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• Practical Writing
• Check Yourself
• Fun Time

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• 1. Elizabeth Jolley
• 2. Cabin Fever
• 3. Love and Marriage
• 4. Love Equations

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1. Elizabeth Jolley is a famous Australian
fiction writer. Born in England in 1923, Jolley
moved to Australia in 1959 with her husband and
three children. She had been trained as a nurse
in England, and nursed there and
in Australia before starting her writing career
in 1964. Her body of work includes 26 books
short stories, radio plays, collections and 12
novels in print since 1980. Jolley has won many
writing awards, two of them for Cabin Fever, her
tenth fiction book. She is known for her peculiar
people in funny situations.
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2. Cabin Fever continues the events of her
previous book, My Father's Moon, but from a
different voice and 40 years later. The story is
presented in bits and pieces as a successful
woman psychologist recalls her war experiences
and postwar hard times. The book is
not a complete story but only certain memories
that help the woman make sense of all the pain,
trouble, loss and sad times in her life. The book
describes the culture of the late 1940s.
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3.Love and Marriage
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• Love is holding hands in the street.Marriage
  is holding arguments in the street.Love is
  dinner for 2 in your favorite restaurant.Marriage
  is Chinese take-out.Love is cuddling (??) on a
  sofa.Marriage is deciding on a sofa.
• Love is talking about having
  children.Marriage is talking about getting away
  from children.

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• Love is losing your appetite.Marriage is losing
  your figure.Love is sweet nothings in the
  ear.Marriage is sweet nothing's in the
  bank.Love is a flickering flame.Marriage is a
  flickering television.
• Love is 1 drink and 2 straws
  (??,??).Marriage is "Don't you think you've had
  enough!"

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II. Practical Writing Personal Ads

• The text of an advertisement usually
  contains four parts headline body copy
  slogan, or tagline and subscript. Personal
  ads are useful for our daily life.

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Sample 2
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• Task
• Choose one of the headlines to make a personal
  ad.
• 1. ACCOMMODATION WANTED
• 2. HELP NEEDED
• 3. BOOK TO LET
• 4. MISSING

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III. Check Yourself
1. We should concentrate on sharply
reducing interest rates to pull the economy out
of _____. A. retreat B.
rejection C. recession D.
restriction 2. In order to get rid of her
sorrow, Bush _____ heavily _____ alcohol.
A. depart... from B. classified... into C.
relied... on D. hesitated... in
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3. Childrens _____ for acquiring language is
remarkable for a number of reasons. A.
responsibility B. capacity C. curiosity
D. ability 4. Our journey was slow
because the train stopped _____ at different
villages. A. eventually B. gradually
C. continuously D. continually
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5. They claim that _____ 1,000 factories closed
down during the economic crisis. A.
sufficiently B. properly C.
appropriately D. approximately 6. Having
completed its _____ to the moon, the space
shuttle is now ready for another trip. A.
venture B. mission C. duty
D. responsibility
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7. I want to buy a new tie to _____ this brown
suit. A. go into B. go after
C. go with D. go by 8. What you
have done is _____ the doctors orders. A.
attached to B. responsible to C.
resistant to D. contrary to
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9. It is much easier to talk bout social change
than to_____. A. bring it on B.
bring it out C. bring it up D.
bring it about 10. A well-written composition
_____ good choice of words and clear
organization among other things. A. calls on
B. calls for C. calls up
D. calls off
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IV. Fun Time
A Song The Way We Were
by Barbra Streisand
A Funny Story
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I experience again the deep-felt wish to be part
of a married couple... So intense is this wish
that if I write the word husband on a piece of
paper, my eyes fill with tears. WHY ARE THESE
LINES SO PAINFUL? Probably, the lines reminded
the widow (mentioned in Section A) of the way
they were. Enjoy the song and share the feeling
with the widow.
(lyrics)
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The Way We Were
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The Way We Were

• Memories light the corners
• Of my mind,
• Misty water color memories
• Of the way we were,
• Scattered pictures of the smiles
• We left behind,
• Smiles we gave to one another
• For the way we were.

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• Can it be that it was all so simply then,
• Or has time rewritten every line?
• If we had the chance to do it all again,
• Tell me, would we, could we?
• Memories may be beautiful, and yet,
• Whats too painful to remember,
• We simply choose to forget.
• So its the laughter we will remember,
• Whenever we remember.
• The way we were,
• The way we were.

The End
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About Barbra Streisand

• Barbra was born in Brooklyn, New York, in the
  1940s. Growing up in New York offered her the
  chance to see Broadway musicals from childhood.
  At 18, by a coincidence she made her Broadway
  debut in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, which
  led to national TV appearances and overwhelming
  critical acclaim (praise). Whats more, Columbia
  Records signed her after recognizing her for her
  beautiful voice. Since then, shes been a
  Columbia artist for
• nearly 40 years.

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Focus on Barbra Streisand

• For what she does, shes the best. Not rock or
  blues or jazz or opera but American popular song,
  most often drawn for stage or screen. In this
  realm, no one can touch (???) Barbra Streisand.
  
• Hollywood Reporter

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Focus on Barbra Streisand

• ... but looking back at the way shes risen
  to fame, youll see that behind her huge success
  is a several decade persistent pursuit for art.
  Its her endless devotion to work that keeps her
  spirit young.
• Hollywood Reporter

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2. A Funny Story

• A Bookworms Wedding Night
• James was a famous scholar who married rather
  late in his life. On the wedding night the bride
  found her husband reading instead of attending to
  her.
• I wish I were a book, she said, sighing.
• What do you want to be a book for? James
• asked with surprise.
• You would be more interested in me, then.

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• After serious thinking, he finally said to his
  bride, Im afraid that wouldnt do, my dear. You
  see, when I finish reading a book, I always start
  with another. Do you want me to do the same thing
  with you?

The End