Unit 19 A freedom fighter
Lesson 73 Dialogue
Teaching aims:
3. Learn and master the following:
1) Words
citizen, forbid, prison
demand, march, situation
equipment, politics, stranger
peacefully,
2) join in, housing, over and over again, put … in prison
2. Everyday English:
Haven’t you heard …?
There was a …
Why was that?
What happened?
I imagine …
3. Learn to use correct language to talk about things which happened in the past.
Teaching focuses & special difficulties:
1. The use of the words.
2. Learn to talk about what happened in the past.
3. How to teach the differences between ‘join’ and ‘join in’.
4. How to use ‘prison’ correctly.
Teaching methods:
1. Talking, listening, asking, answering and explaining to help the students to go through with the dialogue.
2. Pair work or group work to make every student participate in class.
3. Look-speak method to make up dialogues.
Teaching aids:
1. A tape-recorder.
2. A projector.
3. The blackboard.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Greetings & Talk Show
(Greet the whole class usual.)
Step 2. Revision
T: In Senior Grade One, we learnt a text about slaves and slavery. Maybe you still remember, don’t you?
Ss: Yes.
T: In which country did farmers keep black slaves?
Ss: In America.
T: Did the black have the same rights as the white?
Ss: No.
T: Who fought for an end to slavery?
Ss: Abraham Lincoln.
T: Yes. It was Abraham Lincoln who fought for the end to slavery. And he is considered as one of the greatest of all American presidents. Today, we’ll learn Unit 19. It’s about a freedom fighter (a person who fights for the freedom of slaves), Martin Luther King, Jr. In this class, we’ll learn Lesson 73.
Step 3. Presentation
T: Now open your books at Page37. Look at the picture at the top of it. What can you see in the picture?
Ss: We can see many black people walking in the street.
T: What do you think is happening? Who is the black man walking in the middle of the first row?
Ss: Maybe they are on the march calling for equal rights. The Black man is Martin Luther King, Jr.
T: Yes, This is a great movement in the US in the 1960s, which is known as the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, I will give you a brief introduction to the civil rights movement: At that time, many black people in Birmingham joined in the march to fight for their civil rights, because they were not treated as equal citizens to the white people. They were not allowed to go to public places or swimming pools. And the black people also demanded better housing and jobs. While they were marching peacefully along, the police came up. They hit the black people with sticks over and over again and put some of them into prison. Now so much for the introduction. Before we take up the dialogue, let’s do some vocabulary work first.
Vocabulary work (1)
1. citizen - someone who lives in a particular town or city; someone who has a legal right to live in a particular country
2. forbid - to order someone not to do something, or to say that something must not happen
3. prison - a place where criminals are kept as a punishment
Vocabulary work (2)
1. demand - to ask for something in a way that shows that you do not expect to be refused
2. march - an organized walk by a group to show that they disagree with something; the special type of walking that soldiers do
3. situation - the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time and place
Vocabulary work (3)
1. equipment - the things that are used for a particular activity or purpose
2. politics - ideas and activities relating to how a country or area is governed
3. stranger - someone you have never met before
Step 4. Dialogue
T: Now, please listen to the tape of the dialogue carefully. Then I’ll ask you some questions about it. Close your books.
T: The first question: Where are the two men talking?
Ss: In prison.
T: Are they in prison for the same reason?
Ss: No. The reason for one of them in prison is that he joined in a civil rights march; the police said that the march was forbidden, while the other was a stranger there.
T: Now, read the dialogue silently and pay attention to the detailed information. Then tell whether the following statements are true or false according to the dialogue.
1. Both A and B joined in the march and were put in prison.
2. The black people couldn’t go to public places in the city.
3. The black people didn’t have the same rights as the white people.
4. The housing and work for the black people were satisfactory.
5. People who joined in the movement marched peacefully along the street.
6. The police allowed the black people to go on with their march.
Suggested answers:
True: 3, 5 False: 1,2,4,6
T: Well, you’ve got the general idea of the dialogue. Now, I’ll explain some language points to you. Look at the screen.
1. on the march e.g.
The soldiers were on the march towards the front in spite of the heavy rain.
Admitting that he had been on the march, the boy was put in prison.
2. the same … as e.g.
His bicycle is almost the same as mine.
3. demand e.g.
The customer demanded a reasonable explanation.
He demanded to be told everything.
The boss demanded that the work (should) be done at once.
4. be bad for e.g.
Reading in bed is bad for your eyes.
5. join
(1) become a member of e.g.
His grandpa joined the Party in 1949.
Do you know how many people joined the organization?
(2) take part in e.g.
The whole school joined in the discussion.
The whole school will join in the concert.
(3) join sb in sth e.g.
Will you join us in a walk / game / discussion?
6. over and over again = again and again; over and over e.g.
The teacher made us pronounce the same word over and over again.
Mother told me over and over again not to be late for school.
7. put … in (into) prison (the passive voice is used more often) e.g.
The police put the leaders of the march in prison.
Many blacks were arrested and put into prison.
T: You should pay more attention to the use of the word ‘prison’. When we are talking about 收監、坐牢, no article is used before ‘prison’. But when it is used with articles, it means differently.
Compare:
He is in prison. (He’s a prisoner.)
He’s in the prison. (perhaps as a visitor)
Step 5. Dialogue Practice
T: Listen to the tape again. This time you can follow it in a low voice. After that, please practise the dialogue in pairs. Some of you will be asked to act it out in front of the class.
Look at Part 2. This is a dialogue between A and B. Supposing you are one of them (A) and your partner is the other (B).
Suggested dialogue:
A: What is your life in Birmingham?
B: Very hard and difficult.
A: Why is that?
B: I have a large family.
A: How many children do you have?
B: Six. Two boys and four girls.
A: Do they all go to school?
B: Yes. They go to the same school.
A: What is their school like?
B: Not good. There are not enough teachers and there is only one old building with little equipment.
A: And where do you live?
B: I live in a house far away from downtown, on the edge of town.
A: Is your house nice?
B: No, it’s in bad condition. And it’s very old and dark.
A: Have you got a job?
B: I’ve been out of work for several months.
A: What a poor man!
Step 6. Consolidation
T: Now listen to this dialogue again. Try to remember everything and then do an exercise. Ex. 1 on Page 103.
Fill in the blanks to complete the following passage.
In 1963 in the USA, black people were not ______ as equally as the white people. They were _________to go to the public parks or swimming pools. Their _______ and work were_____ poor condition. To demand the _____ rights as the white people, black people of Birmingham ______ along the streets peacefully. Then the police ______ up, ______ them with their sticks over and _____ again and _____ some of them in prison.
Suggested answers:
treated; forbidden; housing; in; same; marched; came; stopped; over; put
OK. Ex. 2 on this page.
Step 7. Summary & Homework
T: Today we’ve learnt a dialogue about the civil rights movement in America. By learning it, we should know how to talk about things that happened in the past. Of course, you should master some phrases, such as ‘on the march’, ‘join in’, ‘over and over again’, ‘put … in prison’, and so on.
Homework for today:
1. After class, read the dialogue again and again and preview next lesson.
2. Do Ex. 3 as your written work. While doing it, pay attention to the tenses an structures. That’s all for today.
Suggested answers:
1. The teachers are demanding better housing and wages.
2. The law forbids people to destroy forest.
3. In the past some people in America did not treat the black people as equal citizens.
4. Every morning he listens to the news broadcast, does some exercises, and then reads the English texts over and over again.
5. My father has been a Party member for more than 20 years.
Or: It has been / is more than 20 years since my father joined the Party.
6. Tens of thousands of women attended the World Women’s Conference in Beijing in 1995.