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Fun, Oh Boy. Fun. You Could Die from It By Suzanne Britt Jordan Teaching Schedule 1.1 Pre-reading 1.2 Vocabulary Study 1.3 Text Analysis 2.1 Text Analysis 2.2 Rhetorical Features of the Text 3.1 Exercises Pre-reading Do you think we Chinese people have a “fun” culture? Why or why not? What is the greatest fun in your life? How important is fun in your life? Text 1. Fun, Oh Boy. Fun. You Could Die from It What expectations do you bring to an article entitled “Fun, Oh Boy. Fun. You Could Die from it”? Can ‘fun” actually harm or kill you? In what ways? Do you think that Americans are too much of a “fun” culture? Why? Pre-reading Consider the contrasts between, and shades of difference within, “puritan” (par. 3). “selfless” (par. 4), and “licentiousness” (par. 9). Or between “epitome” (par. 11), “reverently” (par. 13), and “blaspheme” (par. 13). What do these words imply about the essay, the author? What do you guess the essay is likely to say? About the author:Suzanne Britt Jordan Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and attended Salem College and Washington University. She has been a columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer and Stars and Stripes, European edition, and has written for other newspapers and newsmagazines. Jordan’s books include a collection of essays, Show and Tell (1982); Skinny People Are Dull and Crunchy like Carrots (1982), an expansion of her essay That Lean and Hungry Look; and A Writer’s Rhetoric (1988), a college textbook. This essay originally appeared in the My Turn column of Newsweek magazine. Newsweek Puritans Puritans refer to a group of radical English protestants that arose in the late sixteenth century and became a major force in England during the seventeenth century. Puritans wanted to “purify” the Church of England by eliminating traces of its origins in the Roman Catholic Church. In addition, they urged a strict moral code and placed a high value on hard work. After the exe