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Pre-Course Questions
How are your performances in the exams taken
last semester? Are you satisfied? Why or why not?
Which course interests you the most? Why?
Did you perform well in that course? Why or why
not?
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Usual Procedure of Each Lesson
1. Warm-up Exercises 2. Pre-text Discussion 3.
Detailed Study of the Text 1) Back-ground
Information 2) Explanation of difficult
language points 4. Question-time for the
students and the teacher 5. Discussions about
the Text 6. Post-text Exercises
Term Exam

• Attendance 3
• 2. Participation in class 3
• 3. Assignments 4
• 4. Oral Exam 30
• 5. Written Exam 60

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Lesson One

• The Middle Eastern Bazaar

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Pre-Text Questions
How many markets are mentioned in the writing?
What are they?
What kind of economy do you think they represent?
agro-pastoral economy ????
What kind of writing do you think this belongs
to narration, exposition, description or
argumentation?
What is the overall tone of this writing? Can
you define it?
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I. Background Information
1. The Middle East
2. Bazaar
II. Detailed Study of the Text
III. Bird-View Study of the Text
1. Structure
2. Writing Style and Techniques
IV. Discussion
V. Assignments
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point of view
you
historical present
Gothic-arched gateway
not so agreeable and welcome as bright sunlight
glare
eye
mans power of seeing or eyesight
You pass from the heat and glarea cool, dark
cavern
In front of the gateway there is a big, open
square. It is hot there and the brightness of
the sunlight is most disagreeable. But when you
enter the gateway, you come to a long, narrow,
dark street with some sort of a roof over it and
it is cool inside.
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ones way
to make one's way cautiously through
thread
means/ manner
ones way
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stronger implication of movement and of pushing
throngs
crowd
stronger implication of density
The crowd jammed the hall.
Throngs circulated through the street.
0.3048 meter
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12 feet 3.66 meters
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small, open-fronted shop, table etc. used by a
trader in a market, on a street
stall
conceivable
people of every conceivable age, nationality
buildings of every conceivable shape
loud, confused noise that continues
din
The blaze of light and the appalling din of the
orchestra had almost dazed Elizabeth.
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penetrate?
away adv.
n. -en adj.
adj. -en v.
beaten hard by countless feet
flattened by treading which becomes flat and
hard because it is much traveled
the vaulted mud-brick walls and roof
the buyers, overwhelmed by, follow suit
the buyers overcome by the grave-like atmosphere,
also speak in slow, deliberate and steady tones
Why is the cloth-marked muted?
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scatter
to cause to separate and go in different
directions
to distribute over a surface in a layer
spread
Absolute Construction
over
order(s) of the day
the characteristic/most significant
aspect /activity prevailing state of things
Volatility is the order of the day in the stock
market.
veiled women
narrow down
narrowto
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down
beat down
beat sb. up
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a copper-smiths store
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onomatopoeia
tinkling, banging, clashing
buzz, murmur
a fairyland of
a n.1 of n.2
n.2 is (like) n. 1
Its easy to get yourself lost in a maze of
narrow winding streets in that city.
She is a kitten of a girl.
Before us stood a little shrimp of a fellow.
You guys live in a palace of a house.
brazier
hammer away
continuously constantly
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work/laugh/mutter/ away
Weve been toiling away at the project for over a
year. Now you tell us that we have to hand it
over to somebody else? Thats ridiculous!
help, play a part (in) sth. (with) sth.
take a hand (in) (doing) sth.( with sth. )
Dont fool around, come and take a hand in the
cleaning.
a tiny apprentice blows a big charcoal fire
with a huge leather bellows worked by a
string attached to his big toe
fire
bellows
string
which is
which is
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Elsewhere there is the Market 1, with... Then
there is the Market 2, with and the Market 3,
where The Market 4, the Market 5 and the Market
6 lie elsewhere
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v

varied
different
with its profusion of rich colours,yet harmonious
you have a whole variety of carpets with vivid
color, woven in different ways, having designs
typical of different regions. Some of the
designs are clear-cut, well-marked and simple
while others are very complicated, showing all
the details yet having all the different parts
combined in a pleasing and satisfactory
arrangement
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n.
honeycomb
v.
vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar
the streets that pierce the bazaar from all
directions and lead towards all directions cut
the bazaar into small sections like the
honeycomb
glimpse
a brief, incomplete view or look
a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard
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youll catch a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard
through a doorway
mosque caravanserai
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linseed
It is a vast somber cavern of a room
It is a room that is like a vast somber cavern.
commonly suggests immensity of bulk when used
figuratively, it stresses the greatness of a
persons (things) capacity
huge
suggests immensity of extent stresses a things
range, scope or variety, as well as extent
vast
a _____ leather bellows ______
knowledge/interests a _____ eater a _____
expanse of the sky a _____ mass of earth
China is a populous country with a _____
territory.
huge
huge
huge
vast
vast
vast
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suggests continuously, stressing firmness,
steadiness and devotion
constantly
stresses weariness and tediousness and monotony
endlessly
How does the linseed-oil-making tool look like?
an appliance or device for a particular purpose
apparatus
an x-ray apparatus
dental apparatus
laboratory apparatus
dizzy height
so high that it makes people have a kind of
whirling sensation
transferred epithet
sleepless pillow
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throw ones weight on to
use all ones strength to press down
The cat jumped onto the table.
The cat jumped on the table.
on to onto on
Lets move on to the next episode.
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Lets move onto the next episode.
He wandered on to the sports field.
He wandered onto the sports field.
ooze
(of thick liquids) pass slowly through small
openings
Blood is still oozing from the wound. Do
something!
If you squeeze the tube of toothpaste, itll ooze
out of the tube.
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(esp. of wet or polished surface, tear-filled
eyes) shine brightly, sparkle
glisten
glistening dew-drops
eyes glistening with tears
How do they make linseed oil? Can you make an
account of the process in your own words?