新版现代大学英语第四册第9课.doc

Lesson Nine The Most Dangerous Game Teaching Aims 1. To make a clear understanding of the background knowledge and also the writing style of the author. 2. To learn some conversational words and some useful sentence structures and paraphrase some of the important words and sentences. 3. To learn the neat writing arrangement of the author. Teaching Plan 1.Background introduction and doing the warming exercises; 2.Detailed study of the text; 3.Make the discussion according to the content of the text. Introduction to the Text This story is often used by teachers in the United States to illustrate the important features of good fiction: a dramatic plot, vivid characterization and beautiful description. In the West, many people—mostly males, are greatly attracted to hunting. They kill animals and birds for sport. Indeed for many people, human society is nothing but a hunting ground, ruled by the law of the jungle, and the people are divided into the strong and the weak, the fit and the unfit, the hunters and the hunted , who are all engaged in the fierce struggle for survival. The rich and the powerful, like General Zaroff (and Rainsford, too, until the story begins), have always regarded themselves as born hunters. To them, to hunt the weak down, exploit them, overpower them, capture them and enslave them, or even kill them, is merely an interesting game. But just as the story shows, hunting human beings is the most dangerous game because in this game, the hunter can suddenly turn into the hunted, and the victimizer can suddenly become the victim. Synopsis The text is the concluding part of the original story where it comes to a climax. Rainsford is a famous American big-game hunter. To him the world is made up of two classes: the hunters and those who are hunted, and he is glad that he is the hunter. As a hunter he never considers how the one being hunted feels—the fear of painand of death. One dark night, while sailing, probably near the notorious Bermuda Triangle, Ra