Quality of a great person

hardworking lazy friendly cruel warm-hearted mean determined wise active generous easy-going reliable unkind brave selfish stubborn selfless devoted handsome nice honest famous calm lovely

hardworking friendlywarm-hearted

determined wise activegenerous easy-goingreliable brave

selfless

devoted handsome nicehonest calm lovely

William

Tyndale

(1494—1536)

Britain

Mahandas

Gandhi

(1869—1948)

India

He gave up a rich life for his ideas and

fought for his country to be free from the

UK in a peaceful way.

Nelson

Mandela

(1918— )

South Africa

He fought for black people and was in

prison for almost thirty years. He helped

the black people get the same rights as

white people.

A. Strangers

B. Friends

C. Father and son

D. Teacher and student

What’s the relationship

between these two men?

Elias was born.

Elias began school.

Elias left school.

Elias went to Nelson Mandela for

advice.

1940:

1946:

1948:

1952:

Timeline: please find out what

happened in Elias’ life in the following

years?

自主学习

Read Para 1 and answer questions.

1. What is Elias?

2. What about his life when he first met

Mandela?

3. What did Mandela do to help the black?

4. Why was Elias grateful to Mandela?

交流合作

1. Why did Elias need Mandela’s help?

2. How many years did Elias study at

school?

3. Why did Elias have to leave school?

1. Why did Elias need Mandela’s help?

2. How many years did Elias study at

school?

3. Why did Elias have to leave school?

Because Elias had little education.

Only two years.

Because his family could not continue

to pay school fees and the bus fare.

Because he trusted Nelson Mandela.

1. Why did Elias join the ANC as soon

as he could?

Did Elias like violence? Why did he help

blow some government buildings?

No, he didn’t like. He helped blow some

government buildings because he knew

it would help them achieve their dream

of making black and white people

equal.

Decide whether they are 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.

教师精讲

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.

Elias is a poor _______ worker in South Africa.

He studied only _____ years in a school. He had

to ______ school because of his family’s

________ of money to pay the school _____ and

the bus fare. When he was 12 years old, he was

in _______, and he ____ met Nelson Mandela, a

black lawyer who offered _________ to poor

black people on their ______ problems.

blacktwo

leavelacking fees

trouble firstguidance

legal

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Nelson Mandela gave him so much help

that he didn’t lose his ____. When Mandela

_________ the ANC Youth League, he

______ it as soon as he could. Finally, he

realized the truth: the last 30 years has

____ the greatest number of laws stopping

their rights and progress, and they had

almost ___ rights at all. When Mandela

saw it was no use fighting in a ________

job

organized

joined

seen

nopeaceful

way, he changed to ________, and Elias

helped _____ ___ government buildings.

__________ he did not like violence, he

was happy to help because he knew it

would help them achieve their ________

of making black and white _______.

Although

dream

equal

violence

blow up