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大学思辨英语说明文写作 language and identity答案

Activity 5

Read Text A and Text B and find more examples of concrete

language and figurative language. Then discuss their functions with your

partner.

Activity 6

The following sentences are developed from the sentence Sheila

replied,“I don’tknow where he is.”With different concrete details, Sheila

becomes different kindsof s with your partner your

understanding of what kind of personSheila is in each context.

1) Sheila rolled her eyes and sighed loudly, then threw up her hands

in exasperation and replied curtly, “I don’t know where he is.”

Sheila was quick-tempered.

2) Staring blankly out of the window, Sheila exhaled softly, closed

her eyes for a moment and replied, “I don’t know where he is.”

Sheila was gentle.

3) Sheila stared at her mother, teary-eyed, shuddering with fear, and

sobbingly replied, “I don’t know where he is.”

Sheila was timid /fearful.

4) Sheila continued to pass the items over the scanner, staring down

at the counter, and without even looking at the customer, replied

indifferently, “I don’t know where he is.”

Sheila was impolite.

Activities 7-8

Suggestions for instructors:

These two activities would help students to practice the

characterization skills as well as characterization through concrete

and/or figurative suggest that the teacher could ask

students to work on the two activities themselves first. If in class, the

teacher could ask students to select one task from each activity and work

in pair about 10 minutes. Then the teacher could ask students to share

their work and arrange the whole class to appreciate their writing.

More examples for Activity 8

The old woman looked old and sad.

A.

When I came out of the train, I heard someone sobbing. I headed

towards the direction whereby the sobbing came from. I spotted an old

woman with wrinkled skin and silver hair. She had teeth that had

yellowed with age. She also looked miserable and gloomy. The old

woman was sitting in a humid corner whereby no one cared about her.

As I went closer to her, I could see tears streaming down her face. I

realized that she was hunched-back. I could tell from her appearance

that she was a burden to her family.

B.

The frail-looking lady inched forward like she only had a limited

space to move her feet. From a far distance, I could see her wrinkled skin

and her teeth that had yellowed with age. She looked cheerless with

sunken eyes and cheeks. Her sinewy hands looked like she had worked

hard for many years. She looked really feeble and seemed like she could

not even swat a fly without missing it. Her silvery hair was no longer

bright and shiny, but instead it was dull. Her face was gloomy and her

smile was gone. She hunched her back and took a couple of steps

forward. She looked up in dismay and sighed.

If time permits, the instructor can ask students to work in groups and

list five ways to show that a person is sad, or angry or happy.

For example:

On entering the door I remembered the doll I had broken. I felt my

way to the hearth and picked what I had done, and for the first time I felt

repentance and sorrow.—The Story of My Life —The Diamond Necklace

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She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s

arms.—The Story of an Hour

After Harry Potter’s parents were killed, baby Harry was put onto the

doorsteps of his uncle and aunt which made Hagrid, Professor

McGonagall and Dumbledore sad:

For a full minute the three of them stood and looked at the little

bundle; —Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry.– (Fred was killed

and Hermione was sad, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

Hermione Before Harry could say or do anything, she tucked the

enormous ran toward the staircase to the girls’ dormitories and out of

sight.—Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

face as low as possible, wiping them off on his robes, pretending to

do up his shoelace, so that Lupin wouldn't see.–Harry Potter and the

Prisoner of Azkaban

“You may rest assured that she will be punished,” Mr. Crouch

added coldly.

“M-m-master…” Winky stammered, looking up at Mr. Crouch,

“M-m-master, p-p-please…”—Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

—Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Master Barty, you bad boy!” whispered Winky, tears trickling

between her fingers.

—Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire