张汉熙高级英语TheMiddleEasternBazaar.pptVIP

Aims of the Course a. Vocabulary b. Paraphrase c. Structure d. Style e. Rhetoric Lesson one Objectives of Teaching To comprehend the whole text To lean and master the vocabulary and expressions To learn to paraphrase the difficult sentences To understand the structure of the text To appreciate the style and rhetoric of the passage. Important and difficult points: 1. The comprehension and appreciation of the words describing sound, colour, light, heat, size and smell. 2. The appreciation of the words and expressions used for stress and exaggeration. 3. Some useful expressions such as to make a point of, it is a point of honour…, and etc. Writing Style A description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object, or scene.? a description is generally developed through sensory details, or the impressions of one’s senses --- sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. The writer chooses those that help to bring out the dominant characteristic of the person or thing described.? Detailed Study of the Text 1. Middle East: Southeast Asia and Northeast Africa, including the Near East and Iran and Afghanistan. *image-1* (中东地图） *image-2*（中东集市， flash) The Middle Eastern bazaar reminds you of things hundreds --- even thousands--- of years ago. Detailed Study of the Text Personification: an act of personifying sth. that is without life Hyperbole: overstate or exaggerate sth. in order to make it sound bigger, smaller, better, worse, etc. than it really is Detailed Study of the Text 2. particular: special, single and different from others. The teacher took particular (special) notice of me. On this particular (single) day we had to be at school early. Detailed Study of the Text 3. Gothic-arched: a type of architecture Goth: one of the German tribes? arch: a curved top sometimes with a central point resting on 2 supports as above a door. *image-3*（拱型门） Detailed Study of the Text aged: a. [d] （ 此处要求用音标） My son is aged 10. a middle aged couple b. [id]