Unit 4 Breaking Boundaries Developing ideas Reading 学案 -2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 4 Period 4 Reading 【学习目标】 Learning Objectives 1 To get the historical background and meaning of the Gettysburg speech, and make your own speech 2 To use the key language points from the passage correctly 【学习过程】 Learning activities 目标一: To get the historical background and meaning of the Gettysburg speech, make your own speech Activity 1: Look at the title and skim the passage. Choose the book in which you would most likely find the passage. The Words That Changed A Nation 1 The Power of Speech 2 Famous US Presidents 3 Great Battles in History Activity 2: Read the passage quickly and put it into four parts, write down the main idea of each part. Parts Para.(s) Main idea Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Activity 3: Read the passage carefully and finish the two tasks. Task 1: Read para.s 1~3, fill in the chart. The Gettysburg Address Speaker Abraham Lincoln Setting (date & place) Background event Main content Task 2: Read para.s 4~6, answer the questions. 1 How did Lincoln describe the founding of the US? 2 What challenges did the Civil War bring to the nation? 3 How did Lincoln describe the men who fought in the war? 4 What was the “great task” that Lincoln described? 5 Who would be responsible for carrying out this task? Answers: _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Activity 4: Think & Share 1 What was Lincoln’s purpose in giving the speech? 2 Lincoln talks about the government “of the people, by the people, for the people”. What does this mean? 3 What other speeches can you think of that stress the importance of breaking boundaries? 4 What efforts to break boundaries are described in the two reading passage in the unit? Learning to lear