TEACHING PLAN FOR ADVANCED ENGLISH BOOK ONE Mudanjiang Teacher’s College Sun Ying-jie

Pre-course preparations  The purposes of this course:  1. Learning to appreciate literary texts and to improve your deeper understanding of the English language and its correlative culture.  2. Learning to think in English and to develop your critical thinking.  3. Learning to express your individual ideas in order.

Pre-course preparations  4. Learning to find problems, to analyze and solve them in your own way.  5. Learning to see the nature of things by penetrating their superficial phenomenon.  6. Learning to use rhetorical devices by expressing yourself more forcefully.  7. Learning to show concern for the nature, the society and the human beings.

Pre-course Requirements  1.Come to class as planned, and being late is not appreciated, moreover, it will take reduction from your academic achievement.  2.Learning the new words and expressions before your come to class, you have to understand the meanings of them as the class goes on, and it won’t stop for solving your vocabulary problems.

Pre-course Requirements  3.Read the text fluently before you come to class, and there will be some chances for you to read texts in class.  4. Come to class with a notebook and take down the key points in class.  5. Hand in your homework in time by , part of the academic achievement (30% generally) is made by your presence and your homework.

Unit 1: The Middle Eastern Bazaar I. Background Information II. Introduction to the Passage III. Text Analysis IV. Special Difficulties V. Questions For Discussion

I. Background Information 1. Middle East: Southeast Asia and Northeast Africa The area from Afghanistan to Egypt, including the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, and Asiatic Turkey.

2. Architecture of Gothic Style Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. architecturemedieval period It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.Romanesque architectureRenaissance architecture

 Originating in 12th-century France and lasting into the 16th century, Gothic architecture was known during the period as "the French Style", with the term Gothic first appearing during the latter part of the Renaissance. Its characteristic features include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress. Renaissancepointed archribbed vaultflying buttress

I. Background Information 3. Bazaar a bazaar is a market or street of shops and stands in Oriental countries. Such bazaars can be found in Afg h anistan, the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Asiatic Turkey and Egypt.

 The bazaar represents feudal economy which is based on land with the combination of agricultural and handicraft industry, showing the features of self-sustaining, intensive growth of the rural and economy.

II. Introduction to the Passage 1.Type of literature: a piece of description Description: A description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object, or scene.

2.The purpose of a piece of objective description: --to record and reproduce a true picture with opinions and emotions of the author excluded

 A descriptive essay is generally developed through sensory details, or the impressions of one’s senses --- sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. The writer generally chooses those that help to bring out the dominant characteristic or outstanding quality of the person or thing described.

II. Introduction to the Passage 3. Ways of developing a piece of objective description:  --to begin with a brief general picture, divide the object into parts and organize the detailed description in order of space

III. Text Analysis 1. Key word of the text: Bazaar 2. How many natural paragraphs? Nine 3. Finding key words for each natural paragraph.

III. Text Analysis  Para One: A particular bazaar, what is it like?  Para Two: Cloth-market: what is it like?  Para Three: One of the peculiarities of the bazaar: what?  Para Four: Bargaining: How is it?  Para Five: Copper-smiths market: what is it like?

III. Text Analysis  Para Six: Pots and bowls: what is it like?  Para Seven: Carpet Market: what is it like?  Para Eight: The workshop of linseed oil: what is it like?  Para Nine: The process of producing linseed oil: How?

III. Text Analysis 4. Key words of the logical paragraphs 1) 1 st para. The middle eastern bazaar. 2) 2 nd_ 7 th paras. The bazaar’s peculiarities and markets. 3) 8-9 paras: linseed oil.

III. Text Analysis  5. How many markets are there in the bazaar? Nine.  General merchandise  Cloth-market  Copper-smiths market  Carpet-market  Spicy-market  Food-market  Dye-market  Pottery-market  Carpenters’ market

III. Text Analysis  6. Features of each market. General merchandise:  so noisy as to make you dizzy Cloth-market:  muted Copper-smiths market:  picturesque

III. Text Analysis  Carpet-market: rich in colors  Spicy-Market: pungent and exotic  Food-market: Selling either sumptuous or humble food  Dye-market, pottery-market, carpenters’ market: Small and scattered in the bazaar

III. Text Analysis  7.The feature of the linseed workshop:  Unforgettable. Why?  Room:Vast, sombre  Roof: High, dusty  Stone wheels; massive  Camel: blind-folded, muscular, massive and stately.

III. Text Analysis  8. Feature of processing the linseed oil:  Ironic and contrastive. why?  Vast ramshackle apparatus makes trickle of oil with hardship of the worker.

III. Text Analysis  The tenor of each logical paragraphs:  1. The 1st para. The general picture of the bazaar, noisy with arguing and bargaining, and crowded with people, stalls of goods and donkeys.  2. The 2 nd -the eighth paras. The bazaar is presented as different parts including copper-smiths’ market, carpet-market,

III. Text Analysis  spice-market, food-market, the dye- market, pottery market, and the carpenters’ market. It also introduces the peculiarities of the bazaar and different features of the eight markets.  paras. The description of the linseed oil workshop and the process of making linseed oil.

III. Text Analysis  The feature of the bazaar:  1)The bazaar is full of smell and sound. Even a blind man could know where he is by his sense of smell and hearing. Different odours and sounds can give him some ideas about the various part of the bazaar.  2)regional, middle eastern cultural, handicraft, backward feudal economy.

III. Text Analysis  Tense of the narration:  historical present tense—descriptive  Attitude of the author:  objective with curiosity. He makes the narration in a objective way, but shows his curiosity by telling strange concepts, traditions, styles, everything as new and strange.

III. Text Analysis  Central idea of the text:  By describing the middle eastern bazaar in the spatial order, the author has created a very vivid and exotic picture before our eyes, focusing on the strange and different features of the Middle eastern culture,which reveals a very old and traditional life style of the Islamic. The hidden meaning is that this culture is mysterious, interesting, uncultivated and natural, the economy there represents the backward feudal economy.

IV. Special Difficulties  1. paraphrasing some sentences.  1)Little donkeys… thread their way among the throngs of people.  Little donkeys went in and out among the people and from one side to another. 一头头小毛驴，响着叮当悦耳的铃声， 在熙熙攘攘的人群中穿来穿去。

IV. Special Difficulties  2 ） Then as you penetrate deeper into the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away, and you come to the muted cloth-market.  Then as you pass through a big crowd to go deeper into the market, the noise of the entrance gradually disappear, and you come to the much quieter cloth-market.  往市场里边走，入口处的嘈杂声就渐渐消失了， 这就来到了寂静的布匹市场。

IV. Special Difficulties  2. translating some paragraphs.  1)The one I am thinking of particularly is entered by a Gothic-arched gateway of aged brick and stone. You pass from the heat and glare of a big, open square into a cool, dark cavern which extends as far as the eye can see, losing itself in the shadowy distance.

IV. Special Difficulties  我记忆犹新的那个市场是从一座古老的 哥特式拱形砖石门进去的，穿过一个炎 热、耀眼的露天广场，便走进一个阴凉、 昏暗的大洞穴。这洞穴一眼望不到头， 远处消失在阴影中。

V. Questions for Discussion  1. What is a bazaar? Can you name some of the Middle Eastern countries in which such bazaars are likely to be found?  2. Name all the markets in the bazaar.  What kind of economy do you think they represent?  Give facts to support your view.  3. What scene do you find most picturesque in the bazaar? Why?

Homework  Exercise IX on page 10.  Exercise XIII on p.11.  them to me.  Thank you, goodbye!