北师大版高一必修 1

Unit2 Heroes-Lesson2 History Makers

Unit 2 Heroes

Lesson 2

History Makers

Martin Luther King

campaigned for the rights of black people in the USA

Dr Sun Yat-sen

led the 1911 revolution and

founded the first republic of China

Tomas Edison

invented the light

bulb, moving picture

camera and many other

thing

Mother Teresa --- worked to help the poor in India

Ex. 2: Listen to students talking about the people in the photos. Complete the Function File with these words.

agree, think, you’re right, don’t agree, in my opinion, personally

Check the answers:

(1) (5)

(2) (6)

(3)

(4)

think

don’t agree

In my opinion

you’re right

agree

Personally

Ex. 5: Listen again and decide if the sentences below are true (T) or false (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 the blacks to sit on buses.

( ) 4. He went to prison sixteen times for organizing protests.

( ) 5. He organized a march to Washington in 1963.

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

T

F T

F T T

( ) 7. He received the Nobel Prize in 1965.

( ) 8. A white extremist killed him in 1968. T

F

Pronunciation: Stress

Listen to the sentences and underline the stressed words.

2. Martin like Gandhi’s ideas about peaceful protest.

3. He organized a march to Washington.

4. A white extremist killed him.

Speaking

Ex. 7 Work in pairs. Read the paragraphs below and take turns to choose a hero. Ask and answer the following questions.

1. What did/does your hero fight for?

2. Who did/does your hero help?

3. Where did/does your hero work?

More information about Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a great man who worked for racial equality and civil rights in the United States of America. He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin had a brother, Alfred, and a sister, Christine. Both his father and grandfather were ministers. His mother was a school teacher who taught him how to read before he went to school. Young Martin was an excellent student in school; he skipped grades in both elementary school and high school . He enjoyed reading books, singing, riding a bicycle, and playing football and baseball.

Martin entered Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, when he was only 15 years old. Martin experienced racism early in life. He decided to do to something to make the world a better and fairer place. After graduating from college and getting married, Dr. King became a minister and moved to Alabama. During the 1950's, Dr. King became active in the movement for civil rights and racial equality.

He participated in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott and many other peaceful demonstrations that protested the unfair treatment of African-Americans. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Commemorating the life of a tremendously important leader, we celebrate Martin Luther King Day each year in January, the month in which he was born.

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