Active reading 2:Navigation Conveying messages through repetition The same message ("life is short;act now")is also repeated over and over again by using images. hood The reaper of death Image: the hooded,scythe-carrying, bringer-of-the-last-breath scythe takes our last breath More
Active reading 2: Navigation Conveying messages through repetition More The same message (“life is short; act now”) is also repeated over and over again by using images. scythe takes our last breath Image: the hooded, scythe-carrying, bringer-of-the-last-breath The reaper of death
Active reading 2:Navigation Conveying messages through repetition Decide what the underlined images refer to. We already know how the story ends.We get to choose the meat of the story. 2.So,all those plans that you have on the back burner. 3.there isn't a tomorrow.There's only a promissory note that we are often not in a position to cash. 4.you'll have nothing to show for it but regret and a rear-view mirror full of "could haves". 5.Fill your bowl. 6.The right time is the cheque that's permanently in the post,it never arrives.It's the girl who keeps us standing at the corner of the Co-op looking like a spanner
Active reading 2: Navigation Conveying messages through repetition 1. We already know how the story ends. We get to choose the meat of the story. 2. So, all those plans that you have on the back burner. 3. . there isn’t a tomorrow. There’s only a promissory note that we are often not in a position to cash. 4. . you’ll have nothing to show for it but regret and a rear-view mirror full of “could haves” . 5. Fill your bowl. 6. The right time is the cheque that’s permanently in the post, it never arrives. It’s the girl who keeps us standing at the corner of the Co-op looking like a spanner. Decide what the underlined images refer to
Active reading 2:Navigation Conveying messages through repetition 1.We already know how the story ends.The prologue and epilogue are already typed in.All that's left is the middle bit and that's down to us.We get to choose the meat of the story.(Para 3,Line 3 to the end) the main body of the story the main part of our life Back
Conveying messages through repetition Active reading 2: Navigation the main body of the story & the main part of our life Back 1. We already know how the story ends. The prologue and epilogue are already typed in. All that’s left is the middle bit and that’s down to us. We get to choose the meat of the story. (Para 3, Line 3 to the end)
Active reading 2:Navigation Conveying messages through repetition 2.So,all those plans that you have on the back burner, you know,the great things you're going to do with your life "when the time is right"?(Para 4,Line 1-3) plans which you have postponed or kept waiting as a low priority,as if they are simmering gently but not really cooking on the back part of the cooker. 我们经常说做事要看轻重缓急，有的时候不得不把正在做的事或计 划要做的事先搁置一边。美国人把这叫做：to put on the back burner。ourner在这儿的是指做饭的炉子。美国的厨房里，炉台 上一般都有四个炉口，前面两个，后面两个。人们往往把能很快煮 好的东西放在前面炉子上煮，把一些要慢慢煮的东西放在后面的炉 子上。这就是to put on the back burner这个俗语的来源。 6@s
Conveying messages through repetition Active reading 2: Navigation 2. So, all those plans that you have on the back burner, you know, the great things you’re going to do with your life “when the time is right”? (Para 4, Line 1-3) plans which you have postponed or kept waiting as a low priority, as if they are simmering gently but not really cooking on the back part of the cooker. Back 我们经常说做事要看轻重缓急，有的时候不得不把正在做的事或计 划要做的事先搁置一边。美国人把这叫做：to put on the back burner。burner在这儿的是指做饭的炉子。美国的厨房里，炉台 上一般都有四个炉口，前面两个，后面两个。人们往往把能很快煮 好的东西放在前面炉子上煮，把一些要慢慢煮的东西放在后面的炉 子上。这就是 to put on the back burner 这个俗语的来源
Active reading 2:Navigation Conveying messages through repetition 3.there isn't a tomorrow.There's only a promissory note that we are often not in a position to cash. (Para 5,Line 5-7) FOR VALUE RECEIVED,the undersigned promises to pay to the order of 及ae,o the sum of: *+++3En-3彩5dn84n因n8/小00Ams+4tt+ 事10.000) with annual interest of 8%on any unpaid balance,This note shall mature and be payable,along with accrued interest,on: 是m430.20r8 m又m Meaning:Tomorrow is like a note which has promised a payment of money but by which we can't actually get the cash;it never really comes unless we act now
Conveying messages through repetition Active reading 2: Navigation 3. . there isn’t a tomorrow. There’s only a promissory note that we are often not in a position to cash. (Para 5, Line 5-7) Back Meaning: Tomorrow is like a note which has promised a payment of money but by which we can’t actually get the cash; it never really comes unless we act now