1、,Half a Day,text,王佳,Brainstorming,Lead-in Activity,About the authorSkimming and scanningGroup discussion,Comprehensive Reading,VocabularySentence grammar,Intensive Reading,Exercise Critical thinking,Assignments,Contents,1,2,3,4,Lead-in Activity,Direction : Work in pairs or groups and discuss.,Q1,Was
2、 it hard for you to leave home for the first time in your life?,Lead-in Activity, Who saw you off at the railway station?, What did he / she say to you on the way?, Who came to school with you?,Q 1,Q 2,Was it hard for you to leave home for the first time in your life?,Do you remember your first day
3、of this school?,Lead-in Activity,Q 3,Do you remember your first day of school?,Did you find the school just as you had imagined?,Q 2,Lead-in Activity, Were you disappointed when you found it was not as good as you had expected?,Click here to add your text 1,Lead-in Activity,Forest Gump,Click here to
4、 add your text 1,Lead-in Activity,Forest Gump,Comprehensive reading,2018/11/5,Comprehensive Reading - The author,His life,纳吉布马哈富兹,Naguib Mahfouz 1911-2006,Born in 1911, educated at Cairo University Wrote short stories and historical novels before WWII and novels of social realism after WWII the firs
5、t Arabic-language author awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.,2018/11/5,Comprehensive Reading - The author,His writing style,The Cairo Trilogy三部曲 (first published in 1957),His works combined realism & symbolism,In this text, a strategy used in fiction writing-the protagonist主角 returns aft
6、er being absent for a short time to find everything changed beyond recognition.,2018/11/5,Comprehensive Reading - The author,His writing style,Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving,The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 睡谷传奇, 华盛顿.欧文,Rip went to hunt squirrels. He drank something a queer old man offered him and f
7、ell fast asleep. When he woke up he found himself an old man and that great changes had occurred in his village during his absence.,Example in the text,2018/11/5,Comprehensive Reading - The author,山中方一（七）日，世上已千年。,水经注 “信安山（烂柯山）有石室，王质入其室，见二童子对弈，看之。局未终，视其所执伐薪柯已烂朽，遂归，乡里已非矣。” 浙江，烂柯围棋(go game),Example in
8、the text,2018/11/5,Comprehensive Reading - The author,His writing style,This technique is often used to emphasize rapid changes in society.,the social realism of Balzac and Dickens.,The first Arab Writerto win the Nobel Prizein Literature 1988, The Cairo Trilogy,His works have been compared in spiri
9、t and tone to,His influence,Comprehensive Reading - The author,16,Comprehensive Reading - Structure,The text can be roughly divided into three parts, according to the little boys experience that day.,1,2,3,Part 1,Part 2,Part 3,The narrators unwillingness to go to school.,The narrators experience at
10、school.,The changes the narrator found after school.,1,2,3,Para. 1-7,Para. 8-16,Para. 17-20,The narrators unwilling to go to school.,The narrators experience at school.,The changes the narrator found after school.,19,Comprehensive Reading- Structure,Scan Part. 1 and focus on the following questions.
11、,How did the boy feel about going to school? Support your ideas with some simple words in the text,2. List the fathers comments on the school?What do you think of them?,unhappy,punishing,be thrown into,School is not a punishment.,A place that makes men out of boys and useful.,Be a man.,Today you tru
12、ly begin life.,20,Comprehensive Reading - Q & A,Scan Part. 2 and focus on the following questions.,What are the different understandings of the boyto the school?,21,Comprehensive Reading - Q & A,Scan Part. 2 and focus on the following questions.,What are the different understandings of the boyto the
13、 school?,22,Comprehensive Reading,Scan Part. 3 and focus on the following questions.,What did “I” see when he stepped out of school? Summarize the changes.,He didnt find his waiting for him at the gate and the had changed. He couldnt find his home. He found himself a,father,street,way,Grandpa / an o
14、ld man.,23,Comprehensive Reading,2. Why do you think the boy was suddenly a “grandpa”?,To emphasize the rapid changes in society.,2018/11/5,Comprehensive Reading Group discussion,The following are a few possible understandings of the message the author intends to convey? Which do you agree with?,201
15、8/11/5,Comprehensive Reading,Time and tide wait for no man.Life is a tragedy. There is nothing permanent in life but change.Education can never keep up with changes in society.Life is short and time is precious.Life is a dream. Do not take anything seriously.,26,Comprehensive Reading - T & F,F,T,T,F
16、,F,The boys mother brought him to school. The boy was convinced that school was not a punishment. The boy didnt know any other boy or girl in the school the moment he arrived. School life was just a matter of playing and fooling around. The boys father came to pick him up as he had promised.,Time an
17、d tide waits for no man.,Scan Transitional words/expressions Writing skills,The author,His life His works His influence,Reading skills,Conclusion,Comprehensive Reading - Summary,Intensive Reading,01,02,03,Intensive Reading,04,Grammatical points,Important sentences,New phrases,New words,Intensive Rea
18、ding,30,Intensive Reading,Half a dayNaguib Mahfouz,Part I,Part II,Part III,Intensive reading,Words,Phrases,Sentence Pattern,Grammar,clutch,throw intomake out oftear from,The day + that clause There is no/any good in doing,I was to be thrown into clutching his right handstreet lined with gardens,Part
19、 I,I walked alongside my father, clutching his right hand. (para. 1),Intensive Reading - Summary,clutch: hold tightly, usu. in fear, anxiety, or paine.g. Silent and pale, the girl clutched (to/onto) her mothers chest.这个苍白安静的小女孩紧紧地靠在母亲胸前.他紧紧地抓着钱，匆忙走向银行 Clutching the money in his hand, he hurried to t
20、he bank.,They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time. (para. 1),“As” introduces an adverbial clause of reason.,Noun phrase usu. followed by a relative clause is used as an adverbial of time.,to be forced to do sth. to throw sb. out: to f
21、orce sb. to leave a place,e.g. The moment I saw him, I recognized he was the criminal wanted by the police. They will throw me out (of school) if I fail three exams.,Intensive Reading - Summary,They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time
22、. (para. 1),“As” introduces an adverbial clause of reason.,Noun phrase usu. followed by a relative clause is used as an adverbial of time.,to be forced to do sth. to throw sb. out: to force sb. to leave a place,Paraphrasing: But my new clothes did not bring any happiness to me, because it was the da
23、y I was forced to go to school for the first time.,Intensive Reading - Summary,“Why school?” I asked my father. “What have I done?” (para. 3),elliptical question,More examples: 1.- Headmaster: we want you to go and tell the boys parents the news.- Teacher: Why me?,2. - Father: Well go to Tianjin thi
24、s weekend.- Daughter: What for?Why this weekend?Why Tianjin?,“Why school?” I asked my father. “What have I done?” (para. 3),elliptical question,Paraphrasing: Why do I have to go to school? I dont think Ive done anything wrong to be punished like this.,Its a place that makes useful men out of boys. (
25、para. 4),Make(out) of sb/sth: to make sb./sth. becomee.g. The army made a man of him. I dont think you can make a football star out of Johnny.,I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building. (para. 5),e.g.: 覆水
26、难收。It is no use crying over spilt milk.,to (make sb.) leave a place unwillingly because one has to,There is no good to be had in doing: It is no good /use doing sth,I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled buildi
27、ng. (para. 5),Paraphrasing: I didnt think it was useful to take me away from home and put me into that building with high walls.,to (make sb.) leave a place unwillingly because one has to,There is no good to be had in doing: It is no good /use doing sth,Words,Phrases,Sentence Pattern,Grammar,fool ar
28、ound bring about give rise to resort to,There was no question of doing,I had never imagined school would have She would often yell and scold,Intensive reading,Part II,Intensive reading,I had never imagined school would have this variety of experiences. (para. 13)possibility 用于对过去事情的推测，译为“大概” And whi
29、le the lady would smile, she would often yell and scold. (para. 15)frequent actions in the past 过去经常性的习惯和动作：总会 I would find the answer at home with my father. (para. 18)past future tense 过去有意识的行动或意志：将 but the stream of cars would not let up. (para. 18)willingness 用于过去的否定句中，表示拒绝，或无此习惯或不可能：不肯,Lesson 1
30、 Half a Day,It was not all a matter of playing and fooling around. (para.15),Paraphrase: What we did at school wasnt just playing and wasting time doing nothing useful.,completely,to waste time instead of doing sth. that you should be doing,a matter of: eg: Wisdom is a matter of knowing when to spea
31、k your mind and when to mind your speech.,Lesson 1 Half a Day,Rivalries could bring about pain and hatred, or give rise to fighting. (para.15),make sth. happen,(formal) to cause or produce sth. esp. sth. bad and unpleasant,How can we _ a change in attitudes?His speech _a bitter argument.,bring about
32、,gave rise to,Lesson 1 Half a Day,Even more frequently she would resort to physical punishment. (para.15),resort to:,to make use of sth. To turn to sth(especially sth bad) as a solution,e.g. Try not to resort to violence.,Lesson 1 Half a Day,In addition, the time for changing ones mind was over and
33、gone and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home. (16),Besides, it was impossible for us to quit school and return to the good old days when we stayed home playing and fooling around all day. Our childhood was gone, never to come back.,there is no possibility of,Intensive rea
34、ding,Words,Phrases,Grammar,trace invade daze,in vain on my own come to a halt find ones way to take over show off let up,Here and there stood conjurers with clowns and weight lifters walking in front,Part III,.came to a startled halt. (para. 17),Compare: 1. Air traffic in the country was brought to
35、a halt by heavy snowstorms.,to stop suddenly,to bring sth to a halt: to cause sth to stop,Here and there stood conjurers showing off their tricks or making snakes appear from baskets. (para. 17),Compare: 1. Were there no air on the earth, there would be no life on it. 2. In no case should we waste o
36、ur time. 3. There goes the bell. 4. Away hurried the customers.,an inverted sentence due to long subject,When should inversion be used?,Then there was a band announcing the opening of a circus, with clowns and weight lifters walking in front. (para. 17),1. He stood there with a stick in his hand. (w
37、ith + n. + prep.) 2. Paul soon fell asleep with the light still burning. (with + n. + participle) 3. She cant go out with all these dishes to wash. (with + n. + to do) 4. He was lying on the bed with all his clothes on. (with + n. + adv.),“With+n.+doing” construction is used adverbially modifying “a
38、nnouncing”.,.but the stream of cars would not let up (para. 18),When the rain lets up well go for a walk. If my financial situation lets up, Ill buy myself a car.(weather or unpleasant situation) stop or improveHe spent the entire evening complaining about his job he just wouldnt let up. The police insist they are not letting up their campaign against drugs.stop doing sth. one has been doing continuously or very determinedly,
