Abraham Lincoln

　　slave －a person who is the property of another and is made to work hard for his owner.

　　slavery － the custom of having slaves

　　set free － liberate, give freedom to

　　in the end － at last, finally

Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions.

　　1. The workers are fighting ____ their rights.(　　)

　　2. You should be ready to fight ____ the difficulties.(　　)

　　3. England fought ____ France ____ Germany.(　　)

　　4.Two dogs fight ____ a bone, and a thud inns away with it.(　　)

　　5. This morning I read an interesting story____ the newspaper.(　　)

　　6. We will have finished the project ____ the end of this century.(　　)

　　7. Go down this street and you will find the hospital ____ the end of the road.(　　)

　　8. When he was young, he used to help his father ____ the farm.(　　)

StepⅤStory telling

　　1. Before doing the exercises, the teacher may give more information about the pictures. The following may help them.

　　1) First, the black people were captured in their hometown, Africa, then they were shipped to the new continent － America, where they were sold or bought like the animals. This is known as the slave trade.

　　2) Most black people were sold to the southern part of America, where they were made to work hard in the big plantations for the slave owners. They lived a miserable life there. They had to work long hours, hadn’t enough food to eat and were whipped or even killed by the slave drivers freely. A great number of the blacks died.

　　3) Later on, Lincoln was elected as President of the U. S. . He fought fiercely against the slavery and tried to set the slaves free. But the slave owners wanted to keep the slavery. Thus the fitting broke out.

　　4)At last, the North won. the slavery was banned. The blacks gained their freedom, broke up their irons and cheered for their freedom.

　　2.Get the Ss to tell the story according to the pictures and the above information given by the teacher. Divide the class into small groups, let them do it one by one. After a while, ask some representatives to tell the story to the class.

Step VI Exercises

The Wb Lesson 49, Ex. 1 and 2.

Ex. 1 can be done first in pairs. Then check the answers with the whole class. After completing the dialogue, get some Ss to read and act it out.

In Ex. 2, the Ss should do it alone first. Then ask them to read the passage and check the answers themselves. The teacher should make sure that they understand the story and fill in the right answers.

Step VII Homework

　　1. Write down the story according to the pictures in Part I in their exercise books.

　　2. Making up a dialogue about a new film or a TV play.

Lesson 50教学设计方案

Teaching Aims

　　1. To learn the story about Abraham Lincoln(第4页).

　　2.To learn the writing － in time order.

　　3. To learn to retell the passage with their own words.

　　4. To master the useful expressions.

Teaching procedures

Step I Revision

　　1. Check up the homework exercises.

　　2. Get some students to tell their stories according to the pictures given in the last period.

Step II Warming-up

Show some pictures and ask the questions

　　1.What do you already know about Abraham Lincoln(第4页)?

　　2.What do you expect to learn more about Abraham Lincoln(第4页) from this passage?

Step III Listening

　　Listen to the text carefully and then answer what happened in the following years .

　　1809:In Kentucky, the U.S.A. , on February 12th.

　　1818:__his mother__died_________

　　1860:__He became President_______

　　1864:__He became president for the second time

　　1865:_He was shot at a theatre___

Step V Reading

Read the passage in Lesson 50 again and then answer the questions.

　　1.What did he use to do when he was a child?

　　2.Where did he work as a young man?

　　3.What did he work for in all his political life?

　　4.What happened after the war ended in 1864?

　　5.Why was Abraham Lincoln(第4页) killed after the war ended?

Answer:

　　1)He used to work hard and help his father on the farm.

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