Unit 14 Freedom fighters

Reading I have a dream

Judy Collins

What social problem do the pictures and the song tell us?

We can see a bus conductor who puts up a sign that the waiting room is only for white people.

What social problem do the pictures and the song tell us?

Racial discrimination

Harriet Tubman Martin Luther king John Brown

Freedom fighters Fought for the rights ofblack people

Martin Luther King I have a dream

Fast Reading True (T) or False (F) exercises. Correct the false sentences. 1.Martin Luther King went to university when he was eighteen.

2.Black people refused to take buses for more than 18 months.

3.Black girls could not marry white boys.

4.Rosa Parks was arrested for hitting a white man.

5.The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1965.

F

T

F

F

fifteen

for refusing to stand up for a white men

1964

Ffor 381 days, more than 12 months

Listening Complete the timeline of King’s life and his struggle. 1929 ______

____ went to university.

1955 led a ____________of a bus company

____ gave the speech “ I have a dream”

1964 received _____________for peace and

_______was passed in the same year

1968 ________

born

1944

381-day boycott

1963

the Nobel Prize

Civil Rights Act

murdered

King’s birthplace King was born ______in 1929

_________King

gave the speech

“ I Have a Dream”

to thousands of

blacks .

In 1963,

________ King led a 381-day boycott of the bus company, asking the blacks not to take the city buses.

In 1955,

_______ King received the Nobel Peace PrizeIn 1964,

________ King was murdered,People were very sad at the newsIn 1968,

Martin Luther King will never die, he will live in our hearts forever.

Stucture analysis (1) Main idea of each paragraph:

Paragraph Main Idea

the background of the speech

King’s action against racial discrimination

the famous speech “I have a dream”

Martin Luther King’s message

King’s death

King’s success

King’s opinion

Rosa Parks’ event

2

6

1

3

8

74

5

1. What is Paragraph 1 about?

If you were asked to move Paragraph 1

to another place in the reading passage,

where would it best fit in?

Structure analysis(2)

2.What is the main idea of the whole passage?

I have a dream, my four little children one day live in a nation,where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.I have a dream today…

A speech by Martin Luther King

Listen and imitate(模仿 )

1. What is your dream?

2. How will you make your dream come true?

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