英语写作I(zxm2)1.pptVIP

2011-Simon-GDUBS 英语写作I English Writing Simon Xiangming Zhang gzzxm168@126.com School of Foreign Studies, Guangdong University of Business Studies September, 2011 Warm-up Questions Q1: What do we call the sentence which tells the main idea of a paragraph? Topic sentence. Q2: What do we call the sentence which tells the main idea of a passage? Thesis statement. Q3: How many kinds of meaning does a word have in your mind? Warm-up Questions Q3: How many kinds of meaning does a word have in your mind? Denotation-denotative meaning Connotation-connotative meaning Affection-affective meaning Collocation-collocative meaning 情感义，内涵义，外延义，搭配义 Warm-up Questions Denotation-denotative meaning外延义 Connotation-connotative meaning内涵义 Affection-affective meaning情感义 Collocation-collocative meaning搭配义 Unit Objectives recognize multiple meanings a word may have identify false friends in English and learn to choose the correct word for an idea learn to avoid making errors in subject-verb agreement write a simple note Part I Warm-up activities Write a short paragraph about AIDS in 10 minutes. AIDS爱滋病, 获得性免疫功能丧失综合症 Acquired Immure Deficiency Syndrome 1. Do you think AIDS is a horrible disease? 2. How horrible is it? 3. Are you afraid of AIDS patients? 4. What do you think of them? 5. Do you think that AIDS patients are threat to public health? Part II Focus fat, plump, and portly Their denotative meaning is similar; they could all be used to describe someone who is overweight. Fill in the following blanks: I respect my father/teacher very much. He is _____________. The doorkeeper of our dorm-building is quite amiable, he/she is ________. That criminal is _______. Part II Focus fat, plump, and portly I respect my father/teacher very much. He is __ portly ___. The doorkeeper of our dorm-building is quite amiable, he/she is _ plump __. That criminal is __fat__. Portly: a more or less dignified and imposing appearanc