英语说明文写作范文.ppt

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The article explains the traditional festival of China---Spring Festival, and it introduces several kinds of celebrating activities during the festival. Being written in the order of time, the article makes the whole contents logical and clear.
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Ⅱ.What is Expository (Exposition)
Writing?
1. An exposition is writing which explains something. It is a type of oral or written discourse that is used to explain, describe, give information or inform. The creator of an expository text can not assume that the reader or listener has prior knowledge or prior understanding of the topic that is being discussed. One important point to keep in mind for the author is to try to use words that clearly show what they are talking about rather than blatantly露骨 的 telling the reader what is being discussed. Since
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clarity requires strong organization, one of the most important mechanisms that can be used to improve our skills in exposition is to provide directions to improve the organization of the text. 2. Task
The key to success in reading comprehension tests is thus DO NOT READ THE PASSAGE SENTENCE BY SENTENCE. It’s possible to answer all the questions correctly without having to read more than one third of the passage.
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For a narration type passage, the method is to read the passage from the beginning and sentence by sentence. When you get an idea of what the story is about, it’s time to stop reading. Usually this happens when you’ve read one third of the passage. Try to answer the questions, and you’ll find you can answer some of them. When you come across a question you don’t have enough information to answer, go back to the passage and resume your reading from the point where you stopped. Go on with your reading until you have the answer to the question.
About a week before the festival, housewives are busy preparing the new year dinner. ( For example, … ) And they will do a lot of washing and cleaning in the house.(…) People who are far away on
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On Lunar New Year’s Day, after getting up, people will eat Chinese dumplings.(What do the dumpling look like?) When they meet their neighbors or friends, they’ll say: “Happy New Year!” to wish good luck and harvest. The new year celebrating activities will last about half a month.
Expository Writing
Sun Jiyan
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Ⅰ. How To improve our English reading skills?
Reading comprehension passages are usually of two types: exposition and narration. An exposition is writing which explains something; a narration is writing which tells a story. They are to be handled differently.
Please write an expository with the topic “The Spring Festival”. (about 500 words)
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Ⅲ.Samples
The Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. It is on January 1st according to the Chinese lunar calendar. It’s China’s New Year’s Day. So usually a month before the festival, people begin to buy food, clothes and decorations for houses.
When you take up a reading comprehension passage, the first thing is to tell whether the passage is an exposition or a narration.
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For an exposition type passage, the method is to read the first sentence of each para-graph carefully and skip the rest of the paragraph. You’ll then find some of the questions following the passage which can already be answered. For questions you don’t have enough information to find the right answer, you’ll use a second method. This is to find a key word in the question itself, and then scan the passage to locate the key word. Read the sentence where the key word is, and then the answer is ready.
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Following these methods, you’ll be able to finish answering the questions in much less time than is allowed, and the chances of finding the right answer is greater than you go through the whole passage.
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business are hurrying to return home for the new year’s family reunion. On New Year’s Eve, each family will gather together eating, talking and watching TV for almost the whole night. (What will they eat, talk, and watch?) And there will be some interesting programmes on TV. The Spring Festival Get-together Evening Party is especially loved by most Chinese. (What will they see in the program?) The children are the happiest of all because they can get presents from their parents or grandparents.(Why?)
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