Unit 14    Freedom fighters

4. they fight for the rights of black peo¬ple, women, children, people with aids/h1v and prisoners. their pur¬pose 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 pro¬tected, the balance of nature will be de¬stroyed. that will perhaps cause an¬other living thing to die out. no matter which of them dies out, our nature will lose some of its color. robots and ma¬chines 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.
step iv  reading aloud and practice
listen to the tape, play it twice. the first time i play the tape, listen carefully. the second time i play it. they can read after the tape. after that, they read the text aloud, paying much attention to the pronunciation and intonation.
(play the tape for students to listen and repeat. then give them several minutes to read aloud. at last, ask a couple of students to read the text. )
(show the phrases on the screen.) make sentences with the phrases shown on the screen.
make sentences with the following
phrases:  in modern rimes   believe in   start with   a time     have……in common   with respect    in all ways     ask for
sample sentences:
in modern times; in modern times many peasants are very rich.
believe in; you can believe in him; he'll never let you down.
start with; the school starred with 300 pupils; now there are double that number,
a time; i don't care for the place at first, but after a time i got to like it.
have……in common; real friends should have everything in common.
with respect we should treat everybody with respect.
in all ways! all the people should be treated equally in all ways,
ask for: she entered it, asked for a cup of tea, and sat down. there's been a gentleman here asking for you.
step v  writing
now, let's do some writing practice. first look at the information on page 31. read it and then work out the details for king's action in birmingham after the example. pair work. a few minutes lat¬er, check the answers.
king wanted new civil rights law to give blacks equal rights. what is wrong now: only 25% of the blacks can vote. how should it be improved? all the citizens can vote, no matter what race they are.