高级英语(18.1.1)--part1

Marrakech
Morocco
3. Exposition
• Exposition is perhaps the type of writing that i s most frequently used by a student, a scientist, or a professional. Exposition --- expounding, e xplaining.
摩洛哥犹太人
• 摩洛哥犹太共同体委员会主席：反犹太 主义的烈焰在伊斯兰世界越烧越猛，今天 的年轻人很容易认为阿拉伯人和犹太人根 本就无法共存，更不用说共荣了。
It is rather bumpy underfoot
• You can't differentiate from another, because they look just the same. They have no individuality and is irrecognizable.
1. George Orwell
• 1. George Orwell • Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January
1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism.
gazelle
• a hoofed mammal with a slender neck and ringed horns. Gazelles are famous for their grace and beauty, and are native to Africa and Asia.
Mint sauce
1984 and Animal Farm
2. Marrakech
• Morocco is a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament. The King of Morocco holds vast executive powers, including the possibility of dissolving the parliament. The city of Marrakech is the capital of the midsouthwestern economic region of Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, near the foothills of the snow-capped Atlas Mountains, being also the fourth largest city in Morocco according to the 2004 census.
Burial
• How people are buried in Marrakech? 1.wail a short chant hack an oblong hole (dig without care) dump the body fling over it a little of the dried-up earth 2. The fact shows the human life has no value at all.
No women
• According to Muslim law, Muslims must respect women, and for this reason girls and women used to be kept in the house, where they could be safe. When they went out, they wore the veils to cover their faces. But this law has become a kind of excuse to discriminate against women.
Appeal to
• If something appeals to you, you find it attractive or interesting attract / interest / fascinate These books are designed to appeal to children. The idea of becoming director of the factory appealed to him.
Description -- deals with appearances and feelin gs
Narration --- deals with events and experience
Exposition --- deals with processes and relations hips
• This text is an exposition, a political essay. Orwell leaves no doubt about his feelings concerning colonialism and its results. He has shown the reader how millions of people can be ignored and treated as less than human.
George Orwell
• Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture,[4] Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and journalism. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).
• an English specialty made of a combination of chopped mint leaves, vinegar, and water. It's traditionally served with roast lamb.
stow
• to put, hide away in safe place If you stow sth. somewhere, you put it neatly
derelict building-lot
• It would be an ugly, forgotten, abandoned place where a building was begun but never finished. "derelict" --- comes from the Latin word meaning “to abandon”.
The Jews
• The writer described the plight of the Jews, an poorest minority in a colonial country. Their fate could be worse than that of the natives.
away in a place where it can be kept until it is needed.
stow away ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้store, hide
The relationship between gazelle and navvy
• I (bread)
↗gazell ↘ the Arab Navvy
4.Detailed study of the text
• As the corpse.... The opening paragraph is very dramatic. The
choice of this scene and the words he uses implies much more than what appears on the surface. 1) dirty 2) poor
Marrakech
Objectives
• 1.To know the writing about colonialism. • 2.To learn the methods in developing an
expository writing, esp. the use of examples. • 3.To appreciate the language features
chant
（ 1 ） . a word or group of words that is repeated over and over again, usually by more than one person.
（ 2 ） . a religious prayer or song that is spoken or sung on only a very few notes so that there is not much variation in it.
identify
• recognise; be able to name Can you identify your umbrella among a hundred others? Schoolboys could identify almost every car as it passed by.
---"All colonial empire....."
• It is the colonial empires that make the people so poor. Empires are built up by treating the people in the colonies like animals. This thesis is going to be supported by more illustrations and examples.
Teaching Plan
• 1.George Orwell • 2. Marrakech • 3. Exposition • 4. Detailed study of the Text • 5. Organization and structure • 6. Writing technique • 7. Exercises
• An expository paper explains or explores some thing, such as the process of making a machine , the causes of a natural or social phenomenon, the planning of a project, or the solution of a p roblem.
Rhetorical questions
• “Are they really the same” • --- What sort of audience Orwell had in mind
when he wrote this essay? --- Clearly he is writing to readers of his own race and general class .