1,2,3,caravanserai,4,caravanserai entrance,5,6,7,Pre-Course Questions,How are your performances in the exams taken last semester? Are you satisfied? Why or why not?,Which course interests you the most? Why?,Did you perform well in that course? Why or why not?,8,Attendance 3% 2. Participation in class 3% 3. Assignments 4% 4. Oral Exam 30% 5. Written Exam 60%,Usual Procedure of Each Lesson,1. Warm-up Exercises 2. Pre-text Discussion 3. Detailed Study of the Text 1) Back-ground Information 2) Explanation of difficult language points 4. Question-time for the students and the teacher 5. Discussions about the Text 6. Post-text Exercises,Term Exam,9,Lesson One,The Middle Eastern Bazaar,10,How many markets are mentioned in the writing? What are they?,What kind of economy do you think they represent?,What kind of writing do you think this belongs to narration, exposition, description or argumentation?,What is the overall tone of this writing? Can you define it?,agro-pastoral economy 农牧经济,Pre-Text Questions,11,I. Background Information,1. The Middle East,2. Bazaar,II. Detailed Study of the Text,III. Bird-View Study of the Text,IV. Discussion,V. Assignments,1. Structure,2. Writing Style and Techniques,12,“historical present”,Gothic-arched gateway,you,?,point of view,glare,not so agreeable and welcome as “bright sunlight”,mans power of seeing or eyesight,eye,In front of the gateway there is a big, open square. It is hot there and the brightness of the sunlight is most disagreeable. But when you enter the gateway, you come to a long, narrow, dark street with some sort of a roof over it and it is cool inside.,You pass from the heat and glarea cool, dark cavern,13,ones way,to make ones way cautiously through,thread,means/ manner,ones way,14,throngs,crowd,stronger implication of movement and of pushing,stronger implication of density,The crowd jammed the hall.,Throngs circulated through the street.,0.3048 meter,?,12 feet 3.66 meters,15,1,2,3,small, open-fronted shop, table etc. used by a trader in a market, on a street,stall,people of every conceivable age, nationality; buildings of every conceivable shape,conceivable,loud, confused noise that continues,din,The blaze of light and the appalling din of the orchestra had almost dazed Elizabeth.,16,n. + -en = adj.,adj. + -en = v.,the vaulted mud-brick walls and roof,away adv.,Why is the cloth-marked muted?,penetrate?,flattened by treading; which becomes flat and hard because it is much traveled,beaten hard by countless feet,the buyers overcome by the grave-like atmosphere, also speak in slow, deliberate and steady tones,the buyers, overwhelmed by, follow suit,17,scatter:,to cause to separate and go in different directions,spread:,to distribute over a surface in a layer,over,Absolute Construction,order(s) of the day:,the characteristic/most significant aspect /activity; prevailing state of things,narrow down,narrowto,beat down,beat sb. up,?,down,Volatility is the order of the day in the stock market.,veiled women,18,a copper-smiths store,19,onomatopoeia,buzz, murmur,a fairyland of,tinkling, banging, clashing,a + n.1 + of + n.2,n.2 is (like) n. 1,Its easy to get yourself lost in a maze of narrow winding streets in that city.,hammer away,continuously; constantly,Before us stood a little shrimp of a fellow.,She is a kitten of a girl.,You guys live in a palace of a house.,brazier,20,take a hand (in) (doing) sth.( with sth. ),help, play a part (in) sth. (with) sth.,Dont fool around, come and take a hand in the cleaning.,a tiny apprentice blows a big charcoal fire with a huge leather bellows worked by a string attached to his big toe,fire,bellows,string,which is,which is,work/laugh/mutter/ away,Weve been toiling away at the project for over a year. Now you tell us that we have to hand it over to somebody else? Thats ridiculous!,21,varied,different,Elsewhere there is the Market 1, with. Then there is the Market 2, with; and the Market 3, where The Market 4, the Market 5 and the Market 6 lie elsewhere,you have a whole variety of carpets with vivid color, woven in different ways, having designs typical of different regions. Some of the designs are clear-cut, well-marked and simple; while others are very complicated, showing all the details yet having all the different parts combined in a pleasing and satisfactory arrangement,with its profusion of rich colours,yet harmonious,22,the streets that pierce the bazaar from all directions and lead towards all directions cut the bazaar into small sections like the honeycomb,honeycomb,n.,v.,vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar,a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard,youll catch a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard through a doorway,?,a brief, incomplete view or look,glimpse,mosque caravanserai,23,It is a vast somber cavern of a room,It is a room that is like a vast somber cavern.,linseed,a _ leather bellows; _ kno