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Lesson 3 Romantic Roundabout 1. Warm-up Questions 2. Background Knowledge 3. Text Analysis 4. Exercises 5. Questions For Discussion Distant Education College, Jilin University Extensive Reading III
Distant Education Colleve,Jilin Uniyersity Warm-up Questions 1.What is probability? 2.How do the laws of probability work in the story? 3.As we know,this is a love story.What do you think are other elements which contribute to the happy ending? 4.Compare Sidney's waiting with the famous Chinese allegory 守株待兔”and see if we can identify any difference. 5.Comment on the title by exploring the text.Then decide how we can best translate it into Chinese. Return
Warm-up Questions Distant Education College, Jilin University 1. What is probability? 2. How do the laws of probability work in the story? 3. As we know, this is a love story. What do you think are other elements which contribute to the happy ending? 4. Compare Sidney’s waiting with the famous Chinese allegory “守株待兔”and see if we can identify any difference. 5. Comment on the title by exploring the text. Then decide how we can best translate it into Chinese. Return
Distant Education College,Jflin Universit Questions for Discussion 1.What made Sidney stay and work for Maryanne Wilson? 2.What's the most fantastic part in this story? 10包e506 Return
Questions for Discussion Distant Education College, Jilin University 1. What made Sidney stay and work for Maryanne Wilson? 2. What’s the most fantastic part in this story? Return
Distant Education College,Jilin University Background Knowledge 1.James Smithson (1765-1829):English scientist and founder of the Smithsonian Institution.He was the illegitimate son of 1st Duke of Northumberland,Hugh Smithson,and Elizabeth H.K.Macie,a descendant of Henry VIl.He was educated in Oxford,and devoted his life to chemical and mine-rological research.He remained single when he died in Genoa,Italy,on June 26,1829.Although he had never visited the United States,he willed his fortune of about $500,000 to the country "to found at Washington,under the name of the Smithsonian Institution,an establishment for the increase diffusion of knowledge among men."His remains now lie in a chapel in the main entrance of the Smithsonian Building. (Picture) More
1. James Smithson (1765-1829): English scientist and founder of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the illegitimate son of 1 st Duke of Northumberland, Hugh Smithson, and Elizabeth H. K. Macie, a descendant of Henry VII. He was educated in Oxford, and devoted his life to chemical and mine-rological research. He remained single when he died in Genoa, Italy, on June 26, 1829. Although he had never visited the United States, he willed his fortune of about $500,000 to the country “to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge among men.” His remains now lie in a chapel in the main entrance of the Smithsonian Building. (Picture) Background Knowledge Distant Education College, Jilin University More
Distant Education College,Jilin University Background Knowledge 2.The Smithsonian Institution:(史密森研究院/美国 国立博物馆)A scientific and cultural institution established in 1846 when Congress voted to accept the legacy of James Smithson.It is a collection of museums which preserves more than 100 million items of scientific,historical and artistic interest,and thereby gaining the title "the National Attic". (Picture) More
Background Knowledge Distant Education College, Jilin University 2. The Smithsonian Institution: （史密森研究院／美国 国立博物馆）A scientific and cultural institution established in 1846 when Congress voted to accept the legacy of James Smithson. It is a collection of museums which preserves more than 100 million items of scientific, historical and artistic interest, and thereby gaining the title “the National Attic”. (Picture) More