Unit 14    Freedom fighters

2. explain in your own words what the first paragraph is about.
3. martin luther king, jr. fought for the civil rights of black people in america. which civil rights did he want black people to get?
4. king believed that he could reach his goal through peaceful actions, not through violence. give examples of such peaceful actions.
(students practise for a few minutes and the teacher may join in their discussion and help them. finally ask some students to answer the questions one by one. )
to help the ss better understand the pas¬sage, explain some words and ex¬pressions
(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 every¬thing.
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.
step v  listening and reading
play the tape twice for ss. when playing it for the first time, listen carefully and pay attention to the pronunciation and in¬tonation. when playing it for the second time, read after the tape. then read the text aloud by themselves
step vi  summary and homework
t: today, we've learnt a text "i have a dream". from this passage we've got a lot of information about a famous free¬dom 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 asks some students to write their answers on the blackboard.
step vii  the design of the writing on the black¬board.
unit 14    freedom fighters
the second period
notes about martin luther king jr.
1929: martin luther king jr. was born.
1944: won a scholarship and went to university
1955: organized a boycott of a bus com¬pany and succeeded in the following year
1963: during the march on washington d. c, he gave  the speech "i have a dream"
1964: received the nobel prize for peace
i968: martin luther king jr. was murdered
belief: demand equal rights as the whites land achieve    that goal by peaceful actions, not by violence