Half a Daytext1河北联合大学轻工学院2020/5/7BrainstormingLead-in ActivityAbouttheauthorSkimmingandscanningGroupdiscussionComprehensive ReadingVocabularySentencegrammarIntensive ReadingExerciseCriticalthinkingAssignmentsContents 1 2 3 42Lead-in ActivityDirection : Work in pairs or groups and discuss.Work in pairs or groups and discuss.3Q1Was 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?4Q 1Q 2Was it hard for you to leave home for the first time in your life? Do you remember your first day of university?Lead-in Activity5Q 3Do you remember your first day of school?Did you find the university just as you had imagined? Q 2Lead-in Activity Were you disappointed when you found it was not as good as you had expected?6Clickheretoaddyourtext1Lead-in ActivityForestGump7Clickheretoaddyourtext1Lead-in ActivityForestGump8Comprehensive reading9Comprehensive Reading - The authorHis life 纳吉布马哈富兹Naguib Mahfouz 1911-2006u Born in 1911, educated at Cairo Universityu Wrote short stories and historical novels before WWII and novels of social realism after WWII the first Arabic-language author awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.102022/1/4Comprehensive Reading - The authorHis worksThe Cairo Trilogy (first published in 1957)The Cairo Trilogy: a tale of the lives of a Muslim family and spans（跨过） the first half of the 20th century. Each book in the trilogy was named after a suburb of Cairo.112022/1/4Comprehensive Reading - The authorHis worksThe Cairo Trilogy (first published in 1957)The first, Palace Walk was set during the British occupation of Egypt early in the century. The second, Palace of Desire covered the changing times of the 1920s. The third book, Sugar Street brings the family into the mid 20th century. 122022/1/4Comprehensive Reading - The authorHis writing style The Cairo Trilogy (first published in 1957)u His works combined realism & symbolism u In this text, a strategy used in fiction writing-the protagonist returns after being absent for a short time to find everything changed beyond recognition.132022/1/4Comprehensive Reading - The authorHis writing style Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving u The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 睡谷传奇, 华盛顿.欧文u Rip went to hunt squirrels. He drank something a queer old man offered him and fell fast asleep. When he woke up he found himself an old man and that great changes had occurred in his village during his absence.Exampleinthetext142022/1/4Comprehensive Reading - The authoru 山中方一（七）日， 世上已千年。
u 志林水经注u “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u 浙江，烂柯围棋(go game)Exampleinthetext152022/1/4Comprehensive Reading - The authorHis writing style This technique is often used to emphasize rapid changes in society.162022/1/4the social realism of Balzac and Dickens.The first Arab Writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature 1988, The Cairo TrilogyHis works have been compared in spirit and tone toHis influenceComprehensive Reading - The author17Comprehensive Reading - StructureThe text can be roughly divided into three parts, according to the little boys experience that day.18123Part 1Part 2 Part 3 The narrators unwillingness to go to school.The narrators experience at school.The changes the narrator found after school. 19123Para.1-7Para.8-16Para.17-20The narrators unwilling to go to school.The narrators experience at school.The changes the narrator found after school.20Comprehensive Reading- Structure Scan Part. 1 and focus on the following questions.1. 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?unhappypunishingbe thrown intoSchool is not a punishment.A place that makes men out of boys and useful.Be a man.Today you truly begin life.21Comprehensive Reading - Q & AScan Part. 2 and focus on the following questions.1. What are the different understandings of the boy to the school? Positive aspectsNegative aspectsWhat lay ahead of him?22Comprehensive Reading - Q & AScan Part. 2 and focus on the following questions.1. What are the different understandings of the boy to the school? Positive aspectsNegative aspectsfriendshipschoolworkloverivalryplayingfightinglearningPhysicalpunishment exertion, struggle, perseverance23 Main IdeaGrowthCompromiseEnlightenmentAdaptationOrientationHalf a DayLife is like a day in school. 24Comprehensive Reading - Q & AScan Part. 2 and focus on the following questions.Reading skill: transitional words and expressions Para. 13 Para. 15 Para. 16 Well, it seemed that.no basis.howeverIn additionReading skill / Writing skill25Comprehensive ReadingScan Part. 3 and focus on the following questions.1. 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 fatherstreetwayGrandpa / an old man.。
