Part 2 Passage Emily Davison Ex. A. Pre-listening Question
What do you know about the Women’s Rights Movement? It was launched in 1848 at the world’s first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Ex. B: Sentence Dictation
1. So dearly did she love women that she offered her life as their ransom.
2. Emily found work as a school teacher and eventually she raised enough money to return to university education. 3. In 1909, Emily gave up full-time teaching so that she could devote more of her time to the WSPU.
4. The scale of her militant acts increased and in December 1911 she was arrested for setting fire to pillar boxes.
5. Once she had recovered her health, Emily began making plans to commit an act that would give the movement maximum publicity. Ex. C: Detailed Listening.
1872; literature; leave; find the ￡20-a-term-fees; 1906; one of the chief stewards; hand a petition; March 1909; two months; stone throwing; setting fire to pillar boxes
1913; ran out; grab the bridle; fractured her skull; died;
consciousness
Ex. D: After-listening Discussion
1. Why did Emily jump down an iron staircase and run out on the course at the derby?
Because Emily was convinced that women would not win the vote until the suffragette movement had a martyr. She therefore committed those acts in order to give the movement more publicity.
2. What do you think about Emily Davison? Open.
Script of Passage:
So greatly did she care for freedom that she died for it. So dearly did she love women that she offered her life as their ransom. That is the verdict given at the Great Inquest of the Nation on the death of Emily Wilding Davison.
Emily Davison was born at Blackheath in 1872. Successful at school she won a place at Holloway College to study literature. But two years later she was forced to leave after her recently widowed mother was unable to find the 20-a-term fees. Emily found work as a schoolteacher in Worthing. Eventually she raised enough money to return to university education. After
graduating from London University she obtained a post teaching the children of a family in Berkshire.
Emily joined the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1906 and in June 1908 she was one of the chief stewards at a WSPU demonstration in London. The following year Emily gave up full-time teaching so that she could devote more of her time to the WSPU.
In March1909, Emily was arrested while attempting to hand a petition to the Prime Minister. Emily was found guilty of causing a disturbance and sentenced to one-month imprisonment. In September 1909 she received a sentence of two months for stone throwing. She was released after going on hunger strike. A few days after leaving prison, Emily Davison, Mary Leigh and Constance Lytton were caught throwing stones at a car taking David Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to a meeting in Newcastle. The women were sentenced to one month’s hard labor. The women went on hunger strike but this time the prison authorities decided to force-feed the women. In an attempt to avoid force-feeding, Emily used prison furniture to barricade the door of her prison cell. A prison officer climbed a ladder and after forcing the nozzle of a hosepipe through a window, filled up the cell with water. Emily was willing to die,
but before the cell had been completely filled with water the door was broken down.
The scale of her militant acts increased and in December 1911 she was arrested for setting fire to pillar boxes. She was sentenced to six months and during her spell in prison she went on two hunger strikes. Emily Davison was now convinced that women would not win the vote until the suffragette movement had a martyr. Emily took the decision to draw attention to the suffragette campaign by jumping down an iron staircase. Emily landed on wire netting, 30 feet below. This prevented her death but she suffered severe spinal injuries.
Once she had recovered her health, Emily Davison began making plans to commit an act that would give the moment maximum publicity. In June 1913, at the most important race of the year—the Derby, Emily ran out on the course and attempted to grab the bridle of Anmer, a horse owned by King George V. The horse hit Emily and the impact fractured her skull and she died without regaining consciousness.
Section Three News News Item 1
Ex. A: Summarize the news
This news item is about a bomb attack in Russia.
Ex. B: Listen again and fill in the blanks.
Incident: In the Ingush capital of Nazran, a bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into the gates of local police headquarters when the policemen were standing to attention in the courtyard to receive their orders for the day
Impact: The blast set the building alight destroying much of it and many of the vehicles parked there. It also damages the Kremlin's claims that the Republic's new president is bringing the region under control.
The Ingush president’s claim: He said that the West was behind the blast. He said that western powers would never allow Russia to reclaim its status as a world power.
Tape script of News Item One:
This morning in the Ingush capital of Nazran, local police were standing to attention in the courtyard of their headquarters to receive their orders for the day, when a bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into the gates of the building.
The blast set the building alight destroying much of it and many
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