Unit 5 Nelson Mandela--- a Modern Hero
The fourth period Extensive Reading
By Li Taosheng（林妍坤） & Lin Yankun（李桃生）
From Shenzhen Futian High School
一. 教学目标 Teaching aims:
Integrating skills on reading
1. 教学内容 Teaching contents:
Page 38, Reading: The rest of Elias’ story.
Page 73, Reading task.
2. 能力目标 Ability aims:
Help the Ss to comprehend the text through different ways of reading skills.
3. 语言目标 Language aims:
1). Get the students to learn the rest life of Elias and more about Nelson Mandela.
2). According to the two persons’ words, guide the Ss to decide whether Bill Gates is a great man or not, help the Ss to look up useful information about him.
二．教学重难点 Teaching important points:
1. The general idea of the text.
2. Enlarge the knowledge of the different great people in different field.
3. Let the Ss talk about the great people in different fields.
三．教学方法 Teaching methods:
Skimming, fast reading and comprehension, task-based, explaining.
四．教具准备 Teaching aids:
A computer, a recorder, a projector and some slides.
五．教学步骤 Teaching procedure:
Step I. Greetings
Step II. Extensive Reading
1. Lead-in question: What do you think the people in the prison will do? Have a discussion in groups.
2. Get the students to learn more about Nelson Mandela.
Read the text on Page38, then do the exercises and check it out.
3. Answer some questions about Elias.
1). How did Mr. Mandela help Elias in the prison?
2). When did Elias lose his job?
3). Does Elias like his present work?
Step III. Leading in.
Get the Ss to know whether Bill Gates is a great man or not.
Show the pictures of Bill Gates on the screen, ask the Ss whether they know and what they know about the man on the screen. Ask the Ss to answer whether he is a great man or not.
Step IV. Reading Task.
Whether Bill Gates is a great man or not, let the Ss keep their idea and read the passage carefully in page 73. After reading the passage, finish the information sheet.
Five minutes later, check the answers together.
Step V. Afterthoughts
Ask the Ss to think about the question again, whether Bill Gates is a great man or not in their eye after the reading of two evidence giving.
Step VI. Homework.
1. Recite the key sentences in the text.
2. Find more information about Bill Gates after class.