全新版大学英语第三册unit2.ppt

Unit Two,Civil Rights Heroes,Pre-reading Activities,Structure of the Passage,Expressions & Patterns,After-reading Activities,,,Listen to the recording two or three times.,Part One: Pre-reading,Abraham, Martin & John Dion Has anybody here, Seen my old friend Abraham, Can you tell me, where he’s gone, He freed a lotta people, But it seems the good die young, I just looked around, And he’s gone. Has anybody here, Seen my old friend John, Can you tell me, where he’s gone, He freed a lotta people, But it seems the good die young, I just looked around, And he’s gone. Has anybody here, Seen my old friend Martin, Can you tell me, where he’s gone He freed a lotta people, But it seems the good die young, I just looked around, And he’s gone. Didn’t you love the things they stood for, Didn’t they try to find some good for you and me, And we’ll be free, Someday soon it’s gonna be one day, Has anybody here, Seen my old friend Bobby, Can you tell me, where he’s gone, I thought I saw him walkin’ up over the hill, With Abraham, Martin and John.,Questions: Do you know who were Abraham, Martin and John? Tell their stories to your partner.Can you guess what the texts in this unit are going to be about?Have you ever heard the famous speech made by Martin Luther King : I have a Dream?What can you get from it?,,,Part Two: Text A,In 2004 a center in honor of the “underground railroad” opens in Cincinnati. The railroad was unusual. It sold no tickets and had no trains. Yet it carried thousands of passengers to the destination of their dreams.,The Underground Railroad: a secret system used in the US before the Civil War for helping thousands of slaves to escape to the free states or Canada. The slaves were called “passengers”, the people who helped them were “conductors”, and the slaves hid in “stations” (safe houses) along the way.,,A gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story house. Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress, my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden, Ontario, was home to a hero in American history. As we walked toward a plain gray church, Barbara Carter spoke proudly of her great-great-grand-father, Josiah Henson.,Slender : slim; thin ; not very wide but comparatively long or highe.g. Nowadays the young ladies always go on a diet in order to keep a slender figure.,,“He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal. And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.”Carter’s devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pride: it is about family honor. For Josiah Henson has lived on through the character in American fiction that he helped inspire: Uncle Tom, the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.,intend : to have in mind; plan(usu. intend to do sth/intend sth or doing sth/ intend that )e.g. If you intend to get your bachelor’s degree, you must study hard now.,,Uncle Tom’s Cabin: a novel (1852) by the US writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. According to legend, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862 he said, “So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!“ Basing upon the life in narrative of Josiah Henson, a runaway slave, Uncle Tom‘s Cabin contributed to the outbreak of war because it brought the evils of slavery to the attention of Americans more vividly than any other book had done before. The book had a strong emotional appeal that moved and inspired people in a way that political speeches, tracts(政治或宗教的传单) and newspapers accounts could not duplicate.,,In this novel, Tom is a kind slave who is badly treated and finally killed by Simon Legree. The name Uncle Tom is sometimes used asan insult （侮辱）to describe an African-American who has too much respect for white people.,,Ironically, that character has come to symbolize everything Henson was not. A racial sellout unwilling to stand up for himself? Carter gets angry at the thought. “Josiah Henson was a man of principle,” she said firmly.I had traveled here to Henson’s last home---now a historic site that Carter formerly directed---to learn more about a man who was, in many ways, an African-American Moses.,Stand up for : support sb. e.g. Since we are close friends, I will always stand up for you.,,Moses: ( in the Bible) the leader who brought the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and led them to the Promised Land,,After winning his own freedom from slavery, Henson secretly helped hundreds of other slaves to escape north to Canada---and liberty. Many settled here in Dresden with him.Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me. Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South.,courageous : courage---- courageous----encourage,,Between 1820 and 1860, as many as 100, 000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.In October 2000, President Clinton authorized $16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U. S. The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati. And it’s about time.,。