Workshop Task 1. Do a TTD analys is of the use of tens e in the first and la st paragrap hs of this tex t. Include only the finite verb groups in your analysis. (A blank TTD has been provided after the text.) 2. An al ye th e use of aspe ct in the fi rs t an d la st para gr aphs . !o r pe rf ect an d progressive aspect" re#e#ber to include only verb groups $hich contain both Aux and %ain &erb. 'alih" Tayib. (1) Season of Migration to the North. *xford+ ,eine#ann+ pp.1-It $as" gentle#en" after a long absence - seven years to be exact, during which time I was studying in Europe - that I returned to my people. I learnt much and much passed me by - but that's another story. The important thing is that I returned with a great yearning for my people in that small village at the bend of the Nile. or seven years I had longed for them, had dreamed of them, and it was an extraordinary moment when I at last found myself standing amongst them. They re!oiced at having me bac" and made a great fuss, and it was not long before I felt as though a piece of ice were melting inside of me, as though I were some fro#en substance on which the sun had shone - that life warmth of the tribe which I had lost for a time in a land 'whose fishes die of the cold'. $y ears had become used to their voices, my eyes grown accustomed to their forms. %ecause of having thought so much about them during my absence, something rather li"e fog rose up between them and me the first instant I saw them. %ut the fog cleared and I awo"e, on the second day of my arrival, in my familiar bed in the room whose walls had witnessed the trivial incidents of my life in childhood and the onset ofadolescence. I listened intently to the wind& that indeed was a sound well "nown to me, a sound which in our village possessed a merry whispering the sound of the wind passing through palm trees is different from when it passes through fields of corn. I heard the cooing of the turt le-dov e, and I loo"ed through the window at the palm tree standing in the courtyard of our house and I "new that all was still well with life. I loo"ed at its strong straight trun", at its roots that stri"e down into the ground, at the green branches hanging down loosely over its top, and I experienced a feeling of assurance. I felt not li"e a storm-swept feather but li"e that palm tree, a being with a bac"ground, with roots, with a purpose.
