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课件网) War Memories Lesson 3 Unit 11 Conflict and Compromise What comes to your mind when talking about wars Brainstorm bomb trench being wounded civilian general frontier /fr n t r/ machine gun Skim and choose titles for the stories Brave Patient A Happy Ending Death of a Village No More Fighting Story A Story B Story C When choosing the best title for a narration, we may take the main idea, the topic, the ending, main characters and their qualities into consideration. Introduce Story A according to your chart. Share and edit Polish your own chart with different-colored pens Why did the man show his identification papers to a soldier Think and share Making inferences You need to draw or guess information or ideas which are not specifically or strongly stated by the author. It is a reasonable and logical guess based on what the author says. Story A Background information (Vietnam War) My Lai Massacre U.S. soldiers killed as many as 500 unarmed villagers on March 16, 1968. Story A Vietnam War Why did the man show his identification papers to a soldier To demonstrate that he was a good and innocent man. To show that he was not the person they were looking for. To survive Introduce Story B according to your diagram. Share and edit Polish your own chart with different-colored pens. Why did they choose to celebrate Christmas in temporary peace Think and share Story B Christmas truce in 1914 Why did they choose to celebrate Christmas in temporary peace Long-established tradition Looking for comfort, especially during the bitter and lonely cold. Longing for the end of the war. Using the time to collect the bodies of the fallen in no-man’s land. Line 30 “he was fed up to the neck…” You can put yourself in the situation. Cultural background Line 26 “no-man’s land” Introduce Story C according to your mind map. Share and edit Polish your own chart with different-colored pens Think and share Why did the soldier throw the watch back at him Why did the nurse and the soldier cry together at the end of the story Think and share Why did the soldier throw the watch back at him The war caused permanent physical and mental damage to the soldier. Any award was useless, because it was not going to help him walk. Feeling helpless, he threw it back. He had both his legs blown off. A purple heart and a watch material award permanent injury To be number 20, 000 to come through this hospital being lucky but not proud The soldier felt angry at the reason for being awarded. Think and share Why did the nurse and the soldier cry together at the end of the story “I really admire him for that…” Admired him for bravely exhibiting his attitude “It sort of said what this war was all about to me.” Felt sympathy for him and felt sick of wars Think and share Work in pairs Raise another two inference questions for Story C and provide possible answers. War Memories Make wars become memories forever! Review the passage ... ...
