1、Unit 5What kind of person are you?QuestionsYes No1.Do you always do your own homework?2.Do you ask for help when it is necessary?QuestionsYes No3.Do you get on well with your classmates?4.Do you help others with their work if they ask you?5.Are you willing to do public service work without pay?Quest
2、ionsYesNo6.Your friend needs for bus fare home but you want to buy something to eat.7.Would you refuse to help?8.Are you active in school activities?QuestionsYes No9.Do you have hobbies?10.Do you easily lose heart when you are in trouble?11.Do you often help old people or little children when they n
3、eed help?See what kind of person you are1-3 yeses:You have to work hard in your life and study.Theres a long way for you to go before you get some success.4-7 yeses:Youre doing well,and you know how to be happy.You are an active person and well received by people around you.8 yeses and above:You lov
4、e your life and can enjoy it.You are hard working and always ready to help.So you are likely to get more success.What is a great person?A great person is one who has followed his/her ideas and sacrificed something so that they could be realized.What is a famous person?A famous person may be well-kno
5、wn but if he/she has not gone through struggles and difficulties for their noble cause,they cant not be called a great person.a great personhard-workingintelligentdeterminedgenerouskindbraveconfidentunselfishhelpfulhonestGet on well with othersNever lose heartBe active in society activitiesDo public
6、 service work without payMake great contributions to mankindenergeticpassionateWho is your hero/heroine?Why do you admire him/her most?What personal qualities do these people have?Sun Yat-senHe founded the first Republic in China in 1911 after many yearsfighting.He strongly believed in the three pri
7、nciples:nationalism;Peoples rights;peoples livelihood.He is the best basketball player in our country.He enters the NBA in America.Yao MingHe set up Microsoft Company and makes his own software.He is the richest man in the world now.Bill GatesYang LiweiHe is an astronaut(宇航员宇航员)in China.He is the fi
8、rst astronaut piloting a spacecraft(航天器航天器),traveling in the space on board Shenzhou-5 in 2003.Albert Einstein Born in Germany;won the Noble Prize in 1921 for his theory in physics;lived the rest of his life in the USAQian Xuesen“Father”of the Chinese space program;one of the leading rocket engineer
9、s;worked on top-secret projects all his life Abraham Lincoln,in 1860,became President of the United States.Then he worked still harder for the freedom of the slaves.But the Southern states wanted to set up a state of their own,where they couldbe free to keep black slaves.Lincoln said that it was not
10、 right for the South to break away from the Union.Fighting broke out between the North and the South.This was the American Civil War,which lasted four years.In the end the Northern and Southern states joined up again as one country and the slaves were set free.(1867-1934)Polish scientist;won the Nob
11、le Prize for Physics in 1903;won the Noble Prize for Chemistry in 1911 Marie CurieWhat qualities make a great person?pay more timenever give upintelligentnever lose heart when in trouble do their bestset up an aimget on well with othersinsist on what they pursuehelp othersbe active in society activi
12、tiesbe willing to do public serviceDiscussionAre they all great people?Listen to Part 1 and answer the questions.1.What does a“point of view”mean?It means that there may be morethan one way of looking at things.2.Why do the police not just ask one person who was there after an accident?Because one p
13、erson may not haveseen everything that happened.3.Why do people tell different stories after an accident?Because they each have a differentidea of the accident.INFORMATION ON A CAR ACCIDENT BY:AWhere did it happen?How many people in the accident?BEFORE THE ACCIDENTWhere was the boy?On the road.2Walk
14、ing along the road.Listen to Part 2 and complete the following tables.Then give your opinion and your reason.Where was the car?What happened?Who caused it?Coming up behind the boy.The car was going too fast and did not the driver did not look.It hit the boy and hurt him.The car driver.INFORMATION ON
15、 A CAR ACCIDENT BY:BWhere did it happen?How many people in the accident?BEFORE THE ACCIDENTWhere was the boy?On the road.2Walking in the road.Where was the car?What happened?Who caused it?Came up behind the boy.The boy moved farther into the road.The car tired to stop but it couldnt and it hit the b
16、oy.The boy was hurt.The boy.Do you know what a point of view is?It means that there may be more than one way of looking at things.For example,if an accident happens the police will ask all those who were nearby what happened.They will not just ask one person because that person may not have seen eve
17、rything that happened.Listening TextThen will ask everybody.The stories that people tell will often be different.This is because they each have a different idea of the accident.All these ideas are different points of view.Let us look closer at the accident.A boy is walking in the road when a car com
18、es behind him and hurts him.There are two people who see what happens.Let us listen to their stories.A:I was walking along the road when I saw the boy coming towards me.He was walking in the bicycle lane of the road.A car came very fast up the road in the bicycle lane.The driver did not see the boy
19、and knocked over and hurt him.It was the car driver who caused the accident.B:I saw the boy walking in the road.He was not doing what he should do and he moved farther into the road as the car came up behind him.The car tried to stop but it was too close to him.So the car hurt the boy.But it was the
20、 boy who caused the accident.When you hear two points of view,it is up to you to decide who was correct.So who do you think caused the accident?Who,do you know and do you think,is the richest person in the world?Is he/she a great or a famous person?Bill GatesUseful words and expressions:set up a com
21、pany computer languagefrom Britain to Chinamake a lot of moneybe against sb.breakinto be(un)fair to sb.stop sb from doing sth.do what sb.can to do sth.make sure that compete with sb.(in)that/this way get a large part of work on doing sth.make things fair makeinto get rich by fair means a computer bu
22、llyBill Gates,father of Microsoft,what kind of man he is in your heart?I think he is a great man becauseI think he is not a great man becauseRemember that is your point of view,now read through the evidence on page 73 carefully,then fill in the information sheet on page 74.INFORMATION ABOUT BILL GAT
23、ESJob AchievementsWhat did he give up for his beliefs?GenerosityChief executive officer Produced Microsoft NoneGave money to the causesFor childrens education and healthWhy does he have enemies?Why attacked by the government?Other people are jealous of his success.They think he is too big and too po
24、werful and unfair to his competitors.Now you have to decide what you think of Bill Gates.He is a successful and rich man but is he a great man?Has he given up anything(not money)in his life to help other people and made things fairer in the world?AfterthoughtWilliam Tyndale was a great person of the
25、 s_ century,who first t_ the Bible into English from the Greek and Hebrew languages.His dream was to translate the Bible into the language of the common people.And he wasixteenthranslatedd_ to realize his goal even though he was not allowed to work in England-his country.He had to left for B_ in 152
26、4 and spent the next 11 years translating and publishing his work.He was h_,but unfortunately,he was caught in May 1535,and in 1536 he was k_ andeterminedelgiumard-workingilledburned outside Brussels(布鲁塞尔布鲁塞尔).He gave up a lot for others and died for his belief.He was so b_ that people in British wi
27、ll always remember him.It is said that William Tyndale established an excellent standard for the translation of Bible which is still used today.raveNo.1No.2No.3Guess who he or she is.No.4No.5No.6No.7No.8No.9How to write about a great person?Let me think about it!collect ideas for the writingwrite th
28、em down in any ordersort them out in an order or put those idea into a form so that you can easily see themuse the form to help you as you write.Before writing you can follow these steps:Life of Nelson MandelaBorn193719401944July 18,1918 near Transkei (South Africa)Entered university but did not com
29、plete degree Formed ANC Youth League Completed law degree at the university1952196119621963set up law office to help poor black people in Johannesburg,later this year,law office closed by government because he attacked anti-black laws government by and for white people set up in south Africa sentenc
30、ed to five years hard labour for encouraging violence against anti-black laws ANC began to blow up buildings.1964 sentenced to prison for life on Robben Island for being one of the ANC leaders1982 moved to a prison in Cape Town1990 released from prison1991 became President of the ANC1993 won the Nob
31、el Prize1994 became President of South AfricaNelson Mandela was born in South Africa on July 18,1918.He entered university in 1937 but didnt complete degree.Three years later,he managed to completed law degree at the university.He formed ANC Youth League in 1944 to call on people to struggle for the
32、ir rights to vote.Enjoy the sample Nelson Mandelaand then in 1952 set up law office to help poor black people in Johannesburg,later this year,law office was closed by government because he attacked anti-black laws.In 1961,government by and for white people was set up in South Africa and the next yea
33、r he was sentenced to five years hard labour for encouraging violence against anti-black laws.In 1963,ANC began to blow up buildings to realize their dream of making black and white people equal,as one of the ANC leaders,he was sentenced to prison for life on Robben Island.He was moved to a prison i
34、n Cape Town in 1982 and was at last released from prison in 1990.In 1991,he became President of the ANC and won the Nobel Prize two years later.In 1994 He became President of South Africa.After his retirement as President in 1999,Mandela went on to become an advocate for a variety of social and human rights organizations.
