高级英语第一册第六课教学教案.ppt

Lesson 6 Blackmail Arthur Hailey Teaching Objectives 1. learn the words/phrases and understand the text. 2. paraphrase the text. 3. figures of speech such as metaphor, metonymy, euphemism, antithesis, parallelism. 4. Finish exercises No. IV, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII. 5. Group work: (A short play) Blackmail Pre-reading questions: 1.Why did the Duchess send her maid and secretary out? 2. Why do you think Ogilvie was being deliberately offencive the Crodons in the beginning? 3. How did Ogilvie come to suspect the Crodons of the hit-’n-run crime? 4. What made the Duchess jump to the conclusion that Oglvie had come to blackmail them? 5. Why couldn’t the Duchess get her car repaired discreetly in New Orleans? 6. Why did the Duchess offer Ogilvie 25 thousand dollars instead of the 10 thousand the detective asked for? 7. Did Orgilvie accept the Duchess’ offer? Why? Background Information Title of the novel Hotel Arthur Hailey born and educated in Britain. 1939, RAF, emigrated to Canada 1949. Famous novels: Hotel, Airport, The moneychanger. Setting: The story happened in a hotel named St. Gregory in New Orleans, Louisiana which is in the south of US. Main character of the novel: McDermott: assistant general manager of the hotel Characters of the novel: Ogilvie: chief house detective the Duke of Croydon: newly appointed British ambassador to the United States the Duchess of Croydon: wife of the Duke a prostitute called lady friend by Ogilvie Plot: Gregory was now at the brink of bankruptcy, but Peter McDermott, the assistant general manager, is trying every means he could to save it. Several events happened during the week with the present text as part of it. Plot: The Duke of Croydon was an internationally famous statesman and the newly appointed British ambassador to Washington. They occupied the best suite of the hotel--- the Presidential Suite. Plot: Monday evening, the Duke went to the gambling house. Later, his wife pursued