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Lesson OneFace to Face with Hurricane CamilleContents•Background Information •Detailed Study •Writing Skills Related •Exercises on Vocabulary •Check on UnderstandingBackground Information• Type of literature: A piece of narration • --character (protagonist/antagonist) • --action (incidents, events, etc.) • --conflicts (suspense, tension) • --climax • --denouement (close)Background Informationchronological developmentnarration --- story telling extended narration --novels histories biographies autobiographies traveloguesBackground Information• The essentials of narration: 1. characters 2. plot A good story has a beginning, a middle, an end, even though it may start in the middle or at some other point in the action and move backward to the earlier happenings.Background InformationNarration is concerned with action.It goes around people called characters in some kind of struggle or conflict against other people, nature, society or themselves.protagonist --- leading character antagonist -- the people or forces protagonistfights against suspense -- a state of uncertaintyBackground Informationinterposition --- a passage which is put between the actionThe purpose is to add more information to create suspenseBackground Informationflashback --interruption of chronological sequence by interjection of event of earlier occurrenceclimax -- the most exciting, important interesting part on the story,denouement --- the ending of a storyBackground Informationrising action beginningclimax falling actiondenouementconflict suspenseendingBackground Information• Main idea: • Face to Face with Hurricane Camille describesthe heroic struggle of the Koshaks and their friends against the forces of a devastating hurricane.Background Information• Organization： • --introduction (para 1- 6) • --development (para 7 – 26) • --climax (Para 27) • --conclusionBackground Information• Introductory paragraphs 1 - 6 • --- time • --- place • --- background • --- conflict: man versus hurricanes • --- character: John KoshakBackground Information• Development (7 – 26) • The writer builds up and sustains the suspense in thestory by describing in detail and vividly the incidents showing how the Koshaks and their friends struggled against each onslaught of the hurricane.Background Information• Climax (P. 27) • The writer gives order an logical movement tothe sequence of happenings by describing a series of actions in the order of their occurrence. • The story reaches its climax in paragraph 27.Background Information• Conclusion (P 28 -) • The theme in the story • Human lives are important and not materialpossessions. The family survived the storm.Background Information• What is included in a narrative writing?1) story : the heroic struggle of the Koshaks and theirfriends against the forces of a devastating hurricane2) characters:--Pop Koshak--Grandma Koshak--John Koshak* (protagonist)--Janis Koshaka typical American family--Seven childrenthree generations, friend, neighbors--Charles, a friendand pets--Neighbors--petsBackground Information3) Textual organization: chronological order (natural time sequence) a beginning (1-6 ) (introducing the time, place, background, characters) a middle (7-27 ) (details of the struggle to the climax) an end (28-39) (getting help and rebuilding community)4) Climax: para 27 when the Koshaks family survived 5) Conflict:man versus nature (hurricane as antagonist) 6) Point of view: third person 7) Atmosphere : tense and urgenct 8) Theme: para 39. family safety is more important than materialpossessions.Detailed Study• hurricane ---1. strong tropical storm 2. strong fast wind which speeds more than 75 mph 3. western Atlantic Ocean 4. given a girl's name; named alphabetically / ordered according to the initial letterDetailed Study• typhoon ---• 1. Western Pacific Ocean or China Sea 2. numberedDetailed Study• 飓风和台风实际上是一回事,都是指风速达到33米/秒的热带 气旋,只是因为发生的地域不同,才有不同的名称。
第一课FacetofacewithHurricaneCamilleParaphrase:Weare23feetabovethesealevel.Thehousehasbeenheresince1915,andhasneverbeendamagedbyanyhurricanes.Wecanmakethenecessarypreparationsandsurvivethehurricanewithoutmuchdamage.Watergotintothegeneratorandputitout.Itstoppedproducingelectricitysothelightsalsowentout.Everybodygooutthroughthebackdoorandruntothecar.6.Theelectricalsystemsinthecar(thebatteryforthestarter)hadbeenputoutbywater.AsJohnwatchedthewaterinchitswayupthesteps,hefeltastrongsenseofguiltbecauseheblamedhimselfforendan geringthewholefamilybydecidingnottofleeinland.OhGod,pleasehelpustogetthroughthisstormsafely7.GrandmotherKoshaksangafewwordsaloneandthenhervoicegraduallygrewdimmerandstopped.8.Janisdisplayedratherlatetheexhaustionbroughtaboutbythenervoustensioncausedbythehurrican e.Translation(C-E)1.Eachandeveryplanemustbecheckedoutthoroughlybeforetakingoff. 每架飞机起飞之前必须经过严格的检查。
