The Lecture Notes of SEFC Book2 Unit14 Freedom Fighters
3. he wanted black people to be treated equally as the whites. black people should not be separated but should be treated with respect in the same way as other people. they should have the right to vote.
4. in december 1955, king organized a boycott of the bus company and succeeded after 381 days. later he led a new revolution to improve the housing condition for blacks in birmingham. in 1963, he led the march on washington d.c. as a result of that in the following year a new civil rights act was passed and in 1965 a new voting right bill became law.
t: to help you better understand the passage, i will explain some words and expressions to you. look at the screen, please.
(show the following on the screen, and explain them to the students.)
useful words and expressions:
1. forbid
e.g. i forbid you to stay out after midnight.
he forbids smoking during office hours.
2. set an example to
e.g. tom worked hard and set a good example to his classmates.
3. demand
e.g. he demanded to be told everything.
they demanded that the right to vote (should) be given to every adult man.
4.achieve
e.g. achieve some victories, success, one’s aims/purpose/goal;
achieve a lot, little, nothing, a great deal, etc.
t: please read the text again and see if there’s anything that you don’t understand.
(teacher goes among the students and answers the questions they raise.)
step5 listening and readingt: now, let’s listen to the tape. i’ll play it twice for you. when i play it for the first time, listen carefully and pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation. when i play it for the second time, you can read after the tape. then read the text aloud by yourselves. are you clear?
ss: yes.
t: ok. let’s begin.
(teacher plays the tape and helps the students with their pronunciation.)
step6 summary and homeworkt: today, we’ve learnt a text “i have a dream”. from this passage we’ve got a lot of information about a famous freedom fighter—martin luther king, jr. now, please look at the blackboard. make notes about him in the listed years and tell his belief and success. (teacher writes the years on the blackboard and gives the students some time to finish the task. then ask some students to write their answers on the blackboard.)t: you’ve done very well. after class, finish exercise 5 in post-reading on page 29, and make a dialogue with your partner. ok. that’s all for today. goodbye.ss: bye.the design of the writing on the blackboard
unit 14 freedom fighters
reading: i have a dream