Book One

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Contemporary College English

• Book One
• Lesson Six

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
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Warm-up Exercises

• Do you believe that there are extraterrestrial
  beings (????)?
• Some people announced that they had seen UFO ,
  but most of them are proved untrue. Then whats
  your idea about this phenomenon?

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Aims of Teaching

• To know the writing technique of a play.
• To be acquainted with some literary terms
• To learn to use words like get, come, etc.
• To learn to use relative clauses
• To stage the play.

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Teaching Contents

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

Rod Serling
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General Understanding of the Text

• Cultural Background
• Filmography Rod Serling

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Biography of Rod Serling

• A master of suspense and the bizarre, Rod
  Serling is best remembered for his groundbreaking
  sci-fi television anthology series The Twilight
  Zone (1959-1965). Born in Syracuse, NY, the son
  of a wholesale meat dealer, Serling had a
  life-long interest in science fiction and the
  supernatural. During WWII, he served as a
  paratrooper in the U.S. Army 11th Airborne
  Division. While in the military, Serling was also
  a noted boxer. Following an honorable discharge
  in 1946, the result of a shrapnel wound, he
  attended Antioch College and majored in physical
  education and then literature. While there, he
  began writing, directing, and acting in locally
  produced radio plays. In 1949, he sold his first
  television script, "Grady Everett for the
  People." He came to Hollywood to write teleplays
  full-time in the mid-'50s. Early on, Serling was
  noted for his intelligent and offbeat scripts.
  His teleplay Patterns earned him his first of
  five Emmys. With the Twilight Zone, Serling
  served as the host and oversaw each of the two
  stories presented per episode. He wrote many of
  the stories himself, most of which were known for
  their ironic twists. Serling also wrote a few
  screenplays, including Planet of the Apes (1968).
  Later, he returned to television to launch other
  anthology series such as Rod Serling's Night
  Gallery. He also was noted as the distinctive
  narrator of the Undersea World of Jacques
  Cousteau documentaries. In addition to his
  television career, Serling often did
  cross-country college campus lectures and for a
  time was a professor at Antioch College. He died
  in 1975 during open-heart surgery. Sandra
  Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Literal Understanding of the Text

• Organization of the text
• Vocabulary study
• Sentence structures
• Grammatical items

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Organization of the Text

• The

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Vocabulary Study

• Word formation
• Suffixes /-ly, -en
• Words about fiction

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Word Building and Synonyms
fatherly motherly brotherly friendly daily homely
timely
father mother brother friend day home time
patternal matternal fraternal amiable diurnal
comfortable well-timed
benevolent affectionate friendly sociable everyda
y simple seasonable
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Affixation/suffixes
outer inner upper upwards downwards towards forwa
rd backwards
out in up up down to for back
-lylike, having the characteristics
of -wardsto move toward -enmake -ermore
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Derivation/roots
dict ? pict ? vict ? frict ? script ? sist
? cit ? mit ? rupt ?
fact pact tact fract tract flect spect je
ct
sect lect tect rect sent? tent? vent? gest
?
ROOTS
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Idiomatic Expressions in the Text
lean against listen to come by work out reach
out go ahead make sense go off back away
call out be conscious of cut in cut
through demand for prepare for pick up turn over
Exclaim Be aware of Interrupt Pass
over/ traverse Require Make ready
for Collect overturn
Depend on Obey Obtain Process Extend Advance Be
reasonable Explode, fire retreat
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Word Power Made Easy
Upwards (Br)
darken

• affixation
• She had to put on her make-up to ______ her
  eyelishes and then you could see they were dark.
• I began to climb upward over the steepest ground.

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Word Power Made Easy
well timed well-timed
turned over
went off

• Use opposites or synonyms
• The clumsy customer overturned the vase.
• The books publication was timely. Its _______.
• A few minutes later the bomb exploded, destoying
  the vehicle.

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Sentence Structure

• The use of relative clauses
• The houses have front porches. People sit and
  talk to each other across their lawns in the
  front porches.
• The houses have front porches where people sit
  and talk to each other across their lawns

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Sentence Structure

• Imperative sentences
• Tommy, come over here and stop that kind of talk.
• Please dont leave here.
• Go ahead. Let her talk.

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Sentence Structure

• Ellipses
• Guess it was a meteor, honey.
• Came awful close, didnt it?
• No thunder. No nothing.
• He was always an oddball. Him and his whole
  family.

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Assignment

• Oral practice
• Act out the scene in Act 1.
• Writing
• Describe the event in the play in about 150 words.