1. Brainstorming Being free to express your opinions
Having the right to do as one pleases
freedom
Your opinions? Why?

2. Demonstration
Struggle
Speech
Saving slaves
Help them run away
War
Take actions
Oppression is often followed by war.

4. Discussion What do they have in common?
What was the situation like in their times?
Has the situation improved?

5. Discussion
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?

6. Interview If you were a reporter, interview: Hero — John Brown
Heroine —Harriet Tubman

7. 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? ……

8. Singing
|: John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave, John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave. :| But his soul goes marching on. Chorus
|: Glory, glory, hallelujah, :| Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, His soul goes marching on.

10. King’s _________ in Georgia
birthplace

11. son of a _______ in the church
minister

12. In 1955 his first action
King led the movement in Alabama, asking the blacks not to take the city buses.

13. In 1963
King made a ______to thousands of blacks in Washington.
speech

14. In 1963
King led the Great March, asking for the equal civil rights.

16. (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.

17.  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

18. 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
ace
ree
ation

19. (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.
ountry
olor
ontent
haracter
ing
ing

20. Listening text
President Lincoln signed the paper that gave hope to millions of Negro slaves in 1863.

21. the Negro still lives on a lonely island of the poor in the middle of a vast ocean of the rich.”

22. the hurricanes of revolution would continue to shake the foundation of the nation until the bright day of justice would come.

23. 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.

24. 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.”

25. He also said that he hoped that one day the leader of the state, whose lips
were dripping with promises, would make it possible …