1. Unit 5 Nelson Mandela – a modern hero
Using language

2. Listening What things do you think were unfair in South Africa? Jobs
Working places
Land ownership
Hospital and schools they went

3. 2. Listen to the tape and write down
the main idea.
The text is mainly talk about
the three reasons why Elias joined
the ANC Youth League.

4. 3 Listen again and fill in
the chart below.
Differences
White people
Black people
The jobs they did
no need for a passbook to work
needed a passbook to work

5. Differences
White people
Black people
Where the workers lived
How much land they owned
Their hospitals and schools
with their workmates
with their families
poorest parts of South Africa
most of South Africa
the best
the worst

6. 4. Discuss the question in pairs.
Do you think Elias was right to join the ANC Youth League?
Imagine you are Elias. What would you do? Why?

7. WHY ELIAS JOINED THE ANC YOUTH LEAGUE
Listening text
WHY ELIAS JOINED THE ANC YOUTH LEAGUE
I joined the ANC Youth League because it fought for equal rights for black and white people in South Africa.
First, white people did not have to carry passbooks and could work anywhere. As a black person I could not work without a passbook.

8. This passbook had your name, address and birthplace in it
This passbook had your name, address and birthplace in it. If the police found me without it or if I was living in the wrong town, I could be put in prison. So
I went to the ANC Youth League for help.
Secondly, in the gold mines where I worked, the white workers sat in their

9. offices while the black South Africans
worked underground. When we worked
at the mines we could not live with
families like the white people did. We
had to live in large rooms with beds
placed like desks in a classroom. I
wanted to live in a home of my own
just as white workers did.

10. I believe the ANC Youth League could
help us solve this problem. Thirdly, the
white people could live anywhere they
liked in South Africa. They owned almost
all the land although they were fewer in
number than the black people. They had
the best schools.

11. They had the best doctors. They made the laws
They had the best doctors. They made the laws. We wanted to have the same rights and to be equal with the white people in our own land. Those are the reasons why I joined the ANC Youth League.

12. 4. Listen again and choose the
best answer.
1. What is a passbook?
A. A book to help you pass exams.
B. A book to show your identity.
C. A book to tell you where to live.
D. A book to tell you how to live. B

13. 2. If a black hasn’t a passbook _____.
A. he can’t travel in South Africa
B. he could be put in prison
C. he can only travel inside South
Africa
D. no one will offer him a job B

14. 3. Where did Elias work?
A. In a school.
B. In a post office
C. In a club.
D. In the gold mines. D

15. 4. Who worked underground?
A. The white workers.
B. The black and white workers.
C. The black workers.
D. Foreign workers. C

16. 5. Who worked on the surface?
A. The black workers.
B. The black and white workers.
C. The white workers.
D. Foreign workers. C

17. 6. Where did Elias live?
A. In a classroom.
B. In a home of his own.
C. In a large room with beds.
D. With his family. C

18. 中国英语教师网
Reading and discussing
The Rest of
Elias’ story
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19. Could you imagine the life of Mandela and Elias in prison
Could you imagine the life of Mandela and Elias in prison. Find some words to describe it.

20. Fast Reading
The main idea of each paragraph
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Elias’s life in prison.
Elias’s life after he finished the four year in prison

21. What happened to Elias in prison
Good things
Bad things
1. Mandela started a school in the prison.
1. He was beaten.
2. The guards were cruel.
2. Elias became a
good student.
3. Some people died
in prison.
3. He realized he was
clever enough to do
a degree.
4. Elias was not allowed to take a degree in prison.

22. Para 1 1. Elias was unhappy in the prison because _________.
A. he was kept with the criminals
B. the prison guards studied with him
C. he has to study
D. he could not study for a degree D

23. 2. How did Elias think of his prison
life?
A. Unhappy.
B. Boring.
C. Sad.
D. Terrible. D

24. 3. Nelson Mandela showed how good a
leader he was because ________.
A. he fought the guards in prison
B. he refused to let the guards study
in his school
C. he let the guards study in his school
but not take the exams
D. he let the guards study even though
the prisoners could not take the exams D

25. 4. Life for Elias was not too bad in prison
because _________
A. he had to study
B. he could study with the guards
C. he wanted to study
D. he could study and get a degree B

26. 5. As leader of South Africa, Nelson
Mandela helped prisoners of Robben
Island by ________
A. giving them an education
B. giving them money
C. putting the guards in prison
D. giving them a job A

27. 1. Why did Elias lose the job?
Para 2
1. Why did Elias lose the job?
The police found out he had been in
prison for blowing up the government
buildings and told it to his boss.

28. 2. When did Elias begin to work again?
He began to work when Mr. Mandela
and the ANC came to power in 1994.
3. How did Elias’s family make a living when he had no job?
They had to beg for food and help
from relatives or friends.

29. 4. What’s Elias’s new job?
Did he enjoy it?
His job is taking the tourists round his old prison, at first he didn't enjoy his job but later he was proud to do this.

30. Retell the story of Elias
study
the environment
life in prison
degree
first job
beg for food
life after he finished the four year in prison
took tourists around the prison

31. Compare your ideas with another pair. 1 What would you have done if
中国英语教师网
Now discuss the questions in pairs.
Compare your ideas with another pair.
1 What would you have done if
you were Elias?
2 How do you think his wife and
family felt when he was in prison?
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32. Language points 1. You cannot imagine how the sound of the
name of Robben Island made us afraid.
你想象不到听到罗本岛这个名字令我们
多么害怕。
imagine n./doing sth./sb.+ doing/that…
Can you imagine life without electricity?
I didn’t imagine becoming a writer in my
childhood.
I can’t imagine her marrying him.
Imagine that you are a bird.

33. 2. He taught us during the lunch breaks
and the evening when we should have
been asleep.
在午餐的休息时间和晚上我们本应该
睡觉的时候他教授我们。
1) should do & should have done
He should have come earlier.
You should come earlier tomorrow.

34. You should have written to your mother.
should do 表示应该做, 一般指现在或将来
的动作, 指过去的动作时应站在过去的角度。
should have done 表示本应该做而没有做的。
站在现在的角度上评说过去的事情。
You should have written to your mother.
My teacher said I should study harder.
I should have studied harder when I was
young.

35. ----My mother is very upset today.
----It’s your fault. You ________ the bad
news to her yesterday.
A. should tell B. should have told
C. shouldn’t have told D. must tell
答案: C

36. 2) asleep 是表语形容词, 意为“睡着的”。
sleepy 是形容词, 意为“打盹的”。
--Is he still sleeping?
--Yes, he is fast asleep.
I was too sleepy to hear the end of
her talk.
I usually sleep seven hours a day.

37. 3. They were not cleverer than me, but they
did pass their exams.
他们不如我聪明但是他们确实通过了考试。
did pass 为强调结构，强调谓语动词时，
在动词原形前加do、does、did.
Do be careful!
I do hope you have a merry Christmas!
He does speak English well!

38. 4. I did not work again for twenty years
until Mr. Mandela and the ANC came to
power in 1994.
1) come to power = come into power 执政
in power 当权，执政
Things have changed a lot since he came
to power.
How long has he been in power?

39. 2) not…until 意为“直到……才……”，
所表示的时间才发生，主句的谓语
动词是非持续性的动词。如：
I won’t leave until you come back.
直到你回来我才会离开。

40. until用于肯定句时, 意为“直到”, 主
句的动词必须是持续性的。如：
He waits until the children are asleep.
他一直等到孩子们睡着。
如果主句是将来时态, 以until引导的
时间状语从句用一般现在时。如：
I’ll stay here until he comes back.
I won’t leave until he comes back.

41. 注意: not…until用于强调句型, 在强调
强调部分。如:
He didn’t leave until l returned.
= It was not until I returned that he left．

42. 5. beg vt .vi. 乞讨, 乞求, 恳求, 请求
beg (for). sth
(begged begged begging)
He begged (for) money from passers-by.
beg (for ) sth (of) sb (向某人)恳求...…
I beg a quick answer of you .
我恳求你迅速答复我。
beg (of) sb to do sth 恳请某人做某事
He begged his teacher to forgive him.
beg to do sth 恳请做某事
He begged to watch the match.

43. 6. All the terror and fear of that time
came back to me.
terror n. 恐怖, 可怕的人或事
The murder was a terror to the people
in the town.
fear n. 恐惧, 可怕
vt. 恐惧, 害怕 + n./to do /that…
Do you fear death?
She fears to speak in our presence.
I fear that we can’t protect ourselves.

44. for fear of …& for fear that… 担心
He left an hour earlier for fear of
missing the train.
She worried for fear that the child
would be hurt.

45. 7. I remembered the beatings and the
cruelty of the guards and my friends
who had died.
beating n. 打、输
They gave him a good beating.
They gave our team quite a beating.
beat n. 敲击, 跳动
We heard the beat of a drum.
Can you hear the beat of my heart?
beat v. beat – beat - beaten/beat
The rain was beating against the window.

46. 8. reward n. v 报酬, 奖金, 酬劳, 奖赏
in reward
reward sb for sth
reward sb with sth
He gave the boy five yuan in reward.
He rewarded the boy for bringing back the
lost dog.
He rewarded the boy with five yuan.
作为报酬
因……而奖赏某人
用……酬劳某人

47. reward 一般指通过做某事获得的
回报或者报酬，可以是钱，也可以
是物品或精神鼓励。
award 指的是由评委经过认真考虑
颁发的奖品。
prize 指在比赛中获得的奖项。

48. A A 1) It is widely accepted that young
babies learn to do things because
certain acts lead to_______.
A. reward B. prizes
C. awards D. results
2) She won first _______ in the 100
meters’ race.
A. prize B. awards
C. rewards D. result A A

49. They set off in search of the lost child.
9. set up
set off
set down
set out to do sth
set about doing sth
They set off in search of the lost child.
The author set about writing a new book.
建立, 设立
出发, 动身, 使爆炸
记下, 写下
开始做某事
开始做某事

50. The young man was sentenced to death for murder.
10. sentence v.
sentence sb to sth
The young man was sentenced to death
for murder.
The judge sentenced him to three years
in prison.
a light/heavy sentence n.
句子 e.g. Make a sentence, please.
判决, 宣判, 判刑
判处某人…… (徒刑)
轻判/重判

51. Speaking and writing
Look at the life of Nelson Mandela and
answer the following questions.
When did Nelson Mandela complete
his law degree at the university?
2. When was ANC Youth League was
formed?
In 1940.
In 1944.

52. 3. What did he set up in 1952?
Law office to help poor black people in Johannesburg.
4. Why was it closed by government?
Because he attacked anti-black
laws.

53. Why was he sentenced to five
year hard labour in 1962?
6. What did the ANC do in 1963?
For encouraging violence
against anti-black laws.
The ANC began to blow up
buildings.

54. Divide the students into two
groups to have a debate.
What do you think of Nelson Mandela?

55. The following expressions may help you.
ASKING FOR OPINIONS
What do you think of ...?
What’s your opinion?
What are your ideas?
Do you have any thoughts on that?
How do you feel about that?
Why do you think so?

56. GIVING OPINIONS
I think/I don’t think ...
I believe/I don’t believe (that) ...
In my opinion...
To my understanding, ...
I’m with you.
I feel that ... /I don’t feel that ...

57. Sample discussion:
S1: What do you think of Nelson
Mandela? Do you think he is a great man?
S2: Yes, I think so. After all, he fits our
definition of a great man. He worked
hard for a good cause. He also sacrificed
27 years of his life when he went to prison.

58. S1: I’m not so sure. He was in favour of violence and that is the behaviour of a great man, is it?
S2: True. However, he explained at his trial why he encouraged the ANC to become violent. He said that there was no other way for them to attack the unfair laws.

59. S1: Yes, I know. But it still worries me.
Maybe he would say that so people
would think well of him.
S2: Remember what happened to Elias
when he left prison. He was not allowed
to work by the government for 20 years.
No! Mandela was right.
S1: OK. Maybe you’re right.

60. S2: Well, another thing is that he tried
to bring the guards and the prisoners
together when he ran his school in
prison. He encouraged the guards to
take degrees too.
S1: Yes, that does sounds good. Maybe
I should find out what he did after he
became President of South Africa.

61. I’d like to know if he was as fair then to the white people.
S2: A good point. Actually he was. He really is a good man.
S1: If what you say is true, then I agree with you.

62. Homework Write a summary of Nelson Mandela’s life or a short
paragraph about your ideas
on Nelson Mandela.