探究活动
1.Suppose you are Lincoln’s father, say sth. About Abraham when he was a child.
For example: I am a poor farmer in Kentucky. My son, Abraham was born on February 12th.,
1809. At that time we were very poor. When Abraham was very young, he had to help me on wife,
and she was very kind to little Abraham. She knew he liked reading, so she did everything she
could to help him. Little Abraham wanted to go to school very much. We tried our best to send
him to school. But we were so poor that he had to leave school soon and work on the farm.
2.Suppose you are a slave, say sth. About your life as a slave and how you felt after you were
set free.
For example: I used to be a slave and I worked on a farm for the slave owner. At that time we
slaves were bought and sold like animals and the owners of the farms mad us work from morning
till night . We were not treated like human beings. We were treated like animals. We did not have
any freedom and very often many of the slaves were beaten to death. The Civil War broke out and
in the end the North won. All the blacks were finally set free. How happy we were!
3.假设你是一名记者，以第一人称口吻，写一篇采访林肯的对话。
I am a reporter for a newspaper , Yesterday I raised two question to the president. The
following is about our interview.
R: What he was going to do when so many people were calling for freedom for all salves?
L:I was fighting for an end to slavery and for the freedom of all slaves.
R: Have you thought about the farmers in the South?
L: The farmers there might have some problems without slaves, but the freedom of all people
in the world was more important.
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