book3 Unit 3 Section A.pptVIP

Background Knowledge Text Understanding Structure Analysis Focus on Language Show Time Check Yourself The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God’s Wife The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetter’s Daughter Saving Fish from Drowning Question Answering 1. What does “Language is the tool of my trade” mean? 2. According to the author, what are the characteristics of her mother’s language? 3. How is the author affected by her mother’s language? 4. Why was the author ashamed of her mother’s English when she grew up? Question Answering What does “Language is the tool of my trade” mean? It means that she is a writer by profession. 2. According to the author, what are the characteristics of her mother’s language? It’s vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. 3. How is the author affected by her mother’s language? Her mother’s language helps her shape the way she sees things, expresses things and makes sense of the world. 4. Why was the author ashamed of her mother’s English when she grew up? It was because she believed that her mother’s broken English reflected her imperfect thoughts. Part One (Para. 1- Para. 3): Structure Analysis Part Two (Para. 4- Para. 6): Structure Analysis Part Three (Para. 7- Para.10): I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others. (Para. 1) 关于英语在美国或其他国家各种变体，我只能给大家提供肤浅的个人看法。 (much) more…than ：used when comparing two different amounts, numbers etc. to introduce the second amount or number e.g. Most of the men are not much more than four feet tall． Translation 然而，领导不只是勇气及胆识而已。 3. …the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. (Para. 2) parallelism: a balance of two or more simila words, phrases, or clauses; one of the most useful and flexible rhetorical devices func