英语记叙文写作

赫利强

目录

  • 1 Introduction
    • 1.1 Warm-up activities
    • 1.2 Introduction to teaching plan
    • 1.3 TEM-4 Writing
    • 1.4 Assignment
  • 2 UNIT 1-1  Life and Value
    • 2.1 Warm-up
    • 2.2 Critical thinking
    • 2.3 Narrative- Introduction
    • 2.4 Features
    • 2.5 Tips
    • 2.6 Case analysis
    • 2.7 Assignment
  • 3 UNIT 1-2  Description
    • 3.1 简介
    • 3.2 特点
    • 3.3 人物描写
    • 3.4 景物描写
    • 3.5 场面描写
    • 3.6 Assignment
  • 4 Unit 2-1  Characterization
    • 4.1 Warm-up
    • 4.2 Characters
    • 4.3 How to develop characters
    • 4.4 How to balance telling and showing
    • 4.5 Assignment
  • 5 UNIT 2-2  Language Study
    • 5.1 Warm-up
    • 5.2 Language Study
      • 5.2.1 词汇变化
      • 5.2.2 修辞运用
    • 5.3 Case analysis
    • 5.4 Assignment
  • 6 Unit 3-1 Setting
    • 6.1 Pre-class activity
    • 6.2 Learning the skills
    • 6.3 Assignment
  • 7 Unit 3-2 Case Analysis
    • 7.1 Warm-up
    • 7.2 Elements of setting
    • 7.3 Case analysis
    • 7.4 Assignment
  • 8 TEM-4 Writing
    • 8.1 历年写作真题
    • 8.2 专四写作技巧
  • 9 Unit 4-1 Point of View
    • 9.1 Pre-class work
    • 9.2 Learning the skills-point of view
    • 9.3 Case analysis
    • 9.4 Assignment
  • 10 Unit 4-2 Case Analysis
    • 10.1 Case analysis
    • 10.2 Shift in tense
    • 10.3 Assignment
  • 11 Unit 5-1 Theme
    • 11.1 Warm-up
    • 11.2 Learning the skills
    • 11.3 The Stages of Writing
    • 11.4 Assignment
  • 12 Unit 5-2 Language study
    • 12.1 figure of speech
    • 12.2 Assignment
  • 13 Unit 6-1 Plot
    • 13.1 Review
    • 13.2 Learning the skills
    • 13.3 Case analysis
    • 13.4 Assignment
  • 14 Unit 6-2 Language study
    • 14.1 Unity
    • 14.2 Coherence
Learning the skills

ACTIVITY 3 :

1. What is setting？

The settings of the merchant (Beauty’s father) were in Reading the first four paragraphs, ask students to underline the words or phrases that indicate the setting such as “the forest, deep snow, bitter frost, only shelter was the hollow trunk of a great tree, howling of the wolves, falling snow covered up every path, rough, slippery”

When he started to encounter the magical world:

“a splendid castle, no snow had fallen in the avenue of orange trees, covered with flowers and fruits, several splendidly furnished rooms, pleasant warmth of the air, nobody in all this vast and splendid palace, deep silence reigned everywhere, empty rooms and galleries, a room where a clear fire was burning, a couch was drawn up cozily before it…”

2. What is the relationshipbetween the setting and sensory details？

Activity 4:

1) What is the setting?

An early morning in Boston.

2) What words and phrases describe SOUNDS in this place?

Sound: (gulls) scream and quarrel, (cocks ) cried,(hens) clucking, (horses) whinnied, (bells)

cling-clanged.

3) What can you TOUCH in this place?

Touch: (gulls) icy (eyes).

4) What can you SEE in this place?

Sight: Gulls, cocks, cats, horses, cows, the morning sunlight, bells.

5) What can you TASTE in this place?

Taste: salty air.

6) What can you SMELL in this place?

Smell: the first dead fish, first bits of garbage, all kinds of animal smells.


3. What is therelationship between the setting and characters？

Activity 6:

1)What is the setting? What are the elements in this setting?

The woods behind her house. 

The elements of the setting include locale of the story :  (near her home vs. deeper into the woods); 

time : (summer morning); 

mood and atmosphere : (beautiful, light, good, vs. strangeness, gloomy, damp air, close and deep silence).

2) How does the setting influence the characterization and the plot?

The beautiful and peaceful part of the woods Myop explored was a sharp contrast with what she found deep in the woods—a man’s skeleton, probably a black male who was lynched.

3) What does the author mean by saying “And the summer was over”?

The ten-year-old black girl lost her innocence when she witnessed this harsh scene and realized the racism so close to her.

4. Ask the students to free write for 10 minutes about a setting that they are interested in and discuss with in groups about their writing before introducing how to craft an effective setting by offering sensory details.