1. 了解中东地理及阿拉伯文化等背景知识； 

2. 掌握重要词语和句型用法、onomatopoeia等修辞方法； 

3. 理解课文内容，熟悉文章主题思想和语篇结构； 

4. 掌握描写文写作特点，并能使用文体分析方法等对描写文进行赏析。

1.课前收集有关中东地理、历史、宗教、建筑、民族文化等方面的资料，通过查阅工具书和参考书，理解课文中的语词和并熟悉课文主旨内容；通过教师课上讲解和操练，理解课文中的长难句，掌握文章写作技巧和修辞方法，熟悉课文语篇结构；完成教师指定的课后练习和知识拓展练习。

2.单元重点
掌握onomatopoeia、personification、hyperbole修辞方法 
掌握objective description写作特点

3.单元难点
通过细节描写调动读者感官的写作方法

1. Background Information
Commonly, The Middle East refers to Asian countries: Bahrain, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and African country, Egypt. 
There are three great monotheistic religions in The Middle East, Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Islam originated with the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which marks the region most profoundly. More than 90% of the people of the Middle East are Muslims. Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in The Hebrew Bible as later further explained in The Talmud. As the foundation of Western Christianity, many aspects of Judaism correspond to secular Western concepts of ethics and civil laws. Christianity centers on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in The New Testament. The Christian faith is essentially in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, Savior and Lord.

2. Text Analysis 
This piece is taken from the book Advanced Comprehension and Appreciation Pieces for Overseas Students. It was prepared by L. A. Hill and D. J. May and published by the Oxford University Press in 1962. 
The text is a piece of descriptive writing. The author describes the bazaar by the order of space. He uses many figures of speech to make the text vivid and lively. The author appeals to the reader’s senses of smell, sight, hearing in the description of different parts of the bazaar.

3. Structure of the Text
The text is divided into three parts: 
Part1 (paragraph1): the atmosphere of typical Middle Eastern Bazaar; 
Part 2 (paragraph 2 to 7): detailed description of different parts of bazaar;
Part 3 (paragraph 8 to 9): the process of making the linseed oil

4. Key words and expressions 
cavern, shadowy, thread one’s way, clear a way, penetrate, fade away, earthen, deaden, measured, sepulchral, follow suit, knit, guild, open-fronted shop, order of the day, narrow down one’s choice, beat the price down, a point of honor, price the item high, yield little, make a point of doing sth., deprive sb. of sth., at intervals, picturesque, impressive, tinkling, banging, clashing, impinge (on), catch the light of, hammer away at, take a hand (in sth.), attach to his big toe, to the strokes of the bellows, intricate, a profusion of, pungent, exotic, sumptuous, maze, honeycomb, disdainfully, somber, blind-folded, stately, ramshackle, dwarf, nimble, throw one’s weight on to, set...in motion, creak and groan, trickle, squeaking and rumbling, stall

5. Analysis of Rhetorical Devices 
onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, extended metaphor, contrast

6. Writing Techniques
1) From Macro to Micro 
2) Words appealing to senses: light & heat, sound & movement, and smell & color and taste. 
3) nouns, adjectives and even adverbs used as verbs: thread, round, narrow, price, live, tower and dwarf.
4) words imitating sounds: onomatopoeia 
5) stressful and impressive sentence structures:
one of the peculiarities…,

Paraphrase:
1. Little donkeys thread their way among the throngs of people.
2. Then as you penetrate deeper into the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away,
and you come to the muted cloth-market.
3. They narrow down their choice and begin the really serious business of beating the
price down.
4. He will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining.
5. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your 
ear…

Key:
1. Little donkeys went in and out among the people and from one side to another. 
2. Then as you pass through a big crowd to go deeper into the market, the noise of the 
entrance gradually disappear, and you come to the much quieter cloth-market.
3. They drop some of items that they don’t really want and begin to bargain seriously 
or a low price. 
4. He will ask for a high price for the item and refuse to cut down the price by any 
significant amount. 
5. As you get near it, a variety of sounds begin to strike your ear.

教学模拟：介绍世界知名购物街

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Written work:

1. Imagine yourself to be a blind man and describe the cloth-market and the

copper-smiths’ market.

2. Describe the activities at a rural market.

Key:

1. As I go deeper into the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away, and I come to

the muted cloth-market. The earthen floor, beaten hard by countless feet, reduces the

sound of footsteps, and I can hear no sound being echoed. The shop-keepers speak in

slow, controlled tones, and the customers talk in the same way.

2. The copper-smiths market is easily traced by the noise coming from it．As I approach it，a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to strike my ear. The noise is so deafening that 1 have to leave as quickly as I can. I can hardly imagine how those copper—smiths and their apprentices can bear to live in all that noise．

Analysis of the writing skills in the following text

When I was sixteen, I overheard a conversation between my mother and my father that changed my life. On this particular day, I had stayed home from school because of an attack of asthma that I frequently suffered. While resting in my bedroom, I could overhear my parents discussing my illness.

“I wonder if asthma is inherited,” my mother said, “No one in my family or in yours has ever had it. Tom must have inherited it from his mother and father”.

“From his mother and father!” I could not believe my ears. Weren’t those two people in the living room my father an mother? If they were not, then who were my parents? Suddenly, I realized what they had meant. I was adopted.

That night I could hardly sleep, shaken by what I had overheard. The next morning I confronted my parents with the words I had overheard and demanded to know the truth. They looked nervously at each other, trying to find the words to answer me. Finally, my mother told me the story. My real parents were unmarried, and I had been put up for adoption shortly after my birth. Their present whereabouts were unknown. My adoptive parents had been unable to have children of their own, and the adoption agency awarded me to them when I was two months old.

For a few weeks I was confused in my feelings. I wondered what their occupations were, and even such little things as what they did for hobbies and entertainment. But little by little, my attitude and thoughts changed. I began to appreciate my parents in a new and powerful way. When I saw the ways in which they had to economize by skipping a vacation or driving an old car, I realized the sacrifices they had made for me.

The shock is experienced that night when I heard that conversation was soon replaced by an increased love and admiration for two important people in my life: my mother and dad.

Key:

1. Provide an abundance of specific details so that readers can see and feel the experience rather than read about it.

2. Use dialogue to structure an interesting plot and reveal the character. Besides, the dialogue also highlights the relationship between characters, intensifies the action, adds suspense and makes the narration more “real” and lifelike.

3. When portraying, use vivid and specific words so as to show readers a vivid picture of a person or a place.

1. What is a bazaar? Can you name some of the Middle Eastern countries in which such bazaars are likely to be found?

2. What scene do you find most picturesque in the bazaar? Why?

Key:

1. A bazaar is a market or street of shops and stands in Oriental countries．Such

bazaars are likely to be found in Afghanistan，the Arabian Peninsula，Cyprus，Asiatic

Turkey and Egypt．

2. The place where people make linseed oil seems the most picturesque in the bazaar.

The backwardness of their extracting oil presents an unforgettable scene.