Contemporary College EnglishContemporary College EnglishIntensive Reading IIntensive Reading IWhat is Intensive Reading? vIntensive reading is comprehensive but not all embracingvIntensive reading is training of all basic language skills thorough, systematic, sustained, all-around traininglistening, reading, speaking, writing, translating skillsvIntensive reading training develops through different stages, each stage with its own emphasisvIntensive reading is not evaluated by the course alone; its assessment has to be done in relation to the overall development of all the basic skills in all the courses from Prof. Yang Limins SpeechObjectives of First-year Intensive ReadingAt a macro levelTo help students transfer from secondary level EFL learning to tertiary levelTo help students become conscious of the discrepancy between language knowledge and language useTo help students develop their ability of using what they have learned in middle school through classroom teaching and all kinds of language activities organization of learning in terms of materials, requirements, class performance, assessment, teachers role, and their own role how these elements could be different now Objectives of First-year Intensive ReadingTo introduce students to some new language phenomena To help students become aware of socio-cultural issues in the learning of language To help students appreciate language from the stylistic perspective Objectives for First-year Intensive ReadingAt a micro levelTo help enlarge students vocabularyTo help students both clarify and consolidate grammar knowledge, particularly in terms of useTo help students further develop basic reading skills To help students learn to retell and summarizeTo help students realize the importance of critical thinking in language learning Students are expected to learn about 2,000 new words in the first year - collocations, phrases, verb patterns, word-formation, synonyms, acronyms, etc. Half a DayHalf a DayNaguib Mahfouz A PoemFirst Day at School Its hard to explain, the way I feel; A place unknown but is so real!A soft voice welcomes me to the place,I look up to see a ladys smiling face.A PoemIm led to a table that is covered with shapes,A young girl my age says Hi I am Grace,I am three, but soon will be four. I am a big girl and not afraid any more.A PoemI forever trying new things and learning everyday.And the best thing is I having fun while I play!A PoemDays go on and I encounter many new experiences and friends,I feel like Im on a roller coaster, which never seems to end.A PoemToday I wrote my name for the very first time,My teacher hugs me and gives the most gracious smile.I feel full of pride; confident I can do anything if I try.A PoemIf you come to Kindy you are sure to find inside,Happy smiles from children that continually shine! Julie Mc MillanLove Your LifeWarm upFirst day of school Warm UpFirst day of school In 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Geraldine Counts and three other students became the first African American students to attend the previously all white Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Warm UpFirst day of school StanfordWarm-upvWas it hard for you to leave home for the first time in your life? Who saw you off at the railway station? Who came to school with you? What did he/she day to you?vHow did you feel the first day your arrived at university? Did you feel like a stranger? Did you find the university just as you had imagined? In what way was it different?vDo you find life at college rich and colorful or tedious and boring? Do you have trouble adjusting to life here?vWhat are your expectations of university? What kind of changes do you think it will bring upon your life? uuBorn in 1911, educated at Cairo Born in 1911, educated at Cairo University, died in University, died in Aug. 31, 2006.Aug. 31, 2006.uuWrote Wrote short stories and historical novelsshort stories and historical novels before before WWIIWWIIuuTurned to write Turned to write novels of social realismnovels of social realism after WWII after WWIIuuLater works Later works combined realism & symbolismcombined realism & symbolism uuA prolific writerA prolific writer: : no fewer than 30 novels, more than no fewer than 30 novels, more than 100 short stories, and more than100 short stories, and more than 200 articles. 200 articles. Naguib Mahfouz His WorksThe Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (first published 1957)The Time and Place and Other Stories, 1991His InfluenceuThe first Arab Writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature 1988, The Cairo Trilogy (1957) uDepicts realistically the social and political life in Egypt uHis classical and lucid style rejuvenated literary Arabic without recourse to colloquialisms a Dickens of the Cairo cafs and the Balzac of Egypt.Palace Walk 宫间街宫间街Palace of Desire 思宫街思宫街Sugar Street 甘露街甘露街Lesson 1 Half a Day Plot: a little boys first time to go to school Setting: on the way to school at school on the way home Protagonist/Narrator: “I” the boy in the story Theme of the story: what do you think?A Short Story