教师设计有关背景知识的填空题，一方面呈现背景知识，另一方面训练学生的语言知识能力，同时利用多媒体手段，播放相应的歌曲和诗歌朗读音频，同时锻炼学生边写故事的能力。

1. On the Origin of Racism

Debates over the origins of racism often suffer from a lack of _____ over the term. Many mix recent forms of racism with earlier forms of ethnic and national conflict. In most cases ethno-national conflict seems to ____ to conflict over land and strategic resources. In some cases ethnicity and nationalism were ________ to wars between great religious empires (for example, the Muslim Turks and the Catholic Austro-Hungarians). As Benedict Anderson has suggested ethnic ______ and ethno-nationalism became a source of conflict within such empires with the rise of print-capitalism.

In its modern form, racism evolved in with European exploration and _______ of much of the rest of the world, and especially after Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. As new peoples were __________, fought, and ultimately subdued, theories about “race” began to develop, and these helped many to ______ the differences in position and treatment of people whom they categorized as belonging to different races.

Another possible source of racism is the misunderstanding of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution. Some ___ Darwin’s theories to imply that since some “races” were more civilized, there must be a biological _____ for the difference. At the same time they _______ to biological theories of moral and intellectual traits to justify racial oppression. There is a great deal of controversy about race and intelligence, in part because the concepts of both race and ___ are themselves controversial.

2. Enjoy a Song

Love is Color-Blind

It don’t matter if you're black white or yellow, if you’re brown or red let’s get down to that love is color-blind I remember when I was a child and couldn’t understand people having fun discriminating all the different ones mama just used to say when you grow up you’ll maybe find a way to make these people see that everything I do comes back to me

3. Enjoy a Poem

Let America be America Again

Let America be America again.

Let it be the dream it used to be.

Let it be the pioneer on the plain

Seeking a home where he himself is free.

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—

Let it be that great strong land of love

Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme

That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty

Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,

But opportunity is real, and life is free,

Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free”.)

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?

And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

4. Make up a story

Write your own ending of the story.