George Ewart Evans was a Welsh writer born in 1909. He grew up in a mining village and observed the struggles of mining communities. He recorded oral histories from people in rural areas which he edited into books. Some of his most famous works include the poems "The Voices of the Children" and "Ask The Fellows Who Cut The Hay", as well as non-fiction books about rural Welsh culture like "Where Beards Wag All". He pioneered the use of oral history to document ways of life that were disappearing.

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陈狄钰 陈 洁 陈伟伟
狄橙橙 董玉琪 范望宏

2. By：George Ewart Evans
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3. 关于作者
About author

4. The son of a grocer,
was born in1909,
in a coal-mining village
north of Cardiff.
George Ewart Evans

5. George Ewart Evans
observed at firsthand the struggles
of a mining community
observed the affects of mining disasters,
strikes, and most poignantly the loss of
his father’s shop and the experience
of his father’s bankruptcy
his trials set in his mind a belief in the
principles of communism as a way of
ending social inequalities
Childhood
During the
years of
depression
grow up

6. George Ewart Evans
George was a pioneer in the field of
oral history who from the 1950s
recorded interviews with people in rural
areas. He taped interviews with many
people including blacksmiths, ploughmen,
drovers and shepherds and edited the
results into a number of books including
‘Where Beards
He was also an accomplished story
writer and wrote short-stories, novels
and poems.
Different
roles

7. 关于作品
About writing

8. Famous for
Three poems：
in Modern Welsh Poetry
The Voices of the Children
Ask The Fellows Who Cut The Hay
Welsh Short Stories：
The Horse in the Furrow
The Pattern Under the Plough
（Aspects of the Folk-Life of East Anglia）
The Farm and the Village
Where Beards Wag All
（The Relevance of the Oral Tradition）
…………

9. Three poems, in Modern Welsh
Poetry
The Voices of the Children
Ask The Fellows Who Cut The
Hay
Welsh Short Stories
The Horse in the Furrow
The Pattern Under the Plough:
Aspects of the Folk-Life of East
Anglia
The Farm and the Village
Where Beards Wag All: The
Relevance of the Oral Tradition
The Leaping Hare by George
Ewart Evans and David Thomson
Acky
Introduction
The Days That We Have Seen (Faber
1975).
Let Dogs Delight and Other Stories
(Faber 1975)
From Mouths Of Men (Faber 1976).
Horse Power and Magic (Faber
1979).
The Strength of the Hills: An
Autobiography (Faber 1983; Farrar
Straus & Giroux, New York).
Spoken History (Faber 1987).
The Crooked Scythe. An Anthology of
Oral History, Ed. and ill. by David
Gentleman, (Faber 1993).

10. Writing style

11. 关于内容
About content

12. Total instruction
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Father’s death left the family bankrupt
The old Pony was sold to Dando, a ragman
Ma saw Pony again and decided to
take him back
Ma used the piano exchange Old Pony and 2
pound
Debts lacking
of money
Dick was not
treat well

13. c
Part 3Part 4
Part 2Part 1
I. Father died, leaving a
poor family with a pony
and a piano
II. For the sake of living,
Tom and Gomer wanted
sold pony to Dando
III. Even though mom
disagreed, pony was sold
IV. We still have the piano,
mom and Gomer paid
more attention on it
I. Mom missed pony whose life was
terrible with Dando
II. Mom decided to get pony back and she
did it.
I. Dando came to my home
and wanted to fetch pony,
mom rejected of course
II. Dando was more interested
in the piano and gave mom
pony and one pound extra
for it.
III. Then Dando got the piano
back home and mom gave
Gomer a flute, he was
unhappy
IV. Gradually, piano was
forgotten
I. Time went by, mom recollect the
memory about the piano and wanted
to saw it. However, Gomer felt
miserable

14. 关于词汇
About vocabulary

15. vocabulary
grocery [‘ɡrəusəri] n. 食品杂货店
pony [‘pəuni] n. 矮种马；小型马
cart [kɑːt] n. 二轮运货马车
complexion [kəm‘plekʃ(ə)n] n. 肤色；面色；
whimper 英['wɪmpə] n. 呜咽声；啜泣声；
Pleated [‘plitɪd] adj. 起褶的 v. 给…打褶
cob [kɒb] n.结实的矮脚马
Pleasure-trap:n. 观光轻便双轮马车
prance [prɑːns] vi. 腾跃 ，神气活现地走
Hand n. 一手之宽（用来量马的高度）
Bar ：prep.除了…以外
darning [‘dɑːnɪŋ] n.织补
ragman [‘ræɡmən] n. 收废品的人
knacker [‘nækə ] n.费马的收买和屠宰者
prod [prɒd] n. 戳，推
heath-fire n.野火
stone [stəʊn] n.英石（英国重量单位，用来
表示体重，等于14磅）
leer [lɪə] n.斜眼一瞥
trotter [‘trɒtə] n.快步马
rosette [rə(ʊ)‘zet] n.玫瑰花环
piston [‘pɪst(ə)n] n.活塞
chariot [‘tʃærɪət] n.战车
mat [mæt] v.缠结
tag [tæg] n.箍
braces [‘breisiz] n.背带
raucous [‘rɔːkəs] a.沙哑的
apparition [æpə‘rɪʃ(ə)n] n.鬼怪，幽灵
chime [tʃaɪm] v.奏出和谐的乐声
jamb [dʒæm] n.门（窗）框
wary [‘weərɪ] a.谨慎的，小心翼翼的
tentative [‘tentətɪv] a.试探的，尝试的

16. vocabulary
[səb‘djuːd] a.（声音）很低的，被制服
的，顺从的
manoeuver [mə‘nuːvə] v.耍花招，用计谋
haggle [‘hæg(ə)l] v.讨价还价，在价格上
争论不休
skirmish [‘skɜːmɪʃ] n.小争论
shaft [ʃɑːft] n.车杠，辕
war-cry n.喊叫声，呐喊声
bellow [‘beləʊ] v.吼叫
slink [slɪŋk] v.溜走
turnout [‘tɜːnaʊt] n.产品
pulpit [‘pʊlpɪt] n.布道坛
badger [‘bædʒə] v.纠缠
mane [meɪn] n.鬃毛
obliquely [ə‘bli:kly, -’blai-] ad.躲躲闪闪地
hob [hɒb] n.炉旁的铁架）（可放炉子等）
bracken [‘bræk(ə)n] n.欧洲蕨
loft [lɒft] n.草料棚
strew [struː] v.铺，盖
downright [‘daʊnraɪt] a.明显的
bit [bɪt] n.嚼子
snug [snʌg] a.舒适的，温暖的
manger [‘meɪn(d)ʒə] n.马槽
pout [paʊt] v.撅嘴，不高兴
whine [waɪn ] v.哀叫，哀诉
mahogany [mə‘hɒgənɪ] n.红木，桃花心木
reverence [‘rev(ə)r(ə)ns] n.崇敬，敬畏
raffle [‘ræf(ə)l] n. 抽彩销售
dolefully [‘dəulfuli] ad.悲哀地，
chiming a.单调重复的

17. 关于中心
About main idea

18. One—the family
Pony:
Be sold---be badly treated by
Dando---be bought by Ma
Piano:
Be kept---be sold---be
well treated by Dando
Conclusion 1，
To the family, Pony is another family member, but
the piano is the
tool mainly for helping the member, Gomer.

19. One—the family
They are poor but finally they still kept Pony. Even if
their own bread can not be guaranteed, they are
willing to raise Pony. That is the human nature. No
matter how difficult people themselves are, they will
never give up what they treasure—relation, friendship,
love and so on.

20. The other—Dando
Conclusion 2，
Dando, a ragman, with no one to care for him, was
totally touched by the piano’s echo of the notes.
When he heard the notes, he was transformed as if he
had heard angels. As a lonely man, it is the notes
that made him filled with the long lost hope and
excitement. At least, now he had a piano to
accompany him and to drive away the loneliness……

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