Unit 6
Warming up
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Warming up Questions / Activities
Did the title tell you much? What did you expect to read?
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Please define the underlined words in each context: • (p.22) In the evening, the laughter and noise of the
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Background Social Background
Languages:
A Short Story
Plot: a little boy’s first time to go to school on the way to school
Setting: at school on the way home
Protagonist/Narrator: “I” –the boy in the story Theme of the story: what do you think?
Warming up Objectives
• Understand the theme of the story (understand globalization from another
perspective, cf. “Globalization’s Dual Power”)
• Appreciate the style
有时候，在这漫长的等待中，加上酷热，苍蝇以及羊粪的 气味，人们的脾气变得暴躁起来。年轻一点的女人因为担 心她们的婴儿，开始为该轮到谁接水争吵起来。有时，争 吵升级，女人们大打出手；她们扯着对方的头发、吐着口 水、诅咒着、尖叫着、谩骂着，把我的耳朵刺得嗡嗡作响。 我们这些和母亲一道去取水的被晒得黝黑的小男孩喜欢这 样的打斗，因为女人们扭打着在沙地里打滚的时候，我们 可以看到她们的大腿和花内裤。偶尔，我们幸运地可以看 到更多，因为有些女人在长裙下面根本什么都没穿。上帝 呀，我曾经多么盼望这样的打斗。我现在还记得那种冲动、 那种兴奋，连阳光都在滚滚的尘土上跳舞，当一条裙子被 扯破了，年轻女人的一只白皙的乳房漏了出来，旋即又被 遮了起来。在我的日历上，大旱的那一年将永远是我孩提 时代最美妙的年份之一。
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Background Social Background
Location:
Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria
Ethnic divisions:
Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1%
men trailed off and finally stopped
v. (voice ~off), it becomes gradually quieter and then stops
• (p.22)“I’ll give him a trail to follow,” muttered Rainsford. (L. 8)
free sb from a situation
• (p.22)…or to deliver a message to his wife, such as…
take sth to a place
Warming up Check-on Preview
Translate the following paragraph into English by yourself and then compare with the original.
Author
His Life
Born in Lebanon in a family whose ancestors are believed to have gone to Jerusalem in the Crusades.
Taught English at the University of Beirut
n. The track of a person or animal by which it can be followed
• (p.21)…to bring news that would change their lives and deliver them from their aimless existence.
perspective tone strongly flavored expressions metaphor, simile, exaggeration…
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Background
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Author
His Works
• Non-Fiction The Boy from the Tower of the Moon (1999)
• Short fiction "The Camera" in Homeworks (1996)
Background Social Background
Left for the U.S. when the civil war brokeout in Lebanon
Has been teaching English at the English Language Institute of the Uni. of Tennessee
Anwar F. Accawi