Notes: varieties of English
• Regional dialects:
Eg. ―Let me have a rest. I‘m really knocked up.‖ ―My heartiest congratuation.‖ ―Why did you say that?‖ ―Why shouldn‘t I ?‖
2.Concluding Paragraph:
2.3 Three Days to See
Oh, the things that I should see if I had the power of sight for just three days!
2.Concluding Paragraph:
Basic Knowledge About English Words
1. The number of English words: 2. Levels of English words: From a stylistic point of view, the words can be divided into three types: formal, common and colloquial. Eg: begin commence alibi excuse same identical
About English Writing Course
1. Requirements for English writing course: 2. Definition of writing: ①the activity of writing esp. books ②handwriting ③written book or form 3.The importance of writing: Francis Bacon said: “Writing maketh an exact man.”
4. General and speccific words:
student, code freshman, sophomore, junior, senior building house, center, tower, mansion, chamber, plaza, villa, pavillion, etc.
– To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind is prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.
4. What‘s English writing?
Writing in English means to think in English and to communicate ideas, facts, feelings or any information with people when speech is impossible or impractical. 5. The ways to improve your writing: Writing is also a skill that improves with practice. reading original texts, imitation, etc; 6. My teaching plan:
3. Meaning of words:
• Two aspects; Denotative and Connotative
statesman, politician, baby-kisser start, begin Every dog has his day. That‘s the best contract I can buy.
5. Idioms:
6. Figures of speech:
7. Use of dictionaries:
An English Writing Course Lecture Outlines 1
•A Comparison Of English Composition And Chinese Composition •Linda Markstein and Louise Hirasawa once said, ―Good readers are good writers are good readers.‖ •English composition: introduction/beginning, body, conclusion/ending •Chinese composition: ditto
1.Introductory Paragraph
–1.2. Spaceship?
It was one of those days when it looks at first as if nothing interesting can happen, but then later, when you don‘t expect anything, almost everything happens. August is a good time for the peculiar days, and this one was in the middle of August…
2.4
The Wisdom of Socrates
–By reason of examination, Anthenians, I have made enemies of a very bitter and fierce kind, who have spread a great number of slanders about me. People say that I am a ―wise man‖, thinking that I am wise myself in any matter in which I believe that only God is really wise, and that by this Oracle he meant that man‘s wisdom is worth little or nothing. I do not think he meant that Socrates was wise. He only took me as an example as though he would say to me. ―He among you is the wisest who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is worth little at all.‖
1.Introductory Paragraph
–1.3. Spaceship?
A Wrong Man In Workers‘ Paradise The man had never believed in mere utility Symptoms It was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell his liver was out of order. I had them all.
3 The Body
1.Introductory Paragraph
–1.1. What Liberty Means
–Liberty is a word that is often misinterpreted and abused. It is necessary for us to know it‘s meaning clearly and correctly in mind.
2.Concluding ParagrBut then I may have been deceiving myself,‖ Grandpa told him, ―we‘re always deceiving our selves. History is largely a record of selfdeception.‖
Slang, vogue words, non-standard English, etc:
Eg. I like most yesterday, today and forever. ―You got a goose egg in the sweat box, but I gave you six ones.‖ The demanner has gone west. He went to Chicago and finally went without a passport.
2.Concluding Paragraph:
2.5
Individuals and Masses
In an age of accelerating over-population, of accelerating overorganization and ever more efficient means of mass communication, how can we preserve the integrity and reassert the value of the human individual? This is a question that can still be asked and perhaps effectively answered. A generation from now it may be too late to find an answer and perhaps impossible, in the strifing collective climate of that future time, even to ask the question.