Unit 15 Salvation

1
Unit 15 Salvation
2
Contents

• Pre-reading questions
• Background information
• Structure analysis
  
• Comprehension questions
• Language points of Text I
• Grammatical items
• Exercises
• Comprehension questions of Text II
• Oral activities
• Writing practice

3
Text I Salvation

• Pre-reading questions

(1) You havent listened to a preachers
preaching, have you ? Are you interested in it
? (2) Have you ever read any stories from the
Bible? What kind of figure do you think Jesus
Christ was? (3) What religion, in your mind, is
Christianity?
4
Background information (1)

• The Jewish legend of the Creation of the world
• The world was created by Jehovah. In the
  beginning the world just floated in space, with
  no land , only endless waters .One day , Jehovah
  came and brooded over the sea, somberly silent
  and dark. He was unhappy about this. So he
  commanded light which he called day and the end
  of it night . heaven was made the next day for
  the clouds to float on and the winds to blow
  across. On the third day land emerged form the
  waters with grass , trees and shrubs growing on
  it . then Jehovah said let the heavens be
  filled with stars so that the seasons and days
  and the years may be marked. this was done
  ,thus ended the fourth day.

5
Background information (2)

• The fifth day saw the creation of fishes in the
  waters and birds in the sky, among them the
  mighty whale and the tiny minnow, the giant
  ostrich and the little sparrow , then came the
  most important creation of all after Jehovah
  ordered the world to be full of creatures that
  creep and those that walk on legs ,he took some
  of the dust of the soil and mounded it into an
  image just like himself. He gave it life and
  called it man . this was the sixth day ,and
  Jehovah was contented. The next day he took
  arrest. The eighth day sea the man , Adam,
  feeling lonesome, as all other creatures had
  been given the companionship of their won kind,
  but he was alone . Jehovah took a rib from his
  body and out came eve .thus Jehovah completed his
  great mission of creation.

6
Background information (3)

• Langston Hughes (1902-1967), modern American
  black poet and writer, was born in Joplin,
  Missouri on February1, 1902 and died on May 22,
  1967 in New York City. He worked at a variety of
  jobs and lives in several countries ,including
  The weary blues (1962) ,his first volume of
  poetry, enabled Hughes to attend Lincoln
  university in Pennsylvania ,form which he
  graduated in 1929 . his writing is largely
  concerned with depicting American negro life
  ,particularly the experience of the urban negro.
  salvation is taken form his autobiography ,The
  Big Sea (1940)

7
Structure analysis of the text (1)

• 1. The essay is organized chiefly by means of
  the following methods
• The story is organized in the chronological
  order, with a flashback in the second paragraph.
• Plenty of vivid and interesting descriptions in
  the whole text.

8
Structure analysis of the text (2)

• Para 1
• This paragraph introduces the background. The two
  opening sentences are the guideline for the whole
  plot .

9
Structure analysis of the text (3)

• Para 2-5
• At the beginning of the story , Langston
  recounts what he has heard about Jesus from the
  old people and how he waits piously for Jesus to
  come .

10
Structure analysis of the text (4)

• Para 6
• The conflict becomes intensified when all the
  young people have gone to the altar but Langston
  and Westley.

11
Structure analysis of the text (5)

• Para 7-10
• The climax is reached when Langston alone is left
  unsaved after his last fellow sinner is saved by
  telling a lie.

12
Structure analysis of the text (6)

• Para 11-14
• The conflict is resolved when Langston also tells
  a lie and is thus saved from both sin and
  trouble.

13
Structure analysis of the text (7)

• Para 15
• This concluding paragraph reveals Langstons
  guilty conscience about telling a lie and his
  disillusionment with religion.

14
Comprehension questions (1)

• What was going on at Auntie Reeds church every
  night for weeks?
• Refer to Paragraph 1. A special religious
  ceremony was going on there.

15
Comprehension questions (2)

• What had the author learned about the revival
  before he attended it?
• Refer to Paragraph 1 and 2. He learned that
  some very hardened sinners had been brought to
  Christ, and that he could see and hear and feel
  Jesus in his soul when he was saved by God.

16
Comprehension questions (3)

• How did the people at the ceremony respond to the
  authors final salvation?
• Refer to Paragraph 13. They all broke into a
  sea of shouting, rejoicing and leaping in the air.

17
Comprehension questions (4)

• Why did the author cry in bed alone that night?
• Refer to the last Paragraph. He cried in bed
  alone because he couldnt bear to tell his aunt
  that he had lied.

18
Language points of Text I (1)

• I was saved from sin I was rescued from sin
• The word sin, with an exclusively religious
  connotation, refers to any offence against God or
  a religious law. However, the word crime refers
  to an act committed in violation of a law
  prohibiting it.

19
Language points of Text I (2)

• mourners bench a frond row of seats at a
  revival meeting, reserved for those who are to
  make professions of penitence.

20
Language points of Text I (3)

• Salvation saving of the soul from sin
• The word salvation has a strong religious
  connotation. In the Christian religion, salvation
  of a person or his spirit is the state of being
  saved from evil and its effects by death of Jesus
  Christ on a cross)

21
Language points of Text I (4)

• revival a serious of meetings, characterized by
  public confession of sins and declaration of
  renewed interest in religion, intended to
  encourage this to happen .

22
Language points of Text I (5)

• preach deliver a religious speech
• A bishop preached to the assembled
  mourners.
• Our local priest preached a sermon on
  the need for forgiveness.

23
Language points of Text I (6)

• hardened lacking in human feelings and showing
  no signs of shame or regret for wring doing
• He was described in court as a hardened
  criminal.

24
Language points of Text I (7)

• by leaps and bounds very quickly
• She has come on by leaps and bounds with
  her reading.
• Her English is improving by leaps and
  bounds.

25
Language points of Text I (8)

• Fold
• (1) a fence enclosure for sheep ( in the
  passage used figuratively to refer to a group of
  religious believers)
• (2) your home or an organization where you
  feel you belong
• Her children are all away at college
  now, but they always return to the fold in the
  holidays.
• The party needs to find a way of
  getting its former supporters back to the fold.

26
Language points of Text I (9)

• escort go with and protect sb.
• The police escorted her to the airport.
  
• Several little boats escorted the
  sailing ship into the harbor.

27
Language points of Text I (10)

• rhythmical having a regular repeated pattern of
  weak and strong stresses
• The rhythmical sound of the train sent
  him to sleep.
• He could hear the rhythmical beating
  of his heart.

28
Language points of Text I (11)

• sermon
• (1 ) a religious talk given as part of a
  church service
• The minister preached a sermon on the
  importance of brotherly love.
• (2 ) a long talk in which someone advised
  other people how they should behave in order to
  be better people
• I really dont think its a
  politicians job to go delivering sermon on
  public morality.

29
Language points of Text I (12)

• leave out
• (1 ) pay no attention to sb.
• No one speaks to him hes always left
  out.
• (2 ) fail to include
• You have left out the most important word
  in this sentence.

30
Language points of Text I (13)

• hold out
• (1 ) stretch out
• He held out his hand to Mary.
• (2 ) offer
• The proposals hold out a real prospect for
  settling the dispute.
• Few people hold out any hope of finding
  more survivors.

31
Language points of Text I (14)

• kneel go down onto ones knees
• She knelt down and tried to see under the
  door.
• Kneeling in front of the altar, he prayed
  for an answer.

32
Language points of Text I (15)

• prayer a solemn request made to God
• These prayers have been written specially
  for people suffering from cancer.
• She always says her prayers before she
  goes to sleep.

33
Language points of Text I (16)

• still I kept waiting to see Jesus
• the word see is italicized to make the reader
  aware that Langston meant to see Jesus with his
  naked eyes.

34
Language points of Text I (17)

• finally all the young people had gone to the
  altar and were saved, but one boy and me.
• here one is used instead of a to emphasize
  that there was only one boy left on the mourners
  bench.

35
Language points of Text I (18)

• sob cry loudly while taking in sudden ,sharp
  breaths
• I found her sobbing in the bedroom because she
  had broken her favorite doll.
• she sobbed herself to sleep the night you left.

36
Language points of Text I (19)

• hold up delay
• Traffic was held up for several hours by the
  accident.
• An unofficial strike has held up production.

37
Language points of Text I (18)

• for taking his name in vain for talking
  disrespectfully about him, without his knowledge,
  to another person.
• I said Susan is really a gossip,
  and just then she walked in and said Whos
  taking my name in vain?

38
Language points of Text I (19)

• break into suddenly start doing sth.
• When using this phrase, we usually use a noun
  rather than a gerund after into.
• He felt so happy that he broke into a song.
• She walked quickly, occasionally breaking into a
  run.

39
Language points of Text I (20)

• joyous full of joy
• Dont miss this chance to buy twenty joyous
  songs together on one album.
• Saras party was a joyous occasion there were
  hundreds of people there.

40
Grammatical items (1)

• Fill in the blanks with the proper form of one of
  the words given in the box
• 1. If you keep praising the child, he will get a
  _______ head.
• 2. We followed a _______ path across the grass.
• 3. Several months passed, and I had not received
  any _______ news.
• 4. The_______ soldier has been honored as a
  martyr.

swell break encourage bear
enclose fall beat invite
smile wait
swollen
beaten
encouraging
fallen
41
Grammatical items (2)
born

• 5. Mozart, a ______ musician, is famous not only
  in Europe but also all over the world.
• 6. When all the fairies gathered around
  celebrating the birth of Snow White, an ________
  guest arrived.
• 7. When father saw the ______ vase, he was
  furious.
• 8. Would you kindly send the ________ letter to
  Professor Berman?
• 9. Wherever you go, you can see ______ faces.
• 10. Be patient. You are now on the top of the
  _______ list.

univited
broken
enclosed
smiling
waiting
42
Exercises (1)

• Translation exercises
• ???????????????????(save)
• They hoped to save their marriage by giving birth
  to a child
• ???????????????????(escort)
• Secret service men escorted the President and his
  family everywhere.

43
Exercises (2)

• ????????????????????(punctuate)
• The presidential candidates speech was
  punctuated now and then by outbursts of applause
  from the audience.
• ???????,?????????(rejoicing)
• As soon as the news of victory came, there was
  great rejoicing all over the country.

44
Exercises (3)

• ???????,????????????(by leaps and bounds)
• The tertiary industry in our country has been
  developing by leaps and bounds since the reform
  and opening drive started.
• ??????????????????????(preach a sermon)
• The priest preached a sermon to the congregation
  on the need for charity.

45
Exercises (4)

• ????????????????????????????(kneel on ones
  knees)
• In order to maintain his dignity the employee
  didnt kneel on his knees in front of the
  overbearing boss.
• ???????????,??????,??????????(break into a sea
  of)
• When the chairman announced the election results,
  the whole assembly clapped and cheered, and the
  meeting hall broke into a sea of great joy.

46
Exercises (5)

• ??????,?????????????(take somebodys name in
  vain)
• He has a very bad reputation, for he often takes
  other peoples names in vain.
• ??????????????????(hold up)
• The building of the new road has been held up by
  the bad weather.

47
Comprehension questions of Text II (1)

• What did Kunta enjoy for breakfast?
• Kujalo, a big, powerful fish, cooked with onions,
  rice, and bitter tomatoes.
• What was the dominant religion?
• Islam. A person who submits to Allah and follows
  the teachings of Islam is called a Muslim.
• How were nursing babies taken care of by their
  farming mothers?
• While they were working, their nursing babies
  were put in the bamboo shelters nearby.

48
Comprehension questions of Text II (2)

• What part did Kuntas dog play in the action?
• The dog fiercely attacked the kidnappers to
  protect his master.
• How many attackers did Kunta attempt to fight
  off?
• Four
• Why does Haley use African words like kujalo,
  bolong, and toubob?
• Haley uses African words like kujalo, bolong and
  toubob to give the narrative an authentic flavor.

49
Comprehension questions of Text II (3)

• The narrative begins in a quiet, slow, almost
  dreamlike way, but it concludes in frantic
  action. Where exactly does the turning point
  occur?
• He was bending over a tree trunk when he heard
  the sharp crack of a twig.
• What effects does the passage have on you? (Open
  question)

50
Oral activities

• Retell Langston Hughes story from the point of
  view of either his aunt or the minister at the
  revival.

51
Writing practice

• Writing narrate one of your unusual experiences
  in Chronological order

52

• Good bye!