Unit 5 Nelson Mandela — a modern hero

tourist: how did he help you through your life?elias: first, he helped me to get the correct papers to stay in johannesburg and keep my job as i mentioned above. then he taught me to read and write when i was in prison. this is very important to me because it enables me to get more job opportunities. later he gave me my present job.tourist: what was life like on robben island?elias: miserable and cruel. the guards and soldiers treated us badly, beat us violently for no reasons and insulted us in different ways.tourist: how did you manage to study on robben island?elias: we studied during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have asleep. we read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the words.tourist: what kinds of job have you ever done?elias: a miner, an office worker and now a tour guide.tourist: what do you think of your present job?elias: i like it very much. and i am proud to show visitors over the prison, for i helped to make our people free in our own land.iii. guided writing 1. preparation for writing imagine now mr mandela is in prison. you are going to write a letter to the president of south africa asking him to free nelson mandela. do you remember the format of a letter? what should be the main content of this letter? (the reasons for freeing mandela) how would you try to persuade the president? (you must make your reasons persuasive.)2. writing a letterread the information about mandela. discuss with your partner and collect ideas for the letterwriter down the ideas and put them into a good and logical order.write the letter.iv. further applying  1. finding informationgo to the library to read or get online to search for more information on nelson mandela. take notes of your finding and do an oral presentation next period. 2. writing a description write a description of nelson mandela using the information you have found.v. closing down by sharing share your letter with your partners and make necessary changes.share your letter with the class by reading it aloud.part 2: teaching resources（第二部分：教學(xué)資源） section 1: a text structure analysis of elias’ storyi. type of writing and summary of the idea type of writingthis is a piece of narrative writing.main idea of the passageelias describes how nelson mandela helped the black people through his own experiencetopic sentence of 1st paragraphthe time when i first met nelson mandela was a very difficult period of my life.