综英四册4课.pptVIP

Unit 4 A View of Mountains Pre-reading activities Discussions: Say about what is “A Nuclear Weapon”. Has the Nuclear Weapon even been put in the actual use? When? Where? And by Who? The atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima City on August 6, 1945. The city of Hiroshima was reduced to sheets. The then Hiroshima Prefectural Building for Promotion of Industry has been preserved as the Atomic Bombed Dome. About 70,000 people were killed by the intensive blast and radiation of the plutonium bomb which exploded over Nagasaki City, August 9, 1945. A person who sat on the step evaporated, only leaving the shadow. Japanese kid after the Bomb ????????????????????????????????????????????????? (Nagasaki? -Japan -1945) The thermic rays. The imprint of clothes upon the skin. Two brothers were looking about for their parents. The face of the younger boy was stained with shriveled blood (Nagasaki - Japan - 1945) A burnt Japanese woman. (Nagasaki - Japan - 1945) ? Statue at the Peace Park, Nagasaki-City Text Ⅰ A View of Mountains Pre-reading questions: 1. What do you think is the greatest threat to the existence of mankind? 2. Why are we so concerned about nuclear weapons? Structure In the text author talks about two things: what we see in Yamahata’s pictures of the Nagasaki destroyed half a century ago, and what we should do about the nuclear peril existing today? There are two sentences from the text which can make most clear the author’s opinion about the two things mentioned above: 1. at the end of the first paragraph 2.in the middle of the last paragraph “performing that… the generations now alive.” Structure The argumentative essay comprised three parts. Part Ⅰ (Para 1) Part Ⅱ (Para 2-3) Part Ⅲ (Para 4) Part Ⅰ (Para 1) The writer puts forward his thesis: a view of mountains in the background suggests the real extent to which the city was destroyed by the atomic bombing. Part Ⅱ (Para 2-3) The author argues that the bombing of Nagasaki is mo