Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy
Jan. 20, 1961
Unit 3: Teaching Aims
the comprehension of the text and
the language points
the paraphrase
sentences
of
complicated
the enlargement of the vocabulary
the appreciation of the styles of
composition and devices of figuration
Revision
• We ______ today not a _____ of party but a
celebration of _______, symbolizing an end
as well as a ____, signifying ______ as well
as change. For I have_____ before you and
Almighty God the same ______our forebears
______ nearly a century and three-quarters
ago.
• The world is very different now. For man
holds in his ______the power to _____ all
forms of human poverty and all forms of
human life. And yet the same revolutionary
belief for which our forebears fought is still
______around the______, the belief that the
rights of man come not from the _____ of the
state but from ______.
• We dare not forget today that we are the ___
of that first revolution. Let the word ___from
this time and place, to ___ and ___ alike, that
the ___ has been passed to a new generation
of Americans, born in this century, ___ by
war, ___ by a hard and bitter peace, proud of
our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness
or permit the slow ___ of these human rights
to which this nation has always been ___, and
to which we are ___ today at home and
around the world.
• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us
__ or __, that we shall pay any __, bear any
__, meet any __, support any friend, oppose
any ___ to assure the __ and the __ of liberty.
Paragraph 5:
• transition
• from the general to the specific
• In the following paragraphs he will be
addressing different specific groups of
nations.
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This much we pledge—and more.
Structure?
Pledge:
to formally promise to do something
Japan has pledged $100 million in
humanitarian aid.
• Paraphrase:
• We promise to do this much and we promise
to do more.
Paragraph 6:
• To?
• allies --• the white European countries in general but his
words are specifically directed to the English
speaking Anglo-Saxon countries, such as Britain,
Canada, Australia, with whom the United States
shares a common cultural and spiritual heritage.
• Aim ?
• Cooperation
• United, there is little we cannot do in a host
of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is
little we can do.
• Rhetorical devices?
• antithesis:
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a host of
a large number of
venture
a business project or activity
Paraphrase:
If we are united, we can do a lot of things in
joint ventures.
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at odds:
in disagreement
split asunder:
split apart
a powerful challenge
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a strong, powerful threat posed by the socialist
camp
• Paraphrase?
• If we are quarreling and split apart, we can not
compete with the strong, powerful enemy in front of
us.
Paragraph 7:
• To ?
• the newly independent countries, the third
world developing countries.
• Aim ?
• He promises to give them economic aid
but warns them not to go over to the
Communists.
• One form of colonial control shall not have
passed away.
• We shall always hope to find them strongly
supporting their own freedom.
• alliteration:
• Those who foolishly sought power by riding the
back of the tiger ended up inside.
• Metaphor
• Tiger?
• Those countries that foolishly seek the aid of
socialist countries will end up by losing their
independence as many other countries did in the
past.
• 译
• 过去那些企图骑上虎背为自己壮声势的愚人结果
都没能逃脱葬身虎腹的命运。
Paragraph 8:
• To ?
• Africa; Asia
• Kennedy wants people to believe that the
United States renders unselfish and
disinterested aid to countries that need it.
• break the bonds of mass misery
• Alliteration
• peoples in the huts and villages:
• the poor and backward people in Africa and
Asia struggling to free themselves from
poverty and suffering
• help them help themselves:
• We will help them only if they also do their
bit.
• We pledge our best efforts to help them help
themselves, for whatever period is required,
not because the Communists may be doing it,
not because we seek their votes, but because
it is right.
• repetition
• If a free society cannot help the many who
are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
• Antithesis
• Paraphrase:
• If the poor are continuously exploited and
oppressed, they will rise up some day and
overthrow the “free society” of “the few who
are rich.”
Paragraph 9:
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• all the countries lying to the south of the
United States in Central and South America.
• Latin American countries.
• Usually the US regards the Latin American
countries as the backyard of the US, for it has
special interest in these countries
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Sister
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one family, mutual good relations
To convert our good words into good deeds
To assist free men and free governments
repetition
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peaceful revolution
a new alliance for progress
prey
Metaphor
“peaceful revolution”
an animal which might fall victim to enemy
nations.
• But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot
become the prey of hostile powers.
• Paraphrase:
• We will not allow any enemy country to
subvert this peaceful revolution that brings
hope of progress to all our countries.
• And let every other power know that this
hemisphere intends to remain the master of
its own house.
• Paraphrase:
• And let every country know the nations of
this hemisphere will not tolerate any
interference in their affairs by countries
outside this hemisphere.
Assignment
• Finish the self-study of the text
• Exercises
• To those old __ whose cultural and spiritual
__ we share, we pledge __ of faithful friends.
United, there is little we cannot do in __of
co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little
we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful
challenge at __and split__.
• To those new states whom we welcome to
the __ of free, we pledge our word that one
form of colonial control shall not have passed
away merely to be replaced by a far more
iron __. We shall not always expect to find
them supporting our view. But we shall
always hope to find them strongly supporting
their own __, and to remember that, in the
past, those who foolishly __ power by
______of the tiger ended up inside.
• To those peoples in the ___ and villages of
half the globe struggling to break the __ of __
misery, we pledge our best effort to help
them help themselves, for whatever period is
required, not because the Communists may
be doing it, not because we __their votes, but
because it is ___. If a free society cannot help
the many who are ___, it cannot save the few
who are ____.
• To our ___ republics south of our __, we
offer a __ pledge: to __ our good words into
good __, in a new alliance for __, to assist
free men and free governments in __the chain
of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of
hope cannot become the __ of hostile powers.
Let all our neighbors know that we shall join
with them to oppose aggression or __
anywhere in the Americas. And let every
other power know that this hemisphere
intends to remain the __ of its own __.
• What does each paragraph tell us?
• Present situation
• Cooperation
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Attitude
Control of arm
Wonder of science
Human rights
New world