杨剑英《英语写作教程（第二册）（第二版）》Unit 2 Description.pptxVIP

Unit 2 Description Contents2.0 Lead-in Discussion: Summer Memories2.1 What Is Description? 2.2 Characteristics of a Good Description2.2.1 A Dominant Impression2.2.2 Rich Sensory Details2.2.3 Appropriate Organizational Pattern2.2.4 Effective Language2.3 How to Develop Your Descriptive Essay 2.0 Lead-in Discussion: Summer Memories Have you ever had a day when the heat was so unbearable that you could never possibly forget? How did you feel? Can you describe it in words?Contents Here are two samples (p.41, p.42) about a hot day in the narrators’ memories. Read them and answer the following questions.1. Which of the two samples do you think is more successful describing the unbearable heat of a day that one can never possibly forget?2. What makes the one better than the other? Find evidence from the texts to illustrate your idea. Sample 1I have never in my life experienced so hot a day as it was. I didn’t dare to go out for a walk and had to stay in my room until late evening when the sun set and the temperature became mild. My only fun was to tease my cat, Mimi, but he apparently lost interest in the outside world. Whatever I did, he just lazily lay on the floor, looking at me in a mocking way, with face upward and legs stretched like the shape of the Chinese character “ 大.” I was quite familiar with that look, which always made me feel like a big fool. To fight back against his indifference, I started rubbing his soft belly. Soon after several attempts, he turned angry at me, quickly getting up from the floor and leaving with an irritated “Meow.” Sample 2In 1918, the year that I was four, the Moon Festival arrived during an autumn in Wushi that was unusually hot, terribly hot. When I awoke that morning, the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, the straw mat covering my bed was already sticky. Everything in the room smelled of wet grass simmering in the heat.Earlier in the summer, the servants had covered all the windows with bamboo curtains to drive out the sun. Every b