大学精读-Midnight-Visitor教学课件.pptVIP

Lead-in Question: What’s the general image of the secret agent? General images of the secret agent: Tasks for Today 1. Lead-in 2. General Analysis 3. A Character Sketch 4. Critical Thinking 5. Intensive Reading 6. Assignments Plot: Ausable appears helpless, but he gets rid of his deadly enemy, Max, without lifting a finger. Character Sketch Question: What was Fowler’s first impression of Ausable? Find key words in paras.1-5 Character Sketch Critical Thinking Critical Thinking Intensive Reading 1. Ausable did not fit the description of any secret agent Fowler had ever read about. Ausable: a secret agent; a spy paraphrase: 2. Fowler felt disappointed. It was a small room on the sixth floor, and hardly a setting for a romantic figure. 3. Though he spoke French passably, he had never altogether lost the New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. passably: 4. Instead, you spent a dull evening in a French music hall with a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. having messages slipped “to have sth done by sb” implies “sb is doing sth”. eg. The government will have the bridge rebuilt. He was afraid of having his house broken into again. slip into one’s hand: to put into one’s hand quietly, secretly and quickly. More examples: 她把书悄悄塞进包里 She slipped the book into her bag. We won’t let him slip though our fingers. make an appointment: to make an agreement with sb to meet him/her at a certain time. Other collocations of “appointment”: * * unit 4 Robert Arthur Handsome or beautiful strong or slender body quick-wit intelligent with weapons tactical resourceful knowledgeable irresistible to men or women The Story Why Who How What Where When A fresh, unexpe