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Unit 3This story is set on the Orient Express, a train that travels through seven countries in Europe to go from Paris, France, over the Alps to Istanbul, Turkey.Running from Paris to Istanbul, the Orient Express is a first-class hotel on wheels. Once a year, travelers can ride the luxury train across Europe just to enjoy the journey, but its hard work to make the grand train run smoothly. Who is responsible for the trains success? What unique difficulties do they face?I. The Orient Express. Read the paragraph. Then match each word or phrase with the correct definition. The legendary Orient Express became well known in a bygone era as it carried Europes wealthy and royal passengers between France and Turkey. With its luxurious d閏or, the Orient Express evokes images of elegance, romance, and mystery. While the routes may be different now, passengers aboard this luxury train can still be pampered with delicious, first-class cuisine and excellent service as they travel through the varied terrain of Europe.1.bygone era _F _A.the natural features of land; the landscape2.royal _G_B.the art and science of cooking3.dacor _D_C.bring out a feeling or thought4.evoke _C_D.the decorative environment of a place5.romance _H_E.spoil; take more care of than is necessary6.pamper _E_F.a period of time in the past7.cuisine _B_G.related to or appropriate for a king or queen8.terrain _A_H.a feeling of excitement, adventure, and happinessII. Working on a Legend. Read the definitions of the types of jobs found on the Orient Express. Then label the pictures with the correct underlined words. 1. maitre d2. bartender3. chef4. cabin stewardSUMMARYThe Orient Express is a train that has captured the hearts and imaginations of people from royalty to writers over the last century. The train still makes its historical journey from Paris to Istanbul once a year, maintaining the quality of service and ambience of a bygone era. For most travelers, it is a once- in- a- lifetime dream come true. For the staff who work on the train, it is an exciting, challenging, and fulfilling job to keep this five-star hotel on wheels operating smoothly.Warming upTeaching NOTES1. To introduce the topic, ask students to look at the title and the cover picture and try to guess the answers to the following questions about the Orient Express:1) Which continents does the train travel on? a. Oceania and Asia. b. Europe and America.c. Asia and Europe.2) Approximately how old is the train?a. 5 years old. b. 25 years old. c. 100 years old.3) How many times a year does the train make a tour? a. One. b. Nine. c. Fifteen.2. Ask students to discuss what they think the trains nickname “the Train of Kings and the King of Trains” means.3. Ask students whether they have ever heard of the novel Murder on the Orient Express. Introduce Agatha Christie to students. Encourage them to read the novel or watch the movie.The Orient Express To most people, the Orient Express is more of an abstract concept than a tangible reality. Most people are familiar with its life in works of fiction and movies: Hercule Poirot solved his most famous case on it, Alfred Hitchocks lady disappeared from it and James Bond rode it from Istanbul to London. Originally, the Orient Express was the name of a long-distance passenger train established in 1883 that used various routes. Its first formal journey started on October 4, 1883 when the train set out from Paris to Istanbul, going through six countries. Many journalists traveled aboard to publicly marvel at the trains luxurious facilities and beautiful environment. Aboard the train, the enchanted passengers felt as though they had entered one of Europes finest hotels; they admired the elaborate wooden paneling, deluxe leather armchairs, soft silk bed sheets and wool blankets. The original Orient Express offered regular international railway service, but because of its passengers, who were often diplomats, royalty, or government couriers, and its five-course French meals, the name has become synonymous with intrigue and luxury travel. It became the train of choice for Europes rich and high-class, and a rolling symbol of the economic contrasts of its age. It came to be called “the King of Trains and the Train of Kings.” In 1977, having operated for nearly a century, the Orient Express service was terminated. It was immediately replaced by an overnight service from Paris to Vienna that ran for the very last time from Paris on June 8, 2007. Since then, the route, still called the “Orient Express”, started from Strasbourg instead and was much shorter. On 14 December 2009, the Orient Express ceased its operation and the famous route disappeared completely from European railway timetables, becoming the victim of high-speed trains and budget airlines.The Queen of Crime Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an highly popular British author and playwright best known for her murder mystery and detective fiction. She was very prolific, who write an amazing amount of work in her lifetime, has sold over two billion books around the world and has been translated into at least 103 languages. She is best remembered for her 80 detective novels. Her works, especially those featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, have earned her the title “the Queen of Crime” and established her as an significant writer in the development of the genre. Agatha Christie wrote more than 30 novels featuring Poirot. Among the most famous were The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), and Death on the Nile (1937). Agatha Christies last published novel,?Sleeping Murder, featured her other world-famous detective, the shrewdly inquisitive Miss Jane Marple.? Miss Marple appears in twelve novels, and twenty short stories. Both Poirot and Marple have been widely dramatized in feature films and television series.?Murder on the Orient Express?(1974), Witness for the Prosecution?(1957), And Then There Were None?(1945), and Death on the Nile?(1978) are some of the successful films based on her fiction.?With over one hundred novels and over one hundred translations into foreign languages, Agatha Christie became the best-selling English novelist of all time by the time of her death. Although her novels were in the crime fiction genre, their breadth of themes is quite diverse and extraordinary. This makes Agatha Christie one of the best-loved writers of all time. Iron Curtain “Iron Curtain” was used to define the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. It was a symbol of the military, political and ideological boundary splitting Europe into two separate regions. To the east of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were under the influence of the former Soviet Union. This included part of Germany (East Germany), Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. The other countries to the west of the Iron Curtain had market economies, and with the exception of some periods of dictatorship in Spain, Portugal and Greece, were ruled by democratic governments. Physically, the Iron Curtain took the shape of border defenses between the countries of Western and Eastern Europe, and the Berlin Wall, which was erected by the Soviets in 1961, gave this longtime symbol of the Curtain some physical presence.video SCRIPTNarrator: With its famous boulevards, historic buildings, and elegant atmosphere, Paris is a city that the world often associates with romance. But there are also people here looking for something else: romance from another time. They want to return to an age when simply getting somewhere was an adventure, a time when Paris was the departure point for the worlds most famous train: the Orient Express.Tourist: “Good Morning. How are you?”Narrator: This tourist is checking in to board the train once known as “the Train of Kings and the King of Trains.” In every detail, including the beautiful dcor, the Orient Express evokes the elegant images of a golden age. When it began operating at the turn of the 20th Century, the train carried members of Europes royal families and rich business leaders from Paris to Constantinople, or Istanbul, as the Turkish city is now called. These days, this luxurious train makes the journey once a yearand its a six-day journey some wait a lifetime to take.Eli Gershovitch, Orient Express Passenger: “What I really wanted to get out of the Orient Express was the feeling of going into a . . . stepping into a time machine. The idea that I could go back to a bygone era, not just any time, but a time before I was even born, and experience what it would have been like.”Narrator: For most of the 85 passengers on this run, the pampering and luxury of this famous voyage are a once-in-a-lifetime treat.Bill Hummel, Orient Express Passenger: “It has many meanings for us. My wife had her sixtieth birthday in June and our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary was the twentieth of August.”Narrator: Everyone aboard the train seems to share a common desire: to somehow recapture a lost age.Karen Prothero, Orient Express Marketing Director: “Theres a huge fascination for the train, and then of course Agatha Christie wrote that famous book, Murder on the Orient Express, which, that has also helped so much to make it such a famous name.”Narrator: After World War II, airlines and the rise of the Iron Curtain between the East and West, made this type of luxury travel by train impractical. Therefore, the Orient Express suspended its service until 1997, when the route between Paris and Istanbul was restarted. For many people, the attraction of the journey is irresistible.Robert Franklin, Teacher: “Ive always been a lover of travel, and always in search of particularly exotic and unusual travel venues. The history, the terrain that we are traveling, I mean its just soaked with the blood of saints, and warriors, and visionaries. For me, as a teacher and as a writer, its really pretty inspiring.”Narrator: As it winds through the magnificent scenery of the Alps, the Orient Express crosses countryside that consistently displays its finest. The passengers on the train are expected to do no less. Dinner is a formal affair with all that entails. It all adds to the sense that the trip is more than just a train ride. Its a trip where the journey itself is the destination. The idea isnt really to simply arrive somewhere, its to have an incredible experience along the way.Franklin: “It has been a dream for a long time to participate in this little bit of history. Its hard to imagine a more extraordinary and romantic, sort of, journey than travel from Paris to Istanbul on the Orient Express.”Narrator: While the morning mist hangs over the sleepy fields of Europe, the worlds most famous train comes alive. As the Orient Express rolls across eastern Austria, window shades are opened, surfaces are shined, and breakfast is served. The work on the train has been done by an army of well-trained staff for years. And working on a legend has its rewards.Bruno Feret, Cabin Steward: “Because its a wonderful, wonderful hotel on wheels.”Narrator: The staff of the Orient Express knows all about providing first-class service. Most of them have also worked in Europes finest hotels and restaurants.Alexander Introvigne, Bartender: “Working on a train is very different because you have the scenery which is always changing. In an operational way its also very different from working in a hotel, so you have to be very well organized.”Narrator: There are certainly challenges unique to running a five-star hotel on wheels. These days, the six-day journey through seven countries happens only once every 12 months, but planning for it takes the entire year.Machele Zorzi, Maitre d: “We move all the time. The train is not like a new train. It wasnt built yesterday, as you know, and then we have a limited stock of everything, so we have to try to make it last.”Introvigne: “And its not easy. Instead of a hotel when if youre missing something you just go down to the canteen and get it, its a bit different on the train.”Narrator: In addition to the annual Paris to Istanbul run, the Orient Express has offered a regular seasonal service between Venice and London for over 20 years. Still, each trip is a learning experience, including learning to stay on your feet while creating world-class cuisine.Christian Bodiguel, Chef: “Its very difficult because you get to see . . . its move now. For me its very difficult because we have a small kitchen and its moving, moving, moving.”Introvigne: “Ah, it is, but were used to it, especially working out on the tables. The movement is sort of ah . . . it keeps you busy. It keeps you very concentrated actually. Its relaxing sometimes.”Narrator: The secret is to make it all look effortless. Claude Gianella, General Manager: “Without being presumptuous, it has been my main objective for those twenty years to keep the highest possible level of service on what is, after all, a train.”Narrator: At various stops along the route, food is loaded onto the train, from fresh fruit to fresh fish. The kitchens are completely restocked within minutes to keep the train right on track. In each country, the Orient Express takes on a new locomotive engine and engineer in order to ensure passengers safety and that the train runs smoothly. The rest of the staff stays the same throughout the journey and often throughout the years.Zorzi: “Ive been on the Orient Express for thirteen years now.”Chef Bodiguel: “Fifteen years on board. Fifteen years I work here.” Narrator: Once someone starts working aboard the Orient Express, its often difficult to consider doing anything else.Introvigne: “Its unique. It is. When you go into a train station, the people outside are looking at the train, and you can think that, you can sort of imagine them thinking how much theyd like to be on that train, and youre on it. I mean youre working on it, which is even better. I mean, its something very special.”Narrator: The people who travel and work on the Orient Express have a window-seat view of Europe passing before their eyes and a close-up of a bygone era surrounding them. When it comes to romance and adventure while traveling in style, none of the modern travel options of today can come close to a ride on the Orient Express.Teaching notesI.1. Give students time to read the questions and predict the answers. 2. Play the video.3.Have students compare the answers in pairs.II.1. Give students time to go through the questions.2. Play the video.3.Elicit the answers from students.III.1. Put students into pairs and remind them to review Exercise II.2. Ask students to write down the sentences first. Then have them take turns playing the role of the narrator. Encourage students to use their own words and add their opinions or feelings to their narratives. 3. Have students practice in pairs. Walk around and provide constructive comments with suggestions for improvements.4. Play the video with the sound off and have some pairs role-play their narratives.Word bank1. evoke vt. make someone remember something or feel an emotione.g.That souvenir evoked memories of my trip to Australia. The sight evoked pleasant memories of his childhood. Teaching notesI.1. Give students time to predict the answers. 2. Play the video.3. Have students compare the answers in pairs.II.1. Have students repeat each sentence after it is spoken twice and then write the sentences.2. Have students listen again, and mark the word stress on content words with a stress mark (?).3. Have students listen to each sentence and draw an upward arrow ? for rising intonation, or a downward arrow ? for falling intonation.4. Have students listen again and draw a curved line ? to mark any words that are linked or blended together.5. Have students practice reading the sentences till they can say them using appropriate intonation and stress pattern.III.1. Put students into pairs.2. Give students enough time to practice the sentence patterns.3. Then ask some students to translate the Chinese sentences orally to the whole class.4. Have students write their new sentences.Word bank1. pamper vt. treat somebody in a special way by making him as comfortable as possible and giving him whatever he wants e.g.Why not pamper yourself after a long journey with a hot bath scented with oils?2. treat n. a special and enjoyable occasion or experiencee.g.Were going to Italy for the weekend its my birthday treat. It was a real treat enjoying the scenery along the way.3. recapture vt. experience an emotion again e.g.The film successfully recaptures the joyful style of the 1940s Hollywood musical. His life and career are brilliantly recaptured in the book. 4. fascination n. great attraction or intereste.g.Detective movies hold a great fascination for the public. Linda has such a fascination for geography and history.5. suspend vt. stop something happening for a short timee.g.The ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.His license was suspended for drunk driving.6. wind vi. (of a road, path, or river) follow a route that turns repeatedly in different directions?e.g.The river winds through the valley.The Great Wall winds through the mountains.7. entail vt. involve or make (something) necessa