Lesson13整理ppt.ppt

 In Favor of  Capital Punishment Jacques Barzun Aims: 1)Improving students’ ability to read between lines and understand the text properly; 2)Cultivating students’ ability to make a creative reading; 3)Enhancing students’ ability to appreciate the text from different perspectives; 4) Helping students to understand some difficult words and expressions; 5) Helping students to understanding rhetorical devices; 6)??Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately. Teaching Contents 1) Background Knowledge About the Author and His Works 2)??????? Literature Type: Argument 3)??????? Detailed Study of the Essay 4)??????? Organization Pattern 5)??????? Style and Language Features 6)??????? Special Difficulties 7)??????? Debate Time Allocation: 1) Background knowledge (15 min.) 2) Detailed study of the text (180 min.) 3) Structure analysis (15 min.) 4) Language appreciation (15 min.) 5) Free talk (30 min) Background Knowledge 1) A brief introduction to the author, Jacques Barzun www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jpriestley.htm 2) Capital punishment life imprisonment Argument Type of literature: a piece of argument /santab/jeff/sbargue_index.htm http://homepages.iol.ie/~laoistec/LENGLISH/lpers.html Pre-class task: 1)Appreciation of the Movie “ The ShawShank Redemption” 2)?Give a description of the roles and their fate of the prisoners, and voice your opinion on the Capital punishment and imprisonment respectively to decide whether you are for or against Capital punishment. 3)Prepare a debate on In favor of capital punishment vs. In favor of imprisonment. Detailed study of In Favor of Capital Punishment Para.1-2 Introduction and admitting that many people of much talent and enlightened goodwill are abolitionists. Transferred epithet “ The letters, sad and reproachful, offer me the choice of pleading ignorance…” “ The assemblage of so much talent and enlightened good will behind a s