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Face to Face with Hurricane Camille
Joseph P. Blank
1 John
Koshak, Jr.,
knew that Hurricane
Camille would be
bad. Radio and
television warnings
had sounded
throughout that
Sunday, last August
17, as Camille
lashed
northwestward
across the Gulf of
Mexico. It was
certain to pummel
Gulfport, Miss.,
where the Koshers
lived. Along the
coasts of Louisiana,
Mississippi and
Alabama, nearly
150,000 people fled
inland to safer
8round. But, like
thousands of others
in the coastal
communities, john
was reluctant to
abandon his home
unless the family --
his wife, Janis, and
their seven children,
abed 3 to 11 -- was
clearly endangered.
2 Trying to
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talked with his father
and mother, who
had moved into the
ten-room house with
the Koshaks a
month earlier from
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精品文档 Lesson 1: The Middle Eastern Bazaar
bazaar (n.) : (in Oriental countries)a
market or street of shops and stalls(东方国家的)市场，集市
cavern (n．) : a cave，esp．a large cave洞穴，山洞(尤指大洞穴，大山洞)
shadowy (adj.) : dim；indistinct模糊的；朦胧的
FONT style="BACKGROUNDCOLOR:
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(adj．) : having musical tones combined to
give a pleasing effect；consonant(音调)和谐的，悦耳的／harmoniously adv．
throng (n.) :a great number of people
gathered together；crowd人群；群集
conceivable (adj.) : that can be conceived，imagined 可想象的，想得到的 din (n.) : a loud，continuous noise喧闹声，嘈杂声
muted (adj.) : (of a sound)made softer
than is usual(声音)减弱的
vaulted ( adj．) : having the form of a
vault；arched穹窿形的；拱形的
sepulchral(n．) : （声音）低沉忧郁的 a
sepulchral voice 低沉忧郁的嗓音
阴森的，阴沉的a
sepulchral look 阴沉的脸色
a rather sepulchral
atmosphere in the room
⾼级英语第⼀册详细讲解
Lesson one The Middle Eastern Bazaar
⼀． Background information
⼆．Brief overview and writing styleThis text is a piece of description. In this article, the author describes a vivid and live scene of noisy hilarity of the MiddleEastern Bazaar to readers. At first, he describes the general atmosphere of the bazaar. The entrance of the bazaar is agedand noisy. However, as one goes through the bazaar, the noise the entrance fades away. One of the peculiarities of theEastern bazaar is that shopkeepers dealing in the same kind of goods gather in the same area. Then the author introducessome strategies for bargaining with the seller in the bazaar which are quite useful. After that he describes some impressivespecific market of the bazaar particularly including the copper-smiths market, the carpet-market, the spice-market, the food-market, the dye-market, the pottery-market and the carpenter’s market which honeycomb the bazaar. The typical animal indesert----camels----can also attract attention by their disdainful expressions. To the author the most unforgettable thing in thebazaar is the place where people make linseed oil. Hence he describes this complicated course with great details.
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Text Book 《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Title Unit 1 The Middle Eastern Bazaar
Teaching Aims 1. Improving Reading Skills----understanding a piece of descriptive writing
2. Enriching Vocabulary--- enlarging vocabulary
cultivating students’ sense of word building
understanding that synonyms have fine shades
3. Improving Writing skills --- making effective use of specific verbs
Using adjectives accurately
Using five human senses---hearing, smelling,
seeing, tasting and touching to make the
description vivid
Using rhetorical devices properly
Teaching
Activities Vocabulary 1 hour
Text Analysis 4 hours
Discussion 3 hours
Practice 2 hours
Teaching
Process I .Warming up
II．Introduction to Additional Background Knowledge
