人教版英语必修五Unit 2（Reading task）教学课件.pptVIP

1 Before listening, read the exercises and predict what the listening is about. 2 Listen to Parts 1 and 2 of the tape and answer the following question: The interviewer thinks King James caused the problem because he changed his mind. First he let the Catholics worship as they liked. Then when he saw how many of them there were he decided not to let them worship as they liked. This made the Catholics very upset. LISTENING TEXT WAS KING JAMES FAIR? A Catholic supporter (CS) is interviewing King James (KJ) to find out why he changed his mind about letting the Catholics practise their religion as they wished. Part1 CS: Good morning sir. Thank you for coming to talk to me about the attack that was planned for November 6th. It was so lucky you escaped. KJ: Yes. I was very upset, of course. I couldn’t believe that anyone would want to kill me. What did I ever do to Guy Fawkes and his friends? CS: But, sir, you’re the person who caused this problem by changing your mind. First of all you let the Catholics practise their religion safely. Then you said it was no longer allowed. You must have known they would get upset. KJ: Please try to understand my difficulty. I thought there were only a few Catholics in the country. CS: Why did you think so? KJ: Well, because only a few people were put in prison every year for not going to the Protestant church. CS: I see. So you thought these were the only Catholics. KJ: Yes. Part 2 KJ: When I relaxed the law there seemed to be so many Catholics that I felt I had done the wrong thing. I got frightened. I worried that they might want England to be a Catholic country. CS: Does that matter? KJ: Oh yes. All our friends are Protestant countries and all our enemies are Catholic ones. CS: Mm! Did you ask Fawkes and Catesby if that was what they wanted? KJ: No. CS: So the attack was planned. Actually you brought about what you wanted to avoid. What did you learn from it? KJ: I should have talked to the Catholics. If I’d done that there