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UNIT TEN Text I Straight-A Illiteracy Text II The Qualities of Good Writing UNIT ELEVEN Text I On Consigning Manuscripts to Floppy Discs And Archives to Oblivion Text II This Is Progress? UNIT TWELVE Text I Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts Text II Grant and Lee UNIT THIRTEEN Text I Euphemism Text II Clutter UNIT FOURTEEN Text I That Astounding Creator --Nature Text II When the Young Have It Good UNIT FIFTEEN Text I. Teaching as Mountaineering Text II A Liberal Education
• Purpose of writing and Tone: In half serious and half-joking manner and humorous tone,Demarest expresses his view on procrastination that while in some cases it is irrational and encumbering to delay, it is justified and fruitful in others.
Course evaluation:
a. 60-70% coverage of text- or exercises-related samples; b.TEM-8 - related material for Juniors;
CONTENTS
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Unit Two, Text One: The Fine Art of Putting Things Off
Michael Demarest
Pre-reading Brainstorming:
* Do you often put things off or not? Why? * How can “putting things off” be a fine art?
FORMAT OF TEACHING:
• Pre-reading Activities: • Brainstorming or pre-reading questions and discussions for warming up; • Comprehension and Analysis: • Questions and answers for checking understanding; • Analysis of some style and rhetorical techniques involved; • Translation of some difficult expressions or sentences to check and enhance comprehension; • Post reading Activities: • Comments on the passage orally or in writing; • Exercises in Workbook; • Writing short passage of the similar style or theme;
Organization and Development:
• Introduction: (P1-2) The world is probably divided between delayers and doit-nowers; • Body: (1)(P3-7) Delay is not without its advantages: it can often inspire and revive a creative soul; examples in many fields; • Conclusion: (P8-9) Explanation and conclusion of procrastination;
Teaching setup and requirements
a. Six class hours per unit b. Lecture + workshop+ seminar c. Pre-class review required d. Exercises (completed on individual basis, selected for discussion) e.Text II included in exams
OBJECTIVES FOR EACH LESSON
• • • • • • • General Idea and massage of the text; Purpose of writing and Background information; Writer’s opinion and tone of the passage; Outline or structure of the text; Linguistic strategies involved; Style and rhetorical techniques; CF: Purpose of the course (Xiamen University) • Develop an overall proficiency in four skills • Develop critical ability in reading texts • Reinforce grammatical competence.
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UNIT TWO Text I The fine Art of Putting Things Off Text II Gossip UNIT THREE Text I Walls and Barriers Text II Barrier Signals UNIT SIX Text I Dull Work Text II Doing Chores UNIT SEVEN Text I Beauty Text II Sexism in English: A Feminist View UNIT EIGHT Text I Appetite Text II Wanting an Orange UNIT NINE Text I A Red Light for Scofflaws Text II Trust
Comprehension ---an overview of the text
• Main Idea: Through depicting popularity of procrastination in nearly all the fields, the writer wanted to prove that “delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul” and “to put off making decision is itself a decision” and therefore it can be a fine and useful art.
• Beyond reading comprehension: • Analysis and application of what has been learned: speaking, writing and translation; • Development of critical thinking; • Aspects of learning: • Theme, Purpose of writing, Point of view, Style, Structure, Rhetorical features, Diction, Translation (either for checking comprehension or developing translation skill);
Translation Exercise for Practice of Language Points
(C-E) • That the elegant earl never got around to marrying his son’s mother and had a bad habit of keeping worthies like Dr. Johnson cooling their heels for hours in an anteroom attests to the fact that even the most well-intentioned men have been postponers ever.(p.2-5) • Bureaucratization, which flourished amid the growing burdens of government and the greater complexity of society, was designed to smother policymakers in blankets of legalism, compromise and reapprasail --- and thereby prevent hasty decisions from being made. (p.43-46)
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