lesson11_text appreciation

gets rid of his deadly enemy without lifting a finger. Setting: a French hotel room Protagonists: Ausable, Fowler, Max and a waiter
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• Try to turn the passage into a little play and act it out.
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 1
Ausable was, for one thing, fat… Though he spoke French
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.
You are disappointed because what you believe in has turned out to be wrong.
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II. 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) an official document; a report
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 reason (why Fowler was disappointed)
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Text Analysis
Further discussion about the story
Stage 3:
Group Activities
• Retell the text in your own words. • Find words and phrases that can sum up your impressions of Ausable.
Lesson 11 - The Midnight Visitor
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Text Analysis
Structure of the text
Part 1 (paras.1—5 ) about: Who Ausable is. & why
Fowler wants to see him. Part 2 (paras. 6—16 ) about:The unexpected visit of Ausable’s adversary Max.
In this attributive clause the relative pronoun “which” is the object of the preposition “for” rather than of the verb in the clause. 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.
We won’t let him slip through our fingers.
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II. 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) when; while the opposite of the action “to lock” feeling discouraged or dissatisfied
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Text Analysis
Further discussion about the story
Stage 2:
• Making character sketches: physical appearance; how the person acts, talks, thinks and deals with persons.
Protagonists of the story
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Text Analysis
Plot: Ausable appears helpless, but he
For reference.
Further discussion about the story
Questions • …come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5) What is meant by this sentence? Where would this important paper probably go from Ausable? • I am going to raise the devil with the management this time; … (para. 11) What does the word “management” refer to here?
Lesson 11 - The Midnight Visitor
Part Three
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Lesson 11 - The Midnight Visitor
Text Appreciation
I. Text Analysis
1. General Analysis 2. Structure 3. Further Discussion
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II. Sentence Paraphrase
Examples: He slipped some money into the official’s hand. She slipped a piece of paper under the door.
Part 3 (paras. 17—26) about: How Ausable outwits Max and
makes him jump on the “balcony”.
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Text Analysis
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 2
Ausable said wheezily… (para. 3)
Ausable was so fat that he had difficulty breathing.
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II. 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) More Examples
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 5
You are disillusioned. (para. 5)
The “ed” –adjective is used as predicative in this sentence.
put into one’s hand quietly, secretly and quickly
(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.
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Lesson 11 - The Midnight Visitor
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Text Analysis
Further discussion about the story
Stage 1: • Text Glimpse • What was Fowler’s first impression of Ausable? • How did Fowler get his first thrilling experience of the day? • How did Ausable deal with the situation? • How did Ausable finally outwit Max?
II. Sentence paraphrase
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Text Analysis
Have you got the key elements in the story?
Plot of the story
For reference
Setting of the story
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