华东理工大学 高级英语 授课教案 Book 2 unit 1.pptVIP

Advanced EnglishUnit 1 Book 2 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille Menu Hurricane Hurricane Betsy Salvation Army Salvation Army Red Cross Face to Face with Hurricane Camille is a piece of narration. Simply defined, narration is the telling of a story. A good story has a beginning, a middle and an end, even though it may start in the middle of at some other point in the action and move backward to the earlier happenings. As the conflict develops, suspense and tension increase until the highest point or the climax of the struggle is reached. After the climax, the story quickly moves to a conclusion, which is sometimes called a denouement. Face to Face with Hurricane Camille describes the heroic struggle of Koshaks and their friends against the forces of a devastating hurricane. The story focuses mainly on action but the writer also clearly and sympathetically delineates the characters in the story. The hero or the protagonist in the story is John Koshak, Jr., and the antagonist is the hurricane. The first 6 paragraphs are introductory paragraphs, giving the time, place and background of the conflict— man versus hurricanes. These paras also introduce the characters in the story. The writer builds up and sustains the suspense in the story and gives order and logical movement to the sequence of happenings by describing in detail and vividly the incidents showing how the Kashaks and their friends struggled against each onslaught of the hurricane. The writer describes these actions in the order of their actions in the order of their occurrence. This natural time sequence or chronological order holds the story together. The story reaches its climax in paragraph 27 and from there on the story moves rapidly to its conclusion. In the last para the writer states his theme or the purpose behind his story in the reflection of Grandmother Koshak: “We lost practically all our possessions, but the family came through it. When I think of that, I realize we lost nothing importa