Unit 22 A tale of two cities

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Unit 22 A tale of two cities

• By Yan Yan May 14th, 2003

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Now read the dialogue silently and find out this
information

• 1.What are the two revolutionaries talking about?
• 2.Where did the revolutionary go?
• 3.Who helped him?
• 4.What did they do?

• They are talking about what they have done
  recently
• To a castle.
• A servant helped him.
• They set fire to the castle.

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Read the dialogue again and then turn it into a
short passage by filling the right verb forms

• This is a story about what a revolutionary did in
  the 1789 French Revolution. One morning he got
  into a castle by in a farmers cart.
  As it was not yet light, it was easy for him to
  stay Then he by the kitchen
  door till a servant to some
  wood. The man to her and
  her to let him in. She
  a brave woman. She that the revolution
  for the poor and that the man was not an
  enemy of hers. She him a fire
  that for many miles.

hiding
hidden
waited
came
fetch
persuaded
spoke
was
knew
was
light
helped
could be seen
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Lesson 86 A Tale of Two Cities

• Pre- reading discussion
• 1 Whos the author of A tale of two cities? Do
  you know him or any of his fictions?
• 2 Who are the main characters in the story?
  Please discuss in groups of four and then tell
  your classmates about them separately.

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• About the author---- Charles Dickens
• He was one of the greatest novelist in English
  literature. Born of a poor clerks family, he had
  little schooling. When he was ten, his father was
  put into prison because of being unable to pay
  his debts, and Charles Dickens , being the eldest
  son, had to earn a salary of six shillings a week
  in the blacking factory.
• In 1834, at sixteen, he started working for a
  newspaper and thus began his life work of writing
  . His first novel The Pickwick Papers got
  published, He poured out novel after novel.
  Oliver Twist The Old Curiosity Shop. David
  Copperfield Hard Times A Tale of Two Cities and
  Great Expectations These are generally regarded
  as his masterpiece and have been translated into
  many languages. They have been also translated
  into Chinese and become favorite books of Chinese
  readers.

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His Fiction A Christmas Carol A Tale of Two
CitiesAmerican Notes Barnaby RudgeBleak
House David CopperfieldDombey and
Son Great ExpectationsHard Times
Little DorritMartin Chuzzlewit
Nicholas NicklebyOliver Twist
Our Mutual FriendThe Mystery of Edwin DroodThe
Old Curiosity ShopThe Pickwick Papers

• Our present text is adopted from a chapter of
  DickensA Tale of Two Cities It was a novel
  completed in 1859 The two cities refers to
  Paris the scene of the story and London, where
  the hero of the novel spent his remaining time

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Watch and say Who are they?

• Mr Manette
• He was the father of Lucie. One day he was called
  to attend the young peasant and his sister. But
  after the death of the two , he was put in prison
  by the Marquis St. Evremonde and his brother so
  that he would keep silent over the matter. Many
  years later he was set free. Then he was brought
  to England where his mental health and strength
  gradually got better.

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• Lucie Manette
• She was the daughter of Dr Manette. Her mother
  died when she was a baby. She was brought up in
  England. She managed to find her father in Paris
  and brought him back to England where his mental
  health and strength gradually got better. Later
  she married Charles Darnay.

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• Charles Darnay
• He was the nephew of the cruel Marquis St.
  Evremonde. He had left France because he hated
  crele deeds of the French nobles and the way they
  treated the peasants. He preferred to give up the
  fortune that would one day come to him, and went
  to live in England.
• He fell in love with Lucie Manette and married
  her. During the French Revolution, he was put in
  prison and was sentenced to death because he had
  been a member of the St. Evremonde family. But he
  was rescued by his friend Sydney and left Paris
  with Lucie and Dr Manette.

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• Sydney Carton
• He was a single man. He looked like Charles
  Darnay very much and also fell in love with
  Lucie. He promised her that he would do anything
  he could for her to make sure of happiness. He
  managed to get into the prison to visit Charles
  and changed clothes with him. He had his head cut
  off, but Charles was saved. He carried out the
  promise he had made to Lucie many years before.

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• Monsieur Defarge
• He was the owner of a wine shop in Paris. During
  the Frech Revolution, he became one of the
  leaders . He found a letter in the Bastille. The
  letter had been written by Dr Manette and had
  been hidden behind a stone in the little room
  where he was kept a prisoner.
• Madame Defarge
• She was the sister of the peasant boy and girl
  who had been so badly treated by the St.
  Evremonde brothers. She was one of those who were
  eager to have Charles sentenced to death.

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• The Marquis St. Everomond
• He and his brother were called French nobles they
  treated the peasants very badly. They killed a
  young peasant and his sister, put Dr Manette
  into the Bastille.

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Read the text and fill in the blanks

• In 1775, Lucie a wine
  shop in Paris because she learned the news that
  his father was still Defarge,once
  a servant of Dr.Manette,was pleased at their
  _______.When she saw his father ,she realized he
  had been ______ disturbed by a long
  prison for no good reason but only to
  a matter.After their return
  to England, two young men fell in love with
  Lucie.________, they looked as if they were
  twins. Though Lucie _______ Charles,
  Carton __________ her that he would always do
  anything he could for her to __________of her
  happiness.

called at
alive
arrival
mentally
keep silent over
strangely
promised
married
make sure
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Lesson 87 Read the second part of the story and
answer the questions(fill in the blanks)

• What did the peasants and the poor people in
  cities do in the revolution? Why?
• Why did Charles Darnay return to Paris from
  London?
• What happened to him on his arrival in Paris?
• For what was Charles sentenced to death?
• What did Sydney Carton do while Charles was in
  prison?
• How did Sydney save Charles? Why did he do so?

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• In 1789,____________started in France ,the poor
  _________ their guns and knives to kill the
  rich________.Later, Darney found a letter from
  France __________to him . On reading it , he
  returned to ______a servant of his family
  .However , he was recognized as a noble and
  ______into prison . Unfortunately , he was
  sentenced to ______because he was the nephew of
  the cruel Marquis who had ______________to the
  peasant boy and his sister many years before .
  Because of his love to Lucie, Carton
  __________ a way to rescue Darney .He had his
  head ______. With his arrangement, they left
  Paris safe .

revolution
took up
nobles
addressed
rescue
thrown
death
done wrong
thought of
cut off
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Read the whole text once again and try to find
the main idea of it

• What is our text about?

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• In the book the author shows strong hatred for
  cruelty of the nobles and express deep sympathy
  for the lower class people, The story develops
  around a French doctor, named Manette, through
  whose eyes we can see how the French people ,
  during the years before the revolution in 1789,
  were oppressed and exploited under the rule of
  the emperor, and how they struggled for their
  freedom.

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Translation work ????

• It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I
  have ever done it is a far, far better rest that
  I go to, than I have ever known. 
• It was the best of times, it was the worst of
  times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age
  of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it
  was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season
  of light, it was the season of darkness, it was
  the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
  we had everything before us, we had nothing
  before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we
  were all going direct the other way--in short,
  the period was so far like the present period,
  that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on
  its being received, for good or for evil, in the
  superlative degree of comparison only.

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• The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are
  flying after us, and the moon is plunging after
  us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us
  but, so far we are pursued by nothing else. 

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• The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of
  victims, but they speak as if they were alone.
  Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart
  to heart, these two children of the Universal
  Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have
  come together on the dark highway, to repair home
  together, and to rest in her bosom.
• Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company
  of the dead. Ghosts all! The ghost of beauty, the
  ghost of stateliness, the ghost of elegance, the
  ghost of pride, the ghost of frivolity, the ghost
  of wit, the ghost of youth, the ghost of age, all
  waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore,
  all turning on him eyes that were changed by the
  death they had died in coming there.