A_Hanging.ppt

Pen name of Eric Arthur Blair British novelist, journalist, social critic ,born in India, educated at Eton College, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma;It was in Burma ,a sodden morning of the rains.We were waiting outside the condemned cells , a row of sheds fronted with double bars ,like small animal cages . Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot for drinking water .In some of them brown silent men squatting at the inner bars , with their blankets draped round them .These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next week or two.; Burma: ['b?:m?] n. 缅甸（东南亚国家） sodden: ['s?d?n] adj. 浸透的；浑身湿透的；浸过酒的 vt. 使浸透；使迷糊 the condemned cells: the very small rooms in a prison where prisoners, who had been sentenced to death and who were due to be hanged within a week or two, were being kept. a row of sheds fronted with double bars: a line of one story buildings whose front was strengthened with both inner and outer bars ;ten feet by ten : ten feet long and ten feet wide squatting: ['skw?ti?] sit on one’s heels or on the ground with the knees drawn up under or close to the bodyv n. [水运] 航行尾倾 v. 蹲；坐落于（squat的ing形式） ;(1) Where and when did the story take place? The story took place in Burma on a sodden morning of the rains. (2) Provide a general description of the condemned cells. The condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, were like small animal cages. Each cell was about ten feet long and ten feet wide and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot for drinking water. In some of the cells brown silent men were squatting at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them. ;The first paragraph of the first part can also be served as the first part of the whole narrative story, introduces the setting and the characters of the story and briefly describes the bad living conditions of the condemned men, who lived in small cell