The Greatest InventionBy Lord Dunsany.ppt

I. Text Analysis ? Question: “Happen” to what? What were people talking about? Who were they? They might be the members of the club. They were talking about the world affairs. They were asking what was going to happen in the world. “What do you think is going to happen, Jorkens?” In Para. 1 Further Discussion I. Text Analysis ? “Now that a man can carry in a bag a bomb that is more powerful than several battleships, it is hard to find out what any country can do or will do next.” Question: How do you understand the sentence? Nowadays, terrible weapons could be easily produced due to new technology, so the threat to the safety of the people in the world is only too real. No one can easily predicts what the other country will do and what will happen to their own country. In Para. 4 I. Text Analysis “War is no long a matter of armies; it depends on the intelligence of scientists.” In Para. 6 ? Question: How did the man understand “war”? The man believed that modern wars didn’t depend on how big an army one country had, but on high technology which needed the intelligence of scientists. I. Text Analysis ? “… but I was in our Ministry of Warfare.” In Para. 10 Question: How do you understand “Ministry of Warfare”? It is usually called “the Ministry of Defense”. The author coined this name to show the country is a belligerent country. I. Text Analysis ? “We relied, and rightly on that man’s wisdom; but we forgot his folly.” Question: Why did the man say the scientist was foolish? He cannot understand the scientist’s devotion to science. He thought that it was foolish of the scientist to make some useless inventions. In Para. 20 I. Text Analysis Question: Why did the scientist stop making the germ? Did he care about any political purpose? Another fancy came into the mind of the scientist. He wouldn’t turn himself from his new fancy although he was appealed, bribed and threatened because he didn’t care about any political interests. ? “I tried everything: threats