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????????? Module10 Unit 3
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Read the following facts about Martin Luther
King, Jr and answer the questions.
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Fact box 1. Martin Luther King was born on
January 15, 1929. 2. Montgomery bus boycott
lasted 382 days. During these days of boycott,
King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was
subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time
he emerged as a Negro leader of the first
rank(???).
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3. In 1957 he was elected president of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an
organization for the now burgeoning Civil Rights
Movement. 4. Between 1957 and 1968, King traveled
over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five
hundred times, appearing wherever there was
injustice, protest, and action and meanwhile he
wrote five books as well as numerous articles.
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5. He directed the peaceful march in Washington,
D.C. of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his
address l Have a Dream on the steps of the
Lincoln Memorial. 6. He was named Man of the Year
by Time magazine in 1963.
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7. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King,
Jr. was the youngest man to have received the
Nobel Peace Prize. 8. On the evening of April 4,
1968, he was murdered. 9. He became not only the
symbolic leader of American blacks but also a
world figure.
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Questions

• What did Martin lead in Montgomery, Alabama?
• He led a boycott of the buses in Montgomery
  from 1955 to 1956.
• 2. What was the famous speech that Martin gave in
  Washington, D.C.?
• On August 28, 1963 Martin gave his famous I
  Have a Dream speech.

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3. Where did he give I Have A Dream? He
spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C. 4. What great honor did Martin
receive in 1964? Martin was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Peace. 5. How did Martin die?
Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968.
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I have a dream
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1. What emotion did Martin want to express in his
speech? 2. On what condition did Martin make the
speech? 3. Why did he make the speech?
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Possible answers 1. Martin wanted to show his
good will, strong wish and desire to seek
freedom, liberty and equality for the black
people. 2. Martin made the speech in Washington
D.C.,capital city of America after a march. The
speech inspired the whole audience and the whole
black people. 3. He wanted his dream to become
the dream of the whole nation.
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Generalize the main idea of each part.
Title I Have A Dream
Part 1
Martin described a picture of dream. He used the
words( creed of equality, brotherhood, oasis of
freedom and justice, sisters and brothers) to
strengthen its vivid description.
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Part 2
Part 3
Martin expressed his hope to see equality,
freedom and liberation nationwide.
He expressed his strong wish to see a world of
freedom, where people of different background
enjoy freedom together.
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Post-reading
What makes the speech powerful? What special
methods are used in the speech?
1 The speech is powerful because we can sense
the strong feeling expressed in it. The use of
parallelism intensifies the special effect.
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2 The speech is very powerful because of its
beautiful words, such as creed of equality,
brotherhood, oasis of freedom and justice,
sisters and brothers. These words express the
same meaning, but it has different expressions.
The use of metaphor and simile make this effect
even stronger.
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Writing
Write a short speech over the environmental
problem. Organize the passage using repetition,
parallelism, metaphor and simile.
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Problem 1. The harm that these problems cause. 2. Point out how serious they are.
Solution 1. Possible solutions to call on the audience to make their effort. 2. Special measures to call on the whole society to take part.
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Sample speech We Are Endangered We are living
in a world that is badly polluted. Rubbish is
around wherever we go. The air is not healthy for
us to breathe the water is no longer healthy for
us to drink the forest is destroyed day by day
the farmland is becoming desert many species of
animals are reducing in great numbers.
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We cant live a better life if we continue to
pollute our environment. Its everyones
duty to give a hand to protect our environment
its everybodys duty to save the energy and
natural resources its everyones responsibility
not to produce harmful rubbish. Only when all of
us give a hand can we expect a hopeful tomorrow.
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With this hope in mind we can see our sky become
clear again with this hope in mind we can find
water in rivers get clean with this hope in mind
we will see flowers and grass instead of rubbish
with this hope in mind we will find the hills
turn green with this hope in mind we will see
children breathe fresh air and play happily on
the green grass.
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Homework
Recite the speech.