Unit 5 Nelson MandelaListening, speaking and writing

unit 5 nelson mandelalistening, speaking and writing (the rest of elias’ story)aimsto help students read the passage the rest of elias’ storyto help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writingproceduresi. warming up and listeningso far we have read a story about elias. do you remember why it was difficult for him to get a job? (because he hadn’t a passbook) what is a passbook? why is it important? let’s listen to a short passage and find out.turn to page 37. read the questions and choose the best answer after listening.discuss the questions in ex. 2.ii. guided reading1. reading and answering questionsas we know, in order to support mandela, elias helped him blow up some government buildings. can you imagine what would happen to him if he was caught? actually, he was caught and put into a prison on robben island. however, he was lucky enough to get help from mandela even when he was in prison.turn to page 38, read the passage quickly and find out: how did mandela helped elias when he was on robben islandhow did mandela help elias after he came to power?2. reading and doing exercises read the passage again and do the exercise on page 38.3. task (a text dialogue)now we have finished the story about elias. next we are going to do a group activity. we will do it in groups of four. suppose one of you is elias and works as a tour guide on robben island. the other three of you are tourists who are very interested in the island and mandela’s life and asking the tour guide the following questions. elias must answer them.tourist: how did you get to know nelson mandela?elias: it was in 1950. i was working as a miner in johannesburg but i hadn’t a passbook to live there. so i went to mandela’s law firm to ask for advice.tourist: can you explain to me some of nelson mandela’s political ideas or beliefs?elias: yes. he found that we black people were not treated as equally as the white people and he would fight for our rights. however, he said that we should fight in a peaceful way. only when this was not allowed did we decide to answer violence with violence.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?