高英第一册第六课.ppt

Teaching Aims to enable students appreciate the novel. to help students analyze plot, theme, characterization to help students enlarge vocabulary, esp, understand colloquial English, slang, ungrammatical English. Group 1 – plot Group 2 – textual structure Group 3 – the function of cigar Group 4 – the character of the Duke Group 5– the character of the Duchess Group 6– the Character of the house guard About the author Arthur Hailey (1920 - 2004) Arthur Hailey (1920-2004) born in England; began his writing career while an RAF（British Royal Air Force ） pilot during the Second World War; became a Canadian citizen as well as British; Haileys novels have been published in thirty-nine languages. An estimated 160 million copies are in print worldwide. Most of his books have been made into films or TV series. died in 2004 of a suspected stroke.  Major works : Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researched information about the way that particular environments and systems function and how these affect society and its inhabitants. He would spend about one year researching a subject, followed by six months reviewing his notes and, finally, about 18 months writing the book. That aggressive research -reading 27 books on the hotel industry for Hotel - gave his novels a realism that appealed to readers, even as some critics complained that he used it to mask a lack of literary talent. Critics often dismissed Haileys success as the result of a formulaic([,f?:mjuleiik]公式化的；刻板的；套话堆砌的) style in which he centered a crisis on an ordinary character, then inflated the suspense by hopping among multiple related plotlines. However, he was so popular with readers Hotel (1967) Flight into Danger (1958) The Final