高三英语Unit13Reading课件.ppt

Unit 13,The mystery of the Moonstone,Unit13 Reading,The Moonstone,By Wilkie Collins,Do you like detective stories or films? Do you know some famous detectives?,Conan Doyle,Wilkie Collins Father of modern English dective novels (1824 -1889), Wilkie Collins,Fast Reading,Find the characters mentioned in the text and pay attention to the relationships between them,An English man and his sister Franklin Rachel Verinder Godfrey Dr. candy The strange Indians The servants Sergeant cuff,?,An Englishman (stole the Moonstone),The strange Indians (entertain the guests),Rosanna,Franklin,Dr. Candy (A local doctor),Sergeant Cuff (A detective),Childhood friend,maid,quarrel,uncle,appear at her party,fond of him,admirer,Godfrey (A guest of the party),Main ideas of the four parts,part,Main idea,Part 1 (para1),The Moonstone, stolen from India, was to be left to Rachel as an act of revenge.,Part 2(para2-5),From the moment Rachel fastened the diamond to her dress, strange things began to happen. The diamond then was gone.,Part 3(para6-9),Sergeant Cuff suspected many people for different reasons.,Sergeant Cuff has one vital clue: a smear in the wet paint on the door of Rachels sitting room.,( )1.The story really began in 1848 in England. ( )2.Rachels uncle left the diamond to her because he liked her. ( )3.The diamond was cursed and the man who stole the diamond would live a sad and lonely life. ( )4.Godfrey was Rachels childhood friend and he painted the door for her. ( )5.Franklin had an argument with Dr Candy. ( )6.Godfrey was an elegant and successful bachelor with many lady admirers. He asked Rachel to marry him ,but she accepted.,True or false statments,F,F,T,F,T,F,( )7.Some Indian entertainers were very skilled and behaved strangely. ( )8.The servant Rosanna was very fond of Godfrey. ( )9.At the end of the party everyone left except for Franklin and Godfrey. ( )10.The Moonstone was gone the next morning. ( )11.Sergeant Cuff only suspected Indians. ( )12.Sergeant Cuff had one vital clue.,True or false statments,F,F,T,T,F,T,Careful Reading,Part 1,1.Where and when was the story set in? 2.When did the story really begin? 3.Who gave Rachel the Moonstone? 4.Why did he give it to her?,1.Where and when was the story set in? 2.When did the story really begin?,The story was set in England in 1848.,It really began 50 years earlier.,3.Who gave Rachel the Moonstone? 4.Why did he give it to her?,Rachels uncle .,Because he wanted to revenge her mother for not speaking to him by passing on the Moonstones bad luck to Rachel.,Part 2,What happened,Before the party During the party After the party,Rachel and Franklin,1.Godfrey 2.Franklin 3.Indian entertainers,The Moonstone was gone,worked together on painting a door.,proposed marriage to Rachel and was turned down,argued with Dr Candy,behaved strangely,Part 3,The detective suspected so many people. Who are they? And what are the reasons for suspicion?,The Indians,Godfrey,Dr candy,Rachel,Franklin,Rosanna,He might have stolen the Moonstone as revenge for loss of face ,because Rachel turned down his proposal of marriage .,Godfrey,As with Godfrey, he lost face because of the quarrelling with Franklin.,Dr Candy,They followed the Moonstone around the world waiting for an opportunity to take it back to India .,Reason for suspicion,The Indians,Suspect,He gave the detective assistance. His enthusiasm was the reason why he was suspected ,because it was not his business.,Franklin,Rosanna,Reason for suspicion,Rachel,Suspect,Perhaps she had debts that needed to be paid .,Once a thief and acting strangely. She also loved Franklin and may want to make trouble for Rachel.,Part 4,What was the vital clue that Sergeant Cuff found?,The smear in the paint on Rachels sitting room door was not there during the party.,Why did Sergeant Cuff believe that the garment with the paint stain belonged to the thief? Because the door was newly-painted and still wet, when someone went into the room to steal the diamond, he must have opened and,closed the door in the darkness and have gotten a stain of paint on his or her clothes. So anyone whose clothes had a stain of paint must be the thief.,Language points,be set in 以为背景 , The film is set in the 11th centery Spain.,1. The novel The Moonstone is set in England in 1848. (para1),considerate adj. Be considerate towards 对体贴 etty is very to her husband.,2 Franklin ,who is a smoker,is very considerate towards Rachel. (para2),Explanation,1. When he died he left the Moonstone to his sisters daughter, Rachel, in an act of revenge, passing on his bad luck to her.,当他临死的时候,他把月亮宝石留给他的外甥女雷切尔来报复他姐姐,他想把月亮宝石所带给他的厄运传递给他外甥女。 (1) in an/the act of revenge (for .)表示“采取报复的行为, 为了报复”, 相当于in order to revenge .。,e.g. The man cut down all Mr. Lis trees at night, in an/the act of revenge for his insult in the day.,那个人在夜里砍掉了李先生所有 的树木,以报复他白天所受的侮 辱。,(2) pass on . to someone相当于hand something down to someone表示“把传递给”。 e.g. Their ancestors passed on those traditions to the young from generation to generation. 他们的祖先把那些传统一代又一 代地传给年轻人。,2. Rachel is stubborn in resisting his enquiries about the Moonstone to the degree that she makes it seem as if she does not want the mystery to be solved. 雷切尔固执地拒绝他有关月亮宝石的咨询到了这样的地步(程度):她似乎并不想要月亮宝石丢失的谜团被揭开。,(1) 句子中词组be stubborn in doing .表示“固执地做某事”相当于insist on doing .。 e.g. My father was stubborn in reserving the old house from my great-grandparents. (2) 句子中that引导的是一个同位语从句,说明主句中的degree,To the degree 达到某个程度 eg. He was interested in his work to the degree that he thought about nothing else. eg. C