1、Unit 5 Nelson Mandelaa modern hero【单元导航】Nelson MandelaImagine growing up in a country where drinking out of the wrong water fountain might get you thrown into jail；where a man might have the very same job as his neighbor，but because of the color of his skin，get paid less in a year than the other man
2、 made in a week；where the government told you that your ancestors and their ways of living were wrong and savage and not even human.Sounds like a futuristic (幻想未来的) film，doesnt it? Well，for Nelson Mandela，this was not a movie.Growing up in South africa under the apartheid system of government meant
3、these things，and worse，which were part of his daily life.But Nelson Mandela was a fighter.Instead of bowing down to this unjust system of government，he became a lifelong warrior in the battle to free South Africa.Today，thanks to the selfsacrifice of Nelson Mandela，apartheid has been outlawed.Everyon
4、e in South Africa now has an equal opportunity at home and at work to live comfortable，productive lives.Nelson Mandela is one of the worlds true freedom fighters.检验真知目标回顾.重点单词1.active adj.积极的；活跃的actively adv.2.selfish adj.自私的self n.自我；自身selfless adj.无私的；忘我的3.devote vt.献身；专心于devoted adj.忠实的；深爱的4.peac
5、e n.和平peaceful adj.5.equal adj.相等的；平等的equality n.6.unfair adj.不公正的；不公平的fair adj.(反义词)7.educate vt.教育；训练educated adj.受过教育的8.beg vi.请求；乞求beggar n.乞丐9.reward n.报酬；奖金； vt.酬劳；奖赏award n.奖；授予； vt.授予奖励；判给10.quality n.质量；品质；性质11.generous adj.慷慨的；大方的12.stage n.舞台；阶段；时期13.vote vt.& vi.投票；选举； n.投票；选票；表决14.attac
6、k vt.进攻；攻击；抨击15.escape vi.逃脱；逃走；泄露16.blanket n.毛毯；毯子17.relative n.亲戚；亲属18.president n.总统；会长；校长；行长；主席19.opinion n.意见；看法；主张.重点短语1.lose heart丧失信心e to power当权；上台3.be sentenced to.被判处(徒刑)4.in ones opinion在某人看来5.as a matter of fact事实上6.blow up充气；爆炸7.in trouble在困境中8.set up设立9.turn to求助于；致力于10.devote.to.献身；
7、专心于11.out of work失业.重点句型1.He died for his ideas but his work is still used in the official Bible today.2.Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advice.3.The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress，until today we have reached a stage where we
8、have almost no rights at all.4.we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we were less important，or fight the government.5.only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.6.I felt bad the first time I talked to a group.重点语法若定语从句所修饰的先行词在定语从句中作地点、时间、原因状语时，常用关系副词或“介词which”引导定语从句，并在定语从句中作状语；另外，当关系代词在定语从句中作介词宾语时，从句常由介词which/whom 引导。
