新编英语教程UnitTen(toss).docVIP

Unit Ten Text I I. Writing Skills The text is a short narrative piece of writing which vividly and amusingly relates how a young inexperienced stand-in teacher attempts to control a class that has frightened away a succession of substitutes for their own teachers. The writer is particularly successful in his effective use of comic exaggeration. The narrative is convincing due to the writer’s keen observation of the behaviour of a young and inexperienced teacher when his authority is threatened. The various ways in which comic exaggeration is achieved. The use of vivid similes. A simile is a