一、社交书信(Letters of Social Activities) 社交书信包括的内容很多,如邀请信、推荐信、介绍信、证明信、贺信、感谢信等等。写社交书信时切记如下几点: (1)所有的社交书信都有明确的目的。因此,写社交书信时要一矢中的。 (2)不要写不相干的事

1.内容切题。审题准、不跑题。文不对题会严重影响成绩,导致写作失败。 2.表达清楚。语言要简洁、准确、条理清晰,主题明确。 3.意义连贯。遣词造句得当,表达连贯平稳。论点论据展开合理(以因果、对比、分类、定义、歹举、概括、详情、时间、空间、过程或综合等方法来展开)

1. Background 2. Warm-up Discussion 3.Summary of the Text 5.Passage reading 7.Exercise 8.Reading Activity 9. Guided Writing

Social meaning is that which a piece of language conveys about the social circumstances of its use. In part, we decode the social meaning of a text through our recognition of different dimensions and levels of style within the same language

John lyons gives us ten sentences to discuss what meaning is: )What is the meaning of “sesquipedalian? (signify) 2)I did not mean to hurt you (intend)

Blending is a process of word formation by which word is created by combinin ag parts of other words. Words formed in this way are called blends. From morphological viewpoints, there are four types of blending:

The English people are of mixed blood. At the beginning of the fifth century Britain was invaded by three tribes from the Northern Europe: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes

1. Morphology In American English, a number of irregular verbs have become regularised, while remaining irregular in British English: a)In many instances, it is only the voicing of the past tense morpheme -(e)d which has been changed to regularise the verb:

THE MOTIVES FOR EUPHEMIZING The motives for generating euphemisms are as diverse and as universal as the range of human emotions

Restriction of Meaning Restriction of meaning means that a word of wide meaning acquires a narrower, specialised sense which is applicable to only one of the objects it had previously denoted