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外研版英语 选择性必修第二册
Unit 4 Breaking boundaries
Period 3 Developing ideas &Presenting ideas
Before reading
Watch the video and answer the questions.
1. How did slave owners regard their slaves
2. What was a slave's life like
The Words That Changed A Nation
The passage is likely to be chosen from _________.
A. The Power of Speech
B. Famous US Presidents
C. Great Battles in History
Suggested answer: A .
The structure and the theme of the text
1. Who was the man standing on the platform
2. What was he doing in public
The structure and the theme of the text
paragraphs the main idea
Part 1 Para 1
Part 2 Para 2
Part 3 Para 3
Part 4 Para4,5,6
The setting of the address
The background event of the address
The main content of the address
“The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln
Comprehend the details the passage
The Gettysburg Address
Speaker: Abraham Lincoln
Setting (date& place):
Background event:
November 19, 1863
a field in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
For two years, American people had been deep in a civil war between the slave-owning Confederate Southern States and the “free” Northern States of the Union. The worst battle lasted three days and took place at Gettysburg in 1863.
1. How did Lincoln describe the founding of the US
LincoLn described the US as a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
2. What challenges did the Civil War bring to the nation
The Civil War tested whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.
3. How did Lincoln describe the men who fought in the war
He described the men as those who gave their lives that that nation might live. He thought that the brave men, living and dead, who struggled there, had consecrated it. The world will never forget what they did there.
4. What was the “great task” that Lincoln described
The task was to make the nation live and the government of the people, by the people, for the people, would not perish from the earth.
5. Who would be responsible for carrying out this task
The living.
Think & Share
Post reading
1. What was Lincoln's purpose in giving the speech
The purpose is to call on the living to remove the division between North and South, and the boundaries between black and white, and work step by step towards the equality of humnakind.
2. Lincoln talks about the government “of people, by the people, for the people”. What does this mean
It means that a government does not rule over the people but is ruled by them. Elected officials are regarded as servants of the people. Every citizens has a right and a duty to protect his own interests and to decide how his government should be governed.
Post reading
Think & Share
3. What other speeches can you think of that stress the importance of breaking bounsaries
Xi Jinping's One Belt And One Road Initiative.
4. What efforts to break boundaries are described in the two reading passage in the unit
Work together, fight together, and enjoy together.
The significance of abolishing slavery in the US
◎ 1. What was the US like before slavery was abolished
◎ 2. How was it different afterwords
◎ 3. In what ways did the abolition of slavery help to break boundaries
1. Slavery led to discrimination against black people. Black people and white people in the United States were discriminated against each other.
2. The liberation of the black slaves deepened the bourgeois concepts of " equality and freedom" and became an important part of the American national spirit.
3. In termsof personal freedom, democracy, equality, voting rights etc.
The speech on Edgar Snow
Before writing
Chairman MAO zedong met Mr Snow in 1970.
The film Red Star over China set in Yanan.
Edgar Snow
1. Who was Edgar Snow
An American Journalist.
(He came to China in 1928, and worked as a correspondent from April 1933 to June 1935.
From April 1933 to June 1935, Snow was also a lecturer in the Department of Journalism of Beijing Yanjing University.
In June 1936, Snow visited the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border region and wrote a large number of communications reports, becoming the first Western journalist to cover the Red Zone)
2. What did he do and what aboundaries did he break
He wrote influenttial books and articles about China in the 1930s . His writing broke ideological boundaries.
How to organize a speech about a person
Opening Who the person is:
What boundaries he or she has broken:
Body
How he or she achieved this:
Summary
Comments on him or her:
Task: Make a speed about a hero or heroine you admire.
Presenting ideas
Communication boundaries among lonely old men.
National boundaries
The rich and the poor's boundaries
Bounaries in society
Communication boundaries among lonely old men
1. What led to the boundary
2. Who is affected by the boudary
3. What can be done to remove the boundary
4. How would society change if the boundary
Because the mobile phone, children and parents meet each other less.
The old man.
Come home often, take time to visit the elderly, and chat with the elderly face to face.
Older people are happier and healthier. There will be more warmth between people.
Prepare a short presentation
1. the structure of your presentation
2. Useful words, expressions and structures
Reference:
a. Recently, the problem of … has aroused people’s concern.
b. Personally, It is urgent that immediate measures should be taken to put an end to the boundary. For one thing...; For another,....
c. Only in this way can we…
3. What improvement have you made in using learning strategies and exploring effective ways of learning
4. What improvement have you made in analysing and solving problems
I can ask questions bravely; I will consciously, actively acquire knowledge.
I can grasp the key of the problem. For the completely strange problem, I will tell people very honestly, and other people can participate in the discussion together,
so as to quickly form ideas and solve the problem. Think about it another way.
Reflection
1. What text types have you learn about What are their feature
2. What improvement have you made in understaning different cultures
I've learned the narrative. It usually refers to 5W (what/why/who/where/when) and 1H (how).
It made me more aware of the background of the story.
Language points
1. He gave them a new vision of what the United States of America should be, based on the ideas set down by its Founding Fathers 87 years before.
[句式分析] “what the United States of America should be” 由what引导的宾语从句; “based on...”过去分词短语作状语,修饰前面整个句子, 其中set down by...为过去分词作定语,修饰名词the ideas.
[尝试翻译] 他给了他们一个美利坚合众国应该成为什么样的新愿景,这个愿景建立在87年前美国国父们制定的理念之上。
Language points
2. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived, so dedicated, can long endure.
[句式分析] “be engaged in: 参与;忙于”; “testing...”现在分词短语作伴随状语,“whether...or...”引导的从句作动词test的宾语。
[尝试翻译] 现在我们正投身一场伟大的内战,以考验这个国家,或者任何一个孕育于自由平等和奉行上述原则的国家是否能够长久存在下去。
Language points
3. It is rahter for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us.
[句式分析] “It”作形式主语, “to be here dedicated to the great task”不定式短语作真正主语后置;“remaining before us” 现在分词短语作后置定语,修饰task.
[尝试翻译] 倒是我们应该在这里献身于仍然留在我们面前的伟大任务。
Language points
4. Although Snow was not the only international journalist to set foot in China during the early decades of the 20th century, what set him apart from the others was that he actually spent time with the Chinese Red Army.
[句式分析] although 引导让步状语从句; “what set him apart from the others”由what 引导的主语从句,“that he actually spent time with the Chinese Red Army”由that 引导的表语从句。
[尝试翻译] 尽管斯诺并不是20世纪初唯一一个踏足中国的国际记者,但他与其他记者的不同之处在于,他确实和中国红军度过了一段时间。
Language points
1. in memery of
8. engage in
2. at a great cost
9. carry out
3. in a larger sense
10. be dedicated to ...
4. bring forth
11. look to
5. set foot in
12. as well as
6. step by step
13. apart from
7. in vain
14. capture the spirit of...
Assignments for this period
1. Review the vocabulary and the language ponits of the text.
2. Grasp how to organise a speech about a big person.
3. Write a short passage about breaking the boundary between the rich and the poor.
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