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Week Three. Let ’ s begin our class with a game. Purpose of the game. To visualize some words To get students familiar with words bearing the meaning “ say ”. Game Playing. Instructions Each group is to send two or three students to play the game;
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Purpose of the game • To visualize some words • To get students familiar with words bearing the meaning “say”
Game Playing • Instructions • Each group is to send two or three students to play the game; • One or two students, when seeing the word shown on the screen, will act out the word accordingly; • Another student with his or her back towards the screen, must identify the word which is being acted out; • Each group has one minute for acting out and guessing; • Winner will be the group which can have the largest number of words identified; • The audience must not give hint verbally
Whisper Murmur Grumble Stutter Shout Chatter Bellow Blurt Mutter Jabber exclaim 耳语 低语, 咕哝, 低沉连续的声音 嘟哝／发牢骚，抱怨 结结巴巴 呼喊 喋喋不休 怒吼，咆哮 脱口而出 咕哝，嘀咕 快而含糊地说，吱吱喳喳地叫 因吃惊，生气或兴奋而突然大声说出来
Well-done 罗春桃 陈晓嫦 黄律
General Comment The first essay of the whole class is excellent! The average score is 85 ! Most of you have the potential to be an English writer. Many of your writings are of good penmanship. A good writing class will produce some calligraphers, I believe.
Best handwriting • 陈晓嫦
longest • 李鼎夏
Excellent conception • 余嘉欣
Better use of language • 余雪娇
陈韵思 • Walking out of the studio, I went home with excitement and was as happy as a sandboy. • (extremely happy and carefree)
Grammar • The first thing I will do is go travelling. (陈韵思） • More examples: • All I want to do is to help the poor. • All I want to do is help the poor. • What I want to do is help the poor. better
刘懿 • I looked at the huge sum of money, with ambivalent feelings. • ambivalent 心理矛盾的
黄一莘 • Money is to the people nowadays what lungs is to the body.
so many persons in ordinary times so many people in the ordinary time / in the ordinary days Be careful of the plural
More about “persons” Used in very formal or legal language: murder by a person or persons unknown 凶手不明的谋杀案 Used derogatorily: My holiday was spoiled by some persons. 我的假日叫一些人给败了兴。 Inappropriate in: They are just the persons I want to see. people
punctuation Comma Jenny moved her home into a new one with her daughters, they decorated the house meticulously and grew a lot of roses in the yard.
小笔吧 You can’t ignore it!
Today’s task A story with an unexpected ending
Sample 1:“You failed!” When I was at university I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the students’ Union than working in the library.
Once, at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write “true” or “false”. While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching television. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan.
“It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll take a coin into the examination room. I haven’t studied a chemistry book for months, so I’ll just toss the coin. That way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.” The next day, Fred came cheerfully into the examination room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.
The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. “Oh good,” he said. “Have you got the results of the test? ” The professor looked at him and smiled. “Ah, it’s you, Baines. Just a minute.” Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it. “I’m terribly sorry, Baines,” he said, “You failed.”
Sample 2:A Hunter Without a Gun George and his friend Peter were fond of deer-hunting, and whenever they had a free day during the deer-hunting season, they took their guns and went off into the forest.
One Saturday they were sitting on a log eating their sandwiches and drinking their coffee when they saw a man walking through the snow towards them. When he got nearer, the two friends saw that he was following a deer’s track in the snow. They were both very surprised to see a man tracking a deer without a gun. So when he reached them, they stopped him and asked him whether anything was wrong and whether they could help him. The man sat down beside them, accepted a cup of coffee and told them his story.
Like them, he had gone out deer-hunting that morning with a friend. They had seen a deer with very big horns, and had followed it for some time. Then he had fired at it, and it had fallen just where it stood. He and his friend had run over to examine it, and he had said to his friend, “This deer’s horns will make a wonderful rack for my guns when I get it home.” He had then arranged his gun in the deer’s horns and stepped back a few yards to see exactly how they would look as a gun track on the wall of his study. He had been admiring the effect when the deer had suddenly jumped up, shaken itself and raced away, carrying his gun firmly stuck in its horns.
Write a story of at least 300 words with an unexpected ending Exchange in pairs your own brainstorming
AppreciationScreams at Night (P27-28) • How is Unexpectedness created? • Discovery • “’Ah－’all of a sudden a terrible cry tore out the silence. It was Wang Mei. Without hesitation I rushed to the toilet, only to find she was singing.” • “In the following hours, these dreadful screams rose again and again, kept annoying me and even woke me up once. “ • Suspense: a terrible cry ? Dreadful screams? • Development: A psychopath! • Unexpectedness: A sound sensitive light.
Sample Appreciation – Creating a special atmosphere by using specific words • Everywhere was so deadly quiet, that only breath could be heard. Outside, a gaze passed by, trees swaying, shadows dancing on the curtain. Just at that very moment approached the familiar footsteps. Within one minute, my breath was held, my brain was blank, my hands began sweating, and my legs trembling. “Ah－”,deeply frightened, I uttered from the bottom of my heart.
Summary • Unexpectedness comes from creating a kind of atmosphere leading people to think otherwise. To create a kind of atmosphere demands using specific words in their description. Learn to accumulate specific words to describe actions, feelings, sceneries and so on.
Homework • An article of more than 300 words with an unexpected money. • Try to use specific words to describe actions, feelings and sceneries.
