Book One

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Contemporary College English

• Book One
• Lesson Three

Message of the Land
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Warm-up Exercises

• Have you ever talked with/to any foreigner in
  English?
• What do your parents do?

• Listen to the interview

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Aims of Teaching

• To know the writing technique of an essay.
• To be acquainted with some literary terms
• To learn to use words like take, put
• To appreciate figures of speech metaphor, simile
• To write an essay based on your interview.

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Teaching Contents

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

Pira Sudham
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General Understanding of the Text

• Cultural Background
• Farmer in Thailand

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General Understanding of the Text

• To know about the poor of Thailand, we can read
  part of the authors remarks If I had not left
  my village then, I would have been subject, like
  most villagers, to the mercy of nature floods,
  drought,disease, ignorance and scarcity. With
  endurance, I would have accepted them as my own
  fate,as something I can not go against in this
  life.

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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 essay consists of two parts
• Part I (paragraphs1-7)
• The wife tells about each member of her
  family and how all her children left and
  describes the changes that she finds she cant
  adjust to.
• Part II (paragraphs 8-11)
• The farmers speech is shorter, but touches
  something deeper- what he thinks is the root of
  all evils. He also tells us what he finds in
  life and in farming.

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Vocabulary Study

• Word formation
• Prefixes/negatives
• Suffixes /-y, -ful
• Compounding
• Words about farming

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Word Building Inflection
leaves sheaves feet flight gift pace sauce rice

leaf sheaf foot fly give pass salt raise
heal bear weigh join portray bar crow boom
health birth weight joint portrait barn crown bomb
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Affixation/Negatives
disappear unconfortable dislike abnormal informal
overactive nonstandard misunderstand
appear confortable like normal formal overact sta
ndard understand
Un-not, opposite In-, il-, -im,-ir Non-, dis-, a-
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Affixation/suffixes
fruitful careful harmful beautiful greedy dirty s
unny crabby
fruit care harm beauty greed dirt sun crab
-ful, -y full of, having the quality of
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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
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ROOTS
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Word Building Compounding
alongside crossroads overlook sunset sweetheart

alongside crossroads overlook sunset sweethea
rt
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Words about Farming
Cultivate Grow Harvest Plow Raise Reap Rear Sow T
ill weed
Coffee Corn Cotton Crop Maize Nut Seed Tea Vegetab
le wheat
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Word Power Made Easy
greedy
thirsty

• affixation
• It is sheer greed that makes him eat so much. He
  is not hungry, merely ________.
• A good student has a thirst for knowledge but he
  is _________ for money.

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Word Power Made Easy
take it back
put forward

• Use opposites or synonyms
• May I venture my opinion? You may. But I hope
  youll _________ a better one than his.
• Youd better withdraw your last statement. No. I
  wont _________ .

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Sentence Structure

• The use of Infinitives
• I never want to leave this land.
• Years ago you could ask your neighbors to help
  build your house.
• Young people tend to leave these things to old
  people now,

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Sentence Structure

• The use of it
• Its kind of you to help us.
• Its nicer to stay in bed than to get up in the
  morning.
• It was Carl who broke the kitchen window with a
  ladder today.
• It was a ladder with which Carl broke

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Sentence Structure

• Conditionals
• If I could live to be 150, I would travel on
  Mars.
• If the Chinese had not invented paper, people in
  other nations would

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Assignment

• Oral practice
• Interview at least two of your classmates or
  roommates about their family life.
• Writing
• Write down what you have learnt from the old
  couple in the text in about 150 words.