Unit 1 The Dinner PartyPPT.ppt

Unit 1 The Dinner Party A heated discussion about whether men are braver than women is settled in a rather unexpected way. Unit 1 The Dinner Party 1. Useful Expressions 2. Text Interpretation 3. Word Family 4. Sentence Structure 5. Translation Practice 6. Reading Skill 7. Guided Writing 8. Homework Useful Expressions 激烈的争论 Useful Expressions 追查罪犯 Warm-up questions Global analysis Detailed reading Picture talk Inspiring quotations Content questions (6-8) ◆ What type is the text? A narration B description C exposition D argumentation ◆ What are the five w-elements? ◆ What does the text intend to show? How would the story been different if it had been told from the hostess point of view? I first heard this tale in India, where it is told as if true — though any naturalist would know it couldn’t be. That magazine story, and the person who wrote it, I have never been able to track down. Women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they haven’t. He has that ounce more of control than a woman has. As he looks, he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess. She is staring straight ahead, her muscles contracting slightly. The American came to with a start. He speaks quickly, the tone of his voice so commanding that it silences everyone. Not one of you is to move a muscle. Heat, unexpectedly, expectation, nature, (un) natural, shortage, colony, colonist, space, spatial, bald, empty, response, argue for/against, dispute, argumentation, width, muscular, likelihood, impulsive, confusion, riot, authoritative, Pakistan, imagine, imagination, imaginative, imaginary, unimaginable, emergency, faint v., creep IV. Enriching your word power (10-11) Participles placed after nouns (P.11) While as a conjunction (P.13) Be + infinitive (P.14) Their argument ended when she slammed the door and left