新课标 高二unit 14 说课
S: They carried out movement. / He became one of the leaders.
That led to the freedom fighting.
S1: What happened to N. Mandela during 1962-1989? What are the reasons?
S2: One of the reasons why …is that he…
S1: What led to his success?
S2: His peaceful action led to his success.
(Teachers use the new expressions on Page 27. Pay attention to the Language Input.
We can change the practice into a filling form if it is too difficult for some students.)
Step 3 Speaking
1. Watch the video (from the film Gone with the wind).
Talk about the situation when in American Civil War. The picture below
is one about a battle.
Some other pictures and Questions:
What was the life of the slaves like ?
How was the life of the whites in the south ?
Are there some people fighting against slavery?
Did people find good ideas to save the poor slaves? They took actions.
fighting struggles demonstration
↘ ↓ ↙
Saving slaves
↗ ↑ ↖
wars escaping making laws
(In addition: The civil war of American broke up slavery, and later brought about rapid development of industry . )
2. Practice
Now read the notes about John Brown and Harriet Tubman. Ask them to tell about the two great freedom
fighters.
Use the expressions of Page 27 to make up some dialogues in pairs . Then teachers get some pairs to act
out the dialogues in front of the class.
To help the students grasp the information , we can use the years or some verbs :
John Brown: in 1800; in the 1840s; in the 1850s ; in 1855
Harriet Tubman: worked as a slave; escaped; joined; saved; fought; opened
Step 4 Post-speaking
1. Talking
If time permits, get students to finish the task of talking ------
What’s your opinion to slavery?
What do you think of John Brown / Harriet Tubman?
(or: is his struggle important to the situation/ improvent? ; notes: their fighting is quite different from King’s or Mandela’s, while they . They fought to create a safe area for black people. )
How did John Brown die? ----- He was killed by the slave owners/ farmers who wanted to keep slavery.
Information from the Internet:
John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21
men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan to arm slaves with the weapons
he and his men seized from the arsenal was thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines
led by Robert E. Lee. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown’s men had been killed or captured.
During his first fifty years, Brown moved about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,





