1、外 研 社 2 0 1 9 版 选 择 性 必 修 二Unit 4 Breaking boundariesD e v e l o p i n g i d e a sLeading inLeading inLook at the picture and guess.1 How did slave owners regard their slaves?2 What was a slaves life like?Activity 1Leading inLeading inWatch the video and answer the questions.1 How did slave owners r
2、egard their slaves?They didnt regard them as humans but as animals,without respecting them.2 What was a slaves 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.
3、Activity 1(of physical work)very hard and tiring Pre-readingPre-readingPredict 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;
4、a remark or statementWhile-reading(Para.1)While-reading(Para.1)Read Para.1 and find out the corresponding information.WhenWhoWhereHowa grey afternoon;19 November 1863a tall,thin man called Abraham Lincoln(then president)a platform in a field in Gettysburg,PennsylvaniaThis address to the crowd change
5、d the minds of the people and helped shaped the country.What was America going through?While-reading(Para.2)While-reading(Para.2)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 Gettys
6、burg 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 Statesthe“free”Northern States of the UnionWhat was all this suffering for?(What were the soldiers fighting for?)While-reading(Para.3)While-reading(Pa
7、ra.3)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
8、and South,but the _ between black and white,and work step by step towards the _ of humankind.divisionsboundariesequalityWhile-reading(Para.4-6)While-reading(Para.4-6)Read Lincolns Gettysburg Address and answer the questions.Activity 3While-reading(Para.4-6)While-reading(Para.4-6)Watch Lincolns Getty
9、sburg 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 3to
10、 form an idea,a plan,etc.in your mind;to imagine sth 想象想象；构想构想an idea or a plan of action that is suggested,especially in business 提议提议Watch Lincolns Gettysburg Address and answer the questions.While-reading(Para.4-6)While-reading(Para.4-6)They gave their lives so that their nation might live.They w
11、ere brave men whose struggles had consecrated the ground.Activity 3That 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.Think and shareThink and share What was
12、 Lincolns 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
13、 that government should be run by ordinary people;“for the people”means that government should use its power for the peoples benefit.“民有、民治、民享民有、民治、民享”的政府的政府SummarySummary What efforts to break boundaries are described in the two reading passages in this unit?In the first passage,doctors or other pe
14、ople 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
15、nation where all men are equal.Language points Para.1Language 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 _
16、(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 afternoonmount a platform in a fieldin memory oflast(for)two minuteswherehad diedto organise/begin sth.to increase graduallyto get on sth.to ride itaddressshapeaddress n./v.address n./v.Please address y
17、our 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；致函写收信人姓名地址；致函to make a formal speech to a group of people称呼称呼某人某人address(oneself to)sth.设法解决；处理；对
18、付设法解决；处理；对付Language points Para.2Language points Para.2be bitterly dividedbitterly disappointedbe deep ina civil warcivil发生以巨大的代价使身体受伤；用武器伤害被残酷地被残酷地/惨痛地分裂惨痛地分裂极其极其/非常失望非常失望埋头于；深陷入埋头于；深陷入be involved/engaged/caught up ina war between groups of people in the same country 内战内战adj.国民的；平民的国民的；平民的take plac
19、eat a great costwound v./wounded adj.Language points Para.3Language points Para.3civilian n./adj.look to the futureTranslate: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新的愿景，那就是依照87年前开国元勋的理念理念，美利坚合众国本应成为的
20、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；庶民平民；老百姓；庶民展望、思考未来展望、思考未来be up to sb.remove the divisions betweenthe boundaries betweenwork step by step towardsthe equality of humankindvisiondownwhatbasedidealsPara.4Para.4bring forth:to give birth to;produce sth生产，产出生产，产出conceive：1)(formal)to form an ide
21、a,a plan,etc.in your mind;to imagine sth 想出；构想想出；构想2)when a woman conceives or conceives a child,she becomes pregnant 怀孕怀孕Language points Para.4Language points Para.487年前score(pl.score)孕育孕育于自由中He conceived the idea of transforming the old power station into an arts centre.Translate:Four score and se
22、ven 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创建了一个新的国家，它孕育于自由之中，并致力于致力于人人生而平等人人生而平等的信念信念。four score and seven years ago20个 a score ofbe conceived in Liberty想出（主意、计划等）；构想；设想想出（主意、计划等）；
23、构想；设想dedicated tobrought forthpropositionconceivedTranslate: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，它它考验考验着这个国家，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
24、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。完全完全应当且非常恰当Language points Para.5Language points Para.5testingare engaged inendurea portion ofaltogether fitting and properLanguage points Para.6Language points Para.6从更广泛的意义上来
25、说consecrate/knskret/hallow/hl/this groundThe 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 sensevt.圣化；奉献圣化；奉献vt.使成为神圣，把使成为神圣，把视为神圣视为神圣living and deadconsecrated减损；毁损；贬低减损；毁损；贬低翻译：翻译：因为
26、在这里勇敢抗争的人们，不论生死，已经圣化了这片土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。地，这远不是我们渺小的力量所能增减的。Para.6Para.6It 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.6Language
27、 points Para.6Translate: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
28、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。dedicatedremainingdevotionfor whichfull measureres
29、olvein vainperishLanguage points P46Language points P46在奴隶制度被废除之前奴隶制的废除before slavery U was abolishedthe abolition(/bln/)of slaveryWriting a speechWriting a speechRead the speech on Edgar Snow and answer the questions.Who was Edgar Snow?What did he do and what boundaries did he break?Activity 5Writi
30、ng a speechWriting a speechRead the speech on Edgar Snow and answer the questions.Who was Edgar Snow?He was an American journalist who wrote influential books and articles about China in the 1930s.What did he do and what boundaries did he break?He actually spent time with the Chinese Red Army and li
31、stened to their stories and observed their day-to-day lives.He also conducted interviews with Mao Zedong and other leaders.His book Red Star over China broke ideological boundaries by telling the stories of the Chinese communist movement from the inside.Activity 5Writing a speechWriting a speechHow
32、can we organise a speech about a person who has helped to increase understanding between two countries?Activity 5Para.1Para.2Para.3Introduction Who the person is What is his/her major achievement(in breaking boundaries)Body How he/she achieved thisSummary Comments on him/her有很大影响的很少为人所知打破意识形态界限中国共产主
33、义运动发自内心踏上；登上使与众不同；使突出使与众不同；使突出花时间与一起每天的；日常的采访某人传记（文体）influentialLittle was known aboutbreak ideological boundariesChinese communist movementfrom the insideset foot in/on/atset apart fromspend time withday-to-day adj.conduct interviews withbiographical accountbiography n.;autobiography n.Language poi
34、nts P47Language points P47对历史事件的刻画抓住的精髓活过（某一段时间）；经受住前所未有的真实性被认为是特别的见解深入的核心纠正偏见尤其必读书depictions of historical eventsdepict v.描绘；刻画描绘；刻画depict ascapture the spirit oflive throughunprecedented authenticitybe considered(as)special insightget to the heart ofcorrect prejudicein particulara must-read forLanguage points P47Language points P47
