Salvation 大学英语精读 教学课件.pptVIP

Unit 15 Salvation Purposes 1. To get students know something about Jesus and Christianity. 2. To understand the purpose of writing and the organization of the text. 3. To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises. About the text How is the story organized？ II. Structural analysis of the text Main idea of each part: Part One 1 --- This part introduces the background. Part Two (2-5) --- Langston recounts what he has heard about Jesus from the le people and how he waits piously for Jesus to come. Part Three 6 --- The conflict becomes intensified when all the young people have gone to the altar but Langston and Westley. Part Four (7-10)---The climax is reached when Langston is left unsaved after his last fellow sinner is saved by telling a lie. Part Five (11-14)--- The conflict is resolved when Langston also tells a lie and is thus “saved” from both sin and trouble. Part Six 15 --- It reveals Langston’s guilty conscience about telling a lie and his disillusionment with religion. III. some difficult sentences, words or phrases 1. The membership of the church had grown by leaps and bounds. Explain: The membership of church had increased in large numbers. 2. They held a special meeting for children to bring the young lambs to the fold. Explain: They held a religious service to lead the young kids to the Christian community. 3. A great many old people came and knelt around us and prayed, old women with jet-black faces, old men with work-gnarled hands. Explain: A lot of ole people came and knelt around us and prayed. The old women’s faces were as black as a compact coal, and the ole men’s hands and fingers were twisted with swollen joints and rough skin from hard work. 4. The whole building rocked with prayer and song. Explain: The church building was swinging as the people inside were preaching and singing. 5. hold out The clerk held out a dress for Mary to try on. I still hold to my former views. She held back from asking the