内容正文:
Using language
Reading for Writing
1
Part
Reading
Nobel Prize for Physics
a Jewish
The theory of relativity
Can you tell something about him?
E=mc²
High intelligience
Time line--life experience
Born in Germany
1879
1896
1955
1933
1895
failed to enter university
entered university
1900
1905
1922
graduated
took a job
as a clerk in the Swiss patent office
1902
earned a doctorate in physics and published four extraordinary physics papers
1909
entered research full-time at a university
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
fled Germany
passed away
the main idea of each paragraph
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
Para 6
Einstein’s death
Einstein’s appearance and personality
Einstein’s work experience
Einstein’s early life and education
Einstein’s identity & achievement
Read the whole passage and find the descriptions about Albert Einstein
(Tip: you can draw a mindmap to help sort out the information.)
Achievements
Personality / Quality
Appearance
Life experiences
What type of writing is this text? How does the writer develop the text?
biography
Time order
7
Part
Writing
Pre-writing: to enrich knowledge
What have we learned about Albert Einstein?
Pre-writing: to find aspects
What aspects does the passage include when introducing Albert Einstein?
Para1:
Para2:
Para3-4:
Para5:
Para6:
identity &achievements
education
work experience
appearance & personalities
death
Pre-writing: to learn language features
What rhetorical devices did the passage use?
1. Following this, he gradually became famous throughout the world as the new Isaac Newton.
2. Einstein, who was Jewish, found the doors of academic institutions closed to him.
3. He had a thick moustache and long white hair, which sometimes stood on end as though he had just received an electric shock.
4. On 18 April 1955, it was reported
that Einstein had passed away.
analogy 类比
mataphor 暗喻
personification拟人
simile明喻
euphemism委婉语
Pre-writing: to express feelings
What main feelings does the writer express