高二英語(yǔ) Unit 14 Freedom fighters教學(xué)設(shè)計(jì)
(three minutes later)t: who can answer the first question?s: i’ll try. the answer is that new zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote.t: do you agree with him/her?ss: yes.t: good. now, who knows the answer to the second question?s: let me have a try. samuel butler wrote two chapters about the rights of animals and the right of vegetables in a novel in 1872.t: very good. please sit down.step ⅲ readingt: (show the questions on the screen.)now please read the text again and discuss the questions on the screen with your partner. later we’ll check the answers together.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 “time”,for chinese “時(shí)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/hiv 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.