张汉熙+高级英语+PPT101

1、 caravanserai caravanserai entrance pre-course questions how are your performances in the exams taken last semester? are you satisfied? why or why not? which course interests you the most? why? did you perform well in that course? why or why not? 1. attendance 3% 2. participation in class 3% 3. assi

2、gnments 4% 4. oral exam 30% 5. written exam 60% usual procedure of each lesson 1. warm-up exercises 2. pre-text discussion 3. detailed study of the text 1) back-ground information 2) explanation of difficult language points 4. question-time for the students and the teacher 5. discussions about the t

3、ext 6. post-text exercises term exam how many markets are mentioned in the writing? what are they? what kind of economy do you think they represent? what kind of writing do you think this belongs to narration, exposition, description or argumentation? what is the overall tone of this writing? can yo

4、u define it? agro-pastoral economy 农牧经济 pre-text questions i. background information 1. the middle east 2. bazaar ii. detailed study of the text iii. bird-view study of the text iv. discussion v. assignments 1. structure 2. writing style and techniques “historical present” gothic-arched gateway is e

5、ntered you?point of view glare not so agreeable and welcome as “bright sunlight” mans power of seeing or eyesight eye in front of the gateway there is a big, open square. it is hot there and the brightness of the sunlight is most disagreeable. but when you enter the gateway, you come to a long, narr

6、ow, dark street with some sort of a roof over it and it is cool inside. you pass from the heat and glarea cool, dark cavern ones wayto make ones way cautiously through thread means/ manner elbow push kick plough worm win work ones way in out of among through heatglareopen square cool darkcavern thro

7、ngs crowd stronger implication of movement and of pushing stronger implication of density the crowd jammed the hall. throngs circulated through the street. 0.3048 meter1 feet = 12 inches ? 12 feet 3.66 meters the din of the stall-holders crying their wares, of donkey-boys and porters clearing a way

8、for themselves by shouting vigorously, and of would-be purchasers arguing and bargaining is continuous and makes you dizzy. ( ) 12 3 small, open-fronted shop, table etc. used by a trader in a market, on a street stall people of every conceivable age, nationality; buildings of every conceivable shape

9、 conceivable loud, confused noise that continues din the blaze of light and the appalling din of the orchestra had almost dazed elizabeth. earthen: deaden: n. + -en = adj. adj. + -en = v. the vaulted mud-brick walls and roof away adv. why is the cloth-marked muted? penetrate? flattened by treading;

10、which becomes flat and hard because it is much traveled beaten hard by countless feet the buyers overcome by the grave-like atmosphere, also speak in slow, deliberate and steady tones the buyers, overwhelmed by, follow suit scatter: to cause to separate and go in different directions spread: to dist

11、ribute over a surface in a layer over each openfronted shop having a trestle table for display and shelves for storage . absolute construction () () order(s) of the day: the characteristic/most significant aspect /activity; prevailing state of things narrow downnarrowto beat downbeat sb. up ?down vo

12、latility is the order of the day in the stock market. veiled women a copper-smiths store onomatopoeia buzz, murmur a fairyland of tinkling, banging, clashing a + n.1 + of + n.2n.2 is (like) n. 1 its easy to get yourself lost in a maze of narrow winding streets in that city. hammer awaycontinuously;

13、constantly implied comparison before us stood a little shrimp of a fellow. she is a kitten of a girl. you guys live in a palace of a house. brazier take a hand (in) (doing) sth.( with sth. ) help, play a part (in) sth. (with) sth. dont fool around, come and take a hand in the cleaning. a tiny appren

14、tice blows a big charcoal fire with a huge leather bellows worked by a string attached to his big toe ( ) fire bellowsstring which is which is work/laugh/mutter/ away weve been toiling away at the project for over a year. now you tell us that we have to hand it over to somebody else? thats ridiculou

15、s! varieddifferent elsewhere there is the market 1, with. then there is the market 2, with; and the market 3, where the market 4, the market 5 and the market 6 lie elsewhere elsewhere there iswith you have a whole variety of carpets with vivid color, woven in different ways, having designs typical o

16、f different regions. some of the designs are clear-cut, well-marked and simple; while others are very complicated, showing all the details yet having all the different parts combined in a pleasing and satisfactory arrangement with its profusion of rich colours,yet harmonious the streets that pierce

17、the bazaar from all directions and lead towards all directions cut the bazaar into small sections like the honeycomb honeycombn.v. vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard youll catch a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard through a doorway ? a brief, inco

18、mplete view or lookglimpse mosque caravanserai it is a vast somber cavern of a room it is a room that is like a vast somber cavern. linseed a _ leather bellows; _ knowledge/interests a _ eater; a _ expanse of the sky; a _ mass of earth; china is a populous country with a _ territory. huge vast commo

19、nly suggests immensity of bulk; when used figuratively, it stresses the greatness of a persons (things) capacity suggests immensity of extent; stresses a things range, scope or variety, as well as extent hugehugehugevastvastvast stresses weariness and tediousness and monotony constantly: endlessly:

20、suggests continuously, stressing firmness, steadiness and devotion how does the linseed-oil-making tool look like? an appliance or device for a particular purposeapparatus: an x-ray apparatusdental apparatus laboratory apparatus dizzy height:so high that it makes people have a kind of whirling sensation transferred epithet sleepless pillow