高级英语The Middle Eastern Bazaar.pptVIP

* * caravanserai caravanserai entrance Pre-Course Questions How are your performances in the exams taken last semester? Are you satisfied? Why or why not? Which course interests you the most? Why? Did you perform well in that course? Why or why not? Attendance 3% 2. Participation in class 3% 3. Assignments 4% 4. Oral Exam 30% 5. Written Exam 60% Usual Procedure of Each Lesson 1. Warm-up Exercises 2. Pre-text Discussion 3. Detailed Study of the Text 1) Back-ground Information 2) Explanation of difficult language points 4. Question-time for the students and the teacher 5. Discussions about the Text 6. Post-text Exercises Term Exam Lesson One The Middle Eastern Bazaar How many markets are mentioned in the writing? What are they? What kind of economy do you think they represent? What kind of writing do you think this belongs to— narration, exposition, description or argumentation? What is the overall tone of this writing? Can you define it? agro-pastoral economy 农牧经济 Pre-Text Questions I. Background Information 1. The Middle East 2. Bazaar II. Detailed Study of the Text III. Bird-View Study of the Text IV. Discussion V. Assignments 1. Structure 2. Writing Style and Techniques “historical present” Gothic-arched gateway is entered you ? point of view glare not so agreeable and welcome as “bright sunlight” man’s power of seeing or eyesight eye In front of the gateway there is a big, open square. It is hot there and the brightness of the sunlight is most disagreeable. But when you enter the gateway, you come to a long, narrow, dark street with some sort of a roof over it and it is cool inside. You pass from the heat and glare…a cool, dark cavern one’s way to make ones way cautiously through thread means/ manner elbow push kick plough worm win work one’s way in out of among through heat glare open square cool dark cavern throngs crowd stronger implicatio