unit 5 nelson mandela—a modern hero period 5 extensive reading and speaking 整体设计从容说课 this is the fifth teaching period of this unit. as usual, the teacher should check the students’ homework and offer chances for the students to go over what they learned in the last period at the beginning of the class. in this period, the teaching emphasis will be put on developing the students’ reading ability by reading extensively and getting them learning to use some reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on. as to new words and phrases, the teacher can just find those the students feel most difficult and help them to understand. that’s enough here. we will deal with two parts:reading and discussing on pages 38-39 and reading task on pages 73-74. the purpose of reading and discussing on pages 38-39 is to finish the story of elias and explain what happened to him after he was sent to robben island. this proved to be a very hard time in his life and he never worked again until nelson mandela and his government came into po
