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Lesson 10-Tthete Telephone Background Information Contents I Author Anwar F Accawi Teaching Experiences Works Comments on Works W BT E
Lesson 10—The Telephone W B T L E Background Information Ⅰ. Author Anwar F. Accawi Teaching Experiences Works Comments on Works
Lesson 10-The Telephone I. AuthorAnwar F. Accawi Born in Lebanon in a family whose ancestors are believed to have gone to Jerusalem in the Crusades While he was living in Lebanon teaching English as a second language at the American University in Beruit, he married an American woman from Tennessee W BT E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 10—The Telephone W B T L E • Born in Lebanon in a family whose ancestors are believed to have gone to Jerusalem in the Crusades. • While he was living in Lebanon teaching English as a second language at the American University in Beruit, he married an American woman from Tennessee. To be continued on the next page. I. Author—Anwar F. Accawi
Lesson 10-The Telephone I. AuthorAnwar F. Accawi When the civil war broke out in Lebanon Anwar F Accawi and his wife were forced to leave the country and eventually moved to her native city of La Follette, Tennessee, and later settled down in the states Anwar F. Accawi currently teaches as a full- time instructor at the English Language Institute of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville He has lived and taught in the U.S. since 1965. W BT E
Lesson 10—The Telephone W B T L E • When the civil war broke out in Lebanon, Anwar F. Accawi and his wife were forced to leave the country and eventually moved to her native city of La Follette, Tennessee, and later settled down in the States. • Anwar F. Accawi currently teaches as a fulltime instructor at the English Language Institute of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. • He has lived and taught in the U.S. since 1965. I. Author—Anwar F. Accawi
Lesson 10-Tthete Telephone I. Author-Teaching Experiences a As a teacher of ESL/EFL for thirty-two years. a He has taught in the USA and in Lebanon, first at the National Evangelical Institute and then at sidon High School, sidon, Lebanon and also taught at the American University of Beirut before coming to the University of Tennessee in 1979 a He has also trained students planning to become EsL teachers W BT E
Lesson 10—The Telephone W B T L E As a teacher of ESL/EFL for thirty-two years. He has taught in the USA and in Lebanon, first at the National Evangelical Institute and then at Sidoon High School, Sidon, Lebanon, and also taught at the American University of Beirut before coming to the University of Tennessee in 1979. He has also trained students planning to become ESL teachers. I. Author—Teaching Experiences
Lesson 10-The Telephon . Author-Works LOOK INSID Anwar is a published writer whose work has appeared in books, literary anthologies, reviews, and college textbooks in the USA and abroad Bibliography heTw看r Short Fiction The Camera" in Homeworks(1996) Non-Fiction The Boy from the Tower of the Moon(1999) (Luminous memoir from a Lebanese village boy) W BT E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 10—The Telephone W B T L E Anwar is a published writer whose work has appeared in books, literary anthologies, reviews, and college textbooks in the USA and abroad. • Bibliography • Short Fiction "The Camera" in Homeworks (1996) • Non-Fiction The Boy from the Tower of the Moon (1999) (Luminous memoir from a Lebanese village boy) I. Author— Works To be continued on the next page
Lesson 10-The Telephon I. Author--Works With the telephone everything is done. We can get our mail, buy groceries, do research, create websites, and get the latest news. On the Internet, you can learn everything: how to cook, and how to make a bomb. the telephone, for Accawi, was, in fact, a bad news. As for the world as a whole, the telephone brought great technological advances and the world would be a totally different place without it. W BT E
Lesson 10—The Telephone W B T L E • With the telephone everything is done. We can get our mail, buy groceries, do research, create websites, and get the latest news. On the Internet, you can learn everything: how to cook, and how to make a bomb. The telephone, for Accawi, was, in fact, a bad news. As for the world as a whole, the telephone brought great technological advances and the world would be a totally different place without it. I. Author— Works
Lesson 10-Tthete I. Author-Comments on Works Cynthia Ozick selected The Telephone"for the best American Essays in 1998. Publishers Weekly described the piece as a memorizing and magical account of a boy 's childhood a loving rendering of the Lebanese village of his childhood, where time was measured not by calendars and clocks, not by events-the year of whir/wind during which fish and orange fell from the sky' and after the big snow that caused the roof on the mayor's house to cave in December 30, 2002 W BT E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 10—The Telephone W B T L E Cynthia Ozick selected “The Telephone” for the best American Essays in 1998. Publishers Weekly described the piece as a memorizing and magical account of a boy's childhood, “a loving rendering of the Lebanese village of his childhood, where time was measured not by calendars and clocks, not by events—‘the year of whirlwind during which fish and orange fell from the sky’ and ‘after the big snow that caused the roof on the mayor’s house to cave in’.” —December 30, 2002 To be continued on the next page. I. Author—Comments on Works
Lesson 10-Tthete I. Author-Comments on Works If Mark Twain had been born in Magdaluna, Lebanon, instead of Hannibal, Missouri, his most enchanting character would have been named not tom but Anwar. Here then is Anwar Accawi's Tom Sawyerish boyhood in an idyll of village life-endearing, simple yet rich, given countless escapades and delights, where news and gossip and a sense of civilized fulfillment flow lavishly and purely, despite the absence of radio and telephone W BT E To be continued on the next page
Lesson 10—The Telephone W B T L E “If Mark Twain had been born in Magdaluna, Lebanon, instead of Hannibal, Missouri, his most enchanting character would have been named not Tom but Anwar. Here, then, is Anwar Accawi’s Tom Sawyerish boyhood in an idyll of village life—endearing, simple yet rich, given countless escapades and delights, where news and gossip and a sense of civilized fulfillment flow lavishly and purely, despite the absence of radio and telephone. To be continued on the next page. I. Author—Comments on Works
