At least 90 percent of UFO sightings can be identified as conventional objects, although time-consuming investigations are often necessary for such identification. The objects most often mistaken for UFOs are bright planets and stars aircraft, birds, balloons kites aerial flares, peculiar clouds, meteors and satellites. The remaining sightings most likely can be attributed to other mistaken sightings or to inaccurate reporting hoaxes or delusions although to disprove all claims made about UFOs is impossible

Students will be able to 1. understand the main idea and the structure of the text. 2 earn to memorize words in association 3. grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text 4. conduct a series of reading, listening speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit

Students will be able to: 1. understand the main idea and structure of the text; 2. appreciate how the repeated use of clues helps weave a piece of narration together; 3. grasp the key language points and grammatical structure in the text

一、说明 1、课程的性质、地位和任务 本课程为英语专业高年级专业方向课，旨在使学生对英国文学形成和发展的全貌有一个 大致的了解；并通过阅读具有代表性的重点作品，理解作品的内容，学会分析作品的艺术特 色，并努力掌握正确评价文学作品的标准和方法，提高学生的文学欣赏水平及其文学批评能 力。本课程还同语言教学相结合，增强学生语言表达能力

Objectives Students will be able to: 1. understand the main idea (Bill Porter the salesman will never give in) and structure of the text (4 parts, 2 flashbacks); 2. appreciate the characteristics of journalistic writing; 3. grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;

Objectives Students will be able to: 1. understand the main idea(cloning is a two- edged sword) and structure of the text; 2. appreciate the writing strategies employed by the author, 3. master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;

say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson, \A Word\ A particular string of sounds must be united with a meaning and a meaning must be united with specific sounds in order for the sounds or the meaning to be a word in our mental lexicon. A word, then, is a free form which does not consist entirely of (2/3) lesser free forms; in brief

Chapter Three Lexicon Morphology Lexicon I The meanings or lexicon In its most general sense, lexicon is synonymous with vocabulary, denoting the system formed by the total sum of all the words and word equivalents that a given language possesses. B In its technical sense lexicon is synonymous with

Chapter four Syntax 1. What is syntax? Syntax is the study of the rules governing the way words are combined to form sentences in a language. Simply speaking, it is the study of the formation of sentences. There are different approaches to syntax in the linguistic field

Morphology and Syntax England's Queen is Elizabeth l The Queen of England is Elizabeth He loves books He is a lover of books The planes which fly are red The flying planes are red He is hungrier than she He is more hungry than She