unit 5语言应用

话题语言应用-伟人的生活语言积累交际用语Asking for opinions（征求意见）1. What do you think of...? 你认为……怎么样？2. What are your ideas? 你有什么看法？3. How do you feel about that? 你对……感觉如何？4. What’s your opinion? 你的看法怎样？5. Do you have any thoughts on that? 你对那事有什么看法？6. Why do you think so? 你为什么这么认为呢？Giving opinions（发表意见）1. I think/ I don’t think... 我认为（不）……2. I believe/ I don’t believe.... 我认为（不）……3. In my opinion, ... 我认为……4. I’m with you. 我同意你的看法。

5. To my understanding, ... 依我理解……6. I feel that..../ I don’t feel that... 我感觉……/ 我没有感觉……【高清课堂：unit5语言应用】，话题词句Who are Heroes?Chairman Mao：the founder of People’s Republic of ChinaSun Yat-sen: He led the 1911 revolution and founded the first Republic of China.Nelson Mandela: South Afric a’s first black president and won the Nobel Prize in 1993.◆Heroes are those who make great contributions to the social development and well-being of human life.Kai-Fu Lee: the founding president of Google ChinaLiu Xiang: an Olympic Gold medalist and World ChampionJackie Chan: famous film star as a Chinese cultural icon◆Heroes are those who work all their ways to gain success in their careers.Sang Lan: former member of the national women's gymnastic team, after severe spinal injuries, study and work optimistically.Hellen Keller: an American author, political activist and lecturer, the first deaf-and-dumb person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree◆Heroes are those who face difficulties in life and challenge bravely.A teacher in a remote villageA policeman saved a drowning child◆Heroes are those who help or save others with no hesitation.Are you a hero?◆拓展阅读Nelson Mandela’s Life Story“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equalopportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”——Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela is a former president of South Africa from May 1994 to June 1999. He is one of the great moral and political leaders of that time. He is an international hero whose lifelong contribution to the fight of anti-apartheid（反对种族隔离）activities in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize. Apart from the glory, he suffered 27 years imprisonment（监禁）which was from August 1962 to February 1990.For the people in South Africa, he is a champion（捍卫者）. He was born in a rich family, he should live in a happy life, but he didn’t. He devoted himself to fighting for the equality and peace for the black people. He won p eople’s respect and love all over the world through his pertinacious （持久的）fighting will, strong perseverance（不屈不挠）, broad mind, clear-cut standpoint（明确的立场）, and noble personalities.He became the symbol of justice and kindness. He became the idol and hero of South Africa. He became the first black President of South President.Early LifeMandela was born on July 18, 1918 in Mvezo, a small village located in the district of Umtata（乌姆塔塔，南非东南部城市，特兰斯凯). His father was a chief of the town of Mvezo. His father had four wives and 13 children (4 boys and 9 girls). Mandel was born to his third wife.His full name is Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela（纳尔逊·罗利赫拉赫拉·曼德拉）. The explanation of his name: Nelson is his first name, He was the first member of his family to attend a sc hool, and his teacher gave him the English name “Nelson”. Rolihlahla is his given name. It means to pull a branch of a tree, kind of troublemaker. Mandela is his surname. One of the King’s sons, named Mandela was his grandfather, and then Mandela became the source of his surname.His father died of tuberculosis（矽肺结核）when he was 9 years old. He was a really smart student when he was at school. He got his certificate in two years instead of the usual 3 years. He was an excellent stick-fighter as a child, and he liked boxing and long-distance running. Later, he was known to enjoy playing football and dancing as well.He set his mind to be a lawyer because of a Professor who was very arrogant（傲慢的）to say that black people couldn’t be good lawyers. From then on, he determined to be a lawyer and studied law in university. He thought law was a good weapon to release black people from the political bondage（奴役）of white people. When he was 23, he went into the city. He escaped the marriage which the Regent（摄政者）arranged for him.Anti-Apartheid ActivitiesBlack South Africans had few rights, and they would have been less after the election of 1948. Blacks were compelled（强迫）to live in different parts of the city, and were forced to live in far worse conditions than whites. Mixed marriages were forbidden and Africans faced arrest if they didn’t carry passbooks. Those are the symbol of black oppression.Mandela began to fight back. He joined in the successful mass boycott（抵制）of the city’s buses after an increase in fares. In 1944, Mandela took part in the ANC Youth League, which was adopted by the ANC in 1949. It is the main black political group. Mandela thought he should be the leader to lead the black Africans’ liberation.In 1961, Mandela became the leader of the ANC’s armed wing. He organized sabotage（破坏）campaigns against military and government targets to end apartheid（种族隔离）.Mandela described that the ANC, in its struggle against apartheid, also violated human rights, sharply criticized those in his own party who attempted or removed statements supporting this fact from the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission（真相与和解委员会）.The consequence of anti-apartheid activity was that Mandela and ANC party members were barred（阻止）from entering the United States, except the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan. Their South African apartheid regime was regard as terrorism, they were regarded as terrorists.Prison LifeAfter Mandela led these anti-apartheid activities, he spent 27 years in the prison. His life in prison was really a struggle, and hard. He still said that he would never give up fighting for the blacks though he was imprisoned.He was arrested on August 5, 1962. At that time, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison with hard labor. In June 1963, Mandela was taken to the Rivonia Trial. Finally, the judge declared that the 5 years’ prison life became a lifelong imprisonment.During his years in prison, Nelson’s reputation grew steadily. He was regarded as the most significant black leader in South Africa. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.While he was in prison, there were 3 people watching on him, since he was a special terrorist. He did have a tough time by doing hard labor things in the prison. On a sunny day, the glare from the white rock is blinding, but he was refused the use of dark glasses. His eyesight never fully recovered. What was worse, he was allowed one visitor and one letter every 6 months. For him, those were just small things. With his persistence, he became the prisoners’ leader and spokesman. The prison became a political workshop for them.Nowadays, Robben Island, off the coast of Cape Town where Mandela was imprisoned is a major tourism in South Africa. The visitors are totally attracted to go there by Mandela’s story.FreedomIn 1990, Mandela was released. He was known as one of the most famous politicians on the planet.Though he was in prison, he was still the global focus. His charisma and influence were all over the world. In 1981, about ten thousand French people applied for the Sout h Africa’s embassy in France to release Mandela. In 1982, in the global 53 countries’ 2000 mayors put their signatures for getting Mandela’s freedom. In 1983, in Britain, there were 78 councilors and more than 50 mayors held a parade to ask Britain Prime to stress South Africa to give Mandela freedom.On February 11, 1990, Mandela was released with no reason. The government of South Africa couldn’t fight for the international campaign.After his release, he still worked hard and succeeded in ending the apartheid era, saving South Africa from a threatened civil war. It showed how skillful and capable he is in political aspect. Mandela’s leadership got through a lot of negotiations, as well as his relationship with President F.W.de.Klerk. They were together awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.Nelson Mandela succeeded in becoming the first black President in South Africa on April 27, 1994. As a president, he did his best to reconcile with Afrikaners. He delighted Afrikaners by wearing a Springbok shirt at a rugby which is Afrikaners’ favorite sport. The 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa was widely seen as a major step in the reconciliation of Afrikaners andblacks.Since then, for Mandela, for the blacks, they really got freedom from Afrikaners.Personal LifeFor Mandela, his public life was hard, but successful. For his private life, it was completely a tragedy. He has been married for 3 times. He had 6 children, but 3 of them died during Mandela’s lifetime.Mandela’s first wife, Evelyn Mase, was a young cousin of his friend’s. She was a nurse who worked at the Johannesburg General Hospital. They got married in 1944. They were very different. She was very religious and had little interest in politics. Mandela was always absent at home because of the politics. That was the main reason why they got divorced in 1957. They had 4 children, two sons and two daughters. His first son Thembi died in a car crash and his second son Mkgatho died of AIDS. Their daughter Makaziwa died at the age of 9 months, their second daughter was also called Makaziwa who is still alive.Mandela’s second wife, Winnie Makizela, was a young and attractive first black social worker. They got married in 1958. She soon developed into a political activist in her own right. Mandela really like Winnie. Her visits and her letters helped him through the long years in prison. They divorced in 1996 because of political estrangement. They had 2 daughters, Zenani and Zindziswa.On his 80th birthday, Mandela had his third marriage. He married Grace Machel who was a widow of the former Mozabican President. Until now, they’re still together, but they are too old to have a child.RetirementMandela became the oldest elected President in South Africa. He steeped down as President in 1999, and Thabo Mbeki became the next President.Though he retired from the President, he still involved in education projects, in the fight against AIDS. He used his prison number to help promote AIDS awareness campaigns.Mandela urged South Africans to use condoms and to wait until their late teens to have sex, and a new figure showed that the majority of AIDS were decreasing.On November 11, 2009, the United Nations General Assembly announced that Mandela’s birthday July 18th will be “Mandela Day” for praising his co ntribution to the world peace and freedom.Nelson Mandela is arguably the greatest and most loved statesman of the past century. He is a legend. He is a true icon who never compromised. He has received more than 250 awards. People regarded him as a great President of South Africa and one of the great moral leaders of their time. 写作运用单元写作：本单元的写作内容为描述伟人或名人，大多是对某个人物的生平进行介绍，介绍内容为人物生平最基本的信息和最重要的事迹。