Unit 5Nelson Mandelaa modern heroPeriod 2Important Language Points整体设计从容说课This is the second teaching period of this unit. The teacher can first check the students homework and offer chances for the students to review what they learned during the first period.The emphasis of this period will be placed on the important new words, expressions and sentence patterns in the parts Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading and Comprehending. In order to make the students understand these important points thoroughly, we can first get the students to understand their meanings in the context, then give some explanations about them, later offer some exercises to make the students master their usages. Some words and expressions, such as fight, advise, accept, continue, active, lose heart, in trouble, in prison, as a matter of fact, etc. are very useful and important. So are the sentence patterns “Do you easily lose heart when you are in trouble? ”. . . only then did we decide to answer violence with violence. ”“. . . we were put in a position in which we had either to accept we were less important, or fight the Government. ”, and so on. We ought to pay more attention to them and design special exercises.At the end of the class, the teacher can make the students do more exercises for consolidation. In doing so, they can learn, grasp and use these important language points well.教学重点1. Enable the students to grasp the usages of such important new words and expressions as fight, advise, accept, continue, active, lose heart, in trouble, in prison, as a matter of fact, etc.2. Get the students to master the patterns:“. . . only then did we decide to answer violence with violence. ” and “. . . we were put in a position in which we had either to accept we were less important, or fight the Government. ”教学难点1. Let the students learn the usage of the word “advise”.2. Enable the students to master the usage of the pattern “. . . only then did we decide to answer violence with violence. ” and understand some difficult and long sentences.教学方法1. Discussing, summarizing and practicing2. Cooperative learning教具准备The multimedia and other normal teaching toolsKnowledge aims:1. Get the students to learn and grasp the important new words and expressions:heroqualitywillingactiverepublicfightpeacefulprison prisonerperiodlawadvisecontinuefeegoldyouthleaguestage voteposition accept violenceequallose heartin troubleworry aboutout of workYouth Leagueas a matter of factblow upput. . . in prison2. Get the students to learn the following useful sentence patterns:1)Do you easily lose heart when you are in trouble?2)The time when I first met him was a very difficult period of my life.3)As a matter of fact, I was worried about whether I would be out of work.4)The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.5). . . only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.6)The parts of town where they lived were places decided by white people.Ability aims:1. Enable the students to use some useful words and expressions correctly.2. Enable the students to make sentences after the useful sentence patterns.Emotional aims:1. Stimulate the students interest in learning English.2. Develop the students spirit of cooperation and teamwork.教学过程设计方案（一）Step 1 Revision1. Check the homework exercises.2. Ask some students to retell the reading passage Elias Story.Step 2 Reading and findingGet the students to read the reading passage again to underline all the new words and useful expressions or collocations in the passage.Collocations:a poor black worker, South Africa, a very difficult period of ones life, open a law firm, advise sb. on. . . , three kilometers away, pay the school fees, the bus fare, get a job, a gold mine, be worried about, out of work, one of the happiest days of ones life, the ANC Youth League, as soon as one could, have almost no rights at all, grow food, in fact, break the law, with violence, as a matter of fact, blow up, put. . . in prison, be happy to do. . . , realize ones dream Read them aloud and copy them down in the exercise book after class.Step 3 Discovering useful words and expressionsShow the following form on the screen and allow the students several minutes to finish them.1. Look at the reading passage again to find words and expressions that mean the same.Alternative expressionsWords and expressions from the textgroup of people organized for a special purposefeel hopelesslose ones jobbrave manin facthave some difficult problemsbe taken to prisonsome timebe ready tomoney paid for going to schooltell somebody what to dogo onalways doing new thingswhat people do in wara yellow metal for making a ringagree to takego against a