Unit 6 Lesson 18 The Mystery Writer 课件2.pptVIP

Unit 6 Detectives 用所给代词的适当形式填空 4. Help ______ （you） to some fruit， Jack. 5. Who taught your brother to surf？ Nobody. He learnt all by _______ （he）。 6. Their English teacher is from America， but ______ （we） is from England. Lesson 18 The Mystery Write Objectives: Be able to read! 1 Be able to listen! 2 Be able to communicate! 3 Be able to understand! 4 Warm-up Do you remember this writer from page 65? Which famous detective characters did she create? She has sold more than two billion books and her books have been translated into 103 languages. Her play, The Mousetrap, has run longer than any other play. It started in the West End of London in 1952. After more than 24000 shows, actors and actresses still perform it there today. She is most famous for her very popular detective stories which made her wealthy. Her name is Agatha Christie. Although she was never a pupil in a classroom, by age five, she learned to read by herself. She played the piano and loved music. Her father taught her maths with story problems. With this kind of education, it is no wonder she became such a fantastic mystery writer. Readers must pay close attention while reading her stories and she very cleverly made each one difficult to solve.  Her most famous characters are Hercule Poirt and Miss Marple.Hercule Poirot is a foreign detective who lives and works in Britain. He is the main character in 33 of her books and 51 of her short stories. He usually uses his thinking skills to find the truth. He believes that guilty people always show themselves. Sometimes they do this by lying. Miss Marple appears in twelve books and twenty short stories. She seems to be a sweet, shy, old lady, but she actually has no fear. She often beats the police by solving crimes before they do.Agatha Christie had a long and very active career before she died in 1976. Her first book came out in 1920. She wrote her last one in 1937, at the age of 82. She produced more than 75 detective books, 22 books of s