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PAGE PAGE 32 教 案 使用教材: 英语写作手册 英语写作借鉴词典 授课课名: 英语写作 4—1 授课课号: 1220010721 授课教师: 李晶 授课年级: 2006级 授课专业: 英语 授课班别: 4，5，6 班 授课学年度:年度(第一学期) 授课日期: 2007年9月2008年1月 外国语学院 2008年1月 教学目的:写作能帮助学生提高使用英语的准确性,能扩大 所用语言的范围,提高逻辑思考及分析问题的能力。同时写作的实际用途也凸显出来，如信函、论文、报告、讲稿、便条等。同时写与译也密切相关，想做好翻译，必须提高写作水平。 教学内容： 说明文的写作方法及技巧 不管使用什么方法或技巧，任何一篇说明文的写作都应遵循下列几条原则。 目的明确 选题适当 选材充分 顺序清楚 用词准确 寓教于乐 说明文的一些具体写作方法、技巧简介： 1．定义法 （1）近义词法(synonym) 1. A dingy room means a dirty room. 2. To be courteous means to be polite. （2）功能法(function) 1. An agency is a place of business which usually provides a specified service. 2. A toast is a call on other people to drink to a person or thing. （3）否定法(negation) 1. A good teacher does not just teach students knowledge, but teaches them how to behave. 2. A library is not a place to spend your leisure time but a place to acquire knowledge. （4）分类法(classification) 1. A dictatorship is a form of government in which one person has absolute control over his or her subjects. 2. A mule is a kind of animal that is the offspring of an ass and a mare. What is poverty? Listen You ask me what is poverty? Listen to me. Listen without pity. I cannot use your pity. Listen with understanding. Poverty is living in a smell that never leaves. It is a smell of young children who cannot walk the long dark way in the night. It is the smell of milk which has gone sour because the refrigerator doesn’t work, and it costs money to get it fixed. It is the smell of rotting garbage. Poverty is being tired. I have always been tired. They told me at the hospital when the last baby came that I had chronic anemia and that I needed a corrective operation. I listened politely. They don’t say that there is no money for the iron pills or better food or warm medicine. Or that an operation is frightening and costs so much. Or that there is no one to take care of the child. Poverty is dirt. You say, “Anyone ca be clean.” Let me explain about housekeeping