来自George Orwell 高级英语补充材料Marrekech
Marrakech 新版
---Marrakech（马拉喀什）
---Politics and the English Language（政治与英 语）
Байду номын сангаас
Orwell’s typical writing style:
Orwell wrote many literary essays, which are in superb and lucid ( clear and easy to understand) style with short sentences. He was good at the choice of words and scenes. Some critics find his essays superior to his novels.
b. The blind man ___ the street.
c. He cleaned the machine with an oily ___.
d. The beggar was dressed in ___. e. His life is a __to-riches story. Key: a. hacked b. threaded his way across c. rag d. rags ( an old worn out garment) e. rags (being very poor to being very rich )
II. Background Knowledge
1. A series of pictures of Morocco & Marrakech Introduction to Morocco and Marrakech
2. Introduction to George Orwell: the author of the essay The Jewish people
高英第二课Marrakech分析
But in 1912, a Franco-Spanish agreement divided Morocco into 4 administrative zones. Morocco gained independence in 1956 and became a constitutional monarchy in 1957. Morocco is a member of the United Nations, the League of Arab States, and the Organization of African Unity. most of the people of Morocco are Muslims,Islamis the state religion and Arabic is the official language, but French and Spanish are also spoken.
Ⅲ.
Detailed Studn of the text ▲main idea of each part ▲ questions to discuss ▲ Key words, phrases and difficult sentences
Unit 2 Marrakech
By George Orwell
Objectives of Lesson Two
To familiarize students with the background knowledge of George Orwell, Morocco, French colonies, Marrakech; Jews To learn expository writing; To analyze the theme and the writer’s opinion of colonialism.
高英第二课Marrakech分析
His well-known essays: Shooting an elephant A Hanging Marrakech Politics and the English Language
-
Orwell’s Rules for writers
Never use metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
-
But in 1912, a Franco-Spanish agreement divided Morocco into 4 administrative zones. Morocco gained independence in 1956 and became a constitutional monarchy in 1957. Morocco is a member of the United Nations, the League of Arab States, and the Organization of African Unity. most of the people of Morocco are Muslims,Islamis the state religion and Arabic is the official language, but French and Spanish are also spoken.
Unit 2 Marrakech
By George Orwell
-
Objectives of Lesson Two
To familiarize students with the background knowledge of George Orwell, Morocco, French colonies, Marrakech; Jews
高英课Marrakech分析PPT课件
By George Orwell
.
1
Objectives of Lesson Two
To familiarize students with the background knowledge of George Orwell, Morocco, French colonies, Marrakech; Jews
.
9
the stone age by cave dwellers; about 2000B.C. it was settled by Berber tribes, who had formed the basis of the population ever since; The Arabs invaded Morocco in the 7th century,bringing with Islam; from the end of the 17th century
.
11
Marrakech in Morocco
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
To learn expository writing; To analyze the theme and the writer’s
opinion of colonialism.
.
2
George Orwell
Book 2 Unit 2
• wring a confession from the prisoner • They finally wrung a consent from the council. • a tale that wrings the heart. 使……心如刀割
• desolate: • 1. devoid of inhabitants; deserted • The streets which were usually so thronged 群集 now grown desolate 荒芜的(Daniel Defoe) • 2. barren; lifeless: rendered unfit for habitation or use • He left the war-torn and desolate city. • The invading nazi army desolated the European countries . 使荒芜 • 3. sad, dreary; dismal and forlorn. • The old lady was desolated by her husband‟s death. 感到孤单
• a walking corpse
• 骨瘦如柴的人
• cf.
• corp
• (Business) corporation
• corps-de-ballet 芭蕾舞团
flesh
• 1). He always folds his hands together and eats his own flesh. 整天偷懒 • 2). The landlady demanded her pound of flesh every day.
高级英语 第二课_Marrakech_完备课件
His Life
– He is mush praised in the west partly because of his anti-communist point of view.
– He was born in India, father, a so called empirebuilder --serving the British government abroad.
e. People: most Muslims; Most (70%) Moroccans are farmers, using camels, donkeys and mules to pull plows, trying to try to grow their own food. In the South a few tribesmen still wander from place to place in the desert.
---Renowned for leather goods --- the old city is like a labyrinth (迷宫 ) full of
crooked, deadened streets.
Marrakech
Marrakech is not only a fantastic city, it is also a symbol of the Morocco that once was, and which still survives here. The streets of the old and pink city have been too narrow to allow the introduction of cars, and tourists searching for the "real" Morocco have turned the medieval structures of Marrakech into good business.
Marrakech culture background 2 George Orwell
About the authorGeorge Orwell (1903-1950) is the pseudonym or pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, British novelist and essayist, was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was a minor customs official in the opium department of the Indian Civil Service. When Orwell was 4 years old, his family returned to England and settled at Henley, a village near London, When Orwell was 8 years old, he was sent to a private preparatory school in Sussex. He later claimed that this experiences there determined his views on the English class system. He began to write at an early age, and was even published in college periodicals, but he did not enjoy school. Orwell wrote about his unfavorable prep-school experiences in the essay Such were the Joys (1968).After attending Wellington and Eton, he served (1922-27) with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. His resignation from the service suggests that he had come to understand the imperialism which he was serving and had rejected it. His experience in Burma is described in his first novel Burmese Days (1934). On his return to Europe in 1927 he lived in voluntary poverty, first in Paris and then in London, a period which is the basis of his book Down and Out in Paris and London.Commissioned by the Left Book Club to do a survey on unemployment, Orwell spent several months living among the poor in Lancashire. The product of his observations was The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). In 1936 he fought with the POUM ( Partido Obrero de Unification Marxista ) on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and was severely wounded. Homage to Catalonia ( 1938 ), an account of the eight months he spent fighting in Spain, marked the maturing of his views and his increasing dissatisfaction with left wing orthodoxy. His early novels are highly autobiographical. All of Orwell’s works, however, are concerned with the sociopolitical conditions of his time, notably with the problem of human freedom.Rejected for military service on account of tuberculosis, and a wound he had received in Spain, Orwell spent the war years with the overseas service of the B.B.C. In 1945 he published his most successful book, Animal Farm, a satirical fantasy attacking communism as practiced in the Soviet Union. This fantasy related what happened to animals who free themselves and then are again enslaved through violence and fraud. It is upon this book that Orwell’s reputation as an anticommunist writer is based. Nineteen Eight-Four (1949) is an elaborate satire on modern politics, a prophetic novel describing the dehumanization of man in a mechanistic, totalitarian world. Orwell’s other novels include A Clergyman’s Daughter (1935), Keep the Aspidistra Flying(1936), and Coming Up for Air (1940). The master of a superb, lucid prose style, Orwell wrote many literary essays, which some critics find superior to his novels. His volumes of essays include Dickens, Dali and Others (1946), Shooting an Elephant (1950), and the Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell ( 4 volumes, 1968 )Famous saying:He once said: ‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’About his works‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (also known as ‘1984’),‘Animal Farm: A Fairy Story’ (or ‘Animal Farm’), ‘Homage to Catalonia’, ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’, ‘The road to Wigan Pier’, ‘Burmese Days’, ‘Keep the Aspidistra flying’, ‘AClergyman's daughter’, ‘Coming Up for Air’...Orwell was also a prolific essayist who produced such works as ‘Why I Write’, ‘Inside the Whale’, ‘The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius’, ‘Looking back on the Spanish War’, ‘Politics and the English Language’, ‘Notes on Nationalism’, ‘The Prevention of Literature’, ‘Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool’, ‘A Hanging’, ‘Shooting an Elephant’, ‘Charles Dickens’, ‘Marrakech’, ‘Literature and Totalitarianism’, ‘Writers and Leviathan’ in addition to many articles.动物农庄Animal Farm (1999)人望低处Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four。
marrackech高级英语读后感
marrackech高级英语读后感After reading "Marrakech" by George Orwell, I found myself deeply moved and reflective upon the issues of poverty, inequality, and colonialism. In this essay, I will explore the themes and messages presented in the essay, as well as my personal thoughts and reactions to it."Marrakech" is a powerful and evocative essay that describes Orwell's experiences in Morocco in the 1930s. Throughout the essay, Orwell vividly portrays the poverty and suffering he witnesses in Marrakech, from the beggars on the streets to the impoverished children playing in the dirt. He reflects on the disparities between the rich tourists and the local Moroccan population, highlighting the inherent injustice and inequality of the colonial system.One of the most striking aspects of the essay is Orwell's observations on the relationship between the colonizers and the colonized. He notes the condescending attitude of the Europeans towards the Moroccans, as well as the sense of entitlement and superiority that permeates their interactions. Orwell reveals the dehumanizing effects of colonialism, as the native population are treated as mere objects or commodities,rather than as fellow human beings deserving of respect and dignity.Another key theme in the essay is the interconnectedness of poverty and violence. Orwell reflects on the desperation and hopelessness that pervades the lives of the Moroccan people, and how this often leads to outbursts of violence and brutality. He highlights the brutal realities of poverty and oppression, and the ways in which they can drive people to desperate and destructive actions.Overall, "Marrakech" is a poignant and thought-provoking essay that raises important questions about the nature of poverty, inequality, and colonialism. It challenges us to confront the injustices and inequalities that exist in the world, and to consider our own roles in perpetuating or combating these systems of oppression.Personally, reading "Marrakech" has made me more aware of the privilege and advantages that I possess, simply by virtue of my race, nationality, and socioeconomic status. It has inspired me to reflect on the ways in which my own actions and choices may contribute to systems of inequality and injustice, and to consider how I can use my voice and resources to work towards a more just and equitable world.In conclusion, "Marrakech" is a powerful and enlightening essay that raises important issues around poverty, inequality, and colonialism. It challenges us to confront the realities of injustice and oppression, and to consider how we can work towards a more just and compassionate society. I highly recommend reading "Marrakech" for its insightful and thought-provoking reflections on these vital issues.。
- 1、下载文档前请自行甄别文档内容的完整性，平台不提供额外的编辑、内容补充、找答案等附加服务。
- 2、"仅部分预览"的文档,不可在线预览部分如存在完整性等问题,可反馈申请退款(可完整预览的文档不适用该条件!)。
- 3、如文档侵犯您的权益，请联系客服反馈,我们会尽快为您处理(人工客服工作时间：9:00-18:30)。
Supplementary Reading : George Orwell “Burmese Days”
Question: What are the points of each man in the dialogue?
P40 a dialogue between an Indian doctor and Mr. Flory, an English man in Burma
…for Englishman was bitterly anti-English and the Indian fanatically loyal. Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken. He would maintain with positive eagerness that he, as an Indian, belonged to an inferior and degenerate race. His faith in British justice was so great that even when, at the jail, he had to superintend a flogging or a hanging, and would come home with his black face faded grey and dose himself with whisky, his zeal did not falter. …
“My dear doctor,” said Flory,, “ how can you make out that we are in this country for any purpose except to steal? It’s so simple. The official holds the Burman down while the business man goes through his pockets. … The British Empire is simply a device for giving trade monopolies to the English – or rather to gangs of Jews and Scotchmen.”
“My friend, it iss pathetic to me to hear you talk so. It is truly pathetic. You say you are here to trade? Of course you are. Could the Burmese trade for themselves? Can they make machinery, ships, railways, roads? They are helpless without you. What would happen to the Burmese forests if the English were not here? They would be sold immediately to the Japanese, who would gut and ruin them. Instead of which, in your hands, actually they are improved. And while your business men develop the resources of our country, your officials are civilizing us, elevating us to their level, from pure public spirit. It is a magnificent record of self-sacrifice.
“Bosh, my dear doctor,….we’ve never taught a single useful manual trade to the Indians. We daren’t; frightened of the competition in industry….”
“ My friend, …at least, you have brought to us law and order. The unswerving British Justice and the Pax Britannica.”
“ Of course, I don’t deny,” Flory said, “that we modernize this country in certain ways. We can’t help doing so. In fact, before we’ve finished we’ll have wrecked the whole Burmese national culture. But we’re not civilizing them, we’re only rubbing our dirt on to them. Where’s it going to lead, this uprush of modern progress, as you call it? Just to our own dear old swinery of gramophones and billycock hats. S ometimes I think that in two hundreds years all this--- all this will be gone – forests, villages, monasteries, pagodas all vanished. And instead, pink villas fifty yards apart; all over those hills, as far as you can see, villa after villa, with all these gramophones playing the same tune. And all the forests shaved flat –chewed into woodpulp for the News of the World, or sawn up into gramophone cases……
“My friend, … Consider that there are other achievements of your countrymen. They construct roads, they irrigate deserts, they conquer famines, they build schools, they set up hospitals, they combat plague, cholera, leprosy, smallpox, venereal disease_-----”
“Having brought it themselves,” put in Flory
“No, sir, returned the doctor, eager to claim this distinction for his own countrymen. “No, sir, it wass the Indians who introduced venereal disease into this country. The Indians introduce diseases, and the English cure them. There iss the answer to all your pessimism and seditiousness.
(iss is the original spelling from the book, indicating the special way the Indian man speaks)。