Unit 5 Nelson Mandela——a modern hero
教材分析：本单元以 Nelson Mandela —— a modern hero 为话题，目的在于使
学生了解一个伟大的人应具备怎样的品质，学会表达自己的观点，并用所学的句型来描写一个伟人。
提示：
1、本单元从warm-up开始，到最后的writing，都是以第三人称的角度来进行描述的，因此，
教学中要注意这种人称的前后一致，否则无法前后一致的引导学生进行学习和表达。
2、Reading部分侧重于理解，以及理解基础上的summary，这为最后的writing做好的铺垫和
积累（尤其是关键单词、句型和结构的积累），最后的writing要是前面阅读后的仿写（当然能力较强的学生也可以不受限制的开展写作）。
3、如何激发学生学习关于这些伟人的文章，是需要教师思考的：这些伟人学生会感兴趣吗？
学生了解多少关于这几位伟人的伟大业绩？从哪些角度来导入会让学生更加的感兴趣？4、教学目标建议增加：通过学习文章和相关素材，进一步了解伟人的生平事迹，尤其是如何
才能成为伟人。培养学生初步使用相关词汇、句型和文章结构进行人物生平描述的口语表达和基础写作能力。
Teaching aims:
1. To arouse Ss’ interest in learning about heroes in history
2. To develop Ss’ listening and speaking ability.
Teaching procedures:
Step1 warming up
●Describe yourselves
First what kind of person are you? (shy, outgoing, fun, mean, immature, nice, kind, honest, brave, loyal, happy, wise, smart, friendly, warm, cheerful, popular, generous, hard-working, diligent, weak, stupid, lazy, dishonest, tense, cold, unkind, miserable, dull, strong-minded, determined etc.)
●Discussion (Encourage students to give five or six qualities that they
think great persons have, and give their reasons.)提示：What kind of great persons? Politicians, scientists, or? Different kinds of great persons, different qualities.
Question 1: Who do you think are the greatest men in your mind? Can you name some?
Question 2: In what way do you consider a man is a great? What is your standard?
●Look at page 33 and then ask the Ss if these famous people are great
people.
●Conclusion:
A great person is a person who has followed his or her ideas and sacrificed(牺牲) something so that they could be realized. A pop singer may be very popular with the young people, but he/she is not a great man/woman.
A famous person may be well-known but if he or she has not gone through struggles and difficulties for their noble aims, they can not be called a great person.
Step2 language points:
1． devote vt
oneself to 献身于、致力于。。。
devote one’s life/one’s time to….把生命、时间献给。。。
…to …把。。。用于。。。
E.g. He devoted his life to promoting world peace.
He devoted his life to the promotion of world peace.
devoted adj 忠实的, 深爱的
be devoted to 对…忠实, 对…深爱
a devoted friend
She is devoted to her husband.
即学即练
The manager devotes all his spare time ______ the violin. B A. to practise B. to practising C. in practising D.
for practising
2. fight for 为……而战
fight against 与……作斗争；与…作战
