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Teaching Outline Background information Pre-reading questions Passage analysis Style and structure Spellings Word derivations Language points Useful expressions Weekly quiz

Pre-reading Questions 1. What does the\Green revolution refer to? 2. Why did various writers predict that there would be widespread famine? 3. Name some countries with serious food shortages 4. What is \miracle rice?

1. In what physical condition is the writer's grandmother? with her? 3. Is she happy Why or why not? 4 Are retirement homes all bad? 5. What did the writer's mother decide to do when Grandma could not live on her own? 6. How are elderly people treated in many cultures? 7. Why are old people unhappy in a nursing home? 8. What is the writer's opinion concerning the treatment of aging people? 9. What is your own opinion concerning the old people n general?

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Questions on the text Did people have to attend on machines hundreds of years ago? What happened to industry about a hundred years ago? What is the operation of automatic machines based on?

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Introduction Course: English Grammar Lecturer: Rongcheng Pan Object: English Major05-5&6 Textbook: English Grammar Course (Fourth Edition) by Zhang Zhenbang, Shanghai Foreign

修饰(一):词组中的修饰语 修饰”( Modification)是扩展基本句型使之成为 生动的、能表达丰富思想的重要语法手段。 我们知道,基本句型多半是一些不带修饰语的 骨架,而实际使用中的句子则像活人一样总都 是有血有肉的,带有各式各样的修饰语,比如 说, Rain fell这样一个句式,从结构上看,是个 完整的SV句型,但它并没有表达多少意思