Approaches to literature week sixteen

Approaches to literature week sixteen  

 

u  課堂重點

 

˙TED-Ed：莎士比亞風格的約會密技 Shakespearean dating tips

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˙文學有什麼用? (What is Literature for?)

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˙13 amendment

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865.  
 

 

 

˙ “Methought I was—there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had—but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. ”

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

 

u  閒聊

˙ Mirror mirror on the wall (song)

˙ “Love looks not with the eye but, with mind. ”
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u  生字區

Complaint疾病，身體不適: an illness or medical condition, especially a relatively minor one.

eg. Arthritis is a common complaint among the elderly.

 

Mended改善，改良；糾正，改正: improve (an unpleasant situation, especially a disagreement)

eg. He pledged that he would mend his ways.

 

Slumber party【美】睡衣派對: a party for teenagers, typically girls, in which all the guests stay the night at the house where the party is held.

 

Idle不工作的；閒置的；空閒的: (of a person) avoiding work; lazy.

eg. They didn't want to live idle lives.

 

Mortal人的，凡人: (of an enemy or a state of hostility) admitting or allowing no reconciliation until death.

eg. It's beyond mortal power to bring a dead man back to life.

 

Amendment（議案等的）修正案, 改正: a change or addition to a legal or statutory document.

eg. Your plan needs some amendment.

 

Annotate註解，給……作註解: add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment.

eg. Documentation should be annotated with explanatory notes.

 

u  About字根

-or: usually denoting a condition or property of things or persons

Eg. Actor

-er: a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupation or labor, a suffix serving as the regular English formative of agent nouns.

Eg. Teacher

-ist: that denote a person who practices or is concerned with something, or holds certain principles, doctrines.

Eg.Artist

-al: a suffix with the general sense “of the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character of” that named by the stem.

Eg.Approval