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1000高中万圣节英语作文
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+ 加入清单The Origin of Halloween
While there are many versions of the origins and old customs of Halloween, some remain consistent by all accounts. Different cultures view Holloween somewhat differently but traditional Halloween practices remain the same.
Halloween culture can be traced back to the Druids, a Celtic culture in Ireland, Britain and Northern Europe. Roots lay in the feast of Samhain, which was annually on October 31st to honor the dead.
Samhain signifies "summers end" or November. Samhain was a harvest festival with huge sacred bonfires, marking the end of the Celtic year and beginning of a new one. Many of the practices involved in this celebration were fed on superstition.
The Celts believed the souls of the dead roamed the streets and villages at night. Since not all spirits were thought to be friendly, gifts and treats were left out to pacify the evil and ensure next years crops would be plentiful. This custom evolved into trick-or-treating.
万圣节的起源
尽管关于万圣节的起源和旧俗有很多不同的看法,但有一些是被所有人接受的。不同文化看待万圣节总是有点不同,但是传统的万圣节做的事情都是一样的。
万圣节文化可以追溯到德鲁伊教,这是一种爱尔兰、北欧和英国的凯尔特文化,根植于Samhain节的庆祝活动,Samhain节于每年的10月31日纪念逝者。
Samhain节说明夏天结束或者十一月,是一个丰收的节日。在Samhain节会燃起神圣巨大的篝火,标志着凯尔特一年的结束和新一年的开始。一些做法因为迷信被加入庆祝活动中。
凯尔特人相信死者的灵魂会在夜里出没在街道和村庄。因为他们认为不是所有的灵魂都是友善的,所以就把礼物和好吃的留在外面安慰恶灵来确保来年的庄稼可以丰收。这种习俗演变成了trick-or-treating。
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篇1:2024年初三英语写作技巧精选
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+ 加入清单导语:英语写作能力作为体现语言交际能力至关重要的一个方面,写作测试是对学生书面交际水平及能力进行检验最有效的途径。以下是yjbs作文网小编为您收集整理的写作技巧,希望对您有所帮助。
要想获得高分就应在“正确”表达的基础上写出自己的特色,写出自己的“亮”点。
一、词汇选择——标新立异
在写作中“较高级词汇”的使用主要是指使用《大纲》上没有的词语、使用通过构词法变化来的新词、使用同(近)义词或反义词等来代替常见词语。
1)这栋房子在芳草街的一栋楼上。
A: The flat is in a building on Fangcao Street.
B: The flat situates in a building on Fangcao Street.
分析:is in是常见词语,而situates in则是《大纲》上没有的,属于高级词汇。
2)在周末我们做很多作业。
A: At weekends, we have a lot of homework to do.
B: At weekends, we have endless homework to do.
分析:B句在表达时没有使用过于直接的a lot of,而是使用了endless。endless就是由《大纲》词汇end加后缀-less变化来的。
3)洗澡间和厨房都很好。
A: The bathroom and the kitchen are good.
B. The bathroom and the kitchen are well-furnished.
在表达要点时,B句使用了well furnished,这比good语气强,也显得生动。
在造句时,“较高级词汇”如能运用贴切自然,哪怕整篇文章只用上一个,也会使你的作文显示出与众不同。
二、结构造句——与众不同
在造句时,既要使句子生动,又要使其简明扼要。
1、使用与人不同的表达方式,特别是提倡打破汉语句子结构的束缚而重组的句子更受欢迎。
1)唐山曾在二十世纪八十年代发生过一次大地震。
A: There was a strong earthquake in Tangshan in the 1980s.
B: A terrible earthquake hit/struck Tangshan in the 1980s.
大多数同学使用了there be结构,这是对的,但是B句却摒弃了常见句式。另辟蹊径而使用了“主语+谓语+宾语”结构,且使用了terrible,hit/strike这样的词汇,更是难能可贵的。
2)你八月十五日的来信我今天早晨收到了。
A:I received your letter which was written on August 15th this morning.(多数人使用的方式)
B: Your letter of August 15th reached/ got to me this morning.(与多数人使用的方式不同,简洁)
2.使用一些强势句式,如强调句、感叹句、倒装句等,增强语句的表现力。如:
3)阿福救了我妹妹。
A: Ah Fu saved my sister.(一般句式)
B: It was Ah Fu that saved my sister.(强调句式)
4)我们看到庄稼和蔬菜长势喜人很是高兴。
A: We were glad to see crops and vegetables growing well.(一般陈述句)
B: How glad we were to see crops and vegetables growing well.(感叹句)
3、句式多样,复杂得体。在写作中应避免使用相同长度的相同句型,而应注意句式的变化,如长短句结合,简单句、并列句与复合句共用,还可使用简化句等;一些较复杂的结构如独立主格,分词结构等也可使用。下面的表达中A句简单句多,而且多处使用there be结构,显得单调、乏味,而B句就有自己的特色(请同学们自己分析)。
5)这是一套25平方米的住房,住房里面有卧室、有洗澡间、有厨房;卧室里有床、沙发、桌子和椅子等。
A: Its a flat of 25 square metres. There is a bedroom in the flat. There is a bathroom and a kitchen in it, too. In the bedroom, there is a bed; there is a sofa, a desk and a chair as well.
B: Its a flat of 25 square metres, with a bedroom, a bathroom and a kitchen. In the bedroom there is a bed, a sofa, a desk and a chair.
三、布局谋篇——独具匠心
在写作中,我们可按时间、空间或其它逻辑顺序来安排各要点,同时为使主题突出,结构严谨,我们应注意学习和使用交代句以及段落的主题句等。在布局谋篇上,NMET2002范文堪称典范。请看:
Opinions are divided on the question.
60% of the students are against the idea of entrance fees. They believe a public park should be free of charge. People need a place where they can rest and enjoy themselves. Charging entrance fees will no doubt keep some people away. What is more, it will become necessary to build gates and walls, which will do harm to the appearance of a city.
On the other hand, 40% think that fees should be charged because you need money to pay gardens and other workers, and to buy plants and young trees. They suggested, however, fees should be charged low.
1)该文使用Opinions are divided...作交代句,开门见山,随后两个段落均使用了主题句(见黑体字部分),使全文结构紧凑,表达严谨。
2)在表述要点时范文还对要点出场顺序作了调整,如“40%的同学认为应收门票,但不宜过高。”前部分作为主题句放在句首,而后部分另起一句放在句末:They suggested, however, fees should be charged low.这样就分清了轻重缓急,主题突出,条理清楚。
3)范文使用了and, what is more, however等连词,在段落之间使用了on the other hand(说明前后两个观点是相悖的),这些连接手段的运用加强了句子之间、段落之间的联系,使文章表达连贯,浑然一体。
4)范文在第二段为说明不收门票的“原因”时增加了Charging entrance fees will no doubt keep some people away.等细节,这也是解决句与句之间缺少连贯性的常见方法。
写作技巧:
一、要善于模仿
对大多数学习英语的同学来说,英语的词汇量、句式的积累还极其有限,远不能达到用英文流畅表达,挥洒自如的境地。在这一阶段进行创作是不合时宜的,如果非要创造,只能写出“long time no see”这样的文字来。因此,模仿是这一阶段的必经途径。
谈到模仿,一些同学的办法就是背一堆范文,然后再到考场上进行一个“剪切”、“粘贴”的工作,效果可想而知。这不是真正意义上的模仿,充其量算是默写课文。如何模仿呢?
首先,模仿的目标要明确。模仿的重点永远要放在一定的句式结构上,而非个别的词汇。道理很简单:一个词,随着文章内容的变换,可能就不能用了;而句式结构是放置四海而皆准的东西,适用的范围广,学来对写作的帮助也就明显。
其次,模仿的材料要地道。像新概念英语这样的教材就提供了很多原汁原味的英语表达法。盲目选择文章学习,记一些不中不洋的句子,以讹传讹,浪费时间。
最后,模仿要体现在实际动笔上。比如说,新概念第三册有一个句式说:“…for the simple reason that…”表示某种现象的原因是什么,用在大学英语考试中,我们就可以拿来解释为什么自行车在中国如此的流行,表达为:“the bicycle is very popular in china for the simple reason that…”。然而,很多同学经常背了这些句式不用,一谈到原因仍然是“…because…”,等等。
二、要灵活变通
在批改英语作文的过程中,经常能发现一些将中文生硬地翻译成英文的表达法。由于中英文之间的差异和词汇量、表达法积累的不足,出现难于表达的情况是十分正常的。关键问题在于如何处理。有一句话叫做“立志如山,行道如水”,套用在这个问题上就很合适。写英文作文,一定要有决心把它写好,有信心把意思表达清楚,这是“立志如山”;但关键是遇到问题时要有个灵活的态度,能像流水一样变通解决问题。
有个翻译界的故事说:在某大型国际会议的招待会上,一道菜是用鸡蛋做的。与会的客人问翻译:“what is it made of?”本来是非常简单的一个问题,结果翻译太紧张,忘了“egg”这个词,但是他急中生智,回答:“it is made of miss hen’s son.”这里,就是一个灵活变通的范例。绕道表达,是写作中应该常常运用的一种方法。
三、要细心观察
要写好英语作文,还要带着敏锐的目光细心地观察,注意英语中一些表达上的习惯。
比如说,在正式文体的写作中,很少用 “it isn"t”这样的略缩形式,而往往是一板一眼地写作 “it is not”。同理,在正式文体中的日期一般不缩写,阿拉伯数字一般会用英文表达(特别长的数字除外)。
再比如说,翻翻新概念第三册所有的课文,会发现凡是一段文章的段首句出现转折时,转折词however都放在句子结构中的第二部分,以插入语的形式出现。分析原因,是因为段落一开始就用转折词,会时转折显得较生硬、突兀。
最后,许多同学在写作文时,习惯于把 “since” “because” “for”这样的词放在句首引导原因状语从句。事实上,在我们见到的英语报刊杂志文章中,这样的从句一般都是放在主句之后的。另外, “and”也常常被误放在一句话的开头,表示两个句子之间的并列或递进关系。其实,经常留心地道的英语文章能发现,如果是并列关系,完全可以不用连词;如果是递进关系,用 “furthermore” “what is more”更为普遍。
篇2:高中环境问题英语作文3
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+ 加入清单This summer vacation, I joined a social practice to be a part-time tourguide. There I found something that impressed me a lot.
People who love traveling are always finding places to take a vacation, which caused a lot of troubles.For example, I found that some people were used to dropping out the trash everywhere. They just regarded the sightseeings as their houses, which cost a lot to clean it up. Besides, some one should write down their names on the trees and walls. People who wanted to leave their names whereever they went are always to punish in future.
Nevertheless, I also found some good examples, such as teaching tourists not to destroy the places of historic interests, helping clean up the environment,etc..I think we all need to teach more people not to hurt our precious nature. What we really need to do is protect them form destroying.
篇3:关于努力英语作文高中
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+ 加入清单The moment I go to high school, I have made up my mind to study hard. It is
known to all that the period of high school is the turning point of people’s
life, which may decide my future career. So I know the importance of striving
for my future. The reason why I study so hard are various. First, I want my
parents to be proud of me. When my mothers’ friends come to visit her, they
always brag about how excellent their children are, but my mother would never
take me as the topic, because she does not want me to have the pressure. I
appreciate what my mother does to me and really want her to be proud of me.
Second, If I enter a good university, I can have the promising future. It is
time for me to return my parents’ love.
篇4:英语作文写作的需要背诵的部分
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+ 加入清单下面的材料旨在丰富学生在是非问题写作方面的思想和语言,考生在复习时可以先分类阅读这些篇章,然后尝试写相关方面的作文题。
对于素材中用黑体字的部分,特别建议你熟读,背诵,因为它们在语言和观点上都值得吸收。学习语言的人应该明白,表达能力和思想深度都靠日积月累,潜移默化。从某种意义上说,提高英语写作能力无捷径可走,你必须大段背诵英语文章才能逐渐形成语感和用英语进行表达的能力。这一关,没有任何人能代替你过。
因此,建议你下点苦功夫,把背单词的精神拿出来背诵文章。何况,并不是要求你背了之后永远牢记在心:你可以这个星期背,下个星期忘。这没有关系,相信你的大脑具有神奇的能力。背了工具箱里的文章后,你会惊讶的发现:I can think in English now!
1.?????? Proverbs
1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.
2. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.
3. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
4. The classroom--not the trench--is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
5. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
6. It is the purpose of education to help us become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny.
7. You see, real ongoing, lifelong education doesn’t answer questions; it provokes them.
8. People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
9.the most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
10. The essence of our efforts to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each as equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.
11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
12. If you can read and don’, you are an illiterate by choice.
2. Damaging Research
A study by National Parent-Teacher Organization revealed that in the average American school, eighteen negatives are identified for every positive that is pointed out. The Wisconsin study revealed that when children enter the first grade, 80 percent of them feel pretty good themselves, but by the time they get to the sixth grade, only 10 percent of them have good self-images.
3. Education and Citizenship
An important aspect of education in the United States is the relationship between education and citizenship. Throughout its history this nation has emphasized public education as a means of transmitting democratic values, creating equality of opportunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to function in society. In addition, the schools have been expected to help shape society itself. During the 1950s, for example, efforts to combat racial segregation focused on the schools. Later, when the Soviet Union launched the first orbiting satellite, American schools and colleges came under intense pressure and were offered many incentives to improve their science and mathematics programs so that the nations would not fall behind the Soviet Union in scientific and technological capabilities.
Education is often viewed as a tool for solving social problems, especially social inequality. The schools, t is thought, can transform young people from vastly different backgrounds into competent, upwardly mobile adults. Yet these goals seem almost impossible to attain. In recent years, in fact, public education has been at the center of numerous controversies arising from the gap between the ideal and the reality. Part of the problem is that different groups in society have different have different expectations. Some feel that children should be taught basic job-related skills; still others believe education should not only prepare children to compete in society but also help them maintain their cultural identity (and, in the case of Hispanic children, their language). On the other hand, policymakers concerned with education emphasize the need to increase the level of student achievement and to improve parents in their children’s education.
Some reformers and critics have called attention to the need to link formal schooling with programs designed to address social problems. Sociologist Charles Moscos, for example, is a leader in the movement to expand programs like the Peace Corps, Vista, and Outward Bound into a system of voluntary national service. National service, as Moscos defines it, would entail “the full-time undertaking of public duties by young people whether as citizen soldiers or civilian servers-who are paid subsistence wages” and serve for at least one year. In return for this period of service, the volunteers would receive assistance in paying for college or other educational expenses.
Advocates of national service and school-to-work programs believe that education does not have to be confined to formal schooling. In devising strategies to provide opportunities for young people to serve their society, they emphasize the educational value of citizenship experiences gained outside the classroom. At this writing there is little indication that national service will become a new educational institution in the United States, although the concept is steadily gaining support among educators and social critics.
4. The Teacher’s Role
Given the undeniable importance of classroom experience, sociologists have done a considerable amount of research on what goes on in the classroom. Often they start from the premise that, along with the influence of peers, students’ experiences in the classroom are of central importance to their later development. One study examined the impact of a single first-grade teacher on her students’ subsequent adult status. The surprising results of this study have important implications. It is evident that good teachers can make a big difference in children’s lives, a fact that gives increased urgency to the need to improve the quality of primary-school teaching. The reforms carried out by educational leaders like James Comer suggest that when good teaching is combined with high levels of parental involvement the results can be even more dramatic.
Because the role of the teacher is to change the learner in some way, the teacher-student relationship is an important part of education. Sociologists have pointed out that this relationship is asymmetrical or unbalanced, with the teacher being in a position of authority and the student having little choice but to passively absorb the information provided by the teacher. In other words, in conventional classrooms there is little opportunity for the students to become actively involved in the learning process. On the other hand, students often develop strategies for undercutting the teacher’s authority: mentally withdrawing, interrupting, and the like. Hence, much current research assumes that students and teachers influence each other instead of assuming that the influence is always in a single direction.
5. Education Philosophy
For the past fifty years our schools have operated on the theories of John Dewey (1859-1953), an American educator and writer. Dewey believed hat the school’s job was to enhance the natural development of the growing child, rather than to pour information, for which the child had no context, into him or her. In the Dewey system, the child becomes the active agent in his own education, rather than a passive receptacle for facts.
Consequently, American schools are very enthusiastic about teaching “life skills” –logical thinking, analysis, creative problem--solving. The actual content of the lessons is secondary to the process, which is supposed to train the child to be able to handle whatever life may present, including all the unknowns of the future. Students and teachers both regard pure memorization as an uncreative and somewhat vulgar.
In addition to “life skills”, schools are assigned to solve the ever growing stoke of social problems. Racism, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, reckless driving, and are just a few of the modern problems that have appeared on the school curriculum.
This all contributes to a high degree of social awareness in American youngsters.
6. Student Life
To the students, the most notable difference between elementary school and the higher levels is that in junior high they start “changing classes”. This means that rather than spending the day in one classroom, they switch classrooms to meet their different teachers. This gives them three or four minutes between classes in the hallways, where a great deal of the important social action of high school traditionally takes place. Students have lockers in these hallways, around which thy congregate.
Society in general does not take the business of studying very seriously. Schoolchildren have a great deal of free time, which they are encouraged to fill with extracurricular activities—sports, clubs, cheerleading, scouts—supposed to inculcate such qualities as leadership, sportsmanship, ability to organize, etc. those who don’t become engaged in such activities or have afterschool jobs have plenty of opportunity to “hang out”, listen to teenager music, and watch television.
Compared to other nations, American students do not have much homework. Studies also show that American parents have lower expectations for their children’s success in school than other nationalities do. (Historically, there has not been much correlation between American school success and success in later life.) “He’s just not a scholar”, the American parents might say, content that their son is on the swim team and doesn’t take drugs. (Some of the young do choose to study hard, for reason of their own, such as determining that the road to riches lies through Harvard Business School.)
What American schools do effectively teach is the competitive method. In innumerable ways children are pitted against each other—whether in classroom discussion, spelling bees, reading groups, or tests. Every classroom is expected to produce a scattering of A’s and F’s (teachers often grade A=excellent; B=good; C=average; D=poor; and F=failed). A teacher who gives all A’s looks too soft—so students are aware that they are competing for the limited number of top marks.
Foreign students sometimes don’t understand that copying from other people’s papers or from books is considered wrong and taken seriously. Here, it is important to show that you have done your own work and are displaying your own knowledge. It is more important than helping your friends to pass, whom we think do not deserve to pass unless they can provide their own answers. Group effort goes against the competitive grain, and American students do not study together as many Asians do. Many Asians in this country consider their group study habits a large contributor to their school success.
7. Adult Education
After complaining about many aspects of American life, a 40-year-old woman from Hong Kong concluded, “But where else could someone my age go back to school and get a degree in social work? Here you can change your whole life, start a new business, do what you really want to do.”
So at least to this person, school requirements weren’t inhibiting. And to millions of others, adult education is the path to a new career, or if not to a new career, to a new outlook. Schools generally encourage the older person who wants to start anew, and besides regular classes, schedule evening classes in special programs. Today there are so many people of retirement age in college that it is no longer remarkable.
8. Moral Relativism in American
Improving American education requires not doing new things but doing (and remembering) some good old things. At the time of our nation’s founding, Thomas Jefferson listed the requirements for a sound education in the Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia. In this landmark statement on American education, Jefferson wrote of the importance of education and writing, and of reading history, and geography. But he also emphasized the need “to instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests, and duties, as men and citizens.” Jefferson believed education should aim at the improvement of both one’s “morals” and “faculties”. That has been the dominant view of the aims of American education for over two centuries. But a number of changes, most of them unsound, have diverted schools from these great pursuits. And the story of the loss of the school’s original moral mission explains a great deal.
Starting in the early seventies, “values clarification” programs started turning up in schools all over America. According to this philosophy, the schools were not to take part in their time-honored task of transmitting sound moral values; rather, they were to allow the child to “clarify” his own values (which adults, including parents, had no “rights” to criticize). The “values clarification” movement didn’t clarify values; it clarified wants and desires. This form of moral relativism said, in effect, that no set of values was right or wrong; everybody had an equal right to his own values; and all values were subjective, relative, and personal. This destructive view took hold with a vengeance.
In 1985 The York Times published an article quoting New York area educators, in slavish devotion to this new view, proclaiming, “They deliberately avoid trying to tell students what is ethically right and wrong.” The article told of one counseling session involving fifteen high school juniors and seniors. In the course of that session a student concluded that a fellow student had been foolish to return one thousand dollars she found in a purse at school. According to the article, when the youngsters asked the counselor’s opinion, “He told them he believed the girl had done the right thing, but that, of course, he would not try to force his values on them. ‘If I come from the position of what is wrong,’ he explained, ‘then I’m not their counselor.’”
Once upon a time, a counselor offered counselor, and he knew that an adult does not form character in the young by taking a stance of neutrality toward questions of right and wrong or by merely offering “choices” or “options”.
In response to the belief that adults and educators should teach children sound morals, one can expect from some quarters indignant objections (I’ve heard one version of it expressed countless times over the years): “Who are you to say what’s important?” or “Whose standards and judgments do we use?”
The correct response, it seems to me, is, is we ready to do away with standards and judgments? Is anyone going to argue seriously that a life of cheating and swindling is as worthy as a life of honest, hard work? Is anyone (with the exception of some literature professors at our elite universities) going to argue seriously the intellectual corollary, that a Marvel comic book is as good as Macbeth? Unless we are willing to embrace some pretty silly position, we’ve got to admit the need for moral and intellectual standards. The problem is that some people tend to regard anyone who would pronounce a definitive judgment as an unsophisticated Philistine or a closed-minded “elitist” trying to impose his view on everybody else.
The truth of the real world is that without standards and judgments, there can be no progress. Unless we are prepared to say irrational things—that nothing can be proven more valuable than anything else or that everything is equally worthless—we must ask the normative question. It may come, as a surprise to those who fell that to be “progressive” is to be value-neutral. But as Matthew Amold said, “the world is forwarded by having its attention fixed on the best things” and if the world can’t decide what the best things are, at least to some degree, then it follows that progress, and character, is in trouble. We shouldn’t be reluctant to declare that some things, some lives, books, ideas, and values are better than others. It is the responsibility of the schools to teach these better things.
At one time, we weren’t so reluctant to teach them. In the mid-nineteenth century, a diverse, widespread group of crusaders began to work for the public support of what was then called the “common school”, the forerunner of the public school. They were to be charged with the mission of school felt that the nation could fulfill its destiny only if every new generation was taught these values together in a common institution.
The leaders of the common school movement were mainly citizens who were prominent in their communities—businessmen, ministers, local civic and government officials. These people saw the schools as upholders of standards of individual morality and small incubators of civic and personal virtue; the founders of the public schools had faith that public education could teach good moral and civic character from a common ground of American values.
But in the past quarter century or so, some of the so-called experts became experts of value neutrality, and moral education was increasingly left in their hands. The commonsense view of parents and the publicthat schools should reinforce rather than undermine the values of home, family, and country, was increasingly rejected.
There are those today still that claim we are now too diverse a nation, that we consist of too many competing convictions and interests to instill common values. They are wrong. Of course we are a diverse people. We have always been a diverse people. And as Madison wrote in FederalistNo.10, the competing, balancing interests of a diverse people can help ensure the survival of liberty. But there are values that all American citizens share and that we should want all American students to know and to make their own: honesty, fairness, self-discipline, fidelity to task, friends, and family, personal responsibility, love of country, and belief in the principles of liberty, equality, and the freedom to practice one’s faith. The explicit teaching of these values is the legacy of the common schools, and it is a legacy to which we must return.
9. Schools Should Teach Values
People often said, “Yes, we should teach these values, but how do we teach them?” this question deserves a candid response, one that isn’t given often enough. It is by exposing our children to good character and inviting its imitation that we will transmit to them a moral foundation. This happens when teachers and principals, by their words and actions, embody sound convictions. As Oxford’s Mary Warnock has written, “You cannot teach morality without being committed to morality yourself; and you cannot be committed to morality yourself without holding that some things are right and others wrong.” The theologian Martin Buber wrote that the educator is distinguished from all other influences “by his will to take part in the stamping of character and by his consciousness that he represents in the eyes of the growing person a certain selection of what is, the selection of what is ‘right’, of what should be.” It is in this will, Buber says, in this clear standing for something, that the “vocation as an educator finds its fundamental expression.”
There is no escaping the fact that young people need as example principals and teachers who know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and who themselves exemplify high moral purpose.
As Education Secretary, I visited a class at Waterbury Elementary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and asked the students, “Is this a good school?” They answered, “Yes, this is a good school.” I asked them, “Why?” Among other things, one eight-year-old said, “The principal Mr. Riegel, makes good rules and everybody obeys them.” So I said, “Give me an example.” And another answered, “You can’t climb on the pipes in the bathroom. We don’t climb on the pipes and the principal doesn’t either.”
This example is probably too simple to please a lot of people who want to make the topic of moral education difficult, but there is something profound in the answer of those children, something education should pay more attention to. You can’t expect children to take messages about rules or morality seriously unless they see adults taking those rules seriously in their day-to-day affairs. Certain must be said, certain limits lay down, and certain examples set. There is no other way.
We should also do a better job at curriculum selection. The research shows that most “values education” exercises and separate courses in “moral reasoning” tend not to affect children’s behavior; if anything, they may leave children morally adrift. Where to turn? I believe our literature and our history are a rich quarry of moral literacy. We should mine that quarry. Children should have at their disposal a stock of examples illustrating what we believe to be right and wrong, good and bad—examples illustrating what are morally right and wrong can indeed be known and that there is a difference.
What kind of stories, historical events, and famous lives am I talking about? If we want our children to know about honesty, we should teach them about Abe Lincoln walking three miles to return six cents and conversely, about Aesop’s shepherd boy who cried wolf if we want them to know about courage, we should teach them about Joan of Arc, Horatius at the bridge, and Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. If we want them to know about persistence in the face of adversity, they should know about the voyages of Columbus and the character of Washington during the Civil War. And our youngest should be told about the Little Engine That Could. If we want them to know about respect for the law, they should understand why Socrates told Crito: “No, I must submit to the decree of Athens.” If we want our children to respect the rights of others, they should read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’ “Letter from Birmingham jail.” From the Bible they should know about Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi, Joseph’s forgiveness of his brothers, Jonathan’s friendship with David, the Good Samaritan’s kindness toward a stranger, and David’s cleverness and courage in facing Goliath.
These are only a few of the hundreds of examples we can call on. And we need not get into issues like nuclear war, abortion, creationism, or euthanasia. This may come as a disappointment to some people, but the fact is that the formation of character in young people is educationally a task different from, and prior to, the discussion of the great, difficult controversies of the day. First things come first. We should teach values the same way we teach other things: one step at a time. We should not use the fact that there are many difficult and controversial moral questions as an argument against basic instruction in the subject.
After all, we do not argue against teaching physics because laser physics is difficult, against teaching American history because there are heated disputes about the Founders’ intent. Every field has its complexities and its controversies. And every field has its basics, its fundamentals. So they are too with forming character and achieving moral literacy. As any parent knows, teaching character is a difficult task. But it is a crucial task, because we want our children to be healthy, happy, and successful but decent, strong, and good. None of this happens automatically; there is no genetic transmission of virtue. It takes the conscious, committed efforts of adults. It takes careful attention.
10. College Pressures
Mainly I try to remind that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches. They don not want to hear such liberating news. They want a map—right now – that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, Social Security and, presumably, a prepaid grave.
What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.
My wish, of course, is na?ve. One of the national gods venerated in our media—the million-dollar athlete, the wealthy executive—and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.
I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. It is easy to look around for villains—to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, and the students for driving themselves too hard. But there are no villains: only victims.
“In the late 1960s.” one dean told me. “The typical question that I got from students was ‘Why is there so much suffering in the world’ or ‘how I can make a contribution?’ Today it’s ‘Do you think it would look better for getting into law school if I did a double major in history and political science, or just majored in one of them?’” many other deans confirmed this pattern. One said: “They are trying to find an edge—the intangible something that will look better on paper if two students are about equal.”
Note the emphasis on looking better. The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person. A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline, even though, in Yale’s official system of grading, A means “excellent” and B means “very good.” Today, looking very good is no longer good enough, especially for students who hope to go on to law school or medical school. They know that entrance into the better schools will be an entrance into the better law firms and better medical practices where they will make a lot of money. They also know that the odds are harsh. Yale Law School, for instance, matriculates 170students from an applicant pool of 3,700; Harvard enrolls 550 from a pool of 7,000.
It’s all very well for those of us who write letters of recommendation for our students to stress the qualities of humanity that will make them good lawyers or doctors. And it’s nice to think that admission officers are ready reading our letters and looking for the extra dimension of commitment or concern. Still, it would be hard for a student not to visualize these officers shuffling so many transcripts studded with As that they regard a B as positively shameful.
The pressure is almost as heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. Long gone are the days of the “gentleman’s C.” when students journeyed through college with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses-music, art, philosophy, classics, anthropology, poetry, religion—that would send them out as liberally educated men and women. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know countless students whose inquiring minds exhilarate me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I do not know if they are getting As or Cs, and I do not care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They cannot.
Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Tuition, room, and board at most private colleges now come to at least $7,000, not counting books and fees. This might seem to suggest that the colleges are getting rich. But they are equally battered by inflation. Tuition covers only 60 percent of what it costs to educate a student, and ordinarily the remainder comes from what college receives in endowments, grants, and gifts. Now, the remainder keeps being swallowed by the cruel costs—higher every year—of just opening the doors. Heating oil is up. Insurance is up. Postage is up. Health-premium costs are up. Everything is up. Deficits are up. We are witnessing in American the creation of a brotherhood of paupers—colleges, parents, and students, joined by the common bond of debt.
Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to accrue $5,000 in loans after four years—loans that he must start to repay within one year after graduation. Exhorted at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning? I have used “he,” incidentally, only for brevity. Women at Yale are under no less pressure to justify their expensive education to themselves, their parents, and society. In fact, they are probably under more pressure. For although they leave college superbly equipped to bring fresh leadership to traditionally male jobs, society has not yet caught up with this fact.
Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply intertwined.
I see many students taking pre-medical courses with joyless tenacity. They go off to their labs as if they were going to the dentist. It saddens me because I know tem in other corners of their life as cheerful people.
“Do you want to medical school?” I asked them.
“I guess so,” they say, without conviction, or “Not really.”
“Then why are you going?”
“Well, my parents want me to be a doctor. They are paying all this money and …”
Poor students, poor parents, they are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean will; they are trying to steer their sons and draughts toward a secure future. But the sons and daughter want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics—an ability to synthesize and relate, to weigh cause and effect, to see events in perspective—are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field. Still, many fathers would rather put their money on courses that point toward specific profession—courses that are pre-law, pre-medical, pre-business, or, as I sometimes heard it put, “pre-rich.”
But the pressure on students is severe. They are truly torn. One part of them feels obliged to fulfill their parents’ expectations; after all, their parents are older and presumably wiser. Another part tells them that the expectations that are right for their parents are not right for them.
I know a student who wants to be an artist. She is very obviously an artist and will be a good one—she has already had several modest local exhibits. Meanwhile she is growing as a well-round person and taking humanistic subjects that will enrich the inner resources out of which her art will grow. But her father is strongly opposed. He thinks that an artist is a “dumb” thing to be. The student vacillates and tries to please everybody. She keeps up with her art somewhat furtively and takes some of the “dumb” courses her father wants her to take—at least they are dumb courses for her. She is a free spirit on a campus of tense students—no small achievement in it—and she deserves to follow her muse.
Peer pressure and self-induced pressure are also intertwined, and they begin almost at the beginning of freshman year.
“I had a freshman student I’ll call Linda,” one dean told me, “who came in and said she was under terrible pressure because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter and studied all the time. I could not tell her that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say the same thing about Linda.”
The story is almost funny—except that it is not. It is symptomatic of all the pressure put together. When every student thinks every other student is working harder and doing better, the only solution is to study harder still. I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight. I wish they would sometimes forget about their peers and go to a movie. I hear the clacking of typewriters in the hours before dawn. I see the tension in their eyes when exams are approaching and papers are due: “Will I get everything done?”
Probably they won’t. They will get blocked. They will sleep. They will oversleep. They will bug out.
Part of the problem is that they are expected to do. A professor will assign five page papers. Several students will start writing ten page papers to impress him. Then more students will write ten page papers, and a few will raise the ante to fifteen. Pity the poor student who is still just doing the assignment.
“Once you have twenty or thirty percent of the student population deliberately overexerting,” one dean points out, “It’s bad for everybody. When a teacher gets more and more effort from his class, the student who is doing normal work can be perceived as not doing well. The tactic work, psychologically.”
Why cannot the professor just cut back and not accept longer papers? He can, and he probably will. But by then the term will be half over and the damage done. Grade fever is highly contagious and not easily reversed. Besides, the professor’s main concern is with his course. He knows his students only in relation to the course and does not know that they are also overexerting in their other courses. Nor is it really his business. He did not sign up for dealing with the student as a whole person and with all the emotional baggage the student brought along from home. That’s what deans, masters, chaplains, and psychiatrists are for.
To some extent this is nothing new: a certain number of professors have always been self-contained islands of scholarship and shyness, more comfortable with books than with people. But the new pauperism has widened the gap still further, for professors who actually like to spend time with students do not have as much time to spend. They are also overexerting. If they are young, they are busy trying to publish in order not to perish, hanging by their figure nails onto a shrinking profession.
If they are old and tenured, they are buried under the duties of administering departments—as departmental chairmen or members of committees—that have been thinned out by the budgetary axe.
Ultimately it will be the students’ own business to break the circles in which they are trapped. They are too young to be prisoners of their parents’ dreams and their classmates’ fears. They must be jolted into believing into themselves as unique men and women who have the power to shape their own future.
“Violence is being done to the undergraduate experience,” says Carlos Hortas. “College should be open-ended: at the end it should open many, many roads. Instead, students are choosing their goal in advance, and their choices narrow as they go along. It’s almost as if they think that the country has been codified in the type of jobs that exist-that they’ve got to fit into certain slots. Therefore, fit into the best paying slot.”
“They ought to take chances. Not taking chances will lead to life of colorless mediocrity. They’ll be comfortable. But something in the spirit will be missing.”
I have painted too drab a portrait of today’s students, making them seem a solemn lot. That is only half of their story; if they were so dreary I wouldn’t so thoroughly enjoy their company. The other half is that they are easy to like. They are quick to laugh and to offer friendship. They are not introverts. They are usually kind and are more considerate of one another than any student generation I have known.
Nor are they so obsessed with their studies that they avoid sports and extracurricular activities. On the contrary, they juggle their crowded hours to play on a variety of teams, perform with musical and dramatic groups, and write for campus publications. But this in turn is one more cause of anxiety. There are too many choices. Academically, they have 1,300 courses to select from; outside class they have to decide how much spare time they can spare and how to spend it.
This means that they engage in fewer extracurricular pursuits than their predecessors did. If they want to row on the crew and play in the symphony they will eliminate one; in the ‘60s they would have done both. They also tend to choose activities that are self-limiting. Drama, for instance, is flourishing in all twelve of Yale’s residential colleges, as it never has before. Students hurl themselves into these productions—as actors, directors, carpenters, and technicians—with a dedication to create the best possible play, knowing that the day will come when the run will end and they can get back to their studies.
They also cannot afford to be the willing slave of organizations like the Yale Daily News. Last spring at the one-hundredth anniversary banquet of that paper—who’s past chairmen include such once and future kings as Potter Stewart, Kingman Brewster, and William F. Buckley, Jr.—much was made of the fact that the editorial staff used to be small and totally committed and that “newsies” routinely worked fifty hours a week. In effect they belonged to a club; Newsies is how they defined themselves at Yale. Today’s students will one or two articles a week, when he can, and he defines himself as a student. I’ve never heard the word Newsie except at the banquet.
If I have described the modern undergraduate primarily as a driven creature who is largely ignoring the blithe spirit inside who keeps trying to come out and play, it’s because that’s where the crunch is, not only at Yale but throughout American education. It’s why I think we should all be worried about the values that are nurturing a generation so fearful of risk and so goal-obsessed at such an early age.
I tell students that there is no one “right” way to get ahead—that each of them is a different person, starting from a different point and bound for a different destination. I tell neither them that change is a tonic and that all the slots are not codified nor the frontiers closed. One of my ways of telling them is to invite men and women who have achieved success outside the academic world to come and talk informally with my students during the year. They are heads of companies or ad agencies, editors of magazines, politicians, public officials, television magnates, labor leaders, business executives, Broadway products, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians—a mixed bag of achievers.
I asked them to say a few words about how they got started. The students assume that they started in their present profession and knew all along that it was what they wanted to do. Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by a circuitous route, to their surprise, after many detours. The students are startled. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not pre-planned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.
11. To Err Is Wrong
In the summer of 1979, Boston Red Sox first baseman Carl Yastrzemski became the fifteenth player in baseball history to reach the three thousand hit plateaus. This event drew a lot of media attention, and for about a week prior to the attainment of this goal, hundreds of reports covered Yaz’s every more. Finally, one reporter asked, “Hey Yaz, aren’t you afraid all of this attention will go to your head?” Yastrzemski replied, “I look at this way: in my career I’ve been up to bat over ten thousand times. That means I’ve been unsuccessful at the plate over seven thousand times. That fact alone keeps me from getting a swollen head.”?
Most people consider success and failure as opposites, but they are actually both products of the same process. As Yaz suggest, an activity that produces a hit may also produce a miss. It is the same with creative thinking; the same energy that generates good creative ideas also produces errors.
Many people, however, are not comfortable with errors. Our educational system, based on “the right answer” belief, cultivates our thinking in another, more conservative way. From an early age, we are taught that right answers are good and incorrect answers are bad. This value is deeply embedded in the incentive system used in most schools:
Right over 90% of the time = “A”
Right over 80% of the time = “B~”
Right over 70% of the time = “C~” Right over 60% of the time = “D~” Less than 60% correct, you fail.
From this we learn to be right as often as possible and to keep our mistakes to a minimum. We learn, in other words, that “to err is wrong.
Playing It Safe
With this kind of attitude, you aren’t going to be taking too many chances. If you learn that failing even a litter penalizes you (e.g., being wrong only 15% of the time garners you only a “B” performance), you learn not to make mistakes. And more important, you learn not to put yourself to situation where you might fall. This leads to conservative thought pattern designed to avoid the stigma our society puts on “failure”.
I have a friend who recently graduated from college with a Master’s degree in Journalism. For the last six month, she has been trying to find a job, but to no avail. I talked with her about situation, and realized that her problem is that she doesn’t know how to fail. She went through eighteen years of schooling to try any approaches where she might fail. She has been conditioned to believe that failure is bad in and of itself, rather than a potential stepping-stone to new ideas.
Look around. How many middle managers, housewives, administrators, teachers, and other people do you see who are to try anything new because of this failure? Most of us have learned not to make mistakes in public. As a result, we remove ourselves from many learning experience except for those occurring in the most private of circumstances.
Different Logic
From a practical point of view, “to err is wrong” makes sense. Our survival in the everyday world requires us to perform thousand of small tasks without failure. Think about it: you wouldn’t last very long if you were to step out in front of traffic or stick your hand a pot of boiling water. In addition, engineers whose bridges collapse, stock brokers who lose money for their clients, and copywriters whose ad campaigns decrease sales won’t keep their jobs very long.
Nevertheless, too great an adherence to the belief “to err is wrong” can greatly undermine your attempts to generate new ideas. If you are more concerned with producing right answers than generating original ideas, you’ll probably make uncritical use of the rules, formulae, and procedures used to obtain these right answers. By doing this, you’ll by-pass the germinal phase of the creative process, and thus spend litter time testing assumptions, challenging the rules, asking what-if questions, or just playing around with the problem. All of these techniques will produce some incorrect answers, but in the germinal phase errors are viewed as a necessary by-product of creative thinking. As Yaz would put it, “if you want the hits, be prepared for the misses.” That’s the way the game of life goes.
Errors as Stepping Stones
Whenever an error pops up, the usual response is “Jeez, another screw up, what went wrong this time?” the creative thinker, on the other hand, will realize the potential value of errors, and perhaps say something like, “Would you look at that! Where can it lead our thinking?” and then he or she will go on to use the error as a stepping stone to a new idea. As a matter of fact, the whole history of discovery is filed with people who used erroneous assumptions and failed ideas as stepping-stones to new ideas. Columbus thought he was finding a shorter route to India. Johannes Kepler stumbled on to the idea of interplanetary gravity because of assumptions that were right for the wrong reasons. And, Thomas Edison knew 1800 ways not to build a light bulb.
The following story about the automotive genius Charles Kettering exemplifies the spirit of working through erroneous assumptions to good ideas. In 1912, when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow, Kettering was interested in improving gasoline engine efficiency. The problem he faced was“knockthe phenomenon in which gasoline takes too long to burn in the cylinder-thereby reducing efficiency.
Kettering began searching for ways to eliminate the “knock.” He thought to him, “How can I get the gasoline to combust in the cylinder at an earlier time?” the key concept here is “early”. Searching for analogous situations, he looked around for models of “things that happen early.” He thought of historical models, physical models, and biological models. Finally, he remembered a particular plant, the trailing arbutus, which “happens early,” i.e., it blooms in the snow (“earlier” than other plants). One of this plant’s chief characteristics is its’ red leaves, which help the plant retain light at certain wavelengths. Kettering figured that it must be the red color, which made the trailing arbutus bloom earlier.
Now came the critical step in Kettering’s chain of thought. He asked himself, “How can I make the gasoline red?” perhaps I’ll put red dye in the gasoline—maybe that’ll make it combust earlier.” He looked around his workshop, and found that he didn’t have any red dye. But he did happen to have some iodine—perhaps that would do. He added the iodine to the gasoline and, lo and behold, the engine didn’t “knock”.
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+ 加入清单Today is New Years Eve morning, firecrackers sounding snap snap away. As long as you take a look at the outside, red firecrackers everywhere, come together to form a Red Sea. The family have their own homes going up in the beautiful, it seems like in the match. My family is no exception, sweeping, glass, cabinets, such as rubbing. Prepare the arrival of the New Year. 今天是除夕,上午,鞭炮声劈啪劈啪的响个不停。只要你向外面看一看,到处都是红红的鞭炮,汇成了一条红海。各家人都把自己家打扮的漂漂亮亮的,好像在比美似的。我家也不例外,扫地、擦玻璃、擦柜子等。准备新年的到来。 Afternoon, we posted in accordance with the custom of the Chinese New Year couplets, father and a good paste, and then said to me: "I paste you posted, I looked at the high level you say rich, said that if the lower rising good you ", I asked my father why? Dad said: "The plan is a lucky," "Oh, I understand," We posted on the Alliance are: evil Hongfu family happy is: wang gas people to come into everything. 下午,我们就按过年的习俗贴春联,爸爸和好浆糊,然后对我说:“我贴你看着高低我贴高了你就说‘发财’,如果低了就说‘高升’好吗”,我问爸爸为什么呢?爸爸说:“就是图个吉祥”,“噢我懂了”我们贴的上联是:家有宏福千般喜,下联是:人来 旺气万事成。 End paste New Year, we began dumplings. Good luck to Tim, we are still a dumpling in a bag of coins. Dinner, my folder, a Dumpling, one to eat, "cough," the voice of a coin吃出for my whole family applauded, and say that I am lucky this year. After dumplings, we saw the Chinese New Year Festival, my favorite essay nd "yellow soybeans." Liu Qian first a one-dollar coins into the cup, then into the host egg rings. "Bean yellow" in a person to "take off clouds" that they "Li Xiangyun" really funny. No wonder people say: "Spring Festival Evening Show" is a cultural feast. 贴完春联,我们就开始包饺子。为了添吉祥,我们还在一个饺子里包了一个硬币。吃晚饭时,我夹了一个饺子,一吃 “咯”的一声,吃出一个硬币全家人都为我鼓掌,说我今年有福气。吃完饺子,我们又
篇6:高中学习生活英语作文
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+ 加入清单As a Senior Grade Three students, I am very busy in preparing for the college entrance examination. I have seven classes a day, and two self-study classes at night. And only a day left for the weekend. So, most of the time I have to spend on the study, after all the college entrance examination is very important for almost all of us. Aside of study, I would play football with my friends after school and the weekend. I like playing football very much. When I run on the football field, I can put the examination thing off my mind for a while, only sweat and laugh left. It is a good exercise for health and a good way to relax from the busy study too. This is my high school life, busy and fulfilling.
作为一个高三的学生,我忙于为高考做准备。我一天有7节课,还有两节晚自习。周末只剩下一天。所以,我把大部分时间都花在学习上,毕竟高考对我们大多数人来说都十分重要。除了学习,我会在放学后以及周末跟我的朋友一起踢足球。我非常喜欢踢足球。当我在足球场上奔跑的时候,我可以暂时将考试的事情抛之脑后,只剩下汗水和欢笑。这对健康是个很好的锻炼,也是一个学习之余很好的放松方式。这就是我的高中生活,忙碌而充实。
篇7:剧本写作方法之25个写作技巧
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+ 加入清单下面是小编为你带来的剧本写作方法之25个写作技巧,希望对你有帮助。
【什么是编剧】编剧是一 种职业,正如木匠、铁匠、厨师、开锁匠等一 样,没有什么了不得的。在我看来,只要打 算、正在、已经靠写剧本为生,或者可以把剧 本卖出去的,都可以自称“编剧”,没什么高贵,不就木匠而已吗?
【逻辑力】对于做一个编剧的要求,与其说需 要想象力,不如说更需要逻辑力。想象力像孩子,逻辑力才是成人。你听一个孩子讲他漫无边际的幻想,最多赞许他天真烂漫,但不会为 他的“故事”着迷,不会探究,不会好奇,不会 较真,不会期待,不会震撼,不会深思,而这些感受的形成,需要一个逻辑缜密的创作才能达成。
【熟识角色】谁是主角?他出场前在做什么? 家庭状况体貌特征?学历教育?优点缺点个人 喜好人际关系……认识他非一次性完成,反复琢磨并与其他角色相互砥砺,仿佛在生活中遇见 人,对他身世背景的了解不断深化。最重要, 人物设计为你写他的目的服务。结论:人物小传须反复多次完成,并服从于剧本主题。
【A点】下笔前一定问自己:这个剧本你非写 不可吗?什么让你如鲠在喉?也许是一个愤 怒、一段思念、一个画面、一场高潮戏、一个流泪片段,甚至可能是一次委屈。总之,找到 这个动力源,把它作A点确定下来。有了A,才能推演出B,由B再推演C和D。也许往下推演不顺而回过头来调整A,但是,写剧本必须找到 A。
【编剧秘笈】影视剧是正着看:从头看到尾; 却是倒着写:从尾往头写。观众不知道结局, 可有一万个猜测,增加观看乐趣;编剧不知结 局,也会有一万个可能,那就让自己迷失而无 法前行。不仅倒着写,还要反着写,结局是和 解,前面就是误会;结局是顿悟,前面就是迷 瞪,拧巴。总之,想好了最后一个高潮再下笔!
【寻找首先出拳的人】无论一部电影、一个短 片,还是一个戏剧段落,开场3—5分钟,必须 有人出拳,就是第一块骨牌,第一个撞击,第 一次危机。这第一拳最好足够的狠,才能激起 强烈反响,被撞击方和观众才能被打懵,才能 引起足够大的波澜,才能引起一系列的连锁反 应,才能吊起观众的胃口、好奇心:后来呢?
【关于题材1】什么是题材?回答“你的剧本是 讲什么”的答案,就是题材。讲教育、讲抗战、 讲父爱、讲复仇……。题材重要吗?重要,许多 题材不能拍,有些题材太难搞,还有些题材被人写烂了,制片人拒绝,是因为哪怕你作为观 众也拒绝。听劝,不要动笔。有些题材一下让 人感到有亮点,会有人鼓励你写。重要!
【关于题材2】题材也不重要,太泛,无实质意 义。除了某些特定题材被禁止之外,理论上没 有冷题材和热题材之分。即便是制片人出品 人,也仅仅是把题材作为交谈的第一句话,接下来还是要看编剧怎样去写某个题材。从什么 角度、挖掘到什么深度、表达什么思想和情 怀、反映什么问题、何处有升华,这些才重 要。
【关于明星】如今明星片酬过高已让电影电视 剧不堪重负。为什么明星涨价?因为明星不够 用。明星为什么不够用?因为缺乏造星机制。 其实,每一个明星都是从非明星小演员变幻而 来,靠什么变?靠一部好戏。好剧本,好导 演,好的班底。但如今的电视台和出品公司似 乎忘记了这一切,到底先有鸡还是先有蛋?
【可否主题先行】可以!编剧常接到命题作 文,主题先行也出过经典作品。关键:1.不求 主题深刻,所有的主题都是大路货;2.不能直奔主题,越曲折越好;3.主题不重要,用什么 故事去说明它才重要;4.弱化主题的存在,隐 藏它,主题是观众品出来的;5.主题是有意 义,故事是有意思,首先有意思,而后有意义。
【动作】编故事的关键是找到角色动作。动作 分两种:主动动作和被动动作。前者是我想干 嘛。想考研,出击准备,迎接挑战。被动动作是路上走得好好的,一个花盆从天而降砸在头 上,流血抢救、血型不对、没带钱,医生不 在…编剧的任务就是给角色动作设置障碍,他克服重重障碍达到目的或转危为安,就是故事。
【事件】用简略方式将观众带入角色所处的规 定情景后,必须发生事件。只有事件才能让人 物活起来并让观众感同身受。事件要件:1.有 足够的冲击力,让人物动起来;2.须引起观众 的关注和期待;3.能引起连锁反应;4.能造成人物冲突(外部)和纠结(内在)的空间。一部电影需要3—5个相互关联的事件。
【拐点】事件发展过程中的变化和转折。人物动作带领观众朝某个方向走,或达到目的或出现意外使得人物动作方向改变的那个点,就叫拐点。拐点特征:1.逻辑的必然;2.关注和情绪的小高峰;3.拐的方向出人意料(需要编剧挖坑给观众跳);4.具有节奏调节能力;5.体现变化与多元特征;6.起到转承启合的作用。
【下狠手】故事产生于动作,动作来源于人物,人物发力源于编剧给他的压力。我称之为压弹簧。编剧压弹簧越给力,人物的动作发力越大。所以,老好人当不了好编剧。编剧对心爱的主人公不能太好,你得让他受苦,被凌辱,遭打击,让他危机重重、走投无路、苦不堪言、生不如死……所谓天将降大任于斯是也。
【生活质感】什么是剧本的生活质感:1.人物 鲜活,2.故事贴近生活,3.对话生动有趣,4.细节丰富,5.平和但有张力……如何变成剧本?大 概:1.善于观察;2.保持敏感;3.准确截取;4. 学会提炼;5.大胆推理;6.坚持积累;7.复合表达。这些大体属于技术层面,其实功夫在诗外,保持和培养自身人文情怀最重要。
【个性化对白】编剧困惑之一,总不能千人一 面,千口一腔吧。但语言又有极大的同一性, 我们都说人话,不说鸟语,过于特别会造作。 人物个性化对白应该是:1.不能违背人物性格;2.尽量有一些个性化标志(口头禅、用词);3.说话的方式比用词更重要;4.人物内在依据大于外在形似;5.强化亮点避免刻意。
【和观众谈恋爱】写剧本好比和观众谈场恋 爱。观众是美女,你首先必须爱她,然后挑 逗、讨好、诱惑她,弄清楚她想什么,她要什 么,然后给予、付出,满足她。可一味地附和,无原则的让步也不行,你得有坚守。你不 能过分宠她,对她的弱点你得抑制、教训、警告、恐吓,随后(高潮时)征服她,方抱得美人归。
【戏剧任务】是一场戏、一个段落甚至整个剧 本中编剧想要完成的任务。它可以同时是角色 的任务,也可分开。攻打无名高地,角色任务 是战胜敌人,戏剧任务却是展现战争的残酷或 兄弟情。要点:1.必须提前明确;2.与角色任 务同步;3.指挥角色动作的真正灵魂;4.角色任务包裹戏剧任务;5.全剧戏剧任务=主题。
【可恨的编剧】编剧是什么?编剧是无中生有的人(虚构),是无事生非的挑拨者(冲 突),是狠心郎负心汉(让人流泪),是奸妻不共戴天的仇敌(激怒),是大乱的贼子(高潮)……从前有个帅哥巧遇一个美 女,他们一见钟情,坠入爱河,从此过上幸福 的生活——这样一帆风顺的故事谁看呀?
【合理与奇特】写剧本设置人物和事件时常纠 结,因为合理与奇特注定相互矛盾,处处合理 则易平淡,过分奇特又难免违背逻辑。首先考虑奇特,先出奇招,然后将其合理 化。如果费老劲也没能使其合理,弃之。然后重新再寻找并设置一个奇特。即便没有奇特的 事件,也尽量换一个奇特的角度。总之要奇。
【小高潮】相对大高潮而言的,在电影里突 出,因电影一次观赏,结尾前定有最大高潮出现,之前的小危机及解决(拐点)被称为小高潮。电视剧太长,难找大高潮(多次观影),加之电视剧分集实际由导演最后任意切割,更难准确设置拐点,所以只能模糊。经验:以故事段落为标准,3到6个拐点配一个段落高潮。
【首三集】电视剧约定俗成为长篇评书,在漫长观影过程中,观众要付出大量的时间和关注,于是首三集成为观众决定是否继续看的关键,也成为购片者和电视台(搜集收视率)评判依据,至关重要。英雄三板斧新官三把火: 1.信息量大(人物场面风格视觉动作);2.节奏紧凑;3.冲突迭起;4.戏剧张力强,玩命!5. 制造大悬念(让人觉得后续有大戏要唱);6.有趣(台词、机关设置、细节)。总之,编剧有多大劲使多大劲。
【剧本标准】罗伯特·麦基曾在好莱坞当剧本编 辑,他常写下评语说某剧本场景诙谐、感觉敏 锐、文笔通顺、用词恰当,但故事令人失望。 他从来没有写过这样的评语:该剧本语法糟 糕、拼写错误、对白拗口、方位杂乱、打印格 式不规范,但它故事精彩、动人心魄、人物深 邃、高潮迭起。前者坏剧本,后者好剧本。
【交代戏】虽然对故事背景、人物关系、事件 来龙等需要必要的交代,但应尽量避免纯粹、 单独的交代戏,好的交代应该是:1.非一次性 在不同场景和对话中泄露出来;2.留下可补充 的残缺让观众自己去概括或推理;3.符合场景 和人物自身逻辑自然流露;4.尽量用交代带出 人物性格特种;5.尽量对情节发展有推动。
【过场戏】为衔接两场戏设置的过度段落,特点是游离于剧情之外。不好的剧本通篇都是过场戏,而写得好的过场戏应该是:1.逻辑的一 环,因而不可或缺(虽本身不推动剧情,但拿掉则破坏剧情);2.节奏调节器(不从剧情上起作用,但为下一个高潮做情绪情感铺垫);3.可玩味的闲笔,展现抒情幽默风格趣味风情。
【高潮】指文艺作品中矛盾冲突发展到顶点及 其解决。电影中主角贯穿始终的动作不断遇到 阻碍(冲突),阻碍来自敌对方(人、自然、有形或无形势力、甚至自身等),并越来越大,主角危机四伏。结尾前最后一个危机越不过去,酿成遭灭顶之灾,主人公用尽全力反败为胜战胜对手(正剧喜剧)或失败(悲剧)。 要点:1.最后的危机须做到极致(将主人公置于死地);2.一定要形成拐点(顶点急转直下)。
篇8:元宵节高中英语作文
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+ 加入清单The 15-Day Celebration of Chinese New Year.
The first day of the Lunar New Year is "the welcoming of the gods of the heavens and earth."Many people abstain from meat on the first day of the new year because it is believed that this will ensure long and happy lives for them.
On the second day, the Chinese pray to their ancestors as well as to all the gods. They are extra kind to dogs and feed them well as it is believed that the second day is the birthday of all dogs.
The third and fourth days are for the sons-in-laws to pay respect to their parents-in-law.
The fifth day is called Po Woo. On that day people stay home to welcome the God of Wealth. No one visits families and friends on the fifth day because it will bring both parties bad luck.
On the sixth to the 10th day, the Chinese visit their relatives and friends freely. They also visit the temples to pray for good fortune and health.
The seventh day of the New Year is the day for farmers to display their produce. These farmers make a drink from seven types of vegetables to celebrate the occasion. The seventh day is also considered the birthday of human beings. Noodles are eaten to promote longevity and raw fish for success.
On the eighth day the Fujian people have another family reunion dinner, and at midnight they pray to Tian Gong, the God of Heaven.
The ninth day is to make offerings to the Jade Emperor.
The 10th through the 12th are days that friends and relatives should be invited for dinner. After so much rich food, on the 13th day you should have simple rice congee and mustard greens (choi sum) to cleanse the system.
The 14th day should be for preparations to celebrate the Lantern Festival which is to be held on the 15th night.
篇9:小学说明文的写作技巧
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+ 加入清单导语:我们在写作的时候说明文有什么样的写作技巧呢?以下是小编为大家分享的小学说明文的写作技巧,欢迎借鉴!
说明文,即用来解释或说明事物、理论、方法、过程或某种抽象概念的文章。说明文的基本目的就是说清楚。也就是说,要让人看了文章后对文章中解释或说明的对象有清晰明确的认识。这就决定了说明文的基本特征是客观和科学。
说明文首要的一点是明确说明的 对象,然后用准确的语言,结合多种说明手法对之进行介绍和描述。常用的说明手法有下定义、分类别、作比较、引资料、举例子、列数字、画图表等。下定义,即给要说明的对象下一个明确的定义。如博物馆的定义就是征集、保藏、陈列和研究代表自然和人类的实物,并为公众提供知识、教育和欣赏的文化教育机构。分类别是将要说明的对象按照某种标准划分类别,以帮助读者对事物的理解。如电视机,可以分为彩色电视机和黑白电视机。作比较,即将这种事物与那种事物比较异同,从而更清楚地说明事物的特点。如将城市和乡村作比较,将大学和幼儿园作比较等。作比较的时候一定要注意比较的事物之间应当具有可比性,不能生拉硬扯,也不能不尊重客观事实,胡乱比较。为了说明某种事物的特点,有时候需要介绍它的背景、原理、历史等,这时就要用到引资料这种手法。比如我们要对长城进行说明,适当地引用一些历史文献,就更有助于今天的人们了解长城的历史,从而加深对长城中所蕴含的民族精神的认识。在复杂说明文中,列图表具有不可替代的优势。大量的数据、冗长的叙述、复杂的相互关系等,都可以通过图表得到直观的表达。
按说明的对象不同,说明文可分为事物说明文和事理说明文。前者着重在于说明的成因、构造、形状、用途等,后者则重在说明事理。这两类说明文常用的写作手法也有一定的区别。比如事物说明文重在说明事物的物理特征,常用的是下定义、分类别等说明手法,事理说明文重在说明事物的逻辑特征,地要用到引资料、作比较等说明手法。但时候,在同一篇文章中,几种说明手法都要用到,相辅相成,互为补充。
如何使说明文物理并重、形神兼备的呢?首要的一点是观察。说明文写作的前提是对要说明的事物非常熟悉。要做到这一点,就要养成认真观察、深入了解的习惯:
观察要有针对性。要带着问题观察,而不是走马观花、浮光掠影。最好能在观察前列出观察提纲,观察时要记笔记、画图标。要善于提出问题。
观察时要分清主次。这就要求我们注意观察的顺序。观察有概括性观察和特写性观察之分。前一种方法有助于抓住事物的概貌,后者则利于把握观察对象的细节和特征。由概括到特写、由全局到局部,是观察的一般原理。
观察重在事物的形。要想传神,写出事物的内涵、原理等,则需要有很好的查阅资料、作调查的能力。比如我们要写一篇文章来说明洛阳牡丹。在写好它的形状、颜色、品种之外,如果能够考察一下洛阳牡丹的来历、其中的牡丹名品在培育中的科学原理,这篇文章就会有说服力,使读者更深刻地认识到洛阳牡丹的文化特色。这就要求我们具备相当的知识积累、广阔的知识面和优秀的调查能力。作为小,应当从小注重积累知识和调查能力的训练。比如通过剪报、记笔记、上图书馆和阅览室等途径来有意识地训练自己。
写作说明文还要注意说明的顺序。有合理的顺序,文章才能条理清晰,让人看得明白。说明顺序一般有三种,即空间顺序、时间顺序、逻辑顺序。间顺序一般有从上到下、从左到右、从前到后、从远到近等。时间顺序一般有从古到今、从过去到现在等。 逻辑顺序有从现象到本质、从原因到结果、从主要到次要、从整体到部分、从概括到具体等。什么是合理的顺序呢?这要根据人们认识事物的过程以及说明对象本身的特征、规律而定。说明事物的形状、构造等,往往以空间为顺序;说明事物的成因、方法,往往以时间为顺序;说明事物的事理,往往以逻辑关系为顺序。
当然,大多数说明文会综合使用多种说明顺序。因此,在写作时,我们要合理地安排好说明顺序,理清说明文的结构层次。常用的结构层次有并列式、层进式和总分式三种。比如我们以“水”为题目进行写作,可以先写水的外形特征,再写水的分类,然后写水的用途,这是并列式的写作层次。我们也可以先写水的外形,再写水的成因,最后写水给人类带来的利与害,这是层进式的结构层次。先概括水的用途和特征,再一一细述,就是总分式。
说明文的特点
说明文是一种对事物作客观说明的一种文体,目的在于给予读者知识。中学生对说明文的写作最感头痛,往往举步维艰。其实,说明文的写作并非像同学们所害怕的那样,只要理顺了头绪,把阅读说明文和写作说明文结合起来,以阅读课文为写作借鉴的范例,多观察、多分析、多练习,就能逐步学会选用恰当的说明方法,正确而有条理地说明事物的特征
第一,要写好一篇说明文,首先得分清说明文和记叙文的区别。说明文的写作是授人以知,让人明白,记叙文写作目的是以情感人、让人动情。说明文只是说明事物的特征,阐明原理,介绍知识,说明是手段。说明文与议论文的区别,主要在于说明文的目的主要是说明,议论文的目的则主要是说理;说明文要求把实体事物或抽象事理本身的情况说清楚,议论文则要求提出个人对议论对象的看法或主张
第二,要完成一篇说明文,须将说明文的特点烂熟于心。说明文的特点主要有说明性、知识性、科学性、实用性。只有很好地掌握了说明文的这些特点,才能将说明文写好
第三,须将说明文的类型分清楚,如果从内容上而言,说明文可分为事物说明文和事理说明文,如果从表达方式上分,可以分为平实说明文和科学小品文事物说明文:以具体事物为说明对象,将事物是怎样的作为说明重点,对事物的状态、性质、功能、构造、发展变化等特征,进行科学说明。事理说明文:以事物的发生,发展变化以及相互联系的成因等为说明对象的说明文,说清怎么样和为什么,使人不仅知其然,还要知其所以然平实性说明文:是指用平实、简洁、明白的语言对事物的外形,内部结构,功用及种属关系加以较客观的说明,用词造句一般不带感情色彩和主观倾向,很少使用描写,更少使用修辞手法。
篇10:有关艺术英语作文高中
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+ 加入清单China has the history of more than 5,000 years. Many foreign people are
attracted by this big old country. They come here and want to know about the
traditional culture. However, Chinese young people dont show much interest in
the old culture, instead they chase the fashion and some even abandon the
precious culture. For example, paper cutting, one of the excellent arts that is
inherited by our ancestors. Many foreign media speak highly of this great
handicraft and they are astonished by the wisdom of Chinese people. I have seen
this art when I stay in my hometown. Only few old people can do it. They just
take it for killing time. Paper cutting is like the old fashion and is forgotten
by the young generation. The media should report more positive information about
the traditional culture to inspire the young people to learn.
篇11:申论写作技巧提升方法
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+ 加入清单近年来,在事业单位考试中,申论能力的考查比重愈显提升,甚至有些事业单位单独考查考生的写作能力,而考生在申论需要掌握的题型中,作文是大部分考生的弱项,因此以下就针对申论作文的学习与复习进行阐述和解释。下面是小编为大家带来的申论写作技巧提升方法,欢迎阅读。
一、作文考察的核心能力
作文又名申发论述,顾名思义要求同学们能够对一个主旨精神进行论述,发表观点和意见,简而言之,在阅卷者眼中,考生的作文要能够有理有据;同时在考生的作文表达中,要求考生有一定语言表达能力,用政府规范性用语表达一定的主旨精神;除此之外,在作文的实际做题中,需要考生围绕给定资料得出一个主旨立意,不能脱离开这主旨立意进行论述,俗称作文是否跑题,因此需要考生具备归纳材料,梳理主旨观点的能力。
二、作文提升的主要技巧
作文技巧提升主要分为以下方面:第一、明确主旨立意,保证不跑题。通过提高阅读理解能力来深入掌握文章主旨内容;第二、掌握写作结构,保证结构清晰。在复习时间较短的情况下,考生可以选择一种文章的写作结构,如以分析为主的文章结构,进行多次训练,熟悉掌握一种文章结构来应对千变万化的考试,避免考生在写作文时产生结构凌乱的情况;第三、学会选取分论点,保证文章逻辑清晰,分析深刻。分论点本身是对总论点的展开论述,某种程度上,分论点的深刻性直接决定作文的水平,因此考生需要在分论点上下足功夫,一般选取分论点的方法主要是来源于给定资料的原因、影响、对策,但是考生需注意这里的原因、影响、对策不再是从微观层面去看待,而是从全篇材料来看的宏观的原因、影响、对策。综上所述,考生只要能追寻以上三条原则,作文不会成为申论的薄弱项,但是想要进一步提升作文能力,还需要下面的积累作为补充。
三、写作能力的长期养成
在申论中一旦提到能力的长期养成,都离不开考生本身长期的阅读积累,热点积累,好词好句的积累。考生需要在考前三个月开始关注国家时事热点,了解当前国家政策布局,提高理论素养,保证在作文时能对主旨进行深刻的阐述,不落俗套;如果考生本身马上面临考试,那么建议考生能够用最快的速度略读热点书籍,做到心中有数,有针对性的背熟好词好句,考前磨枪,不快也光。
综合以上内容,作文技巧包括立意、结构、分论点、语言方面的提升,因此考生可以分步骤有顺序的进行复习。
篇12:关于网络Internet高中英语作文
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+ 加入清单everything lives with opposite forces。 the same can be said about modern technology, such asInternet。
at first glance internet offers us excitement and a worl of promise。 frankly speaking, people who have some ideas of it can not deny the merits born with the system。 for instance,it can improve proficiency in scientific research, for by means of it scientists and researchers can get a global look at the latest development in the field concerned and accordingly they need spend no time doing what has already been done。 in view of personal communication, the most convenient means could be peculiar to internet, too。
while people speak highly of internet, its drawbacks shouldnt be neglected。 sometimes, alittle fatal breakdown of the system, or a disastrous error could bring us an enormous amount of damage and loss。 meanwhile, with lnternets replacement of hooks or the written work as the main source of information, humans writing abilities are weakened and relations between people are desalinated。
however, every country on this planet should work hard to develop the system to serve us more efficiently and comfortably, because in the net all countries are interrelated。
篇13:高中保护环境的英语作文
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+ 加入清单Hello, everyone. I’m am a student in No.1 Middle School. I’m very proud that I have been chosen to speak to you all today.How to protect/save our environment/world?
The environmental pollution is worse and worse /more and more seriously today. Water is polluted ,we have no clean water to drink Many trees are cutting down, some animals is getting less and less.Some factories is poring dirty air in the sky , the population is increasing faster and faster ,resources is getting less and less…etc. Not only does it affect our lives and health, it also has a great affection in the future.
The first fact I worry about is noise pollution. People can"t sleep well if there is too much noise. That"s why so many people prefer to live in the countryside rather than live in the noisy city. I suggest all the factories and cars shouldn"t make terrible noises. If they make terrible noise that isn"t allowed, they will be fined, and we can also produce the cars which can"t make terrible noise.
The other pollution is rubbish pollution. If everyone makes so much rubbish, one day we may live in a world filled with rubbish. Some people throw the waste paper about. I suggest rubbish should be put into different kinds of dustbins or paper bags.
篇14:准备英语作文考试技巧
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+ 加入清单英语写作对许多考生来说是令人头痛的难题。究其原因,造成写作困难的因素很多,根据我们对考生的了解,可归结为以下两个主要方面。
第一,在外语学习五项能力――听、说、读、写、译――的训练方面,学生从中学到大学在听、说、读三项能力方面得到的训练比较多,而在写的能力上得到的培养最少,有时最基本的写句训练都是靠做选择项的形式来完成的,很少有真正动手写的机会;因而很多学生在做语法题或改错时有敏锐的辩别力,能够找出很复杂的语法错误,可是一旦自己真正动笔写,却错误多得不得了,而且很多都是最简单最基本的语法错误。所以,平时写的少,练的少,是构成写作困难的主要原因。
第二,不少学生缺乏对写作知识和写作技巧的了解和学习。他们一写作文,就感到脑子空空,不知如何下笔,写起来也是想到哪儿,写到哪儿,有时还东拼西凑,因而写作文时,常常是低水平上的重复,提高不快。如果能了解和学习一些英语写作知识,加上适当的指导和训练,写作水平会很快得到提高。考生要根据所给题目、素材、写作提纲、规定情景或图表等在40分钟内写出不少于150词的短文。要求内容切题,表达清楚,意义连贯,语言比较规范。根据大纲的要求,考生要想在短文写作中取得高分,首先要具备两方面的英语基本功:一是较强的句子表达水平,句子要写正确、表达准确到位,要有一定的英语修辞知识。二要具备英语语篇写作知识,这样才能适应不同类型的命题,主动灵活有条理地运用自己的语言知识和能力写好短文。此外,考生还应对作文考题有一定的了解,知己知彼才能稳操胜券。
考题特点
(1)作文选材均为热门话题并贴近生活作文选题范围均为当今社会的热门话题,从电视广告到希望工程,从父母与子女的关系到拥有健康的重要性,从世界烟民现状到近年盛行一时的“承诺”,环境保护,无不反映了当前公众最为关注的事。
(2)文体多为说明文与议论文说明文和议论文用途较广,我们平时接触的文章、报纸、信件等等多为这两种体裁。在工作岗位上所撰写的材料大多也是说明文或议论文。因而考这种体裁的写作比较符合实际需要。
(3)出题形式趋于多样化。这一变革显示了对提高考生的实际运用语言能力的重视,同时也要求考生要在多写多练上下功夫,这样对才能在作文考试中夺取高分。提高笔头表达能力是关键:我们希望广大考生要在切实提高英语写作水平上下功夫,不能靠扣题、押题或背诵一些短文应付考试,其结果必然与希望的相差甚远。背诵是学习英语的一种好方法,但仅靠背诵来提高英语写作水平是不够的。写作水平的提高还是要靠亲自动笔写,多写多练,把学到的语言知识运用到写作中去。
考生可以参考以下方法进行写作练习。
1.多读范文多读范文能使考生了解写作方法,写作的常用词汇,记住其中一些比较好的用法。
2.多写作文12月前应该每周写一篇作文并且要把每一篇写好,不要在一个水平上反复重复,要力争写好每一篇,这样写几篇后就会有收获。临近考试,可以按照规定时间写作,此时写作的题目要广泛,各种话题都要写一些,以增强适应性。
3.写作时可以多查字典,不看范文写作时遇到不会写的词句要多查字典,还要看该词的用法,这样才能保证正确使用;写前不要看范文,看了范文会影响自己的思路,写完后再参看范文。
4.注意书写整齐平时写作就要注意书写整齐,规范,要在平时养成良好习惯,在考场上才能发挥得好。字迹潦草,卷面不干净会影响成绩。
篇15:高中英语
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+ 加入清单Im the only child in my family, the apple of my parents eyes. my mother
and father take good care of my and give me a lot of support throughout my
life.
My father is the manager of a company and my mother is a teacher. they are
both well educated and do well in their jobs. they know that knowledge is power.
father often communicates with foreign friends and is good at english. i can
learn a lot from him, especially english. his oninion on education is as
advanced as that of my mothers. they often give me advice on my studies but
never interfere in them. they seldom force me to do what i dont like to. they
permit me to have different opinions. if something is good for me, they will
persuade me to do it as they want. many people of our age say that there is a
generation gap between their parents and them. however, it doesnt exist between
us.
My mother is a math teacher. she is very clever and good at teaching. she
can work out a problem within 10 minutes which would cost me 2 hours. i envy and
admire her. i want to be a math teacher like her.
Im lucky to have such enlightened parents. im lucky to have been brought
up in such a happy family.
篇16:如何提高高中生的基础写作水平
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+ 加入清单摘 要:近年来广东省高考英语写作测试内容正从知识型向能力型转变,写作文体日趋多元化,命题更具开放性,对考生英语写作能力的要求也在逐年提高。广东省高考英语写作分为基础写作和读写任务两个题型。其中基础写作的目的是检测考生最基础的书面语言表达能力,如,用词的合理性、结构的复杂性、语言运用的正确性、信息内容的完整性、句子之间的连贯性等。结合六七年来的高中英语教学实践,觉得应该从以下几个方面来提高高中生的基础写作水平。
关键词:写作水平;模仿范文;限时训练
明确写作要求和评分标准并做好对应的训练
写作要求和评分标准是我们基础写作拿高分的指挥棒。因此,只有明确了写作要求和评分标准,才能做到有的放矢,写出高水平的文章来。
基础写作的基本要求是只能用5句话表达全部内容。也就是学生整篇小作文的总句数是5句话,多于5句话会扣分,少于5句话也会扣分。同时5句话又要构成一篇内容完整的文章,因此,这就要求学生对长短句要进行灵活把握。这就意味着对学生的句法知识要进行讲解,并大量进行句式训练。基础写作的评分标准是:句子结构准确,信息内容完整,篇章结构连贯。这就要求训练中要注重句子结构、信息内容和篇章结构。
1.循序渐进,加强句子结构训练
“冰冻三尺,非一日之寒。”英语写作能力并非是一蹴而就的。它必须由浅入深、由简到繁、由易到难、循序渐进、一环紧扣一环地进行训练。教师应注重抓基本功训练,严格要求学生正确、端正、熟练地书写字母、单词和句子,注意大小写和标点符号。进行组词造句、组句成段练习时,要求学生写出最简单的短句,为以后英语作文打好扎实的基础。在熟悉简单句的基础上为学生引入并列句和复合句,对长句的灵活运用显得尤为重要,因为长句能表达更丰满的内容,且能体现出作者的逻辑性。
2.信息内容必须完整
信息内容完整,这就要求学生做到认真、准确审题。基础写作的题目出现在我们面前,我们就应该对题目进行分析,通过列提纲等方式找出其内容要点,并对这些要点进行分类整理,大致分为5个方面,同时注意他们的先后顺序和逻辑关系。这样不仅能保证内容的完整性,还能让篇章结构有一定的逻辑性。
篇17:有关合作英语作文高中
全文共 1210 字
+ 加入清单Some people like to work alone while others enjoy teamwork. In my opinion,
everyone had better learn to work with others together because teamwork is
definitely necessary and important in modern society.
First, working in a team provides a chance for us to communicate with each
other. Just as the saying goes, “many hands make light job.” Working in a team,
teammates share their ideas with each other, which is helpful to create a better
achievement. Second, working in a team is a way to broaden our horizon.
Teammates in a team can learn something from each other because they are from
different places, owning various experiences and hold different views towards
things. Therefore, getting along with other teammates is also a process of
increasing our knowledge. Finally, working in a team is also a way to establish
our friendship. Teammates in a team have chances to help each other, to solve
the problems together, to share the happiness of being successful, which make a
great contribution to establishing friendship. Thus, working in a team is one of
the most effective ways to extend our personal relationships.
To sum up, to learn to work in a team is really necessary and important and
we should try to enjoy it.
篇18:高中英语作文介绍春节
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+ 加入清单Today is the first day of the first month, everywhere brimming with a festive atmosphere! See families are decorated, door with Spring Festival couplets, balcony hanging red light, the relatives get together for the family reunion dinner, a toast toast blessing after the work is smooth, the study progress, family happiness! On the way, people dressed in festive costumes and dressed up to visit their friends and relatives, the Spring Festival composition 600 words. We are no exception! Mom and dad took me to visit my grandmas house. All in! Two uncle, two aunt, three uncle, three aunt, aunt, uncle, and cousin, cousin, even younger sister this "little" also come to join the fun! Adults sit on the sofa chatting, watching TV, and we children hand in hand to the room, playing "hide things" games.
篇19:小学游记作文写作技巧
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+ 加入清单将游玩时看到的景物,所听到的声音,所产生的联想,所获得的感受,按照一定的顺序,有重点、有感情地记录下来,就是一篇游记作文了。下面是小编分享的小学游记作文写作技巧,一起来看一下吧。
一、 按游览的顺序描写景物。
写作时,要在认真观察和记忆游览的景物的基础上,按照见到景物的次序,来写所看到的景物。这样才能做到条理清楚、自然、明白,不致于杂乱。观察景物,通常有两种方法。一种就是定点观察。如站在公园某一角,对公园进行由远及近的观察。又如我们登上塔顶,从东南西北四个方向对塔下景物进行观察。二就是移动观察,它又叫移步换位法。就是随着脚步的移动变换位置,一处一处地进行观察。选好了观察点,就是确定好了写作的顺序。
二、 抓住游览重点,详写过程。
一次参观游览活动,看到的景物很多,我们不能记流水帐。要把看到的景物中印象较深的写下来,其余地可以写得简略些。我们要一边参观游览,一边要抓住景物的特点,进行仔细观察。比方说,我们要写游览看到的景物为主的记叙文,写作的重点就是把看到的景物重点写下来。对于我们看到的特别好的景物,我们要进行具体地描写,突出重点。对于重点的景物,要注意详细描写出它们的位置、大小、动态、静态、颜色等。如我们写菊花,颜色就有红的如枫叶、白的如冰霜、黄的如麦穗等等,菊花的形状就有像小姑娘的卷发,毛茸茸的小鸡,绣球等等。我们要把过程写详细、具体,做到主次分明,详略得当,写出来的文章才能突出重点,清楚明白,才能写出游览的意义,才有教育意义。
三、略写前后,情、理、景相结合。
我们在写游记时,应把开头和结尾写得简略些,作文指导《小学生游记作文范文写作技巧》。开头要交待清楚时间、地点和人物。如《游善卷洞》的开头我的故乡江苏宜兴有一处著名的游览胜地——善卷洞。结尾应用议论或抒情的方式写下自己的感受。如《天然动物园漫游记》的结尾写道‘哈哈……’我们在欢笑声中结束了这次愉快的野游。朱库米天然动物园行的乐趣是无穷的,无怪乎世界各地前去游览的人络绎不绝。这样,写的文章有头有尾,读起来给人一个完整的印象。我们要把感情融化于景物中,写出真意。写作时,我们要倾注自己的思想感情。还有,我们在写景的同时,或探索人生真谛,或谈论思想问题,治学精神,使读者在领略自然风景的同时,受到启迪和教育。
切忌:
一、游记作文不要写成旅游路线图;
二、针对你游览的某一地留下深刻印象的景点来作文;
三、必须考虑游记的顺序,空间,时间,角度(远到近);
四、描写不必面面俱到,要懂得删减枝叶;
五、选着留有深刻印象的点来做发挥,其中一定要有详略,那几个略写哪几个详写要想清楚;
六、注意历史事物和历史事件,传说的巧妙结合,更能凸显出游览的意义和文章的深度;
七、借景抒情的手法应该运用;
八、人文景观的描写中,环境烘托是必要的,选着恰当的景色进行烘托;
九、自然景观的描写中,修辞手法应该运用,但是不要落俗套,好好自己去用心感受,最好有些贴切的修辞创新。
篇20:微型小说写作技巧
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+ 加入清单阿•托尔斯泰认为:“小小说是训练作家最好的学校。”微型小说又名小小说,超短篇小说,一分钟小说。过去它作为短篇小说的一个品种而存在, 后来的发展使它已成为一种独立的文学样式,其性质被界定为“介于边缘短篇小说和散文之 间的一种边缘性的现代新兴文学体裁”。下面是小编为你带来的微型小说写作技巧,欢迎阅读。
微型小说在写作上追求的目标是四个字:微、新、密、奇。
微
微。指的是篇幅微小,不超过一千五百个字。因此,构思和行文时必须注意字句的 凝炼,不允许作品中有赘词冗句。如马克•吐温的《丈夫支出帐本中的一页》。全文只有七行字,却具有长篇小说的全部情节。
新
新。指的是立意新颖,风格清新。星新一写作一分钟小说,就极力追求“新”。他写道: “有些评论家把我的小说与美国的超短篇小说(Short-Short)混为一谈,这是不妥当的。 我是受了美国超短篇小说的影响。但是没有完全依靠,而是发挥了自己独特的风格和技巧。 我的小说强调一个‘新’字,给读者以新题材、新知识,甚至让他们感到惊讶!”(星新一《一分钟小说选》)为此,他常常借助于童话、寓言、科幻、推理等手法,通过非现实的题材或 现实题材的非现实笔法,反映他在现实生活中的独特的感觉,表现清新的主题,如他的《保 修》。 当然,微型小说的立意和其它形式的小说作品一样,有时并不是一眼能看出的,有时主题并 非一个,是多元化的,这都是可以的。例如美国著名科幻作家弗里蒂克•布朗写的一篇被称 为世界上最短的科学幻想小说:“地球上最后一个人独自坐在房间里,这时忽然响起了敲门声……”就写得十分别致而耐人寻味。
密
密。指的是结构严密。微型小说的作者在结构上,应力求时间、场所、人物都尽可 能地压缩、集中,使作品结构简练、精巧,如同微雕工艺品那样。因此,特别要在选材、剪裁和布局上下功夫。
奇
奇。指的是结尾要新奇巧妙,出人意料。微型小说的特点多半在于一个“奇”字。 中外作家的许多优秀作品就常在结尾处使人拍案叫绝。如邵宝健的《永远的门》的结尾就出人意料。