[00:-1.00]1.What happened to Kunta in this story?
[00:-2.00]He was caught in a forest in Africa,put in chains and sent by ship to America.
[00:-3.00]2.What do you think happened to many of the black people on the ship?
[00:-4.00]About a third of the black people on the ship died during the journey.
[00:-5.00]Comprehension
[00:-6.00]1.Long ago,people in Africa said it was dangerous
[00:-7.00]to walk alone in the forest near the coast.
[00:-8.00]2.Kunta was caught in the forest one day.
[00:-9.00]3.He was hit on the head.
[00:10.00]4.He was tied up and carried to a small boat.
[00:11.00]5.He was then chained up in a castle.
[00:12.00]6.He heard some women and children crying.
[00:13.00]7.A few days later he was put on a sailing ship.
[00:14.00]8.He was chained up in the ship.
[00:15.00]9.The ship sailed for two months.
[00:16.00]10.The ship arrived in a port.
[00:17.00]11.About a third of the black people had lost their lives.
[00:18.00]1.What was unknown about Kunta's journey?
[00:19.00]Where he was being taken,why he was being taken,
[00:20.00]what was going to happen to him,ete.
[00:21.00]2.Do you think Kunta could understand all the prisoners in the castle?
[00:22.00]No,becuse of the phrase"Another,whose language Kunta understood."
[00:23.00](There are hundreds of different African languages.)
[00:24.00]3.What did Kunta find shocking about being caught in the forest?
[00:25.00]He was caught and carried away by black men whom he expected would usually help him.
[00:26.00]4.What was the role of the black men Kunta met in the forest?
[00:27.00]To catch black men.
[00:28.00]5.Why do you think women were caught as well as men?
[00:29.00]If women were caught and became slaves as well as men,
[00:30.00]they would produce babies,that is,young slaves.
[00:31.00]6.Why do you think they were chained up in the ship?
[00:32.00]So that they could not try to jump off the ship.
[00:33.00]7.What were conditions like for the prisoners on the ship?
[00:34.00]Terrible--no light;food and water once a day only;
[00:35.00]noting to lie on except hard boards;diseases and death.
[00:36.00]8.Why did the sailors come down to where the prisoners were kept?
[00:37.00]To carry upstairs the bodies of people who had died
[00:38.00]and to throw them into the sea over the side of the ship.
[00:39.00]9.What did Kunta think the sailors caome down for?
[00:40.00]Kunta thought that the sailors came down to carry sick men upstairs for treatment.
[00:41.00]10.How many black people were alive when they reached the port?
[00:42.00]About 94.A third of the original 140 black people had died.
[00:43.00]In fuct the exact number of black people who arrived in America on this ship
[00:44.00]alive was 98.
[00:45.00]Language points
[00:46.00]1.Journey into the unknown.
[00:47.00]the old=old people
[00:48.00]the blind=blind people
[00:49.00]the beautiful=beautiful things
[00:50.00]the good=good things
[00:51.00]the+past participle
[00:52.00]the wounded=wounded people
[00:53.00]the unemployed=unemployed people
[00:54.00]the unknown=the unknown world
[00:55.00]2.Born a free man,he was now in chains.
[00:56.00]* He was born blind/deaf/poor.
[00:57.00]* He was born a poet/a soldier/a singer.
[00:58.00]3.Kunta knew it was the middle of the night,
[00:59.00]for through the small open window high in the wall he could see stars.
[-1:00.00]* The light went out,because the oil was out.
[-1:-1.00]* The oil must be out,for the light went out.
[-1:-2.00]* He is loved by all.because he is honest.
[-1:-3.00]* He must be honmest,for he is loved by all.
[-1:-4.00]4.Kunta had been seized in the forest and then hit on the head with a hard object.
[-1:-5.00]hit+sb.+on/in+the
[-1:-6.00]* John hit the boy on the head/shoulder/back.
[-1:-7.00]* John hit the boy in the face/eyes/right leg.
[-1:-8.00]5.The men took him in their boat to the castle on the coast
[-1:-9.00]where he was now held prisoner.
[-1:10.00]be kept prisoner
[-1:11.00]be held prisoner
[-1:12.00]* He was held(kept)prisoner on a small island.
[-1:13.00]be taken prisoner
[-1:14.00]* He failed to run away and was taken prisoner.
[-1:15.00]6.What was to become of them all,he wondered.
[-1:16.00]become of
[-1:17.00]* What has become of Jack?
[-1:18.00]* What has become of the book put here yesterday?
[-1:19.00]7.Worse was to come.
[-1:20.00]=The situation later became even worse.
[-1:21.00]* I have something even worse to tell you.
[-1:22.00]* He lost his money,but worse was to follow,His house was burned down.
[-1:23.00]* I got cold that day,and soon I got worse.
[-1:24.00]8.A few days later about 140 black people were taken
[-1:25.00]and put on a tall sailing ship waiting off the coast.
[-1:26.00]Do you see the boy standing under the tree?
[-1:27.00]=Do you see the boy who is standing under the tree?
[-1:28.00]* a sleeping car=a car for sleeping
[-1:29.00]* a walking stick=a stick for walking
[-1:30.00]* a swinming pool=a pool for swinming
[-1:31.00]9.Once on the boat,they were taken below
[-1:32.00]and their chains were fixed to two bars that ran the length of the ship.
[-1:33.00]* Once(you are)in Tianjin,you should go to meet George at once.
[-1:34.00]* Once(he was)in teh examination hall,he forgot everything,
[-1:35.00]including some key rules.
[-1:36.00]* The road runs across the plain for about 20 kilometres.
[-1:37.00]* The stream runs through the village.
[-1:38.00]10.Once in a while sailors came down,Kunta thought,
[-1:39.00]to carry sick men upstairs for treatment.
[-1:40.00]The performance,I think,was very interesting.
[-1:41.00]* Thay will be a good beginning,I hope.
[-1:42.00]* We go out for a walk once in a while.
[-1:43.00]* Once in a while there was a noise outdoors.
[-1:44.00]Roots
[-1:45.00]Roots is a long Us novel by the African-American writer Alx Haley,
[-1:46.00]for which he received a special Pulitzer prize.
[-1:47.00]The story,based on Haley's research into his own family's history,
[-1:48.00]is about an African-American family of slaves.
[-1:49.00]A television version(1977)ran for eight mights on ABC
[-1:50.00]and had an audience of about 100 million,
[-1:51.00]the largest ever.It received nine Emmy awards.
[-1:52.00]1.Where did Haley's ancestors come from? Gambia.
[-1:53.00]2.What was Haley's novel about? Information about his ancestors.
[-1:54.00]A.When he became a writer Haley did a lot to find out more about his"roots",
[-1:55.00]and was able to get some information.(1)
[-1:56.00]B.In Gambia there are few written records of his family history.(6)
[-1:57.00]C.Alex Haley was often told stories about their family history when he was young.(1)
[-1:58.00]D.Alex Haley found his"roots"
[-1:59.00]by listening to the man telling the stories of their family group.(7)
[-2:00.00]E.Haley thought that they must have come from Gambia.(4)
[-2:-1.00]F.Alex Haley wanted to know from which part of Africa his ancestor had come(3)
[-2:-2.00]G.With his newspaper giving him the money nccessary for his research,
[-2:-3.00]Kunta started his searching in Gambia.(5)
[-2:-4.00]Put these events into right order.
[-2:-5.00]J.Kunta Kinte went off into the forest to cut down a tree.(1)
[-2:-6.00]H.Kunta was caught by some native blacks.(2)
[-2:-7.00]E.Kunta was taken to America and sold as a slave to a farmer.(3)
[-2:-8.00]B.Kunta escaped,but was caught and had part of his foot cut off.(4)
[-2:-9.00]D.Kunta taught his grandson the words in his own language for"river".(5)
[-2:10.00]F.Many years later Haley was born.(6)
[-2:11.00]C.When he became a writer,Haley decided to find out about his roots.(7)
[-2:12.00]K.Haley did research in America.(8)
[-2:13.00]I.Haley travelled to Gambia.(9)
[-2:14.00]G.Haley found a group of Africans with Kunta's family name.(10)
[-2:15.00]A.Haley listened to a man telling the history of the Kinte family
[-2:16.00]and finally found his"roots"(11)
[-2:17.00]Language points
[-2:18.00]1.In his youth,
[-2:19.00]his father and grandfather often told him stories about their family history.
[-2:20.00]2.On his arrival he was sold to a farmer and worked in the fields.
[-2:21.00]* On hearing the news,he began to cry.
[-2:22.00]* On her return from Beijing,she started to work
[-2:23.00]3.When he became a writer,
[-2:24.00]Haley made up his mind to find more about his ancestors.
[-2:25.00]He has made up his mind to go abroad.
[-2:26.00]4.Gambia
[-2:27.00]5.His newspaper provided him with some money
[-2:28.00]in order that he might travel to Gambia for his research.
[-2:29.00]provide sb.with sth.
[-2:30.00]* The school provides the children with books and food.
[-2:31.00]* The government is trying to provide the unemployed with jobs.
[-2:32.00]* He came in quietly in order that he shouldn't wake the children.
[-2:33.00]* I took some money with me in order that I could buy something I needed.
[-2:34.00]6.The moment he reached the country,he started his search.
[-2:35.00]* I recognized him the moment he appeared in the street.
[-2:36.00]* Telephone me the moment you get the money.
[-2:37.00]* Please let me know immediately you get the results.
[-2:38.00]* Immediately they got there,they started to work.
[-2:39.00]7.All the stories of families,heroes,
[-2:40.00]wars and journeys are passed down from generation to generation.
[-2:41.00]8.A few people in each group
[-2:42.00]are given the task of remembering the group's family history
[-2:43.00]that goes back over centuries.
[-2:44.00]go back
[-2:45.00]* My family goes back 300 years,
[-2:46.00]while his family goes back to the 15th century.
[-2:47.00]* Whenever Grandpa talks,he always likes to go back to his younger days.
[-2:48.00]9.One of you plays the role of Haley,and the other the role of a reporter.
[-2:49.00]take/play the role of...
[-2:50.00]* I wish to take the role of a soldier.
[-2:51.00]* Jenny played the leading role |