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Advanced English

Unit 11 But What’s Dictionary For?

Teaching Points • I. Background information • II. Introduction to the passage • III. Text analysis • IV. Rhetorical devices • V. Questions for discussion

I. Background Information • 1.Abraham Lincoln • 2.Civil Rights Movement • 3.Leonard Bloomfield

II. Introduction to the Passage

Introduction to the Passage • 2.The purpose of a piece of objective description: • ---to record and reproduce a true picture with opinions and emotions of the author excluded

Introduction to the Passage • 3. Ways of developing a piece of objective description: • ---to begin with a brief general picture, divide the object into parts and organize the detailed description in order of space

III . Effective Writing Skills • 1. making effective use of specific words • 2.grasping the skill of outline writing

IV . Rhetorical Devices 1. metonymy • 2. synecdoche • 3. sarcasm • 4. alliteration

V. Text Analysis

VI . Special Difficulties • 1.identifying figures of speech • 2.translating some sentences • 3.paraphrasing some sentences • 4.outline requirements

VII . Questionsfor Discussion • 1. What critical views did the popular press express on the publication of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary • 2.How much effort and money was spent on the making of this dictionary? • 3.Why are new dictionaries needed? • 4.What does the writer say about spelling and pronunciation? • 5.Has the Third New International Dictionary any faults?

VIII. Exercises • P.

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