综合英语6 unit13.ppt

Unit 13 Sweet September  Warm-up Questions: Which do you think is the best month of the year? Give your reasons. Text Explanations This is a very fine description of September as a season of beauty, a season of harvest, and a season of preparation for new life. The whole essay is developed in a kind of chronological order. The author first describes how a sense of autumn “creeps in”, and gradually unfolds its unique beauty. The, step by step, he leads us to the harvest season, describing what the busy farmer does in the fields and in the kitchen. The we have the first frost of the year, which brings with it another kind of beauty and urges animals and birds to prepare for winter. Paragraph 1-2 Analysis In the 1st paragraph the opening statement “September is more than a month, really; it is a season, an achievement in itself’ is, in a sense, the topic sentence of the whole essay, which will be beautifully developed in the following paragraphs. The readers will expect to see what distinguishing features it has and what kind of “achievement” it is in itself. 2nd paragraph conveys a vision about the arrival of September. We can sense that almost imperceptible arrival of autumn in the firs few days of September if we are sensitive enough. Language Work 1. After summer’s heat and haste, the year consolidates itself. ---- In summer, everything grows fast due to high temperatures. After that, the year makes its achievement more secure in September. The success of their major product consolidated the firm’s position in the market. He hoped that marriage would consolidate their relationship. 2. It creeps in on a misty dawn and vanishes in the hot afternoon. ---- It arrives silently on a hazy dawn and fades away in the hot afternoon. One or tow typing errors crept into the report. Doubts began to creep into my mind about the likely success of the project. The child vanished while on her way home from school. Cheap rural housing is vanishing in the south of the countr