Aims and demands:
1. Develop the Ss’ reading and understanding ability.
2. Let the Ss know the history of the Negroes treated as slaves in America.
Importance and Difficulty:
Have a deeper understanding of the text.
Teaching aids: tape recorder and slides.
Teaching methods: reading
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Warming up
Listen to a story about the slaves .
SEFC 1A Lesson 13 “同步听力”
Listen to the story and answer the questions. Before you listen you’d better learn the following words.
Tennessee/ Gambia/ slave trader/ hero
1. Who wrote the book “Roots”?
2. Who is the hero of the book Roots? Kunta Kinte
3. What is Alex Healey’s book about?
( one black American family and it also tells the early history of the USA.)
4. What can you learn from the story? Is Alex Healey a black or a white?
Step 2. Fast reading
Read the text fast and find the answers to the two questions.
1. What happened to Kunta in this story?
He was caught in a forest in Africa and put in chains and sent by ship to America.
2. What do you think happened to many of the black people on the ship?
About a third of the black people on the ship died during the journey.
Step 3. Careful reading
Read the text carefully and do the note making .
1. When Kunta was in the forest______.
2. When he woke up _________.
3. When they came to the river ________.
4. Then Kunta was thrown _________ where he was held prisoner.
5. Kunta wondered why the white people ________, but could not stand up.
6. Another thing which shocked Kunta ________, also children’s voices.
7. Worse was to come. One day about 140 black people ________ , unable to stand up or move around.
8. The sea journey lasted __________ days and nights. When the ship finally _______ . About a third of the people _________ were missing.
Suggested answers:
1. … cutting down a tree in order to make a drum, he was caught and then hit on the head with a hard object.
2. … his hands and feet had already been tied together
3. … a white man was waiting in the boat for then
4. … into the bottom of the boat and covered with an old smelly cloth. The men took him in their boat to the castle on the coast….
5. … had done this to him. He was born a free man, but now in chains . Heavy iron chains around his feet and hands were fixed to a metal bar that ran round the hall about ten centimeters off the ground. He was just able to lie down on the ground…
6. … was that women were held in the castle too. He could hear their crying….
7. … were taken and put on a tall sailing ship waiting off the coast . Once on the boat, they were taken below and their chains were fixed to two bars that ran the length of the ship. Their feet were fixed to one bar and their hands to another bar. Thus they lay on hard wooden boards…
8. … over sixty… arrived in a port, the wooden cover was opened wide and Kunta could see in daylight for the first time across the part of the ship where he had been chained… who had been chained up below at the beginning of the journey…
Step 4. Comprehension
Put these events into the correct order.
Step 5. Discussion
Discuss these questions with your partner .
Step 6. Workbook
Step 7. Reading compression ----Paper exercises
Homework. 3+X reading exercises
Reading comprehension for 3B Unit 14 Lesson 53 BCABA BBCB
1. The text is about _____.
A. a white man’s experience in Africa
B. an African black man’s experience
C. a black man’s experience in USA
D. a black slave’s experience in Africa
2. “Treatment” in the last paragraph means ____.
A. some nice food B. a good beating
C. some medical care D. a good rest
3. According to the order of time, which paragraph should be put at the beginning of the passage?
A. 3 B. 2 C. 1 D. 6
4. The black men caught Kunta for _____.
A. the county B. money
C. their own freedom D. the white
5. Put the following places into the correct order according to the order of time.
a. the castle b. the boat
c. the forest d. the sailing ship
A. c,b,a,d B. a,b,c,d C. d,a,b,c D. c,d,a,b
6. How did Kunta know that they had rough weather during the sea journey?
A. He saw it. B. He felt it.
C. He heard it. D. He imagined it.
7. What happened to the missing people?
A. They were sold.
B. They died.
C. They were taken to hospital.
D. They were set free.
8. Kunta must be very ____ to be alive after a long sea journey.
A. clever B. quick C. strong D. rude
9. Although Kunta was not sure about many things, he was quite clear ____.
A. why the white treated them like that
B. he would live a very miserable life
C. what the white were going to do with them D. the white were going to eat those children
Lesson 54 Roots
Aims and demands:
1. Develop the Ss’ four skills ---- listening , speaking, reading and writing ability
2. Have a good understanding of the text .
Difficulty and Importance:
Have a deeper understanding of the text.
Teaching aids: tape recorder and slides
Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Warming up
Talk about the pictures using the cue words :
1. Kunta Kinte / born in Gambia / a free and strong man / fond of music;
2. one day / Kunta / cut a tree in a forest near the coast / make a drum / hit on the head;
3. Kunta Kinte / wake up / caught by some black men / reason with them / sent to a castle on the coast ;
4. a few days later / taken and put on a tall sailing ship / in chains / unable to / stand up / the sea journey / 60 days and nights;
5. the ship / arrive in a port in America / see in daylight / a third of the black people missing ;
6. at a market / Kunta and some other Africans / sold to farmers / work in the fields / badly treated / try to run away / cut off part of his foot.
Step 2. Fast reading
Read the text fast and find the answers to the questions:
1. Where did Haley’s ancestor come from?
Gambia
2. What were Haley’s “ roots”?
Information about his ancestors.
Step 3. Careful reading
Read the text carefully and do the compression exercises---- paper exercise
Step 4. Workbook
Step 5. Workbook Lesson 55, Page 79 , Exercise 1
Homework : Cloze test
Reading comprehension for 3B Unit 14 Lesson 54 (Roots) DDBCC ACC
1. The farmer prevented Haley’s ancestor from running away by _____.
A. putting him in chains B. giving him little to eat
C. watching him all the time
D. cutting off part of his foot
2. What helped him find the satisfactory answer to his roots?
A. Letters and diary copies. B. Money.
C. The words “river” and “guitar” in his own language.
D. Both B and C.
3. In most parts of Africa, family and hero stories are passed down ____.
A. in written form B. only in oral (口头的)form
C. both A and B D. neither A nor B
4. It seems that the truth of the history in most parts of Africa depends on ____.
A. how many people can remember
B. how many people are able to write
C. how well those particular people can remember
D. how long the history is
5. Haley was successful in finding his roots because he is ____.
A. lucky B. rich C. strong-minded D. clever
6. Haley found out that his ancestor came from ____.
A. the east part of Gambia on the west coast of Africa
B. the west part of Gambia on the east coast of Africa
C. the east part of Gambia on the east coast of Africa
D. the west part of Gambia on the west coast of Africa
7. “Kinta”, the family name, is shared by ___.
A. all the people in Gambia
B. all the people on the west coast of Africa
C. a group in the east of Gambia
D. a group in the west of Gambia
8. One of the similarities between Haley and Kunta is that ____.
A. they were both well educated
B. they were born in Africa
C. they were born free D. they were both slaves
Lesson 53~54 Language study
Aims and demands:
Let the Ss grasp the usage of following language points:
Words and expressions: in chains , reason with , become of , feel sick, once in a while, prove…with, the moment , go back, role
Important sentences:
Born a free man, he was now in Chairs.
What shocked him most was that the man who carried him were black.
Worse was to come.
All he knew was that his African ancestor taught his son and grandson the words in his own language for “river” and “guitar”!
Procedure:
Step 1. Revision
Fill in the blanks with a proper word:
1. Kunta Kinte, Who lived in the village of Juffure in Gambia, was captured/seized/caught in 1767. He was taken on the slave ship, Lord Lord Ligonier, sailing from Gambia on July 5th 1767 and arriving in Annapolis USA on September 29th. The cargo included 3,265 elephant tusks, beeswax, cotton, gold, and 140 slaves, 98 of whom arrived alive in Annapolis. The loss of a third of the slaves was about average for slaving voyages. On arrival in Annapolis, Kunta was sold to a farmer named John Waller, who gave Kunta the name of Toby. John Waller’s brother, Kr Willian Waller, was angry at the way Kunta had been treated during his escape and bought Kunta from his brother on September 5th, 1768.
2. Born a free man, he was now in chains.
Though he was born a free man, he was now in chains.
他生下来就眼瞎。 He was born blind/ deaf/ poor.
他天生就是一个诗人/歌手。He was born a poet/ a singer.
3. The light went out, because the oil was out. （直接的原因）
The oil must be out, for the light went out . （推断的理由）
He can’t be out, for the light is on. （推断的理由）
He is loved by all, because he is honest. （直接的原因）
He must be honest, for he is loved by all. （推断的理由）
For 是并列连词，连接两个并列分句，它所表示的原因是附加的推断的理由。
Because 是从属连词，连接表示原因的状语从句，他所表示的原因是直接的理由。
4．Kunta had been seized in the forest and then hit on the head with a hard object.
Hit sb on the head
约翰打了他的头。 John hit him on the head.
约翰打了他的右腿。 John hit him in the right leg.
5. What shocked him most was that the men who carried him were black.
最使我吃惊的是他被一个黑人抓走了。
What surprised me most was that he had been taken away by a black person.
6. He reasoned with me for an hour about my plan.
reason with 和。。。 说理
7. The men took him in their boat to the castle on the coast where he was now held / kept/taken prisoner.
be held / kept prisoner
他被囚禁在一个小岛上。
He was held / kept prison on a small island.
8. He wounded what was to become of them.
Become of sb. : happen to sb.
What has become of the book I put here yesterday.
他们想知道昆塔后来怎么样了。
They wondered what had became of Kunta later.
我不知道我失业以后会怎么样。
I don’t know what will become of me when I am out of work.
9. I am sorry to say that he is going from bad to worse.
Bad/ ill --- worse --- worst
我还有更坏的事要告诉你们。
I have worse to tell you.
10. Once in the examination hall, he forgot everything including some rules.
11. Once on the boat , they were taken below and their chains were fixed to two bars that ran the length of the ship .
Ran : extend, stretch, reach
12. He didn’t go to school because he became ill with fever .
Become ill: feel sick
13. Sometimes we go out for a walk after supper .
Once in a while: sometimes
Step 2: Exercises
Homework: English Weekly
Lesson 54
Fill in the blanks;
1. I am determined to give my youth to the motherland.
2. He took out a book and began to read on his arrival at the classroom.
3. The farmer cut off part of Kunta’s foot to make sure he could not run away again.
4. We have made up our minds to work hard .
5. Yesterday it was raining hard, we made our way home.
6. The government is trying to provide / supply the people in flood areas with food and clothing.
7. The moment I saw her I knew she was angry with me.
8. Please let me know immediately /if / when / as soon as/ the moment you get the result.
The moment , as soon as, immediately, as soon as 用来连接一个表示时间的状语从句。
他在街一露面，我就认出他来了。
I recognized him the moment he appeared in the street.
他一走进办公室，句告诉了我们这个坏消息。
The moment he got into the office, he told us the bad news.
他们一到达那里，就立即开始工作。
Immediately they got there , they started to work.
9. In Gambia, all the stories of families, heroes…are passed down from generation to generation.
10. My family goes back 300 years, while his family goes back to the 15th century.
我的家族延续了300年，而他的家族可追溯到15世纪。
11. When my grandpa talks, he always likes to go back to his younger days.
Go back : 从过去某时开始延续到现在；追溯； 回顾
12. I wish to take / play the role of a soldier.
Homework: English Weekly