COLLEGE ENGLISH 3 Lesson 8 Twelve Angry Men (2).doc

课题Lesson 8 Twelve Angry Men (Part Two)教学目标和要求：Teaching objectives1. To let students know the whole process of how to conduct a jury trial.2. To let students learn the important new words and master the usage of useful phrases and idioms, and learn the implied meaning of some difficult sentences.3. To let students analyze the wide range of characters portrayed in the story.4. To let students find out the plays strength and weakness. 5. To let students find out the implication of certain sentences.6. To let students think deeply on the reasoning of No.8, and try to conclude some useful strategies.7. To let students think over the lessons drawn from the story.教学主要内容：Major Steps 1. Introduction 2. Warm-up questions3. Detailed study of the texta brief reviewing of the first part of the playstudy of important language points and expressions paraphrasing exerciseanalysis of the structure of some prehension questions4. Text appreciation 5. Word study6. Grammar 7. Exercise check-up教学重点和难点：Emphasis in Teaching: 1. the deep meaning of certain statements. 2. the loose use of references. Difficult Points in Teaching: how the other 11 jurors could all change their minds.教学方法和使用教具：Teaching methods1. Task-based Language Teaching Approach (pair work and team work)2. Interactive teaching approach3. Movie watchingTeaching aids1. Teaching notes prepared by the teacher 2. 1 blackboard3. A Computer and Overhead projector 提问讨论：Discussion: Q1: Why can No.8 convince all the other jurors? Q2: What other resonable doubts does No.8 raise? Q3: Try to analyze the main characters personalities with reference to some details. Q4: Why is it so easy for people to go along with the crowd? What lesson can we draw here? Other Questions:on pages 290-291 in the textbook.布置作业：1. Prepare “Oral Topics” on page 291.2. Finish the exercises in the textbook. Teaching NotesIntroduction This play gives insight into several aspects of the American court system. First, the accused is deemed innocent until and unless proved “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt”; Secondly, in many jurisdiction, the majority of a jury is not sufficient to find a defendant guilty of a felony all 12 members must agree to the persons guilt. Thirdly, a trial doesnt aim at discovering who committed a particular crime, but rather the innocence or guilt of the accused. Fourthly, the system isnt infallible and can be rather unsafe sometimes.Comments from the Author.“Twelve Angry Men” is the only play Ive written which has any relation at all to actual personal experience. A month or so before I began the play I sat on the jury of a manslaughter case in new Yorks General Sessions Court. This was my first experience on a jury, and it left quite an impression on me. The receipt of my jury notice activated many grumblings(complaint in a surly manner) and mutterings(complaint in low voices), most of which began with lines like “eight million people in New York and they have to call me!” All the prospective jurors I met in the waiting room the first day I appeared had the same grim, horribly persecuted attitude. But, strangely, the moment I walked into the courtroom to be empaneled (enrolled,registered) and found myself facing a strange man whose fate was suddenly more or less in my hands, my entire attitude changed. I was hugely impressed with the almost frightening stillness of the courtroom, the impassive, masklike face of the judge, the brisk, purposeful scurrying of the various officials in the room, and the absolute finality o the decision I and my fellow jurors would have to make at the end of the trial. I doubt whether I have ever been so impressed in my life with a role I had to play, and I suddenly became so earnest that, in thinking about it later, I probably was unbearable to the eleven other jurors. It occurred to me during the trial that no one anywhere ever knows what goes on inside a jury room but the jurors, and I thought then that a play taking place entirely within a jury room might be an exciting and possibly moving experience for an audience. Actually, the outline of “Twelve Angry Men,” which I began shortly after the trial ended, took longer to write than the script itself. The movements in the play were so intricate that I wanted to have them down on paper to the last detail before I began the construction of the dialogue. I worked on the idea and outline for a week and was stunned by the time I was finished to discover that the outline was twenty-seven typewritten pages long. The average outline is perhaps five pages long, and many are as short as one or two pages. This detailed setting down of moves of the play paid off, however. The script was written in five days and could have been done in four had I not written it approximately fifteen pages too long.In writing “Twelve Angry Men” I attempted to blend from my jury service. These elements are: a) the evidence as remembered and interpreted by each individual juror (the disparities here were incredible) b) the relationship of jury to juror in a life-and-death situation c) the emotional pattern of each individual juror and d) physical problems such as the weather, the time, the uncomfortable room, etc. All of these elements are of vital importance in any jury room, and all of them presented excellent dramatic possibilities. Warm-up QuestionsQ1: Up to now what reasonable doubts have been brought forward by No.8?Q2: Why do you think the other several jurors changed their votes? Q3: Have you ever try to convince others? What methods did you resort? Whats the result? What did the whole process bring to you?Detailed study of the text1. A brief reviewing of the first part of the play2. Study of important language points and expressions 3. Paraphrasing exercise4. Analysis of the structure of some sentences.Notes to the text1) The kid yelled it out at the top of his lungs.The kid shouted (said it loudly) at the top of his voice.2) Hes much too bright for that.The boys too clever and too experienced to do a thing like that.Does No. 8 really think the kid was bright? Why does he say that then? No. 8 is actually referring to the earlier remark that the boy was so experienced that he did not forget to wipe off the fingerprints. If that were the case, how could he yell that out at the top of his voice.3) Hes a common ignorant slob.Did No. 10 understand No. 8 correctly? sloba person who is very lazy and untidy4) He dont even speak good English.What is the irony in No. 10s saying “He dont speak good English.”?5) Why did No. 4 say “ I dont see anything funny about it.”?No. 4 felt that No. 12 and No. 7 shouldnt talk about such a serious matter in this joking way.6) see the kid beat it downstairs fifteen seconds after the killing. beat it(slang) run away at once see the kid run downstairs and go out of the building fifteen seconds after the killing.7) How could he be positive about anything? (He tries to cover his blunder) (serious mistakes usually caused by ignorance or confusion)What was the blunder he wanted to cover?No. 3 suddenly realized that he was contradicting himself.If the old man could not be positive about anything, how could he take the old mans testimony as strong evidence?8) Well, lets see if the details bear him out.Well, lets find out if the details of his description support his statement/ prove what he said was true.9) to pace offto measure by taking steps of an equal and known length10) Time me from here.What I begin, record the time taker for covering the forty feet.11) to assumeto take as a fact without proof12) Ive seen all kinds of dishonesties in my day, but this little display takes the cake.Ive encountered various kinds of dishonest acts and lies in my life but what No. 8 has just demonstrated is the worst Ive ever come across.13) You all come in here with hearts bleeding all over the floor about slum kids and injustice. When you came to court, you came court, you were already filled with sympathy for those slum kids who you thought suffer from injustice.14)it starts to get through to some of these old ladies.To get through toto (cause to) be understood or accepted.No. 3 is referring to those jurors who changed their votes from guilty to not guilty. He thinks that they are soft-hearted, easily influenced by others, so he calls them “old ladies”.15) Maybe youd like to pull the switch.to pull the switchto let the electric current flow so that the criminal could burn (be electrocuted)16) you betyou can be sure; certainly17) What it must feel to want to pull the switchWhat sort of feeling it is for a person to want to kill others, people who might be innocent./ It is terrible to have this kind of feeling of wanting to kill people who might be innocent.18) You have been acting like a self-appointed public avenger self-appointeddeclared to be so by oneself, but not so appointed by otherspublic avengera person acting in the official capacity of inflicting just punishment on wrong doers.19) Phew, Ill kill him! Ill kill him!-You dont really mean youd kill me, do you?Why does No. 8 make such a remark? Does it mean that No. 8 not sure whether No. 3 will kill him?No. 8 knows very well that No. 3 will not kill him. He says so because at the beginning of this text, he points out that when ones says Ill kill you, it doesnt necessarily mean hes really going kill someone. Here he wants to use this example to show his argument is valid.20) I go for that, too.I also support this idea. I also approve o this idea.21) You still dont think theres room for reasonable doubt?a) room forreason forb) reasonable doubtthe doubt that could arise in the mind of an ordinary, impartial, honest, reasonable and cautious person with reference to an accuseds guilt. In criminal cases, a judicial finding of guilt, that is, a verdict of guilt, requires that the evidence provided indicates beyond reasonable doubt, or to a moral certainty, that the defendant committed the crime.c) You still dont feel that the evidence provided is not convincing enough?22) He came here running for his life. Now,hes telling us how to run the show.a) to run for ones lifeto leave, escape quickly because ones life is in danger.b) To run (the show) to manage things (to handle a case for instance)c) Why does No. 7 make these remarks?He is annoyed because No. 11 asked him if he really understood the term “reasonable doubt”. He resents such a remark, especially as it comes from a recent new immigrant. He therefore wants to tell No. 11 that he should know his place and should not attempt to tell the real Americans like him what to do and what not to do. This reveals his bias (prejudice) against immigrants.23) Switch blades came with the neighborhood where I lived.a) Many people in my neighborhood had used switch knives./ I was very common for people in neighborhood to use switch knives.b) to come (go) with the territory(slang) to be an integral part of some occupation or status, esp. a part which is not especially delightful24) But I dont go along with it.to go along withsupport; agree with25) yakidle or voluble(fluent; eloquent) talk26) Thats no answer.That cannot be considered as a reason.27) there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocketyouve got some baseball tickets and you want to get the thing over quickly so that you can go to watch the game 28) to play with to treat lightly29) Im entitled to my opinion!I have a right to hold my opinion. / I have a right to stick to my view.Comprehension questions Q1: Why can No.8 convince all the other jurors? Q2: What other resonable doubts does No.8 raise? Q3: Try to analyze the main characters personalities with reference to some details. Q4: Why is it so easy for people to go along with the crowd? What lesson can we draw here? Other Questions:on page 290-291 in the textbook.Structure Analysis and Theme Since the story is a play, we will not make any division of it. What we are going to do is to discuss the lessons we can learn. Students work in pairs to have discussion.Summary: What you think is not always correct. Be sensible, reasonable and objective.Writing SkillThe author presents a range of characters from the fair-minded to the bigoted. Effect: make those characters more vivid in personality.Text appreciation Description of the Twelve Jurors:Foreman: A small, petty man who is impressed with the authority he has and handles himself quite formally. Not overly bright, but dogged. (stubborn)Juror Number Two: A meek(gentle; showing patience and humility), hesitant man who finds it difficult to maintain any opinions of his own. Easily swayed and usually adopts the opinion of the last person to whom he has spoken.Juror Number Three: A very strong, very forceful, extremely opinionated(stubborn) man within whom can be detected a streak of sadism(a series of delight of cruelty). A humorless man who is intolerant of opinions other than his own and accustomed to forcing his wishes upon others.Juror Number Four: Seems to be a man of wealth and position. A practiced speaker who presents himself well at all times. Seems to feel a little bit above the rest of the jurors. His only concern is with the facts in this case, and he is appalled (horrified; aghast) at the behaviour of the others.Juror Number Five: A nave, very frightened young man who takes his obligations in this case very seriously, but who finds it difficult to speak up when his elders have the floor(the right to speak at a meeting when people sit on the floor. “Have the floor, take the floor, hold the floor” mean “ get up and speak the audience).Juror Number Six: An honest but dull-witted man who comes upon his decisions slowly and carefully. A man who finds it difficult to create positive opinions, but who must listen to and digest and accept those opinions offered by others which appeal to him most.Juror Number Seven: A loud, flashy salesman type who has more important things to do than to sit on a jury. He is quick to show temper, quick to form opinion on things about which he knows nothing. Is a bully and of course, a coward.Juror Number Eight: A quiet, thoughtful gentleman. A man who sees all sides of every question and constantly seeks the truth. A man o