新视野大学英语-2-读写教程

王振环

目录

  • 1 Unit 1 Language in mission
    • 1.1 Teaching objectives
    • 1.2 Pre-reading activities
    • 1.3 TED talk: Jay Walker谈世界英语热
    • 1.4 New  Words
      • 1.4.1 Quiz 1 for words
    • 1.5 Background Information
    • 1.6 Text A An impressive English lesson
    • 1.7 Text Learning 1：Understanding the text
    • 1.8 Structure analysis
    • 1.9 Text  Learning 2：Productive Patterns & Lexical Collocations
    • 1.10 Writing skills
    • 1.11 Useful expressions
    • 1.12 Text A 课文参考译文
  • 2 Unit 4 Dance with love
    • 2.1 Teaching objectives
    • 2.2 Pre-reading activity
    • 2.3 Background information
    • 2.4 New words
    • 2.5 Quiz 1 for words
    • 2.6 Text A College sweethearts
    • 2.7 Text learning 1: Understanding the text
    • 2.8 Text learning 2: Productive patterns and lexical collocations
    • 2.9 段落翻译参考答案
    • 2.10 Useful expressions
    • 2.11 Quiz 2 for expressions
    • 2.12 Structure analysis
    • 2.13 Writing skills
    • 2.14 Fast reading 1
    • 2.15 Fast reading 2
    • 2.16 Text A 课文参考译文
    • 2.17 Unit project
    • 2.18 Pride and Prejudice
  • 3 Unit 5 The money game
    • 3.1 Teaching Objectives
    • 3.2 Pre-reading activity 1
    • 3.3 Pre-reading activity 2
    • 3.4 New words
    • 3.5 Quiz 1 for words
    • 3.6 Background information
    • 3.7 Text A  Spend or save--The student’s dilemma
    • 3.8 Summary of the text
    • 3.9 Text learning 1: Understanding the text
      • 3.9.1 Structure
    • 3.10 Text learning 2: Productive patterns and lexical collocations
    • 3.11 Useful expressions
    • 3.12 Quiz 2 for expressions
    • 3.13 Banked cloze
    • 3.14 课后段落翻译
    • 3.15 Writing skills
    • 3.16 Fast Reading 1
    • 3.17 Fast Reading 2
    • 3.18 Unit Project
    • 3.19 Text A课文参考译文
    • 3.20 Can money buy happiness?
  • 4 Unit 7 Women: Making a difference
    • 4.1 Teaching objectives
    • 4.2 Pre-reading activities
    • 4.3 New words
    • 4.4 Background information
    • 4.5 Text A: Women at the management level
      • 4.5.1 Structure analysis
      • 4.5.2 Useful expressions
    • 4.6 Writing skills
    • 4.7 Text B A proud housemaker
  • 5 Unit 8 Human rights vs. animal rights
  • 6 四级真题
    • 6.1 Writing
    • 6.2 Reading comprehension
    • 6.3 Translation
Writing skills

Read the sample essay and see how the introduction, body, and conclusion are developed.

 


Topic:

Learning English grammar

Introduction:

Thesis statement: Now I think it is really fun to learn English grammar.

Body:

Example 1: Adding a comma could show an entire difference in meaning.

Example 2: A grammar mistake could make a world of difference in meaning.

Conclusion:

English grammar is truly a mysterious world of art.

 

Sample essay

During my middle school years, I was very allergic to English grammar. However, the two incidents I experienced later changed my view about learning English. Now I think it is really fun to learn English grammar.

 

It occurred while I was absorbed in the mysterious world of iPhone. My English teacher wrote two sentences on the blackboard: 1) The king would wear no clothes which make him appear differently from others; 2) The king would wear no clothes, which makes him appear differently from others. Glancing at the two sentences, I thought the teacher must have made a mistake because these two sentences were the same. Suddenly, the class burst into a loud laughter. Only then did I realize that adding a comma could show a big difference in meaning.

 

Afterward, something interesting happened to me again. At the beginning of my English class one day, the teacher returned our homework assignment. To my surprise, my teacher had crossed out -ly in the sentence "I studied English hardly." "Isn't hardly an adverb?" I asked myself. Later, of course, I figured out what was wrong: an over-generalization! I was assuming every adjective added with -ly still maintains the meaning of that adjective. Not till then did I find out that hardly actually meant "almost not", so what I had written made a world of difference from what I wanted to say.

 

In conclusion, what I experienced enables me to understand English grammar is truly a mysterious world of art. How fun it is to learn English grammar!


Write an essay of no less than 150 words on the topic "English grammar, a headache to me". You can follow the outline given below.

Outline



Topic:

English grammar, a headache to me

Introduction:

Thesis statement: English grammar is a big headache to me.

Body:

Example: The difference between used to and be used to

Conclusion:

I'm allergic to learning English grammar.