1、Lesson One Face to Face with Hurricane Camille第1页，共35页。Gulfport This sailboat washed ashore in front of the First Baptist Church 第2页，共35页。Gulfport-Gulfports new$160,000 Recreation Center,it had been open less than a month 第3页，共35页。One of the many homes along the Mississippi Gulf Coast that were lost
2、 during Hurricane Camille 第4页，共35页。The destruction of Hurricane Katrina第5页，共35页。第6页，共35页。NEW ORLEANS(Aug.29,2005)-Flooded roadways can be seen as the Coast Guard conducts initial Hurricane damage assessment overflights here during late August 2005.第7页，共35页。第8页，共35页。第9页，共35页。George Stewart,57,a New O
3、rleans evacuee,arrived at the Wesley Methodist Center Wednesday,after walking a two-day,85-mile journey from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.第10页，共35页。The detailed study of the text Introductory paragraphs 1-6-time-place-background -conflict:man VS hurricanes/nature-character:John Koshak第11页，共35页。Paragra
4、ph 1There are two cities of There are two cities of Gulfport in the U.S.The one Gulfport in the U.S.The one mentioned in the text is in mentioned in the text is in Mississippi,which is often Mississippi,which is often visited by hurricane.The visited by hurricane.The other is in Florida.other is in
5、Florida.第12页，共35页。第13页，共35页。Q.for Para.2 and 3:Why did John Koshak decide to stay and face the dangers of a devastating hurricane?1.He is a self-employed businessman Magna product-the name of his companyimplication:How great the loss it would be if the house was destroyed.2.His present house was in
6、a better condition than his former house.第14页，共35页。Demolish:to destroy completelydemolish,destroy,raze,annihilateDestroy is a general word with few overtones beyond its emphasis on force and thoroughness.Demolish and raze are generally applied to big or substantial things,such as buildings or other
7、edifices.A building is demolished if smashed to pieces and razed if leveled to the ground.Demolish,unlike raze,is often used figuratively of the reduction of any complex whole to ruins.Raze is used almost invariably of buildings or their remains.Annihilate is the most extreme word in this list,and l
8、iterally means to reduce to nothingness.As more commonly used,however，it denotes a severe degree of damage to a thing or person.An army may annihilate an enemy force by so damaging it as to render it incapable of further offensive or defensive action,but without literally removing all traces of its
9、existence.A debater may be said to annihilate his opponent if he defeats him decisively.第15页，共35页。More examples of blendingboatel(boat+hotel)brunch (breakfast+lunch)chunnel (channel+tunnel)slurb (slum+suburb)slanguage (slang+language)sitcom(situation+comedy)cafetorium (cafe+auditorium)talkathon (tal
10、k+marathon)masscult (mass+culture)comsat(communications+satellite)第16页，共35页。How is the description of the elder Koshak different from that of young Koshak?The elder Koshak is gruff,which implies roughness or surliness but does not necessarily suggest rudeness.Thats why it is not contradictory with“w
11、armhearted”.Comment on the composure of an old man in his 60s.第17页，共35页。Paragraph 4 batten down:to fastenwith boards of wood ride out:to keep floating till the end of;to come safely through trouble or difficult things without taking any violent action How to understand the metaphor in Para.4?第18页，共3
12、5页。Paragraph 6 scud:to race along swiftly(esp.used of clouds)the rising wind:wind that is getting stronger and stronger sit out:to stay until the end of sth.Vietnam War lasted from 1959 to 1975.U.S.involvement escalated in the early 1960s and combat units were deployed beginning in 1965.Involvement
13、peaked in 1968.第19页，共35页。Paragraph 6 Q.What is the function of the dash?第20页，共35页。Paragraph 7 As the wind mounted to a roar:the sound of the wind gets louder and louder as the force of the wind increases,reaching the strength of a hurricane.第21页，共35页。Paragraph 8 Windows disintegrated:windows broke i
14、nto pieces.decay,rot,spoil,molder,decompose,disintegrate Decay implies gradual,often natural,deterioration from a normal or sound condition.Rot refers to the decay of organic,esp.vegetable,matter caused by bacteria,fungi,etc.Spoil is the common informal word for the decay of foods.Molder suggests a
15、slow,progressive,crumbling decay.Disintegrate implies the breaking of something into parts of fragments so that the wholeness of the original is destroyed.Decompose suggests the breaking up or separation of something into its component elements.It is also a somewhat euphemistic substitute for rot.第2
16、2页，共35页。the French doors 第23页，共35页。Paragraph 10-12 Q.What are the features of the sentences in these paragraphs?What are their functions?Q.Why did the children“scramble”(Para.12)?第24页，共35页。Paragraph 13-14 Q.Why did the house“shudder”?on the verge of panic(Para.14):Verge is an extreme terminating lin
17、e or edge:the suns afterglow on the verge of the horizon.Figuratively it indicates a point at which something is likely to begin or to happen:an explorer on the verge of a great discovery.Brink denotes the edge of a steep place:stood on the brink of the cliff.In an extended sense it indicates the li
18、kelihood or imminence of a sudden change:on the brink of falling in love.第25页，共35页。Paragraph 16-17 Q.Why did Grandpas voice lack its usual gruffness?Q.Why did John feel a crushing guilt?Q.Why is“You”capitalized?第26页，共35页。lap(Para.17):1.To take up drink or food with the tongue;to drink or feed by lic
19、king up something.The dogs by the River Niluss side,being thirsty,lap hastily as they run along the shore.Sir K.Digby.2.To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.I heard the ripple washing in the reeds,And the wild water lapping on the crag.Tennyson.第27页，共35页。Paragraph 18
20、-19 Study these words in these two paragraphs:swipe,skim,shoot out and seize.Analyze the diction.maroon(Para.18):term for a fugitive slave in the 17th and 18th cent.in the West Indies and Guiana,or for a descendant of such slaves.They were called marron by the French and cimarrn by the Spanish.Forme
21、rly much used in the West Indies and South America,the term later came to be used with particular reference to certain blacks living in W Jamaica.The maroons fled when the British began their conquest of the island from the Spanish in 1655 and maintained a hostile independence until 1739,when a trea
22、ty granting them lands of their own and virtual independence was concluded.第28页，共35页。Paragraph 19-20 Q.What is the function of these two paragraphs?Are they coherent with the whole?第29页，共35页。Paragraph 21Q.Why did Grandmother Koshak“implore”the children to sing?beg,crave,beseech,implore,entreat,impor
23、tune These verbs mean to make an earnest request.Beg and crave mean to ask in a serious and sometimes humble manner,especially for something one cannot claim as a right:I begged her to forgive me.The attorney craved the courts indulgence.Beseech emphasizes earnestness and often implies anxiety:Be si
24、lent,we beseech you.Implore intensifies the sense of urgency and anxiety:The child implored his father not to be angry.Entreat pertains to persuasive pleading:“Ask me no questions,I entreat you”(Charles Dickens).Importune adds the sense of persistent and sometimes irksome pleading:The foundation was
25、 importuned by fundraisers.第30页，共35页。The Richelieu Apartments 第31页，共35页。Run-on sentences A run-on sentence consists of two or more main clauses that are run together without proper punctuation.第32页，共35页。Sentence fragments A sentence fragment is a group of words which sounds like a sentence but does
26、not express a complete thought.Sometimes it has a subject or verb missing.Sometimes it is a phrase or a subordinate clause instead of a complete sentence.The one type of sentence fragment which may be acceptable at least in conversation is a fragmentary response.第33页，共35页。Dangling modifier A danglin
27、g modifier is a phrase or clause which says something different from what is meant because words are left out.The meaning of the sentence,therefore,is left“dangling”.第34页，共35页。Faulty parallelism Faulty parallelism is an error in which two or more parts of a sentence are parallel in meaning,but not parallel in form.第35页，共35页。
