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I will describe some people to you, please guess who they are according to my description.
Unit 1 Women of achievement
Guessing game
She was an inventor and a scientist from Poland.
She went to Paris and studied physics and chemistry there.
She was given the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911.
She is the only woman scientist who was awarded Nobel Prize for two times.
Madame Curie (1867-1934)
In the year1903, she and another scientist were awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics for their discovery of radium.
On July 4,1934, she died in Paris, killed by her own experiments.
She died of radiation poisoning.
Empress Wu Zetian (624 - 705)
She was the only female monarch (君主 ) of China.
She lived in Tang Dynasty.
She ruled the empire (帝国 ) for over half a century.
Wu Zetian was the only woman who ever ruled the Chinese empire in her own right,her actions have been a subject for debate for more ten centuries. She was the most remarkable(非凡的), influential (有影响的)and mysterious(神秘的) woman in Chinese history.
She was once a Britain royal member .
She showed her kindness and concern to the people (who suffered from poverty and diseases).
Unluckily she died in a car accident in1997.
Princess Diana
a great woman in ancient China
joined the army instead
of her father
fought bravely in the war
Mu Lan
A girl from the countryside who dressed as a man and went to fight for the French and to drive the English out of France. She was caught and put to death by the English.
Joan of Arc
(1412-1432)
France
She was born in the small
village in France. She lived
at the time when there was a
war between England and
France called “The Hundred Years War”. She showed the French army how to win battles and inspired them with the confidence
enough to defeat the English and send them back to England for good.
AT that time it was considered wrong for women to fight in the army.
Joan argued that God had
spoken to her and sent her
to help the army and
encouraged her to fight in
men’s clothes.
Listening on page41
西元1429,英法战争如火如荼之际,法国偏远地区的一个小村落传开一个令法国人振奋的消息。该村落里一个十几岁的少女琼安(蜜拉乔娃维琪)对外宣称自己获得上帝的指示,将带领法国人击退来犯的英军,让法国恢复为一个自由的国家。原本流传于乡间的消息,逐渐为整个法国所知。
background information
法国当时的储君查理(约翰马可维奇), 在岳母的鼓吹下, 接见琼安,并同时将大批军队交由琼安指挥。一时之间法国军队士气为之一振, 接下来由少女所带领的军队战无不克, 英军节皆败退。储君也如愿加冕成为真正的国王。
国王登基后,不再支持琼安,在缺乏援兵的情况下,法军节节败退,琼安落入英军手中成为众矢之的,所有人将少女指为妖女。不再有人相信她,视她为女巫,最后,她被处以女巫死刑活活被烧死。五百年后,梵帝岗教廷为少女平反, 将她册封圣女贞德,平复五百年来的冤屈。
Words and phrases
part 1
1.Fight,fought,fought(forght for)
2.rule v,n 统治，规章制度
3.treat v 对待，治疗
4.drive…out of 把····驱逐出去
5.battle 战争
6.allow 允许
7.church 教堂
8.dress up 化妆，打扮
9.behave 言行，举止，表现
10.permission n.(permit v.) 允许
Part 2
11.attack 攻击
12.inspire 鼓舞
13.spirit 精神，灵魂，烈酒
14.feel sorry for…对···遗憾，对不起···
15.saint 圣人
Pre-listening
Before you listen,look at the picture and read the exercises below.predict the content,and then listen to the tape and check if you were correct. (page41)
Listen and try to finish the tasks on page 41.
Listen to part 1 and make notes in the chart below.
Listen to part 2 and fill in the blanks in the sentences below.
Listening on page 41
Part 1
Joan’s country France
Her reason for fighting
Her enemy
How did Joan help
To drive the English out of France
The English
She joined the French army.
1. thought , followed
2. angry, behaved, killed
3. later, understood, fighting
Part 2
Listening text
L=Luc LM=Ming
Part 1
LM: Who is Joan of Arc
L: She was a very brave French lady
who fought for her country about six
hundred years ago.
LM: Why did she do that
L: Well, at that time English were ruling France. They treated the French very badly.
LM: Oh dear! Why didn’t the French soldiers drive the English out of France
L: They tried, but they did not have good leaders. So they lost every battle.
LM: How did Joan help
L: She joined the French army. She was a very good soldier and she won battles against the English army!
LM: Were women allowed to be soldiers then
L: No, they weren’t! The Church didn’t allow it.
LM: So how did she become a soldier
L: Well, she dressed up and behaved like a man, and some people say she went to see the king of France and got his permission.
Part 2
LM: How could she be so brave
L: That’s because she believed God had sent her. She had many good ideas for attacking the English army. The French soldiers followed her.
LM: I see , but what did the English do
L: They were very angry. They caught her and the Church decided she had not behaved as a woman should. So they killed her.
LM: How terrible! What happened to the French after her death
L: The French soldiers were inspired by her spirit and won more battles . Finally they ended the English rule in France.
LM: So she won in the end. Did the English feel sorry about what they did to her
L: Yes, they did. Much later they understood that she was fighting for her country .The Church made her a saint!
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Joan of Arc
