The Diary of the Unknown Soldier

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The Diary of the Unknown Soldier
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Pre-reading question

• Can you tell us what image a common soldier has
  in our country?
• Can you imagine what are in the dying peoples
  mind at last minute in the rubble?
• Which war film gave you the deepest impression?
  Can you describe the cruelties of war from the
  eyes of a soldier?
• Can you guess what question a soldier would ask
  about war before he was killed?

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Soldiers in marching
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Structural analysis

• This story is dedicated to all of the unknown
  soldiers who died while trying to protect the
  lives of the innocent. And it shows us what
  happened in different three days according to the
  soldiers diary. This passage is divided into
  three parts.

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The first entry

• The horrible scene of the war
• His wish to be alive
• His longing for his family

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Part 1 November 24, 1943 1st entry

• Paragraph 1 The first paragraph provides a
  contrast between what the author saw in the
  battlefield and what he and his fellow soldiers
  had expected before they joined in the war.
• Paragraph 2 This paragraph is a description of
  the enemys air raid before the unknown soldier
  wrote this entry. It is a flashback.
• Paragraph3-4 As a lucky survivor of the air
  raid, the author witnessed the aftermath of the
  bombing

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The second entry

• His reflections on war, interwoven with
  description of his grim situation in a small
  European town
• Facts they are staying at the town, without food
  and ammunition when the Nazi troops are coming
• Reflection war creates more problems, and Even
  one war is too many

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Part 2 November 29, 1943 (The 2nd entry)

• Paragraph 1 This paragraph consists of three
  points. The author begins with his remarks on the
  validity of war(Sentence1--4), and then turns to
  his grim situation at that time(S5--9), and
  shifts to those dead soldiers and their families.
• Paragraph 2 This paragraph projects the authors
  strong passions his affection for his family
  (daughters) and his rage for selfish and
  ignorant killing and destruction.

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The third entry

• The imminent danger and, possibly, death, Nazi
  troops coming, realization One last question
  Why should there be war?

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Part 3 December 24, 1943 (The 3rd entry)

• In the third part, what readers can see in the
  paragraph is like picture-talking with the focus
  shifting from the approaching death on the
  battlefield to the authors envisioned peace at
  home. Then it ends abruptly with one last
  question about the sensibility of war, Why?,
  possibly with the end of his life.

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Look at these snapshots

• ---Nazi troops invasion into their location
• ---the authors vision of lying in his own bed at
  home, waiting for Christmas
• ---his feeling of being close to death
• ---his vision of his daughters at home
• ---a Nazi soldiers footsteps coming in his
  direction
• ---his last wish to get his diary back home.

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Language Work

• Part 1
• With an air of seeming to have/be
• e.g With his fiery glance and with an air of
  destiny, he moved through the paring crowd toward
  the beggar.
• Assign to give someone a task to do
• assign sb to do sth.
• e.g You have been assigned the task of keeping
  the records up to date.

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• Out of the blue all of a sudden
• synonyms suddenly, abruptly, plump
• E.g The job had been offered to her out of the
  blue.
• ??????,?????????,???????
• I was pleasantly surprised to see an old friend
  who appeared at the party out of the blue.
• a sea of blood This is a metaphor which is used
  to describe the scene more vividly.
• E.g Look at the followings a torrent of
  anger a mountain of books.

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• scoop up to take up or out to life
• E.g When the policeman arrived the traders
  scooped up their watches and jewellery and ran
  off.
• He scooped up the little boy and ran from the
  fire.
• Spot to see, esp. with effort
• E.g The fake painting was spotted by a New
  York art dealer.

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Part 2

• Run to develop or pass into the stated condition
• E.g Our supply of coal is running low.
• Have it that to say, to express
• Legend has it that all the world is a stage.
• Rumor has it that
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• he was killed in a raid in the local area.

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• Odds the probability that something will or will
  not happen.
• The odds against being killed in a plane crash
  are very high.
• shed blood to cause wounding or, esp. killing
• They wanted to bring down the government, but
  without shedding blood.

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• Take precaution to do everything that is
  necessary to avoid danger or risk
• The accident would never have occurred if they
  had taken precaution.
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• We have taken all the precautions we can against
  the painting being stolen.

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• strike anote to express the stated feeling or
  message to express a particular feeling or
  attitude
• His new book strikes a warning note against
  government overspending.
• strike a happy/cheerful/cautious etc note
• strike a balance (between something)
• strike it rich to suddenly make a lot of money
• strike home if something that you say strikes
  home, it has exactly the effect on someone that
  you intended

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• enrage to make someone very angry
• He was enraged by the murder of his brother
  that he decided to find the killer himself.
• All the Chinese are enraged by Sharon Stones
  ignorant remark on Wenchuan earthquake.
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• Adams refusal to work overtime enraged his boss.

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strew

• to scatter things around a large area
• be strewn with something
• The street was strewn with broken glass.
• strew something around/about/over etc something
• strewn with something containing a lot of
  something
• to lie scattered over something Flowers strewed
  the path.

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• Tattered clothes, books etc that are tattered
  are old and torn
• He produced a tattered envelope from his pocket.
• in tatters if a plan or someone's reputation is
  in tatters, it is ruined clothes that are in
  tatters are old and torn
• clothing that is old and torn rags

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Part 3

• Tuckto push something, especially the edge of a
  piece of cloth or paper, into or behind something
  so that it looks tidier or stays in place
• tuck something into/under/behind etc something
• tuck somebody in to make a child comfortable in
  bed by arranging the sheets around them
• be tucked up in bed informal to be lying or
  sitting in bed

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• engulf to surround and swallow up
• The house was engulfed in flames.
• An almost unbearable loneliness engulfed her.
• if an unpleasant feeling engulfs you, you feel it
  very strongly
• despair so great it threatened to engulf him

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• Fiery1.very red or orange, and looking like fire
  leaves that turn fiery red in autumn
• 2. becoming angry or excited very quickly
• He has a fiery temper.
• 3. showing or encouraging anger or excitement
• a fiery speech
• 4. fiery food or drink tastes very strong, making
  part of your body feel hot

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• Aglowhaving a soft light, or a strong, warm
  colour
• The evening sky was still aglow.
• if someone's face is aglow, they seem happy and
  excited
• aglow with
• Linda's face was aglow with happiness.

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• inspect to examine
• Spota particular place or area
• on the spot / put somebody on the spot
• to deliberately ask someone a question that is
  difficult or embarrassing to answer
• doom to cause to suffer something unavoidable,
  such as death or destruction
• We saw the doomed aircraft just before it
  crashed.

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• Doom to make someone or something certain to
  fail, die, be destroyed etc
• be doomed to failure/defeat/extinction etc
• Many species are doomed to extinction.
• The plan was doomed from the start.
• be doomed to do something
• We are all doomed to die in the end.
• doomed adjective
• passengers on the doomed flight

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• If you refuse to provide any information of the
  user, then your computer program is doomed to
  failure.
• doom and gloomwhen there seems to be no hope for
  the future

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dub

• to give something or someone a name that
  describes them in some way ? label, name
• be dubbed something
• to change the original spoken language of a film
  or television programme into another language
• be dubbed into something
• American English to copy a recording from a tape
  or CD onto another tape

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karma

• the belief that all the good and bad things that
  you do in this life affect how good or bad your
  future lives will be, according to the Hindu and
  Buddhist religions
• the feeling that you get from a person, place, or
  action
• good/bad karma

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