Contemporary College English

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Contemporary College English

• Book One
• Lesson One
• Lecturer SONG Zhi-qin
• School of International Studies
• Hangzhou Dianzi University

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Warm-up Exercises

• How long have you been here in HDU?
• When and where did you start to learn English?
• Whats the earliest thing in your life that you
  can remember now?
• Listen to the story (A Day at School)

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Aims of Teaching

• To know the writing technique of a fiction.
• To be acquainted with some literary terms
• To learn to use words like make, find
• To appreciate the language features
• To write a story about yourself.

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Teaching Contents

• Cultural background
• The literary style
• Literal study of the text
• Organizational pattern
• Language features
• Exercises

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Reading and Writing Procedure

• Read with the writers purpose in mind
• Read it through, get the main idea
• Think of the theme(write a title to it)
• Decide the essential details
• Jot down in brief notes the main points.

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General Understanding of the Text

• General idea
• Supporting details

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Literal Understanding of the Text

• Vocabulary study
• Sentence structures
• Grammatical items

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Vocabulary Study

• Word formation
• Inflection
• Derivation/affixation
• Compounding

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Word Building Inflection
bred chose did flew gave sat spoke struck
breed choose do fly give sit speak strike
bred chosen done flown given sat spoken stricken
bread choice deed flight gift seat speech stroke
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Derivation/Affixation
act counteract enact exact interact overact react
retroact transact
active counteractive enactive exactable interacti
ve overactive reactive retroactive transactional
action counteraction enaction exaction interactio
n overactivity reaction retroaction transaction
ACTdo, work
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Derivation/Affixation
factmake pactfix tacttouch fractbreak tract
draw flectbend spectlook jectthrow
sectcut lectchoose tectcover rect straighten
sent? tent? vent? gest?
ROOTS
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Word Power Made Easy
admission
protection

• Use inflectional forms
• He applied for _______ to the university and was
  admitted last month.
• Such a diet is widely believed to offer _____
  against cancer. But what can women do to protect
  themselves from heart disease?

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Word Power Made Easy
make up
keep at

• Use opposites or synonyms
• I gave up. Why? You will solve the problem if you
  _________ it.
• Who invented this story? I have no idea. Any man
  like Bill could _________ one.

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Sentence Structure

• I walked alongside my father, clutching his right
  hand. All my clothes were new
• My mother stood at the window watching our
  progress , and I turned towards her from time to
  time, hoping she would help.

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Sentence Structure

• We walked along a street lined with gardens, and
  fields planted with crops pears, and date palms.
  
• A lady came along, followed by a group of men.
• from each floor we were overlooked by a long
  balcony roofed in wood.