Lecture A DoubleDyed Deceiver培训讲义.pptVIP

Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehension Questions: Numbers up dressed up to the ______ talking _______ to the dozen one in a ________ playing ______ fiddle in the_______ heaven Animal Crackers rain ____ and dogs get a ______ in my throat ________tears take the ____ share smell a ___ Exercises Homework * * * * * * Lecture 10 A Double-Dyed Deceiver Main Contents Lead-in Reading Comprehension Discussion Idioms Exercises Homework Lead-in 1. Have you ever met any deceivers? 2. How do you think of these people? A Double-Dyed Deceiver (P 184) Read the passage through and carefully and answer the following questions: Who was the double-dyed deceiver in this story? 2. Whom did he deceive? 3. Did he carry out his plan by himself or did he conspire with somebody else? What was the purpose of this dirty deal? Did he succeed? 5. Why did Kid change his mind after he moved into the white house? Why was Kid called the double-dyed deceiver? What’s the implied meaning of the last paragraph? Background Information poker: a card game for two or more persons in which the players bet on the value of the cards they hold. Its earlier forms date back to 1520 in Europe. It is now one of the world’s top three card games. 2. Tattoo A design or pattern made on the skin; a way of decorating the body by injecting colored pigment beneath the surface of the skin; This method of personal adornments has been made throughout history. Stylistic devices 1. Foreshadowing: clues that the young man Kid killed had something to do with the rich couple’s missing son: about Kid’s age; seen once in Texas after he ran away from home. 2. Irony Thacker, a representative of a great nation, often in a drunken condition during his office hours; thinking about how to get the rich couple’s money; Kid: a young man and the act of not telling the