Unit 4 Breaking Boundaries Developing ideas 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语外研版选择性必修第二册

Benedict Cumberbatch reading Sol LeWitt’s letter on Letters Live Unit 4 Breaking boundaries Developing ideas The Words That Changed A Nation 改变了一个国家的演说 Lead in 📹 Watch the video and answer the questions. 1.How did slave owners regard their slaves? 2.What was a slave’s life like? 1. How did slave owners regard their slaves? 2. What was a slave’s life like? They didn’t regard them as humans but as animals, without respecting them. Daily life for a slave involved backbreaking labour. Slaves had to work all day long without enough rest. They were often physically abused by their owners and had no legal rights. miserable [ˈmɪzrəbl] 悲惨的 desperate [ˈdespərət] 绝望的 unsufferable [ʌn'sʌfərəbl] 难以忍受的 doomed [duːmd] 注定的 inhuman [ɪnˈhjuːmən] 非人的 冷酷无情的 When it comes to slavery, what pops into your mind? Is it …? Lincoln black and white cruelty cotton fields Uncle Tom’s Cabin[ˈkæbɪn] 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》 the Civil War Slavery Pre-reading Background Information 萨凡纳 查尔斯顿 威尔明顿 詹姆斯敦 巴尔的摩 费城 纽约 波士顿 大 西 洋 The North： Capitalist industry and commerce 资本主义工商业 The South： Slave-owning plantation economy 奴隶主种植园经济 The contradictions between the two economic systems 12 The expansion[ɪkˈspænʃn] 扩张of slavery 1.The Power of Speech 2.Famous US Presidents 3.Great Battles in History Look at the title and skim the passage. Choose the book in which you would most likely find the passage. 《语言的力量》 《美国著名总统》 《历史上的重大战役》 √ On a grey afternoon on 19 November 1863, a tall, thin man mounted a platform in a field in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and began to speak. The place was the site of a recent battle where thousands of soldiers had died. The man was Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and he was there in memory of the soldiers who had died. The speech he gave was just 268 words long and lasted two minutes. But this address to the crowd changed the minds of his people and helped shape a nation. Who was the speaker? When and where did the speaker give the speech? Read and Answer Para. 1 mount vt 词源义是“攀上马背（to get on a horse）”，引申为“爬上；登上”。 词块：in memory of 以纪念…… ① ② Brief introduction to the speech What is the setting(date＆place)？ Para. 1 In a field in Gettysburg[ˈgɛtizbərg]葛底斯堡, Pennsylvania[pensɪl'veɪnjə]宾夕法尼亚州。 On 19 November 1863 Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America, the leader who successfully prosecuted(发动) the Civil War to preserve the nation. He played a key role in passage of the Thirteenth Amendment(修正案), which ended slavery in America. On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave the speech, which later became known as the Gettysburg Address, at the dedication(落成仪式) of a cemetery(公墓) for the soldiers who had died during the Battle of Gettysburg. Now let's read the passage to learn more about the famous speech. Read for background information (背景) At that time, America was bitterly divided. For two years, its people had been deep in a civil war between the slave-owning Confederate Southern States and the “free” Northern States of the Union. The worst battle lasted three days and took place at Gettysburg in 1863. The Union side won, but at a great cost. Over 50,000 soldiers were killed or wounded, and people lost hope and purpose. What was all this suffering for? What was the background event of the speech? Read and Answer Para. 2 The Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, which resulted in over 50,000 casualties[ˈkæʒjʊəltiz](战争或事故的)伤员，亡者，遇难者. . The background(背景) of the speech At that time, America was bitterly divided. For two years, its people had been deep in a civil war between the slave-owning Confederate Southern States and the “free” Northern States of the Union. The worst battle lasted three days and took place at Gettysburg in 1863. The Union side won, but at a great cost. Over 50,000 soldiers were killed or wounded, and people lost hope and purpose. What was all this suffering for? Read and Answer Para. 2 at a great cost 以巨大的代价 suffer for 因……而受苦 / 受罚 Lincoln understood the feelings of the civilian people. His speech gave them hope, belief and a reason to look to the future. He gave them a new vision of what the United States of America should be, based on the ideals set down by its Founding Fathers 87 years before. It was what the soldiers had died for. Now it was up to the living to remove not only the divisions between North and South, but the boundaries between black and white, and work step by step towards the equality of humankind. Read and Answer division between ... and ... ……与……之间的分歧 division n [C] & [U] di- (= dis-, apart分开地) + vid (to separate分开)+ -ion (名词后缀)→分开、分裂、分歧 Para. 3 look to 展望；指望 be up to sb to do sth 应由某人做某事 Lincoln understood the feelings of the civilian people. His speech gave them hope, belief and a reason to look to the future. He gave them a new vision of what the United States of America should be, based on the ideals set down by its Founding Fathers 87 years before. It was what the soldiers had died for. Now it was up to the living to remove not only the divisions between North and South, but the boundaries between black and white, and work step by step towards the equality of humankind. What was Lincoln’s purpose in giving the speech? Read and Answer Para. 3 The significance(意义) of the speech The Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition (主张；观点) that all men are created equal. Read and Answer Para. 4 1. What does “four score and seven years” mean? It means 87 years. score[skɔː(r)] n [C] 单复数同形 约二十个；得分 bring forth 使产生；使出现 conceive vt con- (表示强调)+ceive (to grasp 抓住)→在大脑里抓住→(形成) 构想、设想 conceive of ... as ... 把……想象成…… Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate(使神圣) –we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. Read and Answer Para. 5 Para. 6 be engaged in 参与；从事于；忙于 portion n port (part部分、比率) + -ion (名词后缀)，词源同part a portion of 一部分 detract v de- (down向下) + tract (to draw拉)→向下拉→减低;损害 But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate –we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Read and Answer Para. 6 in a sense 从某种意义上来说 in some senses 在一定意义上 full / short measure of 足量的 / 不足量的 in vain 白白地；徒劳 Watch the video and retell the speech Surf the Internet to watch the video and look through the speech I have a Dream and try to learn more about its historical background, significance and the language styles and give a speech next class. 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