《Lesson FiveThe Twelve Angry Men》.doc

Lesson Five The Twelve Angry Men Part I Warm-up 1.1 Listening materials 1. Writer Joseph Heller died of a heart attack when he was 76 years old. Joseph Heller was famous for writing a book called Catch-22. It was about life in the American military during World War II. The book made fun of rules and officials who make rules that do not make sense. In the United States, the word catch-22 came to mean a stupid rule. Americans love this new idea that Joseph Heller gave to the language. 2. Our next scientist of the millennium is the Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud. He changed scientific ideas about the mind. Doctor Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia. He established the idea that dreams help us understand our unconscious self. He said this is the part of the mind containing wishes, desires or bad experience too frightening to recognize. Sigmund Freud’s work on the causes and treatment of mental sickness helped form the ideas of modern psychiatry. His ideas about sexual development led to the discussion and treatment of sexual problems. Many of Sigmund Freud’s ideas are no longer used today, but no one disputes his great influence on the science of mental health. 3. The Pentagon is one of the largest office buildings in the world. It is the headquarters of the United States defense Department. The building is in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington D.C. It has 5 sides. That is why it is called the Pentagon. The building was designed that way because of 5 roads that are the borders of the surrounding land. It covers 12 hectares of land and has more than 340,000 square meters of space. About 24,000 people work in the Pentagon. About half are civilians , the other are part of the military forces. They form part of 4 groups: the Departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Army engineers began building Pentagon in 1941. It was completed 16 months later. It was built to house the offices of the War Dep