1. Great
What do you remember?

2. True or False
1. Elias went to see Nelson Mandela when he was in trouble.
2. Elias left school because the school was too far from his home.
3. Nelson Mandela helped him keep his job.
4. Elias trusted Nelson Mandela and he joined the ANC Youth League.
5. Elias was willing to blow up government buildings.
6. Nelson Mandela thought violence was a good way to help black people. T F T T F F

3. How do we define a great person?
A great person is one who devotes his/her life to helping others.

4. A great person hard-working Do public service work without pay
intelligent
Be active in society activities
determined
A great person
generous
Never lose heart
helpful
kind
Get on well with others
honest
brave
confident
Make great contributions to mankind
energetic
unselfish
passionate

5. How do we define a great person?
A great person is one who devotes his/her life to helping others.
A great person is one who does public service without pay.
A great person is one who makes great contributions to mankind.

6. Good qualities of a great man
selfless
generous
active
reliable
trustworthy
influential
devoted
determined
widely recognized
highly respected
strong-willed
etc.
homeless, careless
dangerous, anxious
expensive, protective
comfortable, valuable
rainy, snowy
facial, official

7. Match these words with their opposites.
pessimistic
mean
dishonest
unfriendly
unkind
selfish
inactive
generous
optimistic
friendly
honest
kind
active
selfless

8. Match these words with their opposites.
pessimistic
mean
dishonest
unfriendly
unkind
selfish
inactive
generous
optimistic
friendly
honest
kind
active
selfless

9. ean enerous evoted rustworthy nfluential eliable etermined
A person who is m______ is unwilling to give or share things, especially money.
A g________ person gives more of something, especially money, than is usual or expected.
If you are d__________to something, you care about it a lot and are very enthusiastic about it.
A t____________ person is reliable, responsible, and can be trusted completely.
Someone or something that is i___________has a lot of influence over people or events.
A r__________ person is someone you can trust to behave well, work hard, or do what you expect them to do.
If you are d_____________to do sth, you have made
a firm decision to do it and you will not let anyone
prevent you.
enerous
evoted
rustworthy
nfluential
eliable
etermined

10. What great persons and their personal qualities are mentioned in Warming up section?

11. Devotion of the great man to the whole world
Norman Bethune was a s_________ doctor who worked s__________ and saved many Chinese soldiers.
He was devoted to his work.
He devoted his life to saving a lot of soldiers.
elfless
elflessly
If you devote yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it.

12. Devotion of the great man to the whole world
devoted
Mohandas Gandhi ________ his life _____ fighting for his country to be free.
Nelson Mandela __________ his life to helping black people get the same rights as white people.
What other great/famous persons do you know. Please talk about their devotion to the world, using either “devote… to…” or “be devoted to…” to
devoted

13. What makes a great person?
Good qualities
Devotion to the whole world

14. generous able/capable Good qualities of Nelson Mandela
Why was Elias grateful to Nelson Mandela?
Because when Elias turned to him for help, he offered guidance to their legal problems and was generous with his time.
generous
Why did Elias turn to Nelson Mandela for help?
Because he needed legal help to get the passbook to live in Johannesburg. Otherwise he might lose his job.
be out of work
able/capable

15. turn to Who would you turn to for help/advice when you are in trouble?
turn to sb. for help/advice
in deep/serious/big trouble
e.g.
Please turn to page 20.
If you meet new words, you may turn to the English dictionary.
After he left the university he became a teacher, but later turned to journalism.
Their talk turned to the change that had taken place in the city.
向某人求助/教
翻到（书的某页、某章） 查阅
转向；变成

16. He had no passbook and was worried that he would be out of work.
be out of work=lose one’s job=be jobless
out of breath
out of date
out of order
out of control
out of danger
out of use
There she was, slightly out of breath from running.
Something that is out of date is old-fashioned and no longer useful.
A machine or device that is out of order is broken and does not work.
If something is out of control, no-one has any power over it.
If someone who has been seriously ill is out of danger, they are still ill, but they are not expected to die.
If something has gone out of use, it is no longer used regularly by people.

17. blow up Why did Mandela choose to blow up government buildings? brave
blow, blew, blown
If not successful, what would be the result?
Even though blowing up government buildings was a kind of v_________ action, they had no choice but to answer v___________ with v_________ because fighting for equal rights in a p____________ way was not allowed.
iolent
iolence
iolence
eaceful
violent adj. violence n.
peaceful adj.

18. Quotes from Nelson Mandela
The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.
过去三十年来所出现的大量的法律剥夺我们的权利, 阻挡我们的进步,一直到今天，我们还处在几乎什么权力都没有的阶段。
Morning found Christie knitting by the window.
The city has seen many changes.
The following years witnessed the development of Chinese economy.
concerned about black people's lives
see,find, witness等动词的主语有时是物，以拟人手法增添语言色彩，如若使用得当，语言会显得很生动。
在此处可译为“（在某段时期）发生（某情况），经历，经受。

19. stage
Children go through different stages of development. Sometimes they are rather selfish.
Find the word “stage” in our text, and tell whether they have the same meaning.
E.g I went on stage and gave my speech.
2. They played very well in the early stages of the game.

20. Compare: 2. …only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.
1. We decided to answer violence with violence then.
2. Only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.
以only引导副词状语或状语从句放在句首加强语 气时，经常使用倒装句。

21. Only when I left my parents for Italy_________ how much I loved them.
A. I realized B. I had realized
C. had I realized D. did I realize
Spot the difference:
Only some of the children seemed to have understood it.
Only then did she realize how much damage had been caused.

22. Rewrite the following sentences with only put at the beginning of the sentence.
We can get in touch with them in this way.
Only ______________ can we get in touch with them.
He was able to return home when the war was over.
Only
I have thought of them recently.
I went to bed last night when he came back from work.
in this way
when the war was over was he able to return home.
recently have I thought of them.
when he came back from work last night did I go to bed.

23. More quotes from Nelson Mandela
“I have dreamt of a society in which all people live in harmony and with equal rights. It’s a dream which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be,it is a dream for which I am prepared to die.”
devoted
determined

24. More quotes from Nelson Mandela
Devotion to the whole world
More quotes from Nelson Mandela
The chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of them were the chains on me.
It was during these long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.
unselfish/selfless

25. Ex. 1: Match 1-7 to a-h to make common collocations.
1. heart/ terrorist
2. legal
3. peaceful
4. equal
5. bus
6. achieve/realize
7. stage
a. action/problems
b. attack
c. right(s)
d. fare
e. light
f. one’s dream
g. life/world

26. Complete the sentences with collocations from Ex. 1
heart/terrorist attack, legal action, peaceful life/world, equal right, bus fare, achieve/ realize one’s dream, stage fright
terrorist attack
So sudden was the ________________ that people had no time to escape.
As a matter of fact, everyone wants to enjoy ______________ in society so that they may be equally treated.
Not being able to offer school fees and _________, Nelson Mandela dropped out of school at the age of eight.
_______________ must be taken to end the situation where black people are treated unfairly.
Nelson Mandela was determined to ____________________ of making black and white people equal.
Only by living in a _______________ can we enjoy our life to the fullest.
Once overcome, __________________ is something that will never come again.
equal rights
bus fare
Legal actions
achieve/realize his dream
peaceful world
stage fright

27. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words and expressions in the box.
turn to, be devoted to, as a matter of fact, attack, quality, vote for, out of work, lose heart, fight for
out of work
The man is upset because he is____________________.
The man told the woman not to ______________. There’re a great number of other chances.
Being devoted, being straight and being generous are the __________ all people should have.
The girl ___________ by a dog is recovering in hospital at present.
________________, it is very easy to pack up things.
Every student has the equal chance to _________________ the new monitor.
Mr Brown ______________ helping those suffering from all kinds of disease.
When in trouble, anyone can ___________ Mr White for guidance. He’s a warm-hearted and generous lawyer.
Nelson Mandela was active in _____________ the freedom of the black people.
lose heart
qualities
attacked
As a matter of fact
vote for
is devoted to
turn to
fighting for

28. ualities ees are assbook out of work egal uidance opeful
What makes a great man? Elias told us his story about Nelson Mandela, from which we can get some ideas about the q_______ that make a man great. Born into a poor family, Elias had to drop out of school because his family could not afford the school f_____ and bus f_____. He had very little education, no money and even a p________ for his job. Worried that he would be _____________, Elias went to Mandela for l_______ advice. Mandela offered g________ to him and told him how to get the right papers for his passbook. With his help Elias was once again h________ about his future. It was Mandela’s great concern for all the black people that won him respect from so many black people, and many, including Elias, joined the ANC Youth League organized by Mandela.
egal
uidance
opeful

29. qual evoted ighting eaceful iolence iolence lowing
A great man must also have a dream and have the courage to realize it. Mandela’s lifelong dream was to make black and white people e______. He d________ his whole life to f______ for it. When fighting the government in a p_______ way was not allowed, he chose to answer v___________ with v__________. Mandela challenged the government by b____________ government buildings. His dream moved and encouraged his followers like Elias who was happy for what he could do to help. It was his dream and devotion that made Mandela a great man.
iolence
iolence
lowing

30. vote Who are you going to vote for?
The plan was passed by 6 votes to 3.
Did you vote for or against her?
We’ll listen to the arguments on both sides and then vote on it.

31. Language focus: as a matter of fact 近义词/词组 in fact in actual fact
actually

32. Homework:
Have you ever met someone who had a strong influence on you? How did they influence you? Write a passage about 200 words to introduce your story.

33. The year 1949 ______ the founding of the people’s Republic of China.
A. saw B. watched C. observed D. noticed
2. _____ to his research work, the professor cared little about any other things.
A. Devoting B. Devoted
C. Having devoted D. To devote
3. Tom said that Mr. Smith, who gave them a speech last Wednesday, __________.
devoted himself to teach B. was devoted to teach
C. was devoted to teaching D. devoted to teaching

34. 4. I failed in the final examination last term and only then __________the importance of studies.
A. I realized B. I had realized
C. had I realized D. did I realize
5. Children in the country should have the right to ask for _________ education opportunities as those in the city.
A. equal B. unfair
C. common D. usual

36. Language Points

37. Useful expressions 1.在……（方面）慷慨 be generous with… 2.失业 3.犯法
4.以暴制暴
5.事实上
6.爆炸
7.被送进监狱
8.实现…的梦想
9.处于困境中
10.自愿做…
11.求助于…；转向…
be generous with…
become/be out of work
break the law
answer violence with violence
as a matter of fact / in fact / actually
blow up
be put in /into prison
achieve/realize one’s dream of…
be in trouble
be willing to do…
turn to…

38. devote oneself to (doing) sth. be devoted to (doing) sth.
Useful expressions
12.为……而死
13. 信仰；信任
14. 反对……而斗争
15. 献身于……；致力于……
16. 把……专用于，完全用于
17. 专心致志于，忠于，很喜欢
18.投票赞成/反对
19.对……心存感激
die for sth.
believe in
fight against
devote oneself to (doing) sth.
devote…to (doing) sth.
be devoted to (doing) sth.
vote for/against
be grateful for

39. Book 1 Unit 5 上等的；优质的 be of high/good quality 劣质的；劣等的
失业；（机器）出毛病
对……评价好/不好/高/低
事实上 平等
逃避做某事
逃跑；逃脱
九死一生
be of high/good quality
be of poor quality
be out of work=lose one’s job
have a good/bad/high/low opinion of sb./sth.
as a matter of fact=in fact=actually
be equal to
escape +n./doing
escape from
a narrow escape

40. Book 1 Unit 5 受过良好教育的 be well-educated 用和平方式 in a peaceful way 以……看来
投票支持
投票反对
投票表决某事
表决做某事
愿意做某事
不愿做某事
使充气；爆炸
be well-educated
in a peaceful way
in one’s opinion
vote for sth
vote against
vote on sth.
vote to do
be willing to do
be unwilling to do
blow up

42. Complete these sentences with your own information, and add more details. Then compare with your classmates.
One of the most inspiring/generous people I’ve ever known is …
The most influential person in my life is…
The most inspiring person I’ve ever met is…
Of all the people I know, … is the least self-centered.
The youngest person who I consider to be a hero is…
The most important role model I’ve ever had is…
Of all the friends I’ve ever had, … is the most understanding.
One of the most inspiring people I’ve ever known is my Chinese teacher. She encourages students to think rather than just memorize things.