4 Midnight visitor

Lesson Four Midnight Visitor Teaching Aims：

nguage points: new words & expressions, word formation,

2.The key elements of the story

3.The structure of the text

4.The theme analysis of the story

5.Grammar points: adverbial clause of time/reason, passive voice

Key Points：

1.Understand the work of spies

2.Understand the structure of the text

3.Understand the passive voice

4.Understand the useful suffixes and prefix in the text

Difficult Points：

nguage points

2.The key elements of the story

3.The theme

Teaching Materials：

Textbook & Reference book

Teaching Methods：

Lecture, Discussion, Practice, Questions and answers

Teaching Hours：16 hours

Teaching Process：

1.Warm-up: about James Bond, secret agent

2.Background knowledge: about the cold war

3.Introduction to the text: brief introduction & pre-class discussion

4.Detailed learning of the text: words & expressions, sentences, affixes

5.Detailed analysis of the text: structure, theme, questions & discussion

6.Exercises: oral work, vocabulary & grammar

Teaching Reflection：

1.Warm-up

Ask the students about the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. Who parachuted into the London bowl？

“Good evening, Mr. Bond,” Her Majesty said to one of the UK’s most iconic characters (played by actor Daniel Craig), before being escorted out of Buckingham Palace. The queen and 007 — or, rather, actors portraying them —then parachuted into London’s opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics.

Q: Who is James Bond?

James Bond is a fictional character created by novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. Bond is a British secret agent working for MI6 who also answers by his codename, 007. He has been portrayed on film by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, in twenty-four productions, with a twenty-fifth in production. MI6(Military Intelligence, Section 6): The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), often known as MI6, collects Britain's foreign intelligence. SIS provides Her Majesty's Government with a global covert capability to promote and defend the national security and economic well-being of the United Kingdom.

Q: What is a spy’s work like?

What kind of qualities do you think would make a perfect spy?

2.Background

The Cold War was the most important political and diplomatic issue of the later half of the 20th Century. The main Cold War enemies were the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold war got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly. In such a "hot war," nuclear weapons might destroy everything. So, instead, they fought each other indirectly. They played havoc with conflicts in different parts of the world. They also used words as weapons. They threatened and denounced each other. Or they tried to make each other look foolish.

diplomatic [ˌdipləˌmætik] a.外交的，从事外交的；策略的，有手腕的

havoc ['hævək] n. 大破坏, 混乱vt. 破坏