Brainstorming

Being free to express your opinions

freedom

Your opinions? Why?

Having the right to do as one pleases

Saving slavesHelp them run away

StruggleDemonstration

War

Take actions

Speech

Oppression is often followed by war.

What do they have in common?

What was the situation like in their times?

Has the situation improved?

DiscussionDiscussion

As freedom fighters, Martin

Luther King was murdered and

Nelson Mandela was put in prison for

about 30 years.

Do you think it is worthy-while?

Why do you think so?

Discussion

If you were a reporter, interview:

Hero — John Brown

Heroine —Harriet Tubman

Interview

1. As a slave, what about the living

conditions of your family?

2. Why did you escape?

3. What happened after that?

4. What did you do to help other slaves?

5. Why did you do these things?

……

Interview

|: John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in

the grave, John Brown’s body lies a-mould

ering in the grave. :| But his soul goes marc

hing on. Chorus

Singing Singing

|: Glory, glory, hallelujah, :|

Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory,

hallelujah, His soul goes marching on.

King’s _________ in Georgiabirthplace

son of a _______ in the churchminister

In 1955 his first action

King led the movement in Alabama,

asking the blacks not to take the city

buses.

King made a ____________to thousands of

blacks in Washington.

In 1963

speech

In 1963

King led the Great March, asking

for the equal civil rights.

(1) What kind of talk did Martin

Luther king, Jr give?

The talk he gave was a speech.

(2) What was his talk about?

The speech is about freedom for

black people.

(3) When did he give this talk?

The speech was given in 1963.

 2. While listen to the tape you will

hear that some phrases and short

sentences repeated a few times.

Write down three of them.

(1) ______________.

(2) _______________.

(3) ___________.

I have a dream

Let freedom ring

Free at last

3. Listen to the tape again and

complete the following sentences

or parts of sentences.

(1) We still had to f___ the f___ that

the Negro was not f___.

(2) The hurricanes of revolution will

continue to shake the foundations of

the n_____.

ace aceree

ation

(3) My four children will one day

live in a c______ where they will

not be judged by the c____ of their

skin but by the c______ of their

c________.

(4) When we let freedom r___ we

will be able to join hands and s___

in the words of the Negro song.

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Listening text

President Lincoln signed the paper

that gave hope to millions of Negro

slaves in 1863.

the Negro still lives on a lonely island

of the poor in the middle of a vast

ocean of the rich.”

the hurricanes of revolution would

continue to shake the foundation of

the nation until the bright day of

justice would come.

It is a dream deeply rooted in the

American dream.

I have a dream that one day on the

red hills of Georgia the sons of

former slaves and the sons of former

slave owners will be able to sit down

together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that my four

children will one day live in a country

where they will not be judged by the

color of their skin but by the content

of their character.”

He also said that he hoped that one

day the leader of the state, whose lips

were dripping with promises, would

make it possible …