高中英语人教版高三下讲解02

[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 1 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 3 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 4 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 6 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 7=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 2.

[-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 8?

[-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 9 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 10 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 11 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 13 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 12 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 5 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 14 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 15 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 16 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