Unit 10 Section A

1. Unit 10 Section A Reports on Britain Under the Bombs

2. Background information • Lead-in • New words and expressions • Text study • Summary • Homework

3. 导入 课文 小结 写作 Back N H C E World War II World War II,also called the Second World War, was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939 to 1945. The principal parties were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan, and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. The war ended with the victory being won by the allied nations in 1945. 随 笔 复合听写 视頻讨论

4. 导入 课文 小结 写作 Back N H C E Columbia Broadcasting System The system (CBS for short)(http://www.cbs.com)made media history beginning in the late 1920s. William Paley put money into the Columbia Broadcasting System, which was then a small, struggling radio network, in 1928. In 1971 it adopted the name CBS, Inc. In 1995 CBS, Inc. was bought by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which changed the name in 1997 to the CBS Corporation. 随 笔 复合听写 视頻讨论

5. 导入 课文 小结 写作 Back N H C E Home Guard Home Guard is usually a military organization of citizens with limited military training for emergency service, usually for local defense. During World War II the Home Guard was established in the UK. 随 笔 复合听写 视頻讨论

6. 导入 课文 小结 写作 Back N H C E Royal Air Force Royal Air Force (RAF for short) is the youngest of the three British armed services, charged with the air defense of the United Kingdom and fulfillment of international defense commitments.

7. 导入 课文 小结 写作 Back N H C E Video watching Watch & Discuss Directions: Watch the video and then discuss the topics as follows: 1. How did the British people fight against Hitler’s air strikes? key 2. Why did British people refuse to give in from your angle of view? key

8. Recollections of Air Actions during WWII 视频文件放在这个绿色的框内，不要超出去。也不要遮挡绿框的黑边。

9. N H C E How did the British people fight against Hitler’s air strike? During the WWII, Britain was one of the biggest obstacles to Hitler’s ambition for dominance of Europe, while London was the heart of the country. By Hitler’s logic, he could force the British people to give in by hammering London with bombs and turning it into a sea of fire, just as he had done with Warsaw and Rotterdam.After repeated delivery of his bombs right into the country’s heart, however, he found London was still there and its people stood firm, ready at any time to fight bravely against his air raids. As revealed in the reports, under the waves of the Nazi bombers, houses fell, fires burned, gas pipes burst, and moans with pain were heard here and there, the whole city of London thrown into fire and agony. Faced with all of these, the people of England didn’t shrink. Instead, fire fighters got the fires under control in time, medical personnel rushed from place to place to save the wounded, those in charge of the city transport kept trains and buses available, newspaper and milk deliverers followed the daily routine of their work, and workers went to work as usual, reading the reports about the battle raging over London. 返回 For more For more

10. N H C E Why did British people refuse to give in? Under the waves of Nazi bombers, it seemed impossible for any city to continue to endure. Warsaw, for example, chose to surrender as Nazi bombs turned it into a burned city. In contrast, the English people, though in the face of the same waves of Nazi bombers, never considered giving in. Their resolution was attributed to the factors as follows: Nazi bombers until the last pilot died or the invaders were driven off. 3. They had their political system that could best provide for the defense and decency of her people. 4. They were a nation whose people could unite into one under the threat of war. 1. They had the English Channel as a good natural barrier against the Nazi ground forces, thus giving them an edge in national defense. 2. They had the Royal Air Force (RAF) whose pilots, though possessed of 2000 planes and beyond the limits of exhaustion, resolved to rise day after day and night after night to meet the waves of For more For more 返回

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19. N H C E Reports on Britain Under the Bombs Para. 1Night after night, in the hot summer and early fall of 1940, a deep, steady voice came over the Atlantic Ocean from England to America,telling ofEngland’s battle for survivalunder the waves ofGerman bombers. This strong and steady voice, an American voice with a slight accent of North Carolina, belonged to Edward R. Murrow, head of the European staff of the Columbia Broadcasting System.

20. N H C E Para. 2“This is London,” said Murrow, while the bombs fell and flames spread on the streets of the city. His voice had a tone of sorrow for the suffering of that ancient city, and a tone of confidence, too—a feeling of belief that London would be there, no matter what it had to endure. It could not be destroyed. 句型

21. N H C E Para. 3The heavy raids began in the middle of August, and Nazi bombs started to fall along England’s Channel Coast.The German bombers cast dark shadows overthe white cliffs of Dover, andEngland’s Home Guard prepared to fight on the beaches, on the cliffs, and in the hills, until the last Englishman died or the invaders were driven off. 句型

22. N H C E Para. 4Air Marshal Goering’s bomber pilotsweresure oftheir ultimate triumph over England. Hitler and Goering believed thatwhen London became a burned city like Warsaw or Rotterdam, England would surrender.

23. N H C E Para. 5But the English were more fortunate than the Poles in Warsaw and the Dutch in Rotterdam. They had the English Channel as a barrier against the Nazi ground forces, and they had the Royal Air Force (RAF) to battle the Nazis in the sky.

24. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E Para. 6The hardships of London really started in the first week of September, when Hitler was at last convinced that the English did not intend to give in. On September 7, 1940, nearly four hundred German bombers hammered the city with bombs in broad daylight. Goering boasted, “This is the historic hour when our air force for the first time delivered its bombs right into the enemy’s heart.” 句型 随 笔 词汇学习 课文分析

25. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E Para. 7Fires burned, houses fell, gas pipes burst, and dark smoke rose from the streets. Men, women, andchildren felt the effect of thebombs.Radar sirens wailed, ambulances rushed from one place of agony to another, and firefighters faced the flames hour after hour. 随 笔 词汇学习 课文分析

26. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E Para. 8It seemed impossible for any city to take so much punishment and continue to endure. It seemed impossible for people of the city to do their daily jobs, to work and eat and sleep and carry on the business of life, with the crash of bombs all around them and planes spitting fire in the skies above. 句型 随 笔 词汇学习 课文分析

27. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E Para. 9But the city endured. Trains brought commuters in from the suburbs. Buses bumped along the streets. The fires were brought under control. Bottles of dairy milk arrived in doorways, and women took them in, as though the war were a thousand miles away. Newspapers appeared and people bought them, hurrying to work and reading reports of the battle raging over London. 随 笔 词汇学习 课文分析

28. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back Para. 10And Edward R. Murrow went on theair, saying in his deep, steady voice, “This is London.” He spoke as though nothing could ever keep him from saying those words. N H C E He did not speak them with any attempt to sound heroic. He simply voiced the quiet truth of the city’s existence. 句型 随 笔 词汇学习 课文分析

29. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E Para. 11Murrow knew that Britain’s fate depended upon the resolution of the people in the shops and streets, the men in the pubs, the housewives, those watching for fire on the roofs, the people who had a thousand difficult and painful things to do. 随 笔 词汇学习 课文分析

30. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back Para. 12Much depended upon the handful of pilots who rose day after day and night after night to meet the flocks of Nazi bombers. N H C E The pilots in the RAF reached the limits of exhaustion and then went beyond those limits, still fighting. 随 笔 词汇学习 课文分析

31. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E Para. 13But the people of London were also in the front lines, and they didnot have thesatisfaction of being able to fight back.They couldn’t reach up and smash the enemy planes. They had to dig quickly in cellars to rescue their friends who had been buried underneath the wreckage. They had to put out endless fires. They had to stand firm and take whatever the enemy threw at them. 随 笔 词汇学习 课文分析

32. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E Para. 14In a broadcast on October 1, 1940, Murrow declared: “Mark it down that these people are both brave and patient, that all are equal under the bomb, that this is a war of speed and organization, and that whicheverpolitical system bestprovides forthe defenseand decency of the little man will win.” 句型 随 笔 词汇学习 课文分析

33. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E Para. 15Murrow’s projection of eventualvictory forthe ordinary people proved to be accurate. The Nazi powers were finally defeated by the Allied nations. 随 笔 词汇学习 课文分析

34. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E The passage is made up of 15 paragraphs, and according to the pattern of space and time as well as the order of occurrence, can broadly fall into four parts as follows: For detail Part I Part II Part III Part IV Main Idea of the Text Through the medium of Murrow’s vivid reports with a tone of sorrow for the ancient city as well as a tone of confidence in its people, the writer reveals before the reader what happened to London under the waves of Nazi bombers. According to Hitler’s logic, it seemed impossible for any city to endure under such heavy raids, for he had done with Rotterdam and Warsaw this way. But London, with her people standing firm and putting up a stiff resistance, took so much bombing and continued to be there. Structure of the Text 随 笔 词汇学习 课文阅读

35. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E The author introduces the reports through the device of description. For detail Part I Part II Part III Part IV Main Idea of Part I [Paras. 1to 2] Night after night, in the hot summer and early fall of 1940, Murrow, as a reporter of the CBS, told of England’s battle for survival under German bombs, with his voice conveying a feeling of belief that London would be there. Devices for its Development 随 笔 词汇学习 课文阅读

36. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E The author employs the devices of deduction and contrast in his narration of the battle. For detail Part I Part II Part III Part IV Main Idea of Part II [Paras. 3 – 9] According to Hitler’s projection of the battle, it seemed impossible for any city to endure, with his bombs turning the city into a sea of fire. He had captured Warsaw and Rotterdam this way. But the city of London continued to be there and carried on the business of life as usual. Devices for its Development 随 笔 词汇学习 课文阅读

37. 导入 预习 小结 写作 Back N H C E The author narrates Murrow’s reports by employing thedevice of deduction. For detail Part I Part II Part III Part IV Main Idea of Part III [Paras. 10－13] When Murrow reported about the battle, his voice sounded heroic and conveyed the truth of the city’s existence. For he knew all the people of the city had integrated their resolution into their own duties. Devices for its Development 随 笔 词汇学习 课文阅读

38. N H C E The author narrates Murrow’s reports by employing thedevice of quotation. For detail Part I Part II Part III Part IV Main Idea of Part IV [Paras. 14－15] In his broadcast on Oct. 1, 1940, Murrow declared: “Mark it down that whichever political system best provides for the defense and decency of the little man will win.” His projection of the battle proved to be accurate. Devices for its Development

39. Text Study—Summary Summary Dictation Listen to the following passage, and fill in the blanks with the words and phrases you hear.

40. Text Study—Summary During World War II, life in England was filled with ___________ ______ because Hitler’s Nazi air force ____________________ _________. The people of the country had to pull together and _____________________________ so that normal daily life could continue as much as possible. England’s Royal Air Force was heroic in the way _________________________________ _______ the tremendous number of Nazi airplanes. The citizens on the ground worked bravely and with determination to _______ _________________________, and dig out the buried. Men, women and children felt the effects but _________, willing to resist __________________________________. hardships and sorrow was bombing London repeatedly help one another in countless ways the few pilots continued to meet and fight against rescue the wounded, put out the fires stood firm until the last Englishman died if necessary

41. Homework • To be prepared for the dictation of vocabulary; • Review this section; • Finish the exercises of section A in the textbook; • Write a paragraph of a general statement supported by specific facts.