新世纪高等院校英语专业本科系列教材综合教程53-Hanging.ppt

Contents page Learning Objectives Basic features of English descriptive narration Key language grammar points George Orwell and his works Writing strategies: dynamic description, first-person narration Discussion on Shooting an Elephant Pre-R: picture activation Pre-R: Qs G-R: text introduction G-R: culture notes-Hindu Hindu (paragraph 2): a person who believes in and practices Hinduism, a religious tradition of Indian origin G-R: culture notes-Dravidian Dravidian 达罗毗荼族人 (paragraph 4) the term applied to a linguistically related group of people in India composed mainly of the traditionally lower caste members of society in southern India and in Sri Lanka such as the Tamil. G-R: culture notes-Ram G-R: author-1 G-R: author-2 G-R: author 3 G-R: structure analysis DR-p1 text A HANGING George Orwell 1. It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages. Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot for drinking water. In some of them brown silent men were squatting at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them. These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next week or two. DR-p2 text 2. One prisoner had been brought out of his cell. He was a Hindu, a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes. Six tall Indian warders were guarding him and getting him ready for the gallows. Two of them stood by with rifles and fixed bayonets, while the others handcuffed him, passed a chain through his handcuffs and fixed it to their belts, and lashed his arms tightly to his sides. They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him in a careful, caressing grip, as though all the while feeling him to make sure he was there. But he stood quite unresisting, yielding his arms limply to the ropes, as though he hardly noticed what was happening. DR-p3-4 text 3.