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Advanced Reading Lesson 1 Reading A The Great Awakening
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Reading A: The Great Awakening
I. Cultural information
1. About Brooklyn

2. Mars, the warrior planet (Para 6)
What are other planets do you know?

II. Text comprehension
1. Pre-reading questions
1) What do you know about Brooklyn?
2) When coming to the topic of city, how can we depict it? Or from what aspects can we
describe a city?

2. While-reading questions
1) Which paragraphs belong to topic paragraphs?
Para 6, 8, 18, 22
2) What do you know about Brooklyn from Para 1-3?
3), but the one constant is that it is huge. (Para 6)
What does “one” refer to? How huge is it?
4) From what aspects does the author describe Brooklyn? (Para 7)
5) Why are people moving to Brooklyn? (Para 8-11)
6) Why does the author say that the new Brooklyn has more than one face? (Para 15)
7) What are the downsides to the new Brooklyn? (Para 18-21)
8) Why is there a very human pull to Brooklyn? (Para 22-26)

3. Generic structure
Huge change (Para 7):

Para 8:
Booming Home pull Para 9:
Para 10-14:
Para 15-17:
Human pull:
Lead-in: Brooklyn
(Para 1-6) Para 18:

Para 19:
Downsides
Para 20:

Para 21:
Advanced Reading Lesson 1 Reading A The Great Awakening
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III. Language points
1. catch (Para 2)
2. approach (Para 3)
3. meet the eye (Para 4)
4. Yuppies (Para 6)
5. complete with (Para 7)
6. permit (Para 8)
7. stoop-sitting (Para 17)
8. commission (Para 18)
9. pull (Para 22)
10. adjoining (Para 23)
IV. Rhetorical points
1. Willy Loman (Para 18)
2. the blue and the green (Para 19)
3. Microsoft before Windows, I.B.M