Unit 10 Mandela’s GardenNelson MandelaTeaching Objective1. Listening: news and dictation2. Speaking: prejudice3. Vocabulary: alternative, arrange, aspect, cell, chili, construct, contact, cultivate, decline, document, dump, eliminate, enduring, eventually, fertilizer, flourish, fulfill, hallway, intellectual, issue, manual, metaphor, miner, mixture, nourish, onion, patch, peanut, permission, pursue, section, seedling, survive, tend, tender, tennis, warder, wither4. Grammar: to infinitive5. Writing: My view on Internet languageBackground Information1. Nelson Mandela (1918-)Nelson Mandela was born in a village near Umtata on the 18 July 1918.Mandela:The struggle is my lifeHe is still leading the fight against apartheid with extraordinary vigor and resilience after spending nearly three decades of his life behind bars.He has sacrificed his private life and his youth for his people, and remains South Africa's best known and loved hero.Mandela has held numerous positions in the African National Congress Youth League. ANCYL secretary (1948);ANCYL president (1950);ANC Transvaal president (1952);deputy national president (1952)ANC president (1991).He was convicted and jailed for five years in November 1962. While serving his sentence, he was charged with sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment.2. Robben IslandIt is where he was imprisoned, became a center for learning, and Mandela was a central figurein the organized political education classes.In prison Mandela never compromised his political principles and wasalways a source of strength for the other prisoners.Nelson Mandela was released on February 18, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier.3. Apartheidn. (in South Africa) official government policy of racial segregation, separating Europeans and non-Europeans种族隔离4. Ethnocentrism: n.1)Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.2) Overriding concern with race.5. Genocide: n.The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.6. ThemeFor Mandela, gardening is the source of spiritual fulfillment. Gardening gives Mandela inspiration for his revolutionary cause. Political leaders are like gardeners.ⅡWarm-up activities1. Do you know anything about gardening?2. Describe a scene living in a garden city.ⅢDetailed study of the textPara 11. In early 1977, the authorities announced the end of manual labor and arranged work for us to do in the courtyard, so we could spend our days in our section.the authorities---the people or organizations in charge. Here it refers to the prison authorities. 2. announce the end of manual labor---In the past, Mandela and other political prisoners locked up on Robben Island were to work in a quarry cutting stones, which was very hard manual labor.3. section---the part of prison where Mandela and other political prisoners were kept.4. liberatingThis arrangement not only freed the prisoners from hard manual labor, but also saved them long trips to and from the quarry so that they now had time and energy for things they were unable to do in the past.5. preparing legal documents---This shows that Mandela did not ask for a lawyer. He had decided to be his own lawyer.6. pursue---to continue trying to do or achieve sth over a long period of timen. pursuitPara 27. get satisfaction from/find satisfaction in/take satisfaction in or from sth8. develop---create sth over a period of time9. feel fulfilled---feel happy and satisfied because you are doing useful or important things10. empty of dust---completely without dust11. take pride in---be proud ofPara 311. give in to---finally agree to what sb wants, after refusing for a period of timePara 412. garbage dump---a place where garbage is taken and left13. I had to remove a great many rocks to allow the plants room to grow.remove---take away from a placea great many/number ofa great deal/amount of14. room---space15. allow sb to do sthI have to take away a large number of rocks so that the plants have space to grow.16. at heart---basically, fundamentallyPara 517. hardy plants---plants who can survive in the extremely serious conditionsQ: What do hardy plants imply?The political prisoners are strong to keep surviving18. regret to do---regret doingforget, remember to do/doing19. flourish---grow well and be healthy20. provide sb with sth---provide sth for sbPara 621. While I have always enjoyed gardening, it was not until I was behind bars that I was able to tend my own garden.while---althoughbe behind bars---be in prisontend---look after sth/sbAlthough I have always loved gardening, I didn’t have a garden of my own until I was in prison.22. contact withtouch, get in touch with23. alternative---choice24. neither… norPara 725. through trial and error---a way of achieving an aim or solving a problem by trying a number of different methods and learning from the mistakes that you madePara 826. enduring satisfaction---satisfaction that lasts for a very long time27. This sense of being the owner of the small patch of earth offered a small taste of freedom.sense---a particular feeling about sthBeing aware that you could grow whatever you wanted on a small piece of land enabled you to enjoy a small amount of freedom.Para 928. In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life.see sth/sb as---see sth/sb in a particular way; regard sth asmetaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole/exaggeration, repetitioncertain aspects of my life---a national leader, the handling of human relationship in general, and of his marriage with Winnie in particularPara 1029. Leaders must also look after their gardens; they, too, plant seeds, and then watch, cultivate, and harvest the results.Mandela is here comparing his gardening with his responsibility as a national leader. As in gardening, in his struggle as an ANC leader, he also has to plant seeds, and take care of what he has planted until in the end he harvests the results.Q: What do “garden”, “plant seeds”, “watch”, “watch”, “cultivate”, “harvest the result” symbolize/represent respectively?30. mind one’s work---take care of sth/sb; watch or be in charge of sth/sbPara 1131. When it finally died, I removed the roots from the soil, washed them, and buried them in a corner of the garden.By telling Winnie what he did with the dead tomato plant in detail, Mandela wanted her to know he cared about their marriage and felt very sorry about their worsening relationship.32. wither---fade33. either through some mistake or lack of care, the plant began to wither and decline, and nothingI did would bring it back to health.Mandela seemed to feel that he was partly responsible for the way his relationship with his wife had declined, and that was why he did what he could to save their marriage. But he felt that their marriage probably wouldn’t survive.Para 1134. at length---for a long time, in a full and complete way, in detail35. I do not know what she read into that letterread into sth---think that an action, remark or situation has a particular importance of meaning, often when this is not true.I do not know how she understood that letter.36. Sometimes there is nothing one can do to save something that must die.If sth which is unavoidable/inevitable, you have to accept it.ⅣStructure analysisPart One: (paras.1-8) describes his gardening experience. It shows how Mandela takes this hobby as a survival strategy. The gardening gives him satisfaction, offers a taste of freedom, and makes him strong physically and mentally.Part Two: (paras.9-11) goes further to explain the significance of his gardening experience, which has become a metaphor and gives him inspirationship (specifically with his wife).ⅤExercises。
