教学设计方案 Lesson 53
Step 1 Revision
1 Check the hom ework exercises.
2 Get Ss to have a dialogue like the one in Part 2 of Lesson 52, in pairs,
with their books shut.
Step 2 Presentation
SB Page. 7, Part 1. Write the word slavery on the Bb and ask the Ss how much
they know about this topic. Make sure that Ss understand that slaves were caught in
Africa and were taken to America where they were sold, as this is the key to the
story. Put any useful notes and key words that arise out of this discussion on the
Bb. Get Ss to talk about the picture and describe what they can see.
Step 3 Reading for general understanding
Say to the Ss You are going to read a story about a man who lived in the
eighteenth century. His name was Kunta. Read aloud the task and the two questions.
Allow the Ss enough time to read the text and write down the answers. Put them in
pairs to discuss their answers, then collect the answers from the class. (1 He was
caught in a forest in Africa, put in chains and sent by ship to .America. 2 About a
third of the black people on the ship died during the journey.)
Step 4 Reading
Wb Lesson 53, Ex. 1. Go through the exercise and make sure the Ss know what to
do. Let them read the whole passage carefully and answer the questions, working in
pairs or small groups. Check the answers with the whole class. This is a good time
to deal with any language problems. See if the Ss can guess the meaning of softly,
hopeless.
Step 5 Comprehension
Explain that Ss have to read the text again and put the events into the correct
order. Make the Ss do this task individually, then check their answers in pairs.
Answers：
1 Long ago, people in Africa said it was dangerous to walk alone in the forest
near the coast.
2 Kunta was caught in the forest one day.
3 He was hit on the head.
4 He was tied up and carried to a small boat.
5 He was then chained up in a castle.
6 He heard some women and children crying.
7 A few days later he was put on a sailing ship.
8 He was chained up in the ship.
9 The ship sailed for two months.
10 The ship arrived in a port.
11 About a third of the black people had lost their lives.
Step 6 Discussion
SB Page 8, Part 3. The purpose of this task is to get Ss to think about and
interpret what they have just read. Get the Ss to discuss these questions in pairs
or groups of four. Ask for some answers from the class at the end. Possible
answers：
1 Where he was being taken, why he was being taken, what was going to happen
to him, etc.
2 No, because of the phrase “Another, whoselanguage Kunta understood”.
(There are hundreds of different African languages.)
3 He was caught and carried away by black men whom he expected would usually
help him.
4 To catch black men.
5 If women were caught and became slaves as well as men, they would produce
babies (young slaves).
6 So that they could not try to jump off the ship.
7 Terrible ---- no light; food and water once a day only; nothing to lie on
except hard boards; diseases and death.
8 To carry upstairs the bodies of people who had died and to throw them into
the sea over the side of the ship.
9 Kunta thought that the sailors came down to carry sick men upstairs for
treatment.
10 About 94. A third of the original 140 black people had died. In fact the
exact number of black people who arrived in America on this ship alive was 98.
Step 7 Reading aloud
Speech Cassette Lesson 53. Play the tape of the passage for the Ss to listen
and follow. Play the tape of part of the passage once more; this time the Ss listen
and repeat. Pay attention to stress and intonation, and the sentence stress of
longer sentences.
Step 8 Workbook
Wb Lesson 53, Exx. 2 - 3.
Both the exercises are based on the reading passage. Divide the class into
groups of four and ask the Ss to discuss in groups. Then collect answers from the
groups.
Step 9 Consolidation
Get Ss to tell each other the story of Kunta in pairs.
Homework
Read the passage again.
Finish off the Workbook exercises.
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