大学英语book1 Main Idea.ppt

Main Idea Summery of Text A narrative Introduction (time, place, characters) What happened Result I had a dream…… However, I hated …… We had a new English teacher….. The teacher’s assignments…… I wrote an essay…… The response to my essay…… 情况:想当作家 The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off and on since my childhood. 问题： 英文课枯燥,乏味英文老师拘谨,古板… But in high school, I was bored by everything associated with English courses: I found English grammar dull and difficult, I hated the assignments, and I didn’t like my English teacher because he was formal, rigid, and out of date. 反应：为自己而写 Once I wrote an essay “The Art of Eating Spaghetti” from a list of topics, because the title produced an extra-ordinary sequence of mental images and vivid memories of my own experience. I wanted to write about it, and I wanted to put it down simply for my own joy, not for my English teacher. 结果：获得了成功,赢得了赞誉 Fortunately, my English teacher singled out my essay to read out loud to the entire class. Everybody was listening, listening attentively,and laughing with open-hearted enjoyment. 结果：找到了写作真谛 Finally, I discovered the essence of essay writing: writing for myself. * * Main idea: 1) 在孩提时代，我的脑海里就经常出现当作家的念头。 2）可是，中学时我对所有跟英文有关的事都感到腻味。 3）一篇作文题在我脑海里唤起了一连串清晰的图象和生动的回忆。 4）我想描述那一切，但我把它写下来仅仅是想自得其乐，而不是为老师而写。 5）写作的成功给了我很大的鼓励，我终于找到了写作的真缔：为自己而写。 1) 在孩提时代，我的脑海里就经常出现当作家的念头。 The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off and on since my childhood.