《现代大学英语精读1》第四课midnightvisitor解读.ppt

1、,The Midnight Visitor,The Midnight Visitor,Unit 4,Questions / Activities,Check-on Preview,Objectives,W,B,T,R,Unit 4,Warming up,The Midnight Visitor,Warming up,Questions / Activities,Have you ever seen a spy movie, or read a spy story? What is it? Do you like it? Why?,W,B,T,R,What is a spy like?,What

2、 is your general impression of a spy? Look at the prompts (提示) and pictures on the next slide and try to think of as many words as possible to describe people who work as a secret agent.,Age, appearance,Personality,Tasks Responsibilities,Reasons,The Midnight Visitor,Young or old? Handsome or ordinar

3、y-looking?,Adventurous Courageous Intelligent Shrewd精明的 Presence of mind,Collect and pass on significant information Recruit new agents,For money? For ambition? For patriotism?,They live in a secret world of deception, fraud欺骗, and sometimes violence.,Espionage,The Midnight Visitor,Espionage,Fr. spy

4、ing Espionage(谍报)： the secret collection of information, or intelligence, that the source of such information wishes to protect from disclosure. Intelligence(情报)：evaluated and processed information needed to make decisions. Intelligence generally has a national security connotation and therefore exi

5、sts in an aura(光环) of secrecy.,An Example,British intelligence agents secretly intercepted (截获) conversations of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his New York offices last year.,CIA中央情报局,Central Intelligence Agency Mainly for gathering secret information that may bear on national security Create

6、d in 1947 The CIA also coordinates the activities of the United States intelligence community, which includes agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA). In addition, the CIA takes overall responsibility for gathering information from other U.S. int

7、elligence agencies, analyzing the separate pieces of information from each source, and providing a recommendation to the president of the United States and the presidents advisers.,FBI美国联邦调查局,Federal Bureau of Investigation Chief investigative agency of the United States federal government and a div

8、ision of the U.S. Department of Justice,The primary responsibility for counterespionage activities within the US., coordinating its work with the CIA, which is responsible for such operations outside the US.,FBI,It also provides services to other law enforcement agencies, including fingerprint ident

9、ification, laboratory analysis of criminal evidence, police training, and access to a centralized crime information database. Because of its broad mandate (授权), the FBI is one of the most powerful and controversial agencies in the government. The bureau traces its origins to 1908, when the attorney

10、general appointed a small group of investigators within the Department of Justice.,KGB苏联国家安全委员会(克格勃),Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (State Security Committee) the government agency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in charge of the Soviet political police from 1954 to 1991. The

11、 KGB, the last in a series of Soviet security agencies dating from 1917, was officially disbanded解散when the USSR collapsed. During its years of operation the agencys main directive was to protect the Soviet regime from internal and external threats by means of a vast police and spy network. During t

12、he cold war, both the FBI and the CIA concentrated their attention primarily on KGB of the USSR.,1. spy 2. espionage 3. international spy 4. double agent 5. secret agent 6. secret service 7. special agent 8. intelligence 9. intelligence agency 10. counterintelligence agency 11. spy movies 12. detect

13、ive stories 13. undercover agent or undercover operation,1. 间谍 2. 侦察、谍报 3. 国际间谍 4. 双重间谍 5. 秘密特工 6. 特工处 7. 特工 8. 情报 9. 间谍机构 10. 反间谍机构 11. 间谍片 12. 侦探故事 13. 秘密的地下工作者/活动,Do you know these terms?,Check-on Preview,Do you like the story? Why/Why not? Read aloud the sentences/paragraphs you like best and sa

14、y why. What is the story about? How do you understand the historical background against which the story was set? What have you found about the source of this article? Give the meaning/ the definition of the following words and expressions (p.270): official hands, course, drama, a start, management,

15、to take a chance,W,B,T,R,Warming up,Objectives,By the end of the lesson, students are expected to be able to retell how Ausable defeated his adversary(敌手, 对手)Max. be able to make character analysis of Ausable, Max and Fowler. be able to use the key words, phrases, expressions, and grammar items corr

16、ectly and appropriately. know more about the author, detective stories and related information about secret agents.,W,B,T,R,Warming up,Background,Genre,Author,B,W,T,R,Unit 1,The Midnight Visitor,Background,Author,His Life,B,W,T,R,Born on Nov. 10, 1909 in the Philippines Got his B.A. in 1930 at the U

17、niv. of Michigan Got his M.A. in journalism in 1932 1930-1940, his stories was published in Wonder Stories, Detective Fiction Weekly, Mystery, The Illustrated Detective Magazine, Street while a detective story is usually concerned with local crimes.,Unit 1,Text Analysis,T,W,B,R,The Midnight Visitor,

18、Text Analysis,Structure,1,Para. 1-5 Who Ausable was and why the young writer Fowler was disappointed with him,2,Para. 6-23 How Ausable developed a plan to deal with his adversary Max and what he did to throw Max off guard,3,Para. 24-28 How Ausable finally outwitted Max and made him jump onto the so-

19、called balcony and kill himself,T,W,B,R,Wisdom is more powerful than any weapon. Never judge a person by his appearance. First impressions could be misleading. He who laughs last, laughs longest.,Text Analysis,Theme,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Main Idea,Sentence Paraphrase,Words 大吵大闹; 提出强烈反抗 He

20、said hed raise Cain if they wouldnt give him a refund. 那天晚上，黑社会出来闹事。 The gang was out to raise hell that night. 风把我们的野餐搅乱了。 The wind raised the devil with our picnic.,Cain and Abel,Detailed Analysis,Text Analysis,take chances: to behave riskily Example: Dont take your chances when driving a car.,tak

21、e a chance (on sth.): to take a risk Example: He left home and decided to take a chance on pursuing a career in acting. take ones chance: to benefit as much as possible from ones opportunities Example: If you want to work in a creative field, you should learn to take your chance.,Text Analysis,Detai

22、led Analysis,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Exercises,1. Some day soon that paper may well affect he course of history. A. will quite probably B. will to a great extent C. will positively 2. And as the light came on, Fowler had his first real thrill of the day. A. fear B. excitement C. hea

23、dache 3. “Max,” he wheezed, “you gave me quite a start.” A. frightened shock B. good beginning C. terrible pain 4. Max was slender, not tall, and with a face that suggested the look of a fox. A. evoked B. proposed C. demanded 5. Im going to raise the devil with the management this time. A. raise Cai

24、n with B. curse C. fire 6. I wish I knew how you learned about the report, Max. A. studied B. read through C. became aware of 7. Send them away or Ill shoot and take my chances. A. kill B. try my luck C. have an opportunity,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Exercises,Answers: B A A A C B,How

25、did Max feel when he heard someone knocking at the door? Did Ausable know who it was? What did he say to Max? Did Max believe him? What did Max decide to do under the circumstances? What happened to Max? Why did Ausable sigh?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part III: Main Idea,Text Analysis,Detailed

26、 Analysis,Words,Phrases,Sentence Pattern,Grammar,uncork shrilly sigh stare stammer,Part III: Words & Expressions,sigh to breathe out slowly and noisily, expressing tiredness, sadness, pleasure, etc. She sighed deeply and sat down. I wish he was here, she sighed (= she said with a sigh) .,Detailed An

27、alysis,Text Analysis,stare to look for a long time with the eyes wide open, especially when surprised, frightened or thinking Dont stare at people like that, its rude. Henry sat quietly for hours staring into the distance, thinking of what might have been.,Detailed Analysis,Text Analysis,stammer to

28、speak or say something with unusual pauses or repeated sounds, either because of speech problems or because of fear and anxiety Wh-when can we g-go? she stammered. He dialled 999 and stammered (out) his name and address.,Detailed Analysis,Text Analysis,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part III: Exerc

29、ises,True/False Statements. (110=10%) Fowler was a young man learning spy skills from Ausable. ( ) Ausable was a quite probably an American secret agent working in France. ( ) Fowler was disillusioned because Asuable would not tell him anything. ( ) Both Asuable and Fowler were thrilled when they fo

30、und someone standing in the room holding a pistol in one hand. ( ) Ausable started talking about the balcony because he wanted to gain some time to make a plan. ( ) It wasnt the first time for somebody to get into Ausables room through the balcony. ( ) Somebody started knocked at the door at about twelve-thirty at night. ( ) When somebody knocked at the door, Ausable knew it was the wa