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Unit 4 Breaking boundaries
Developing ideas
Reading
1. Acquire some information about The Gettysburg Address by viewing and reading. (学习理解)
2. Conclude the influences of the address and the qualities of Lincoln by analyzing and discussing. (应用实践)
3. Give a talk about the significance of abolishing slavery in the US. (迁移创新)
Learning objectives
Look at the pictures and guess.
1 How did slave owners regard their slaves
2 What was a slave’s life like
Activity 1
Lead-in
Watch the video and answer the questions.
1 How did slave owners regard their slaves
They didn’t regard them as humans but as animals, without respecting them.
2 What was a slave’s life like
Daily life for a slave involved back-breaking labour. Slaves had to work all day long without enough rest. They were often physically abused by their owners and had no legal rights.
Activity 1
(of physical work) very hard and tiring
Predict what this passage might be about based on the title.
Whose words were they
When & where did it happen
What was the content
How did it change a nation in what way
Read para. 1 and find out
the answers.
n. [C] a thing that you say; a remark or statement
Pre-reading
Read Para. 1 and find out the corresponding information.
When
Who
Where
How
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
a grey afternoon; 19 November 1863
a tall, thin man called Abraham Lincoln (then president)
a platform in a field in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This address to the crowd changed the minds of the people and helped shaped the country.
What was America going through
While-reading
Para.1
Read Para. 2 and answer the question.
What was America going through
America was bitterly divided by a two-year civil war.
Result:
The worst battle lasted three days at Gettysburg in 1863, with the Union side winning at a great cost of over 50,000 casualties.
People lost hope and purpose.
the slave-owning Confederate Southern States
the “free” Northern States of the Union
VS
What was all this suffering for
(What were the soldiers fighting for )
Para.2
Read Para. 3 and answer the questions.
What was all this suffering for
“… a new version of what the USA should be, based on the ideals set down by its Founding Fathers 87 years before. It was what the soldiers had died for.”
What is “the new version” of the ideals
To remove not only the __________ between North and South, but the __________ between black and white, and work step by step towards the _______ of humankind.
divisions
boundaries
equality
Para.3
Read Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and answer the questions.
Activity 3
Para.4-6
Watch Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and answer the questions.
It was a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
It would test whether this nation (a nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal) can long endure.
Activity 3
to form an idea, a plan, etc. in your mind; to imagine sth 想象;构想
an idea or a plan of action that is suggested, especially in business 提议
Para.4-6
They gave their lives so that their nation might live. They were brave men whose struggles had consecrated the ground.
That this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The living should be dedicated to the task.
Watch Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and answer the questions.
Activity 3
Para.4-6
Think and share
What was Lincoln’s purpose in giving the speech
He wanted to give the people hope, belief and a reason to look to the future.
Lincoln talked about government “of the people, by the people, for the people”. What does this mean
“Of the people” means that government should be made up of the people;
“by the people” means that government should be run by ordinary people;
“for the people” means that government should use its power for the people’s benefit.
“民有、民治、民享”的政府
Summary
What efforts to break boundaries are described in the two reading passages in this unit
In the first passage, doctors or other people of different backgrounds worked together to save people in danger.
The abolition of slavery made former slaves and their former masters equal before the law. This was the first step towards true equality.
In the second passage, Lincoln called on the people of the United States to strive for a free nation where all men are equal.
Language points – Para. 1
在一个灰色的下午
登上一个空地上的讲台
to mount a protest/a campaign/an exhibition
The death toll continues to mount.
He mounted his horse and rode away.
The place was the site of a recent battle ______ thousands of soldiers __________ (die).
为了纪念
持续了两分钟
But this _________ (演讲,演说) to the crowd changed the minds of his people and helped _______ (塑造;影响……的发展) a nation.
on a grey/gray afternoon
mount a platform in a field
in memory of
last (for) two minutes
where
had died
to organise/begin sth.
to increase gradually
to get on sth. to ride it
address
shape
address n./v.
Please address your application to the Personnel Manager.
The president came to address a meeting.
The judge should be addressed as “Your Honour”.
Your essay does not address the real issues.
address sth. to sb./sth. 写收信人姓名地址;致函
to make a formal speech to a group of people
称呼某人
address (oneself to) sth. 设法解决;处理;对付
Language points – Para. 2
be bitterly divided
bitterly disappointed
be deep in
a civil war
civil
发生
以巨大的代价
使身体受伤;用武器伤害
被残酷地/惨痛地分裂
极其/非常失望
埋头于;深陷入
be involved/engaged/caught up in
a war between groups of people in the same country 内战
adj. 国民的;平民的
take place
at a great cost
wound v./wounded adj.
Language points – Para. 3
civilian n./adj.
look to the future
Translate: He gave them a new _______ (展望/幻想) of _____ the USA should be, ______ (base) on the _______ (理想;看似完美的标准) set ______ (制定) by its Founding Fathers 87 years before.
他给予了美国人民一个新的愿景,那就是依照87年前开国元勋的理念,美利坚合众国本应成为的样子。
该由……决定;由……负责
消除……之间的分歧
……之间的界限
一步一步朝着……努力
人类的平等
平民;老百姓;庶民
展望、思考未来
be up to sb.
remove the divisions between…
the boundaries between…
work step by step towards
the equality of humankind
vision
down
what
based
ideals
Para. 4
bring forth:
to give birth to; produce sth
生产,产出
conceive:
1) (formal) to form an idea, a plan, etc. in your mind; to imagine sth
想出;构想
2) when a woman conceives or conceives a child , she becomes pregnant
怀孕
Language points – Para. 4
87年前
score (pl. score)
孕育于自由中
He conceived the idea of transforming the old power station into an arts centre.
Translate: Four score and seven years ago our fathers ___________ (生产;产出), upon this continent, a new nation, __________ (孕育) in Liberty, and _____________ (献身;致力于) the ____________ (提议;主张;见解) that all men are created equal.
87年前,我们的先辈在这块大陆上创建了一个新的国家,它孕育于自由之中,并致力于人人生而平等的信念。
four score and seven years ago
20个 a score of
be conceived in Liberty
想出(主意、计划等);构想;设想
dedicated to
brought forth
proposition
conceived
Translate: Now we _____________ (使从事;参与) a great civil war, ________ (test) whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived, and so dedicated, can long _______ (持续,持久).
当下我们正深陷于一场大规模的内战,它考验着这个国家,或者任何一个生于自由,对上述理想深信不疑的国家,能否长久生存下去。
Translate: We have come to dedicate ____________ (一部分) it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
我们来到这里,把这里的一部分土地献给那些为了国家存续而献出生命的人,作为他们最终的安息之地。
完全应当且非常恰当
Language points – Para. 5
testing
are engaged in
endure
a portion of
altogether fitting and proper
Language points – Para. 6
从更广泛的意义上来说
consecrate /'k ns kre t/
hallow /'h l / this ground
The brave men, _____________ (不论生死), have ___________ (圣化) it far above our power to add or detract (__________________).
翻译:The world will little (adv.) note (v.)…
世界不会留意,也不会铭记我们在这里说了什么,但它永远不会忘记他们在这里做的事情。
in a larger sense
vt. 圣化;奉献
vt. 使成为神圣,把……视为神圣
living and dead
consecrated
减损;毁损;贬低
翻译:
因为在这里勇敢抗争的人们,不论生死,已经圣化了这片土地,这远不是我们渺小的力量所能增减的。
Para.6
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on.
thus far = so far
他们英勇地坚持至今,现在是我们这些生者献身于这些未完成的事业的时候了。
Language points – Para. 6
Translate: It is rather for us to be here __________ (dedicate) to the great task __________ (remain) before us – that from these honored dead we take increased ________ (devote) to that cause ________ they here gave the last ___________ (足量的) of devotion – that we here highly _________ (决心;决定) that these dead shall not have died _______ (徒然;白费); that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not ______ (丧失;毁灭) from the earth.
我们应该把自己奉献于在我们面前的伟大事业——
从这些光荣的逝者身上汲取更多的信仰,来投身于他们为之竭尽最后一丝力量的事业
——我们在这里下最大的决心,不让逝者白白失去生命,要让国家获得自由的新生,要使民有、民治、民享的政府永存。
dedicated
remaining
devotion
for which
full measure
resolve
in vain
perish
Language points – P46
在奴隶制度被废除之前
奴隶制的废除
before slavery [U] was abolished
the abolition (/ b 'l n/) of slavery
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that (同位语从句)from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion(定语从句) – that(同位语从句) we here highly resolve that (宾语从句)these dead shall not have died in
vain; that (宾语从句)this nation ,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that (宾语从句)this government of the people
(民有), by the people(民治), for the people(民享), shall not perish from the earth.