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Lesson Four A Drink in the Passage
Part One Warm up
I. Questions
1.What do you know about South Africa?
2. What do you know about the situation in South Africa at the time the story was written?
3. Have you ever heard of the “apartheid”? What do you know about it?
4. What dramatic changes have taken place in this country since the time this story was written?
5. Has racism been a serious problem in human history? Is the problem resolved
6. Is it easy to detect the existence of racism? Why or why not?
7. Does racism only involve governments and politicians?
8. “I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.” —Alan Paton (Please make your comments on this quote.)
II.Video Show
III Alan Paton Quotes
1. Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
2. I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
3. The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that’s why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
4. There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
5. To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
6. Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
IV.Famous Lines from Cry, the Beloved Country (
Cry, The Beloved Country is the famous African novel by Alan Paton. The story follows the journey a minister, who travels to the big city in search of his prodigal son. Cry, the
Lesson Four A Drink in the Passage
Part One Warm up
I. Questions
1.What do you know about South Africa?
2. What do you know about the situation in South Africa at the time the story was written?
3. Have you ever heard of the “apartheid”? What do you know about it?
4. What dramatic changes have taken place in this country since the time this story was written?
5. Has racism been a serious problem in human history? Is the problem resolved
6. Is it easy to detect the existence of racism? Why or why not?
7. Does racism only involve governments and politicians?
8. “I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.” —Alan Paton (Please make your comments on this quote.)
II.Video Show
III Alan Paton Quotes
1. Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
2. I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
3. The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that’s why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
4. There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
5. To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
6. Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
IV.Famous Lines from Cry, the Beloved Country (
Cry, The Beloved Country is the famous African novel by Alan Paton. The story follows the journey a minister, who travels to the big city in search of his prodigal son. Cry, the