useful words in Para 3 – Para 4
• nocturnal • stock • production • in view • rotate • reassure (assure, insure)
• peek
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Para 5 – Para 6 Main idea
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Para 1- Para 2 Vocabulary development
- heavy; muggy; founding commissioners; city administrators
- Drop off to a peaceful, outdoorsy sleep - names for criminal offenders (para.2)
Lions and Tigers and Bears
Bill Buford
Lions and Tigers and Bears Unit 4
W arming up B ackground T ext Analysis R einforcement
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What’s the weather like? a heavy, muggy day
Heavywarm in a sticky unpleasant way, especially before rain or a storm the sky is heavy; heavy clouds
Muggy warm in an unpleasant way because the air feels wet muggy weather
Background The Central Park
The founding commissioners of Central Park • the city officials who were appointed to establish Central Park. •A commissioner is an important official who has responsibility in a government department or an organization: There is a commissioner in charge of the London police force.
• Where did he visit?
– the Delacorte Theatre – Belvedere Castle – the Henry Luce
Nature Observatory – Shakespeare Garden
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Para. 3-12
wandering in the park
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Para. 13-25 my camping: finding a place and the encounter with the raccoons
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Main Idea
• Why?
– Only a fool, a loon or bad people goes there at night.
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Para 1 – Para 2 Difficult words
• Platitude: – (derog) a remark or statement that may be true but is boring and meaningless because it has been said so many times before: – His speech was full of empty platitudes about peace and democracy. – (cf: cliché; commonplace; banal remarks )
Theme
Structure
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Text Analysis Theme
We see in this essay:
•the pride and love of the city and the park for its cultural richness and its beauty (both natural and man-made)
stock merchandize in a drugstore.
– It is a cultural tradition in America to put on free Shakespeare productions in summer.
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leisure
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Para 3 – Para 4 Drawing inferences
• Summer-stock Shakespeare production anywhere in America
– Stock: usually kept in stock and regular available, 常备的 ,e.g. one of our stock items 常备项目；Toothpaste is a
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Background
Genre
Travel Writing –
The Best Travel Writing 2000
• “Spinning all these elements into an engaging account of a place and a moment –a night at Central Park, Buford enables readers to get a glimpse of something much broader and longer - the history of and life in New York.” - book review
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Para 1 – Para 2: Main Idea
• What was Ogden Nash trying to say in his poem?
– The safest place in Central Park at night is the tiger’s lair.
• Appeal: – a quality that something has that makes people like it or want it: – the appeal of horror movie – But that’s the appeal of the place, say many residents and visitors. It’s a place where many come to find a slower pace for a lifetime or just a weekend. – Parties on river-boats have lost their appeal since one sank last year killing thirty-three people.
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Lions and Tigers and Bears Unit 5
The Central Park
Background
Genre
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Background The Central Park
Frederick Law Olmsted
Calvert Vaux
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• Central Park history, places and views in Central
Park, the fear the park inspires, noted peopleW B
associated with the park?
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Questions / Activities Check-on Preview Objectives
Warming up
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Warming up Questions / Activities
What do you know about Central Park? Do you know what New Yorkers think of Central Park?
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Paraphrase:
Anybody who knows anything about New York knows the city’s essential platitude – that you don’t wander around Central Park at night – and in that, needless to say, was the appeal: it was the thing you don’t do.
Para 3 – Para 4 Main idea
What was his feeling like in this period? Why did he feel like that?
– Exhilaration – (happy, excitement, full of energy) – enjoy / experience the rich cultural flavor the park offers at