Unit 2 Heroes

Lesson 2 History Makers

Listening • Listen to students talking about the

people in the photos and fill in these blanks.

Well, I ______ Mother Teresa is important,because she spent her whole life workingwith poor and sick people. I’m sorry, but I ___________. _______________, Dr Sun Yat-sen is veryimportant. He led the 1911 revolution andfounded the first republic of China.

• Yes, ____________, but I think Thomas • Edison is important, too. He created so• many machines and inventions that we• still use today.• I ______ with you, but ___________, I• think Martin Luther King is also quite• important, because he fought against• racism and his actions changed American• society.

Listening Strategies

• Prediction: Use your general knowledge to guess the possible answers. (选择 )

• Getting prepared for listening.

You are going to listen to the following

words in the radio programme below.experience, racism, equal, influence, struggle,

victory, protest, march

Read the sentences below and try to guess the meaning of the words in red.

1) Mr. Wang has been teaching for 20 years. So he has much experience.

2) Martin Luther King thought the black people and the white people are equal. He fought against racism.

• 3) I didn’t want him to influence me in my choice. I would like to make a decision by myself.

• 4) We should give more help to them as they are struggling for equal rights.

• 5) We beat Japan at 2:0 and we won the victory at last.

• 6) He didn’t agree to the action. He protested it in the phone call to the president.

• 7) All the workers marched down the street for higher pay.

Listen to the radio programme Task 1: Choose the best answers.

• 1. Who is talked about by Dr. Roberts?• A. Gandhi. B. The interviewer. • C. Martin Luther King.• 2. Where was King born?• A. Atlanta. B. New York. • C. San Francisco.• 3. What did King want to win for • black people?• A. Money. B. Equal rights. C. Food.

Task 2: Decide if the sentences

below are T or F. • 1. Martin Luther King was from the United

States.

• 2. Martin’s first experience of racism was with a bus driver.

• 3. His first victory was to win the equal rights for blacks to sit on buses.

• 4. He went to prison sixteen times for organising protests.

• 5. He organised a march to Washington in 1963.

• 6. He made a famous speech there beginning with the words: “ I have a dream …”

• 7. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965.

• 8. A white man killed him in 1968.

Listen again.Task 1: Fill in the blanks below.

He was ___________ by Gandhi’s ideas about ________ ________. In 1965, he organized a bus protest. Black people didn’t take the buses. After some _________ , blacks and whites were able to sit ________ on buses. It was King’s first _________.

• Listen to the sentences and underline the stressed words.

• 1. He was born in Atlanta in 1929.

• 2. Martin liked Gandhi’s ideas about

• peaceful protest.

• 3. He organised a march to Washington.

• 4. A white man killed him.

Expand your vocabulary

• personally —— person• create —— creation• invention —— invent• racism —— race —— racial• society —— social• equal —— equally• peace —— peaceful —— peacefully• organize —— organization

Homework

• 1. Find more famous people you admire

and talk about them, such as Sun Yat-sen, Nelson Mandela and Jane Goodall.

• 2. What can you learn from them?