Unit+3+Capital+Punishment.ppt

Pre-reading Questions 1. What is capital punishment? 2. Do you know any method of execution? 3. How is the practice of capital punishment in the world now? 4. How is the topic of capital punishment debated? 5. What is your position on the question of the death penalty? Edward Irving Koch Edward I. Koch, a lawyer, party official, and councilman, was born on December 12, 1924. He was a United States Congressman from 1969 to 1977 and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. the Text Edward I. Koch’s article, “Death and Justice” was printed in The New Republic in 1985. In his essay, Koch claims the death penalty is just and defends his statement by using his former public service as ethos (客观因素), strong language and concrete examples as pathos (情感因素）, and by disproving capital punishment rebuttals as a means of developing logos（逻各斯；理性）. Structure of the Text Part I Questions for discussion: 1. What did Willie and Shaw say and write before the death penalty in the first paragraph? What did they mean by stressing that killing is wrong? 2. What does the author find strange in the two cases of Willie and Shaw? 3. What does the author think the death penalty can do in connection with life? Words and Expressions affirm 1. to state something as true 肯定地说,断言…是真实的; 申明 The suspect affirmed (that) he had been at home all evening. 2. to publicly state your support for an opinion or idea 支持；赞同 ；维护 The government has affirmed its commitment to equal rights. affirmation a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something断言；宣称，肯定，确定 Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. The poem is a joyous affirmation of the power of love. convict n. 1. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison 2. a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence v. find or declare guilty The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced. clement 1. (of weather or climate) physically mild Its very clement for the time of year