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1、 EXPECTED DUTY REPORT 1. What is descriptive writing? 2. Why do we use descriptive writing? 3. How do we write description? 4. Sample analysis Providing information about 5 “w”s; Displaying a writers impression of a specific person, thing or place through the senses of sight, taste, smell, hearing a
2、nd touch; organizing the information logically by using words/phrases of space and time as transitions. SnapdragonGrommet dress House of matchesSatin bonnet 1. A descriptive essay is generally developed through sensory details. The impressions of ones senses sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
3、Example 1:describing a place Telling: The room was vacant. Showing: opened with a resounding echo that seemed to fill the house. once attached flowed freely in the air as the open door brought light to a well worn . gave notice to the peeling on the walls and to the silhouettes（輪廓） once covered by p
4、ictures. The new gave life to a stuffiness that entrapped the room. Faded and torn white covered once new now drowning in dust. opened with a that seemed to fill the house. Sense hearing once attached flowed freely in the air as the open door brought light to a well worn .Sense sight gave notice to
5、the peeling on the walls and to the silhouettes（輪廓） once covered by pictures.Sense sight The new gave life to a stuffiness that entrapped the room.Sense smell Faded and torn white covered once new now drowning in dust.Sense sight opened with a resounding echo that seemed to fill the house. once atta
6、ched flowed freely in the air as the open door brought light to a well worn . gave notice to the peeling on the walls and to the silhouettes（輪廓） once covered by pictures. The new gave life to a stuffiness that entrapped the room. Faded and torn white covered once new now drowning in dust. Senses use
7、d: Hearing-sight-smell-sight How to develop an essay of description effectively? . E.g. describing a snowfall- let your reader know if it is ; Example 2 A boy with (tattered, torn) clothes rushed through the street, whose footsteps several blocks away. A fair-haired boy runs through the morning stre
8、et all the way. ( )( ) Use details specific adjectives, adverbs, and vivid verbs, consistent with the dominant impression. Brief Introduction to the Novel Title: A Christmas Carol Author: Charles Dickson Plot: The story tells of Ebenezer Scrooges ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation af
9、ter the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Example 3: A description of Mr. Scrooge in A Christmas Caroll The cold within him his old features, his nose, his cheek, his gait; his eyes , his thin lips ; and spoke out in his voice. l A rime w
10、as on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didnt thaw it one degree at Christmas.l 他內(nèi)心的冷酷使老朽的軀體蒙上一層寒霜，凍傷了他尖挺的鼻梁，凍皺了他的雙頰、凍僵了他步伐，并使他雙眼通紅、薄唇發(fā)紫，連他的沙啞的聲音所說出來的話語，也十分冰冷刺骨。l他的頭頂、眉骨及瘦削的下巴上，都覆蓋著白皚皚的寒霜。那股寒
11、意總是與他如影隨形，即使是盛夏，他也可以讓辦公室的氣溫降至冰點，甚至是圣誕節(jié)，情形依舊如此。 Word Choice Help P34-35 sight words touch words hearing words smell words taste words Use figures of speech to make the description more powerful. Common figures of speech are simile (like/as), metaphor and personification and so forth(p24). Example 4:
12、A description of Mr. Scrooge in A Christmas Carol Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret and self-contained, and
13、solitary as an oyster. 噢！但石顧己可是一個要從石頭里榨出油來的人哪！石顧己啊！一個又擠、有撈、有刮、又貪、又摳的老奸巨滑！ 他猶如有硬又尖的打火石，沒有任何鋼棒可以打出慷慨的火花；而且，他又宛若牡蠣一般神秘、封閉且孤僻。 Use examples. Example 5: A description of Mr. Scrooge in A Christmas Carol Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, My dear Scrooge, how are you? When
14、will you come to see me? No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was oclock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. 人 們 在 大 街 上 碰 到 石 顧 己 ， 從 不 會 和 顏 悅 色 地 向 他 寒 暄 ：親 愛 的 石 顧 己 ， 你 好 嗎 ？ 什 么 時 候 你 要 來 我 家 坐 坐
15、 ？ 沒 有 乞 丐 會 向 他 乞 求 微 薄 的 施 舍 ， 也 沒 有 孩 童 會 詢 問 他時 間 ， 更 從 未 有 人 向 他 問 路 。 How to develop an essay of description effectively? Q: What impression have you formed on Mr. Scrooge? stingy, old, solitary, cold, hard, heartless, uncaring, unkind Comment: If you know the plot of the novel, you will reali
16、ze that Dickens has achieved his original purpose by portraying such a figure. The plot of the novel The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Scrooges business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge is established within the first chapter as a greedy and stingy businessman who has no p
17、lace in his life for kindness, compassion, charity, or benevolence. After being warned by Marleys ghost to change his ways, Scrooge is visited by three additional ghosts each in its turn who accompany him to various scenes with the hope of achieving his transformation. E.g. from start to destination
18、 from its source to the point at which it joins the river. P36 transitions = space 3. What impression do you have on the passage? 4. How is the passage organized? Spatial or chronological? 5. Retell and try to draw a picture of the passage. Introduction: the opening and the thesis statement( dominan
19、t impression and the points to be developed); background information, reason, cause, situation; begins with an anecdote, an example, a definition, or a question. Body: to describe in a spatial order or chronological order; transitional words or figurative language should be used. Conclusion: restate
20、 the dominant impression, reemphasize the points developed in the body or draw a summary. To write a successful descriptive essay: 1. concrete, sensory details of five senses to communicate its point; 2. no unrelated details; 3. show emotions: use more verbs, adverbs, and adjectives than nouns 4. ha
21、ve an attitude in the dominant impression unless objective. Dos and donts in a descriptive essay Page 29 Another example Gecko! Gecko! In downtown New York, at a somewhat trashy apartment, there lived a man named Howard. He was a young man, in his mid-twenties, and had a terrible fear of cockroaches
22、. Well if youve been to New York, and maybe live or stayed in a rundown hotel, you know how many cockroaches there are. Too many to count! Howie had just come home from work and was looking for a bit of relaxation. All he wanted to do was get a bowl of ice cream, sit down and read the newspaper. He
23、started raiding the messy cabinets and sink to look for a bowl and a spoon. He found the bowl, got out the ice cream and opened a drawer to get the spoon when, Surprise! Out jumps a big juicy cockroach. After jumping twenty feet in the air and grabbing a spoon out of the drawer, he sat down to calm
24、himself. God forsaken roaches! he yelled, while slowing his heartbeat, just as another cockroach crawled between his feet. Theres got to be something I can do to get rid of them. Just then, as he was getting his ice cream and reading ads in the paper, one specific ad caught his eye. Got Roaches? We
25、have a solution! Come down to Sams Pet Club today and get yourself the natural predator of the roaches, a Gecko! Howie had just come home from work and was looking for a bit of relaxation. All he wanted to do was get a bowl of ice cream, sit down and read the newspaper. He started raiding the messy
26、cabinets and sink to look for a bowl and a spoon. He found the bowl, got out the ice cream and opened a drawer to get the spoon when, Surprise! Out jumps a big juicy cockroach. After jumping twenty feet in the air and grabbing a spoon out of the drawer, he sat down to calm himself. God forsaken roac
27、hes! he yelled, while slowing his heartbeat, just as another cockroach crawled between his feet. Theres got to be something I can do to get rid of them. Just then, as he was getting his ice cream and reading ads in the paper, one specific ad caught his eye. Got Roaches? We have a solution! Come down
28、 to Sams Pet Club today and get yourself the natural predator of the roaches, a Gecko!“ What in the world? Howard thought. He read on: Thats right! A gecko! Follow the directions below to get your very own live cockroach eliminator! Then ask our friendly staff how to care for and what to do to get r
29、id of your cockroaches. Ya right. That gecko will probably eat me while I sleep. he said as yet another roach scuttled across the floor. He felt sick. He thought it was worth a try, so the very next day he followed the directions on the ad to the pet store. He asked about the geckos and the staff to
30、ld him what to do with a gecko and how much they were and, soon enough, he was driving home with his very own gecko. Great, he thought yet another little critter that is going to be loitering around in my house. He got home and did just as the woman at the store told him to do, and let the gecko go.
31、 He saw the gecko run under the refrigerator after the nearest cockroach it saw. Well, at least he is doing his job. he said after he heard the loud GECKO, GECKO, sound that geckos make when they swallow. Take a look at the following picture and come up with three to four sentences to develop The pi
32、zza is delicious. Note: 1. Use one dominant impression. 2. Try to explore the senses. 3. Use details. 2 Versions 1. As you see it, the colorful decorated salad brighten your eyes. The smell invades your nose that you cant help eating it. After a bite, the flavor of different kinds of fruits is fille
33、d with your mouth. It s just to melt as your tongue touches it. 2. The golden round pizza approves that it is done just now. Fresh vegetables is on it, attracting the customers attention, sending a message “taste me”. Touching my stomach, I think it requires the pizza in front of me. Sighed, I start
34、 to have the pizza to fit my stomach. The pizza was delicious. Steam rising up off the melted cheese made my mouth water. The first bite, my teeth sinking into the cheese through the tomato sauce and into the moist crust, made me chew and swallow rapidly. Even the cheese and tomato sauce, sticking to my fingertips, begged to be licked.Suggested Version l Read from page 32-39 and :Write the outline of each passage;Tell the thesis statement of each passage;Find out the figurative speech of each passage;l Write an essay entitled “My Mother” no less than 150 words.
英語專業(yè)寫作王星主編 unit 2 Descriptive_Essays
