现代大学英语第一册第11课教案讲课稿.doc

现代大学英语第一册第11课教案

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Unit 11 The Midnight Visitor
By Robert Arthur
 I. Warming-up Discussion
1. In contrast to 007, what is the image of the secret agent called Ausable in The Midnight Visitor? Try to describe him, please. 
007: young, strong, handsome, irresistible to women,
Ausable: sloppy fat man, no threat to anyone, not even healthy, carries no guns,, he is no linguistic genius, lives in a hotel, communicates his comrades by ordinary telephoneà seems nothing mysterious but
2. Being a secret agent so far away from the commonly accepted image, what is it that makes Ausable so uncommon? his wisdom.
3．As the article pointed out, we are surrounded by many modern facilities. Did you ever benefit from any of the system? Tell your classmates.
4．Are the facilities mentioned in the article good or not according to your point of view?
5．Are the facilities a kind of violation of your privacy?

II. Phrases of Body Language
1. to nod consent 点头表示同意
2. to nod one's farewell 点头表示告别
3. to nod as a sign of agreement or as a familiar greeting点头表示赞同或打招呼
4. to hold one's head high 昂首挺胸（表示趾高气扬）
5. to shake one's fist 挥动拳头（表示威胁）
6. to shake one's head 摇头（表示不知道）
7. to show a V sign 祝愿胜利或庆祝胜利
8. to wink at a person 向某人眨眼睛
9. to shrug one's shoulders 耸耸肩膀（表示冷淡或怀疑）
10. to make a face 面部露出厌恶的表情
11. to crook a finger 朝某人弯曲食指，是招人过来的意思
12. to thumb one's nose 表示轻蔑或嘲弄（以大拇指按鼻，其余四指张开）
13. to twiddle one's thumbs 无聊地绕动着两个大拇指，表示无所事事、懒散
14. thumbs down 大拇指朝下，表示反对或拒绝的手势
15. thumbs up 翘起大拇指，表示赞成或夸奖
16. to thumb a lift 请求搭便车
Text Analysis
I. Text Glimpse 
Questions:
1.What was Fowler’s first impression of Ausable?
2. How did Fowler get his first thrilling experience of the day?
3. How did Ausable deal with the situation?
4.  How did Ausable finally outwit Max? 
II.  General Analysis  
Questions:  How many parts can this text be divided into?
Plot: Ausable appears helpless, but he gets rid of his deadly enemy without lifting a finger.
Setting: a French hotel room
Protagonists: Ausable, Fowler, Max and a waiter
 Structure of the text
Part 1 (para. 1- 5 ) about: Who Ausable is & why Fowler wants to see him     
Part 2 (para. 6-16 ) about: The unexpected visit of Ausable’s adversary(对手)Max 
Part 3 (para. 17-26) about: How Ausable outwits Max and makes him jump on the “balcony”.
III.   Detailed Analysis
1. Making character sketches: physical appearance; how the person acts, talks, thinks and deals with person.
2. Activities: 1) Retelling the text in your own words.
           2) Find words and phrases that can sum up our impressions of Ausable.
 Language understanding 
1. figure:  1). symbol for a number     He has an annual income of six figures.  
    2). diagram   The blackboard is covered with geometrical figures like squares and triangles.     
3). human form: I saw a figure approaching in the darkness.
She is now on a diet to keep her figure.
4). person , esp. person of influence
a great historical figure
5) figure… out:  calculate; think about until one understands
Can you figure out the total number?
I can’t figure him out.
2. risk:
She is too sensible to take/run a risk when driving. 
  We’ll take /run the risk of being late.   
He was determined to get there even at the risk of his life. 
 v. risk+  n.           
    risk+-ing    To save that traveler, they had to risk getting caught in the storm.
 3. start    n.[c]  sudden movement of surprise, fear etc.
     He sat up with a start.
      The news gave him a start.
startle   vt.  give a shock or surprise to
     She was startled to see that man so pale.
   What startling news it was that the building caught fire!
 4. concerning:       prep.
This book deals with questions concerning China’s diplomatic policies.      
synonyms     regarding
      with reference to
      with respect to
 5. command:
1). order     The officer commanded his men to fire.      
The officer commanded that his men (should) fire.
2). control; hold back     command oneself / one’s temper
 commanding     adj.     
He said in a commanding tone.     
He is now in a commanding position.
6. blink: vt & vi. shut and open the eyes quickly  
blink one’s eyes  blink away one’s tears
blink the fact that… (fig) refuse to consider; ignore   There is no denying the fact…
 7. gaze    stare     glance    glimpse
gaze (at): 尤指以赞赏、愉快、好奇或饶有兴趣的神态长时间地盯着看，常常达到出神的地步；
stare (at): 尤指吃惊、恐惧、愤怒或无礼地瞪大眼睛目不转睛地看；
glance: “看一眼” “扫视”，强调匆忙快速的动作过程；
glimpse:“瞥见”，强调动作的偶然性和所见到事物的不充分、不全面。
examples:   
We stood there, gazing at the beautiful scenery.   
They stared at her clothes in amazement.   
 He stared at her straight in the eye.   
She glanced at her watch.   
He glanced through the report.  
  He caught a glimpse of the Town Hall clock as he drove past.
        to glance at      to stare at     to gaze at 
1.  Miss Zhou __________ the memo and said my appointment with the president was at 4:00 p.m. 
2. He just __________ her. He simply could not recall  where he had met her. 
3. I __________ the envelope and immediately recognized my mother’s handwriting. 
4. My father would sometimes sit at his desk, __________ the photo of my grandparents with tears in his eyes. 
5. Why are you __________ me like this? What have I done wrong? 
6. We call it the Moon Festival because on the night of that day, people will go outside and __________ the moon.
Word  Formation
1) compound nouns
qn.+ n.            doorbell             seaside
qn.+v.             heartbeat           headache
qadj. + n.         greenhouse        shorthand
qn.+ gerund     daydreaming       sun-bathing
qgerund + n.     frying-pan         sleeping-bag
qv. +adv.         breakthrough     dropout
qadv.+ v.         income                outbreak
n.+prep.+n.    sister-in-law       mother-in-law  
v.+pron.+adv.  forget-me-not   touch-me-not
 2)compound adjectives
qn..+ -ed              thunder-struck        sun-tanned
n.+ -ing             peace-loving            fault-finding meat-eating          English-speaking
n.+ adj.              seasick                   taxfree  knee-deep     nation-wide
adj.+ -ed            open-minded            hot-tempered quick-witted         cool-headed
adv.+-ing            hardworking          everlasting well-behaved       new-buil
3)compound adjectives formed from phrases :
They kept a round-the-clock watch on the house.
The police made an on-the-spot inspection
Jack is of the look-before-you-leap sort.
He told the whole story in a matter-of-fact tone.
I’ll cherish those never-to-be-forgotten days.
you will see a paper…come to me in the next-last-step of its journey into official hands.
  Group discussion
  Try to turn the passage into a little play and act it out.
Assignment
IV．More Work on the Text
(See exercises from P273 to P278)
V. Paraphrase the following sentences:
1.q(para. 1)  It was a small room on the sixth floor, and hardly a setting for a romantic figure.
2.   …it was not the kind of place suitable for a romantic person like a secret agent.
3.(para. 5)  Before long you will see a paper, … come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands.
4. …Soon you will see a document/a report come to me and then I’ll place it in the hands of the proper authorities By that time I will have fulfilled my task.

Sentence Paraphrase 1
Ausable was, for one thing, fat… Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. (para. 2)
for one thing,：for one reason (why Fowler was disappointed)
Ausable was, for one reason, fat… His French and German were not very good, but acceptable. Although he had been in Paris for twenty years, he never lost the American accent.
Sentence Paraphrase 2
Ausable said wheezily… (para. 3)
Ausable was so fat that he had difficulty breathing.
Sentence Paraphrase 3
… 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. (para. 4)
slipped into: put into one’s hand quietly, secretly and quickly
dark-eyed : (old-fashioned) women who are very beautiful
… an untidy fat man just has an ordinary phone call agreeing to meet somebody later in his room. There are no other imagined things as a beautiful lady with dark eyes putting a slip of message secretly into his hand.
Sentence Paraphrase 4
The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood as aside to let his frustrated guest enter. (para. 4)
as: when; while
unlocked: the opposite of the action “to lock”
frustrated : feeling discouraged or dissatisfied
The fat man laughed to himself when he opened the door of his room and gave way to his dissatisfied guest.
The “ed” –adjective is used as attribute in this sentence.
Sentence Paraphrase 5
You are disillusioned. (para. 5)
Disillusioned: The “ed” –adjective is used as predicative in this sentence.
You are disappointed because what you believe in has turned out to be wrong.
Sentence Paraphrase 6
Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5)
Paper: an official document; a report
Soon you will see a document/a report come to me. Several people took chances in order to get it. When I receive the paper, I will place it in the hands of the proper authorities.
By then I will have fulfilled my mission.
Sentence Paraphrase 7
For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand, stood a man. (para. 6)
In the middle of the room, there was a man with a small automatic pistol in his hand.
Sentence Paraphrase 8
… you gave me quite a start. (para. 8)
You frightened me. / You surprised me.
Sentence Paraphrase 9
I’m going to raise the devil with the managementthis time. (para. 11)
Management: the people in charge of the hotel rather than the act of operating the hotel.àHe was making up a story, which turned out to be a trap for Max.
To make Max swallow this bait, Ausable pretended to be angry with the management and explained to Fowler (not to Max) why he was going to complain to the management about the balcony.
Sentence Paraphrase 10
It might have saved me some trouble had I known about it. (para. 12)
might have saved, had I; subjunctive mood
If I had known about it, I would not have spent so much effort.
Sentence Paraphrase 11
I wish I knew how you learned about the report, … (para. 15)
I want to know how you succeeded in finding out the report, but I have no idea.
Sentence Paraphrase 12
Keeping his body twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and his guest, … (para. 22)
Covered: The “ed” –adjective is used as object complement in this sentence.
He twisted his body in order to point his gun right at the fat man and his guest .
Examples of different meanings of “cover”: I’ll blow up that bridge. You cover me.
· The enemy guns covered the whole city. It was no longer safe to stay.

VI. Grammar Exercises
1. In Australia, the Asians make their influence ___ in business large and small.
       A. feeling               B. feel C. felt           D. to be felt 
2. His remarks left me ___ about his real purpose.
     A. wondered         B. wonder             C. to wonder      D. wondering
3. You will see this product ___ wherever you go.
      A. to be advertised         B. advertised C.  advertise       D. advertising
4. The manager promised to keep me ___ of how business was going on.
      A. to be informed         B. on informing      C. informed          D. informing 
5. To the north of the village ____ a small island.
       A. lain              B. lies        C. was there           D. there lays 
6. ____ at full speed.
  A. Away the car went             B. Away did the car go  
C. Away was the car going         D. Away went the car 
7. You ___ him so closely; you should have kept your distance.
      A. shouldn’t follow   B. mustn’t follow
C. couldn’t have been following                 D. shouldn’t have been following 
8.When we reached the pier, the ferry had not arrived, so we ___.
    A. needn’t have hurried           B. needed not worry
    C didn’t need to hurry           D. need not to have worried
9. The millions of calculations involved, had they been done by hand, ___ all practical value by the time they were finished.
A. had lost    B. would lose     C. would have lost           D. should have lost 
 10. I wish I ___ longer this morning, but I had to get up and come to class.
    A. could have slept           B. slept C. might have slept          D. have slept
Written Work  
Imagine yourself to be the writer and retell what happened after you and Ausable entered his room in no more than 100 words.

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