文档介绍：Mandela’s Garden
Mandela’s Garden
Background Information
Warming-up questions
Text appreciation
Structure analysis
In-class discussion
Language understanding
Topics for discussion
Supplementary Reading
Warming-up questions
How much do you know about Nelson Mandela?
What do you think is his greatest contribution to his country and whole human being?
What personality do you find about Mandela from the text?
Do you find any charisma of him as a leader and husband?
Structure
Part 1: Description of his gardening experience
(para. 1- )
Part 2: Significance of his gardening experience
(para. - the end)
The gardening gives him satisfaction, offers a taste of freedom, and makes him strong physically and mentally.
It has e a metaphor and gives him inspiration on how to be a good revolutionary leader and how to nourish important human relationship..
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In-class discussion
“one can feel fulfilled by washing one’s clothes ….” what is meant by “feel fulfilled…” in this sentence, and why does he say so? (para. 2)
What does the important tasks outside of prison refer to? How can he feel the sane pride in doing small things inside prison? ()
Why do people say that Mandela “was a miner at heart”? ()
In-class discussion
“in some way, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life.” what is pared? ()
Why does he have a mixture of feelings when he writes to Winnie?
Language understanding
The end of manual work is liberating.
I felt liberated from the manual work.
I found Dickens’s novel very interesting. I was ____.
The news was very disappointing. I felt terribly ______.
The result is a bit surprising. Everybody was ______.
The whole experience was exciting. We all got extremely ______.
survive 比……活得长, 幸存
vi. to remain alive or in existence:
----Few survived after the flood.
----Books have survived from the time of the Egyptians.
vt. to live longer than; outlive:
----He survived his wife for many years.
to live or persist