Module 3 Slavery and the American Civil War,Introduction,Pairworks,1. In what century and what country do you think this scene might have taken place? 2. What do you think the slaves are picking? 3. Why cant the slaves just walk away?,1. In what century and what country do you think this scene might have taken place? 2. What do you think the slaves are picking? 3. Why cant the slaves just walk away?,In the USA in the 18th or 19th century,cotton,Because they are owned by the owner,Work in pairs. Read the statements and answer the questions below.,a All men deserve freedom. b. All men should be free c. All men are created equal. d. Some men are more equal than others.,1. Which two statements have more or less the same meaning? 2. What do you think statement (d) means? 3. Does the word men in these statements mean both men and women or just men? 4. Which statement do you agree with? 5. Which statement do you disagree with?,Reading and Vocabulary,Fast-reading,1. Why was slavery eventually abolished? 2. Why is Solomon Northrups so shocking?,Because the North won the Civil War,Because he was a free man, who was tricked into slavery,Word-practice,1. anti-slavery: If you are something, you are (a) for it (b) against it. 2. increasingly: This means (a) more and more (b) a little. 3. forming: This means (a)making (b) growing,b,a,a,4. civil war: This is a war between (a) different countries (b) different groups of people in the same country. 5. were freed: This means were given freedom (b) were paid for their work. 6. poisoned: This means (a) very ill (b) being given something that can kill you or make you very ill 7. beaten: This means (a) hit many times (b) left alone,b,b,a,a,8. sunrise: This means (a) when the sun rises in the morning (b) the middle of the day 9. sunset: This means (a) when the sun goes down in the evening (b) night time 10. identified him: This means (a) helped him (b) recognized him and said who he was.,a,a,b,Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box.,abolish collection condition critical employ existence reveal surrender sympathetic typical,1. The _ of slavery shows that man can be very cruel. 2. If you _ someone, you pay them to work for you. 3. The army _ because most of their men had been killed. 4. Slavery was _ because people realized it was not right to own another human being. 5. The professor has a large _ of books about the American Civil War. 6. Some people are _ of the USA. They think it has made a lot of mistakes. 7. Many people felt _ towards slaves and wanted to help them. 8. He _ that he had once been a free man. 9. Northrup was not a _ slave. Most had been born into slavery or had been brought over from Africa. 10. When Northrup woke, he was very ill and in a terrible _.,existence,employ,surrendered,abolished,collection,critical,sympathetic,revealed,typical,collection,Read Part 1 again and explain the importance of the dates.,1789 1787-1804 1860 1861 1865,A collection of 13 different states,The Northern states abolished slavery,Lincoln was elected president,The civil war began,The civil war ended,Read part 2 and explain:,How Solomon Northrup became a slave: How he became a free man again:,He was poisoned by two men who had offered him playing the violin.,He revealed his identity to Bass and one of the Northrup family identified him.,Complete the sentences,1. The South needed slaves in order to _ 2. Slaves died on the sea journey because _ 3. The country became wealthy because_ 4. As a result of the anti-slavery movements,_ 5. Hundreds of thousands of young men died _ 6. Northrup took the job in the circus because _ 7. While at the hotel in Washington, Solomon was _ 8. Solomon did not tell people his true identity because _ 9. Slaves working on cotton plantations because _ 10.Bass helped Solomon _,Homework,Take turns to tell Solomon Northrups story,Reading and Vocabulary(2),Scanning,Put them in the correct order,a. explanation of the programmes title-what the programme is about b. reason why the programme is so good c. more information about the programme d. general opinion of the programme,d-a-c-b,Choose the correct answer,1. . My reaction is to say “So what?” and yawn. We use this phrase when we think something is important/ unimportant. 2. I can count on the fingers of one hand the programmes that have really stimulated me. The reviewer thinks there are very few/ a lot of interesting programmes. 3. I watched a programme that made me believe in television all over again. The programme made the reviewer think that TV is beneficia