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Lesson 5 –Twelve Angry Men (Part One)
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Lesson 5 –Twelve Angry Men (Part One)
Warm-up
I. Listening materials 
II. About the author 
III.Do you know?
IV. Warming-up questions 
V. Warming-up activities
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Lesson 5 –Twelve Angry Men (Part One)
I.
Listening materials
Listen to the
passages.
Complete the
spots.
LISTEN
1. Writer Joseph Heller died of a _1__ __2_ when he
was 76 years old. Joseph Heller was famous for
writing a book called Catch-22. It was about life in
the American __3_ during World War II. The book
made fun of _4__ and __5_ who make rules that
do not make sense. In the United States, the word
catch-22 came to mean a _6__ __7_. Americans
love this new idea that Joseph Heller gave to the
language.
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1.
3.
5.
6.
heart
2. attack
military 4. rules
officials
stupid 7. rule
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Listening materials
2. Our next scientist of the millennium is the
Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud. He changed
scientific ideas about the mind. Doctor Freud was
born in 1856 in Moravia. He established the idea
that dreams help us understand our _1__ self. He
said this is the part of the mind containing wishes,
desires or __2_ __3__ too frightening to
recognize. Sigmund Freud’s work on the causes
and treatment of mental sickness helped form the
ideas of modern __4__. His ideas about sexual
development led to the discussion and treatment
of sexual problems. Many of Sigmund Freud’s
ideas are no longer used today, but no one __5_
his great influence on the science of mental health.
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1. unconscious
2. bad
3. experiences
4. psychiatry
5. disputes
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3. The Pentagon is one of the largest office buildings
in the world. It is the headquarters of the United
States __1_ Department. The building is in
Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from
Washington D.C. It has 5 sides. That is why it is
called the Pentagon. The building was designed
that way because of 5 roads that are the borders
of the surrounding land. It covers _2__ __3_ of
land and has more than 340,000 square meters of
space. About 24,000 people work in the Pentagon.
About half are _4__ , the other are part of the
military forces. They form part of 4 groups: the
Departments of the Army, __5_ and ___6__ and
the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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1. Defense
2. 12
3. hectares
4. civilians
5. Navy
6. Air Force
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Army engineers began building Pentagon in
1941. It was completed 16 months later. It
was built to __7_ the offices of the War
Department. Congress created the War
Department in 1789 to __8_ the military
services. 9 years later, Congress created the
Department of the Navy to separate the land
and __9_ forces. After World War II,
Congress approved the National Security Act,
which
created
the
National
Military
Establishment.
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7. house
8. supervise
9. naval
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It was _10__ by a Secretary of Defense and had 3
military departments. The Department of War
became the Department of the Army. The Army Air
Forces became a _11__ service, the Air Force. The
Navy and the Marine Corps continued under the
Department of the Navy. The Secretary of Defense
became a member of the president’s cabinet and
developed policies and programs for the National
Military Establishment. In 1949, Congress created
the Department of Defense to _12__ the National
Military Establishment. Since then all the military
departments have been supervised by the Secretary
of Defense from his office in the Pentagon. The first
Secretary of Defense was James Forrestal.
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10. headed
11. separate
12. replace
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About the author
Reginald Rose:
one of the leading writers from
television's “Golden Age” in the 1950s,
who was best known for the movie
“Twelve Angry Men”.
Rose died of
complications from heart failure at age
81 in Norwalk, Connecticut.
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II.
About the author
Distinguished works:
Rose won an Emmy Award in 1954 for writing the
Studio One television version of "Twelve Angry Men",
in which one juror painstakingly sways the 11 others
debating the fate of a Puerto Rican youth charged with
killing his father. Rose received an Academy Award
nomination for the screenplay of the 1957 film version,
which starred Henry Fonda, who co-produced the
movie with Rose. The film, which also featured Lee J.
Cobb, Ed Begley Sr., E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman,
Jack Warden and Martin Balsam, was directed by
Sidney Lumet and was also nominated for best picture
that year. Rose, a native New Yorker whose work was
distinguished by his focus on social and political issues,
won three Emmy Awards and was nominated for six.
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About the author
His focus:
A fearless Golden Age of Television writer of
the highest caliber, Reginald Rose's ability to
tackle pressing social issues distinguished him
from the pack and, along with such
contemporaries as Rod Serling and Paddy
Chayefsky, left an indelible mark on the history
of thought-provoking television drama.
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III.
Do you know?
Do you know how the author comes to write this
play? Here is what the author said:
“Twelve Angry Men” is the only play I’ve written
which has any relation at all to actual personal
experience. A month or so before I began the play
I sat on the jury of a manslaughter case in New
York’s General Sessions Court. This was my first
experience on a jury, and it left quite an impression
on me. When I received my jury notice I wasn’t
very pleased. There are eight million people in New
York, why do they have to choose me. All the other
prospective jurors I met in the waiting room the
first day also grumbled and muttered.
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Do you know?
But, strangely, the moment I walked into the
courtroom and found myself facing a strange man
whose fate was suddenly more or less in my hands,
my entire attitude changed. I as hugely impressed
with the almost frightening stillness of the
courtroom, the impassive, masklike face of the
judge, the brisk, purposeful scurrying of the
various officials in the room, and the absolute
finality of the decision I and my fellow jurors would
have to make at the end of the trial. I doubt
whether I have ever been so impressed in my life
with a role I had to play, and I suddenly became so
earnest that, in thinking about it later, I probably
was unbearable to the eleven other jurors.
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Do you know?
It occurred to me during the trial that no one
anywhere ever knows what goes on inside a
jury room but the jurors, and I thought then
that a play taking place entirely within a jury
room might be an exciting and possibly
moving experience for an audience. Actually,
the outline of this play, which I began shortly
after the trial ended, took longer to write than
the script itself. The movements in the play
were so intricate that I wanted to have them
down on paper to the last detail before I
began the construction of the dialogue.
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Do you know?
I worked on the idea and outline for a week
and was stunned by the time I was finished to
discover that the outline is twenty-seven
pages long. The average outline is perhaps
five gapes long, and many are as short as one
or two pages. This detailed setting down of
the moves of the play paid off however. The
script was written in five days.
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Do you know?
In writing this play, I attempted to blend four
elements which I had seen at work in a jury
room during my jury service. These elements
are: (1) the evidence as remembered and
interpreted by each individual juror (the
disparities here were incredible); (2) the
relationship of jury and juror in a life-and-death
situation; (3) the emotional pattern of each
individual juror and (4) the physical problems
such
as
the
weather,
the
time,
the
uncomfortable room, etc. All of these elements
are of vital importance in any jury room, and all
of
them
presented
excellent
dramatic
possibilities.
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Warming-up questions
1. Suppose the same crime was committed nowadays,
what would the court do to find out the truth? (Would
there be any DNA testing or detailed forensic evidence?)
2. Do you think it is fair to endow a jury with the full
responsibility to decide whether a suspect is guilty or
innocent? How do you understand the role of a judge in
a court and that of a jury?
3. In what way has the jury changed a lot? (Why do you
think the jury in this trial consisted of only white men,
no women or the Blacks? Was smoking allowed in the
jury room?)
4. Do you know that language can have power as well? Can
you feel the power of language in the text? In what way
is language powerful? Give some examples.
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5. What do you think is the main theme?
 The idea, that one person, or a small group of
people, can actually make a significant difference.
It's easy to become disillusioned by a barrage of
facts, supposed facts, obfuscations, and outright
lies, whether in a court or in an election. But
finding the strength to push all these aside and
participate in the process to the best of your
ability is an important part of what Twelve Angry
Men is all about.
 Twelve Angry Men is about one individual's ability
to stand up for what he believes, even when
others ridicule him. It is also a powerful study not
just of the criminal justice system, but also of the
diversity of human experience, the nature of peer
pressure, and the difficulty of ever fully knowing
the truth.
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V.
Warming-up activities
1. Try to work out a list of words or
expressions used in a criminal court.
2. Please give a simple character sketch
for each of the jurors.
3. See the movie to have
understanding of the story.
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