Lesson Five Twelve Angry Men (Part One)
I．T eaching Objectives:
After learning this unit, students are suppod to:
1. get familiar with the rules of word formation ;
2. get familiar with some grammatical points;
3. retell the text as a whole;
4. have a thorough understanding of the whole text: Twelve Angry Men
5. get a list of the new words and expressions and be able to u them freely in writing and daily conversation;
II.Listening and speaking activities
1.Listen to the recording of the text and fill in the blanks about the main ideas of the article.
2. Talk about the judicial system in America and discuss the questions on the text.
III. Reading Comprehension and Language Activities
1.Pre-reading discussions:
1)Why doesn’t the author give names to the characters in the drama? Is this play merely a conflict
among people or is it also a conflict of ideas?
2)What was the evidence prented at the court against the boy?
3)What would have happened to the boy if he had been found guilty?
2 Background knowledge
About the author
﹡Reginald Ro is a native Ne w Y orker, best known as a writer for television. The Twelve Angry Men was written in 1954 bad on his experience as a juror. The play was turned into a movie in 1957 with Henry Fonda starring as No8.The prent text is
bad on of that movie. with much abridgement. What distinguished Ro’s teleplays was their direc
t preoccupation with social and political issues.
﹡Uful legal terms
Judiciary system: judge, 12 jurors, lawyer, plaintiff, defendant, public procutor
The jury trial is an important component in the U.S. judicial system. The jury consists of 12 jurors, lected at random, agreed on by the lawyers of the two sides, who will, after hearing all the evidenc
ed and cross-examination and careful deliberation, give a verdict of guilty or not guilty. Today no jury would be made up entirely of men any more. Women now rve on juries as much as men.
﹡Jury
Jury: is a group of up to 12 people, called “Jurors” who duty it is to listen to the evidence given in a court trial and decide whether the accud is guilty or not guilty. The decision is called a “verdict”. If the verdict is not guilty, the accud is t free or acquitted; if the verdict is guilty, the judge will give the ntence.
﹡Court System
•Jurisdiction司法: by the Highest Court, the High Court, the Middle Court, the district courts, the
lower courts
•Legislation立法: by the Congress, hearings听证会
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•①The accud is deemed innocent until and unless proved “ guilty” beyond a reasonable doubt.
•②In many jurisdictions, the majority of a jury is not sufficient to find a defendant guilty of
a felony.正确的化妆品使用步骤
•③A trial does not aim at discovering who commit a particular crime, but rather the innocence or guilt of the accud.
•④The system is not infallible and can be quite precarious.
﹡A criminal court
机器翻译软件• A criminal court is a court of law which hears cas brought by the state against a person or a corporation which has violated a criminal law enacted by the legislature.
﹡Police
•Scotland Y ard 伦敦警察厅
•NYPD, LAPD police department 警察局
•FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
jro•Sheriff (美)县治安官
•Police officer
•区分：Security guard 保安, Firefighters, fire brigade,
•Court-martial 军事法庭, international tribunal 国际法庭
3.About the text
Twelve Angry Men was adapted by Reginald Roes in1950s. It is about an 18-year-old boy who is on trial for murder, accud of knifing his father to death .The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It turned out that in the first voting .all the 11 jurors vote for conviction. Except No.8, who feels there is a reasonable doubt, which prevents a quick verdict. The juror8 resolutely and painstakingly explains his reasons for doing that. During the heated deliberations, evidence that felt rock-solid is revealed to be dubious and the hidden preconceptions and assumptions of the jurors are revealed. At last, juror8 convinces every man on the jury that the charge to the defendant was not conclusively proved to convict him.
美剧排行4.Pre-class Questions
• 1. Why do you think the author gives “The Twelve Angry Men” as the title of the play?
• 2. Try to analyze the characteristics of each juror and witness.
• 3. Try to retell the story of killing in your own words.
5. Language Points
﹡Phras；
call for : to want or need a particular action, behavior ,quality etc.要求kegel
get at : to e to be saying sth that other people don’t completely understand.了解表明
lay sb out :to knock sb . down 把….打昏
mix up :confu 弄混
spill out :to pour out散出
yell sth o ut: 喊出
in charge of ：负责in the charge of : 由谁负责
﹡A boy charged with murdering his father（p1）
•Notice that we say“ to be charged with”, but “to be accud of”.
•Notice also that “to charge” means to state officially that someone is guilty of a crime.
﹡Now you fellows can handle this any way you want.(P2)
any way (both words stresd): by any method; in any manner
•anyway (stresd on the first syllable): in spite of that; in any ca
•--I’m going ______, no matter what you say.
•--Y ou can do it _________ yo u want. I don’t care. I just want the result.
•--Well, _______, it’s too late to do anything now.
•--He is desperate. He has to find that money _________.
fahrenheit
﹡Preliminary (a.& n.) P3: happening at the beginning of an event, often as a form of preparation •--The Congress will start ~ hearings soon. (预备听政会)
•--Our team got beaten in the ~ rounds of the competition. (头几个回合)
•--May I make a few ~ remarks before we start the interview. (开场白)
•②noun: usually plural forms <preliminaries>
•--without preliminaries (开门见山地)
•~ talks on the nuclear issues of North Korea began yesterday.
• A background check is normally a ~ to a presidential nomination.
•~s, quarter finals, mi-finals, and the final
﹡Vote
•If we want to discuss it first then vote, that’s one way or we can vote right now to e how we stand.
•Mean: One way for us to do is to discuss first then vote. The other way for us to do is to vote at once to find out the position of jurors whether we agree or not, or we need further discussion on this ca.
﹡Maybe we can all get out of here. P5
•Background: He is eager to get out of this jury room becau it is hot and besides he has a ticket for a football game for that evening which he does not want to miss.
•If everyone agrees that the boy is guilty, then they can take the verdict to the court and get the whole thing over and done with right
﹡Slum Ghetto犹太贫民区
Hip-hop: a form of pop culture starting among young black people in the US in the 1980s, including rap music and graffiti art 嬉哈乐(Hippie:young people in the 1960s and 70s rejecting conventional ways留长发、吸毒)
Rap: a type of music in which words are not sung but are spoken in a rapid, rhythmic way 说唱乐Latina: a style mixing elements from Latin America 拉丁风格
﹡What do you think that trial cost? (P20)
•According to the U.S. law any citizen has a right to a proper trial, and if he can’t pay, the trial will be paid by the government. That’s why No. 10 here reminds No.8 angrily that the boy has cost a lot of public money.
﹡Since when is dishonesty a group characteristic? (p21)
•From what time is dishonesty regarded as a characteristic of a group? It is unfair to think that all the people who live in the slum are not honest. It a prejudice.
﹡otherwi (P26)
①differently (adv.)
--Y ou are presumed to be innocent until proved otherwi. (proved not to be)
--I was unable to attend the conference becau I was otherwi engaged. (busy with something el)
②apart from that
--The soup was cold, but otherwi the meal was excellent.
③if not
--Y ou’d better go now, otherwi you’ll miss the train.剑桥雅思9
﹡Eyewitness One
The Old Man
•Let’s e the old man who lived on the cond floor under the room where the murder took .
•Clu e: loud nois “I’m going to kill you” in the upstairs apartment A cond later, he heard a body falling.
•The old man’s guess: It sounded like a fight
•The old man’s eing: He saw the kid running down the stair and out of the hou
﹡Refute反驳(P29)
•Refute an allegation, an argument or a theory: proving it wrong or untrue
•It’s the kind of rumor that it is easy to ~.
•Refute an allegation or accusation: denying it is true
•He is quick to ~ any suggestion of intellectual snobbery.
•区分: refu, decline, reject, object
﹡Eyewitness Two The Woman
•She is lying in bed. She can’t sleep. It’s hot..
•And right across the street, she es the kid stick his knife into his father’s chest. Look, she has known the kid all his life. And she swore she saw him do it.
﹡Spot One
•She looks out the window.
英语qq昵称•They proved in court that at night if you look through the windows of an el train when the lights are out, you can e what is happening on the other side.
﹡Spot Two
•Right across the street she es the kid stick the knife into his father. She’s known him all his life.
His window is right across from hers, across the EL tracks. And she saw him do it.
﹡el train(p34): elevated train
•Fly-past(美), flyover(英)立交桥
•Highway
•Expressway
•Subway(美), tube(英)
•Tunnel, Cross-strait tunnel,
•Maglev: magnetically levitated train
﹡Provoke (P46): deliberately annoy someone and try to make him behave aggressively
Something provokes a reaction: causing it
He started beating me when I was about to go to bed but I didn't do anything to ~ him.
The destruction of the mosque has ~d anger throughout the Muslim world.
Her innsitive speech provoked an angry reaction.
The students tried to provoke the teacher into losing her temper. (made her lo her temper by provoking her)
His refusal to answer provoked me to shout at him
﹡Boy’ s Background
(No.8) I don’t think it was a very strong motive. This boy has been hit so many times that violence is practically a normal state of affairs with him. I just can’s e two slaps in the face would have provoked him into committing murder.
﹡The boy
kav•(No.4) This boy--- Let’s say he’s the product of a slum and a broken home. We can’t help that.
We’re not here to explain why slums make criminal.
•We are here to decide if he is innocent or guilty.
﹡Sensitive vs. nsible
nsitive:
①(~ + to) easily influence or changed by sth
