内容正文:
Section Ⅳ Developing ideas, Presenting ideas & Reflection — Comprehending
学习任务目标
1. 识记本课时的重要语言点;
2. 理解《葛底斯堡演说》的历史背景和意义,感受演讲的魅力和力量;
3. 深入理解边界产生的原因和影响,思考破除边界的方法,预测破除边界会带来的改变等;
4. 能运用本单元所学语言,恰当地表达自己的观点,有理有据地进行论述;
5. 通过小组合作,养成团队合作意识,学会与小组成员共同讨论,集思广益,拓展自我思维的边界。
1. mount v. 走上,登上
2. civil adj. 公民的,国民的
3. division n. 分歧,分裂
4. liberty n. 自由
5. altogether adv. 完全
6. influential adj. 有影响力的
7. dedicate v. 致力于,献身于
8. 高尚地,崇高地 adv. nobly
9. 共产主义的 adj. communist
10. 奴隶 n. slave
11. 联邦 n. union
12. 平民的;百姓的 adj. civilian
13. 构思,设想 v. conceive
14. 持续存在 v. endure
15. 一部分 n. portion
16. 减低,破坏,损害 v. detract
17. at a great cost 以巨大代价
18. carry on 继续;坚持;经营;进行(生意、谈话)等
19. in vain 白白地;徒劳,无结果
20. bring forth 使产生,使出现
21. be engaged in 参与;从事
22. 一步步地 step by step
23. 踏入;进入 set foot in
24. 使与众不同;使突出 set... apart
25. 在更大的意义上 in a larger sense
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Parts
Main ideas
Details
Part 1
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Para. 3)
Background information.
On a grey afternoon on 19 November 1863, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, gave a speech which changed the minds of his people and helped1. shape a nation . At that time, America was 2. bitterly divided . For two years, its people had been deep in a 3. civil war between the slaveowning Confederate Southern States and the “free” Northern States of the Union. The Union side won, but 4. at a great cost . His speech gave them 5. hope , belief and a reason to 6. look to the future .
Part 2
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Para. 6)
The Gettysburg Address.
87 years ago our fathers brought forth a new nation, conceived in 7. Liberty , and dedicated to the proposition that all men 8. are created equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived, and so dedicated, can long 9. endure . It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have, thus far, so nobly 10. carried on . It is rather for us to be here dedicated to