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Teaching objectives About the author education and background important works how he pictures the world Text appreciation structure analysis topic discussion Language understanding sentence paraphrase word study Pre-reading tasks: I. Warm-up activity: Describe your first day at college according to the following questions. Do you still remember your first day at college? Was it hard for you to leave home for the first time in your life? Who went to see you off at the railway station? Who came to school with you? Did you find the university just as you had imagined? Do you think you have a lot of free time, but nothing to do at college? Do you find life at college rich and colorful or tedious and boring? While-reading tasks: I. New words and expression: Listen to the tape, and follow it to read the new words. II. Do pre-class work II (P5-6) while listening to the whole text. Naguib Mahfouz （1911/12/11-2006/ 8/30） Naguib Mahfouz  —— important works the first Arab to win the Nobel prize for literature, in 1988. He has been described as a Dickens of the Cairo cafés and the Balzac of Egypt. “阿拉伯小说之父“ 获奖理由：通过大量刻画入微的作品洞察一切的现实主义，唤起人们树立雄心形成了全人类所欣赏的阿拉伯语言艺术 He is now the author of no fewer than 30 novels, more than 100 short stories, and more than 200 articles. Half of his novels have been made into films which have circulated （流通；传播）throughout the Arabic-speaking world. Naguib Mahfouz 《堕落情妓》 Naguib Mahfouz  —— important works the appearance of The Cairo Trilogy家族小说《宫间街》三部曲 in 1957 made him famous throughout the Arab world as a depictor（描写者） of traditional urban（城市的） life. The Cairo Trilogy is a tale of the lives of a Muslim family and spans（跨过） the first half of the 20th century. Each book in the trilogy was named after a suburb of Cairo. The first, Palace Walk 《宫间街》 was set during the British occupation of Egypt early in the century. The second, Palace of Desire 《思宫街》 covered the changing times of the 1920s. The third book, Sugar Street 《甘露街》 bri