基础英语2（2021级）

王爱琴

目录

  • 1 Another School Year-What For?
    • 1.1 Objectives
    • 1.2 Background information
    • 1.3 Warming-up
    • 1.4 Text comprehension
    • 1.5 Language learning
    • 1.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 1.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 1.8 Exercises
  • 2 Say Yes
    • 2.1 Objectives
    • 2.2 Background information
    • 2.3 Warming-up
    • 2.4 Text comprehension
    • 2.5 Language learning
    • 2.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 2.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 2.8 Exercises
  • 3 The Rite of Spring
    • 3.1 Objectives
    • 3.2 Background information
    • 3.3 Warming-up
    • 3.4 Text comprehension
    • 3.5 Language learning
    • 3.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 3.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 3.8 Exercises
  • 4 The Man in the Water
    • 4.1 Objectives
    • 4.2 Background information
    • 4.3 Warming-up
    • 4.4 Text comprehension
    • 4.5 Language learning
    • 4.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 4.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 4.8 Exercises
  • 5 Quick Fix Society
    • 5.1 Objectives
    • 5.2 Background information
    • 5.3 Warming-up
    • 5.4 Text comprehension
    • 5.5 Language learning
    • 5.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 5.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 5.8 Exercises
  • 6 Wisdom of Bear Wood
    • 6.1 Objectives
    • 6.2 Background information
    • 6.3 Warming-up
    • 6.4 Text comprehension
    • 6.5 Language learning
    • 6.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 6.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 6.8 Exercises
  • 7 Inter-Lesson (I)
    • 7.1 Group work
    • 7.2 pdf
  • 8 The Man in Asbestos
    • 8.1 Objectives
    • 8.2 Background information
    • 8.3 Warming-up
    • 8.4 Text comprehension
    • 8.5 Language learning
    • 8.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 8.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 8.8 Exercises
  • 9 Confessions of a Miseducated Man
    • 9.1 Objectives
    • 9.2 Background information
    • 9.3 Warming-up
    • 9.4 Text comprehension
    • 9.5 Language learning
    • 9.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 9.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 9.8 Exercises
  • 10 Pompeii (for self-learning)
    • 10.1 pdf
    • 10.2 Materials
  • 11 Button, Button
    • 11.1 Objectives
    • 11.2 Background information
    • 11.3 Warming-up
    • 11.4 Text comprehension
    • 11.5 Language learning
    • 11.6 Wriiting skill appreciation
    • 11.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 11.8 Exercises
  • 12 A Fundamental Technique in Handling People
    • 12.1 Objectives
    • 12.2 Background information
    • 12.3 Warming-up
    • 12.4 Text comprehension
    • 12.5 Language learning
    • 12.6 Writing skill appreciation
    • 12.7 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 12.8 Exercises
Writing skill appreciation
  • 1 Essay
  • 2 Irony

1. Some information about the literary genre "essay":

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-an-essay-p3-1691774


Please click on the above link or file to read the passage. Make sure you have grasped the key information and prepare yourselves for the  following questions, which will be discussed in class:

1). Who first adopted the term "essay" in the 16th century? 

      How did Huxley describe the "essay" as a literary genre?

2). What is the distinction between an "essay" and an "article"?

3). Post-Montaigne,  the essay split into two distinct modalities. What were they?

4). Typically, what is the voice of an essay? That is, who is speaking in an essay?

5). Where does the drama of an essay lie?

6). Based on this passage, what is a tentative definition of an "essay"?

2. ON the following 2 webpages, you can learn how to write a descriptive essay by yourself. You must learn it carefully and write down the key information in your notebook.

How to Write a Descriptive Essay (wikihow 上的文章）

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1p4411Q7Xs?p=14 （Bilibili 上的4分钟小视频）


3. Extended reading about the literary genre "essay":