we can decide how many of them will be needed, according to their use. if we need more, we can make more. that will not affect the balance of nature. and i think we should protect our oceans and earth, too.