Strangers 研究生英语课件.ppt

Questions Do you like chatting with strangers online? What’s your idea about online romance? ( spark a romance/ a rose with thorn?) Role-play Suppose I am a beggar and try to ask you some money. Suppose you are driving a car and I stop your car to try to get a ride. Comment on the characters She was a suspicious person but was willing to help others. She was also a practical woman, who knew how to take advantage of the situation. When she was offered an expensive silk umbrella, she was ready to accept it at a very small cost. We can tell the narrator was a child. Unlike her mother, she probably did not know much about this complicated society and the real life of the poor. Yet, she had sympathy for those who were poor and needed help. The gentleman was poor. He loved alcohol but had no money. In order to get a drink, he took an umbrella from the pub without the owner’s notice. He didn’t feel ashamed at all in doing so and even acted as a pitiful old man. Surely he was clever and knew very well how to persuade people. Role-play Gentleman: It was a fine day when I went out. I loved alcohol, but had no money on me. Then it started to rain and I got an idea. On rainy days, there were always some umbrellas available in the pub. daughter: It was a fine day and mother and I decided to go shopping in the downtown. When we walked out of a department store, it was raining hard and we didn’t have any umbrella and it seemed no taxi was available. Just then, an old man came to us. Mother: It was raining hard and we hadn’t brought any umbrella with us. Worse still, it seemed there was no taxi in sight. What should we do? Then I heard an old man saying: “ Excuse me, madam?” * *