Unit One The Middle Eastern Bazaar

Teaching Plan• Teaching objectives• Pre-reading questions• Background information• Type of writing• Organization analysis• Detailed study of the text• Text analysis• Follow-up questions• Exercises and assignments

• Get to know some background knowledge

• Grasp the main idea and the theme of this essay

• Master the language used in a special way in the essay

• Appreciate the description writing skills at advanced level

• The comprehension and appreciation of the words describing sound, colour, light, heat, size and smell.

II. Teaching Tasks • Pre-reading questions

• Background knowledge

• Type of Writing

• Organization

• Detailed Study of the text

• Text Analysis

• Follow-up discussion

• Exercise and Homework

I.Teaching Objectives

• Do you like shopping? Where do you usu. go shopping?

• When doing shopping, we often see the words “mall, plaza”. What’re the differences between them? What about bazaar?

• What can you predict from the title “the Middle Eastern Bazaar”? Which point about the middle eastern bazaar are you interested in?

Pre-reading Questions

The Middle East

The Middle East is generally taken to include: Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Turkey, Iran (Persia), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and the Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Background Knowledge

The Middle East is the birthplace and spiritual center of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The main religion is Islam.

Islam Symbol Christianity

Symbol

Judaism Symbol

The Middle Eastern Bazaar

The Bazaar (大巴扎 ) in the City of Wulumuqi

• A piece of objective description.

The purpose

The ways of developing

•The spatial order of the text:

the entrance of the bazaar--- into the bazaar--- the muted cloth-market--- the copper-smith’s market--- the other 6 markes (the carpet/spice market…) --- the place where they make linseed oil.

Type of Wrting

Part I (para. 1): introduction--- a typical Middle Eastern bazaar. This paragraph gives us a picture of what the bazaar looks like.

Part II (para. 2-7): description of some specific markets in the bazaar. Each paragraph concentrates on each particular market or place with description of peculiarities at intervals.

Part III (para. 8-9): This part focuses on the description of linseed oil.

Organizational Analysis

Part One

1. The main idea: Through the description of this paragraph, we can see a vivid picture of the bazaar.

2. What’s the first impression you get about the Middle Eastern Bazaar?

3. What was the gateway like?

Detailded study of the text

4. Gothic:• Gothic architecture characterizes any of the styles of European architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches throughout Europe during the high and late medieval period from the 12th century onwards. Such style of architecture is distinguished by tall pillars, high vaulted ceilings and pointed arches.

The Typical Gothic Architecture

--- Notre Dame de Paris

St. Michael's Cathedral in the city of Qingdao

• Gothic is used to describe literature that contains both horrible and frightening images. Prominent features of gothic novels included terror (psychological as well as physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted buildings, castles, trapdoors, doom, death, decay, madness, hereditary curses, and so on.

•Gothic is also described as “a style of printing in which the letters are very elaborate and pointed”.

5. In this paragraph, the writer makes a contrast between two places, can you find it and describe the two places in your own words?

6. Notice the vivid expressions in this paragraph.

7. How do the 3 “of” phrases work here? What’s the effect of such usage?

8. Assignment: translate this paragraph into Chinese.

Part Two

Para. 2:

9. The main idea: the description of the muted cloth-market is a contrast to the gateway of the market.

10. Why does the author say the cloth-market is muted?

11. measured: here means soft

measured words/ terms: carefully chosen, well-thought-out, calculated, deliberate

follow suit: to do the same as someone else has done

12. Paraphrase the last sentence.

Para. 3:

13. the main idea: description of one of the characteristics of the bazaar--- the spreading of goods.

14. From whom do they get injustice or persecution?

15. Paraphrase “bargaining is the order of the day”.

• The order of the day: that which is of the greatest general way of doing things; prevailing state of things

16. From the phrase “veiled women”, can you tell about the main religion in the Middle East?

Veiled Women

Para. 4:

17. the main idea: description of the psychological trick between sellers and purchasers.

18. In order to reduce the price, what does a customer usu. do?

19. Paraphrase “ the seller on the other hand… his personal regard for the customer”.

20. Why doesn’t the customer mind to take the trouble to do so?

Para. 5&6:

21. the main idea: copper-smith’s market is one of the most picturesque and impressive parts of the bazaar.

22. onomatopoeia: the formation of a word in imitation of the natural sound associated with the object or action involved. The figure is usu. employed for vividness.

•Tinkling: a succession of light, ringing sounds

•Banging: to hit violently, to make a loud noise

•Clashing: make a loud, broken, confused noise (as when metal objects strike together)

23. How are pots and bowls made at that time?

Para. 7:

24. the main idea: description of the other 6 markets

25. Use your own words to describe the markets mentioned in this paragraph.

26. Describe the markets that are for sale.

27. Personification in “ every here and there, a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard”. Vivid description

28. Why does the writer use “disdainfully” to describe the camels?

Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

Ancient caravansary, Bitlis, Turkey.

Part Three

Para. 8&9:

29. the main idea: the linseed oil mill presents a special picture.

30. a N1+of a +N2 (N2---tenor， N1--- vehicle; N2 is like N1) Notice: the use of implied comparison, it’s a kind of metaphor.

31. Why are the camel’s eyes bandaged?

32. Notice the use of “tower” and “dwarf” and the mental picture the author wants to create.

33. Describe the whole process of making the linseed oil.

34. Notice the figures in Para.9.

Making Linseed Oil

Stone Runner

Bellow

1. making effective use of specific verbs

2. using adjectives accurately

3. using five human senses--- hearing,

smelling, seeing, tasting and touching to

make the description vivid

4.language: vivid, beautiful, lively

5. well-organized writing

6. using rhetorical devices properly

Text analysis

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

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

Follow-up Discussion

1. The appreciation of the text

2. Translation of the 1st paragraph

3. Make a list of the words describing sound, color, light, heat, size and smell.

4. The appreciation of the words and expressions used for stress and exaggeration.

Exercise and Assignment