教学课件(The Discus Thrower).pptxVIP

综合/读写 010101大学英语组;Describe an animal ;My Cat I have a cat. His name is Mimi. He spends most of his time staying indoors. He likes lying on the sofa. He eats only certain brand of cat food.; How to Write A Descriptive Essay ;Description is the pattern of development that presents a word picture of a thing, a person, a situation, or a series of events. ;Paint A Verbal Picture ; Unit 9 The Discus Thrower by Richard Selzer ; (para. 2) From the doorway of Room 542, the man in the bed seems deeply tanned. Blue eyes and close-cropped white hair give him the appearance of vigor and good health. But I know that his skin is not brown from the sun. It is rusted, rather, in the last stage of containing the vile repose within. And the blue eyes are frosted, looking inward like the windows of a snowbound cottage. This man is blind. This man is also legless — the right leg missing from mid-thigh down, the left from just below the knee. It gives him the look of a bonsai, roots and branches pruned into the dwarfed facsimile of a great tree. ;skin; ;skin;windows of a snowbound cottage;legless; ____________; ;A Successful Description ;;;;My Cat I have a cat. His name is Mimi. He spends most of his time staying indoors. He likes lying on the sofa. He eats only certain brand of cat food. ; He spends most of his time indoors watching television and growing fat. He enjoys TV commercials. His familiarity with food commercials has led him to reject generic brands of food in favor of only the most expensive brands. ;Thank You