高级英语上册课件6

Though it strikes him odd, Peter does not link this up with the hit-and-run until late that afternoon the funeral of the two victims of the accident.He contacts police headquarters right away. By this time, Ogilvie has crossed Louisiana and Mississippi, driving by night and concealing the car by day. He thinks that everything is going smoothly, little knowing that he is already being followed by the Highway patrol cruisers.In Tennessee, he is caught and sent back to New Orleans.
1. Pre-reading questions
How do you understand the title?
2. Background knowledge
1) Arthur Hailey the author of Hotel
1) Arthur Hailey
Arthur Hailey is the author of a number of best-selling novels. Born on Luton, England, in 1920, he was educated in English schools until fourteen. After a brief career as an office boy, he joined the British Royal Air Force in 1939 and served through World War II.
Though a Canadian himself, he set the scene of most of his works in the United States. Each of his books deals with one particular field of society. This is made clear by the titles of his books. It is this peculiarity that made his works valuable to those who are eager to learn about contemporary American society. Our text is taken from the book Hotel.
At first the Duchess tries to deny everything, but does not succeed in convincing the police. The Duke then decides to go over to police headquarters before they come for him, wishing to save the little shreds of decency left in him. He takes an elevator to go down. This elevator which has been out of order for some time and badly in need of repair breaks down. As it goes down, one set of clamps holds and open, throwing the Duke nine floor down to the cement ground. He dies instantly
Group1 Paras (The chief house officer P.91---the but fell upon the carpet where he ignored it P.92) Questions: 1.What is a house officer? 2.Did Ogilvie deliberately delay his call at the Croydon’s suite? Why? 3. How did the Duke and the Duchess feel while waiting for the detective’s arrival? 4. Can you name the five ranks of nobility in Europe? 5.What did the Duchess do before the detective arrived? /Why did the Duchess sent her maid and secretary out?
from a gambling house, the Duke knocks down a woman and her child. Both are killed. The Duke and the Duchess, however, drive away. The hit-and run becomes top sensational news in New Orleans. The hotel’s chief house detective Ogilvie notices the battered car when it comes back. Instead of reporting this to the police, he goes to see the Duke and the Duchess. He promises to keep quiet about what he knows and asks for a large sum of money in return for the favor.
•The Duke, now totally at a loss to how to act, hides behind the skirts of his wife. The Duchess understands that to get themselves out of this mess, the car has to be driven out of the south where people are alerted about the hit-and-run. So she offers to pay Ogilvie more than he has asked on condition that he drives the car to Chicago up in the north.The greedy Ogilvie agrees. At one o’clock Thursday morning Ogilvie gets the car out of the garage. He is seen leaving by one person only, by Peter McDermott, the assistant general manager.
2) About Hotel
The St. Gregory Hotel is the largest in New Orleans, Louisiana. For four days from Monday evening to Friday, the hotel goes through a succession of dramatic events. Peter McDermott, the assistant general manager, has to tackle several knotty problems: handling an attempted rape which has occurred in one of the hotel rooms;
In 1949 Hailey emigrated to Canada, where he took several jobs successively: a real estate salesman, business paper editor and a sales and advertising executive. He became a Canadian citizen. The sensational Hailey best sellers including The Final diagnosis (1959), Hotel(1966),Airport(1968),etc,.
3. Type of writing Type of writing: a piece of narration ---character, action, conflicts, climax denouement
4. Organization:
-- introduction
-- development -- climax -- conclusion 5. Detailed Study of the text
Unit Six Blackmail Arthur Haily
Learning objectives
1. Understanding the colloquial, and even slangy English. 2. Analyzing and commenting on the three characters.
Teaching tasks
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pre-reading questions Background knowledge Type of writing Macro-structure of the text Detailed Study of the text Rhetoric devices Follow-up discussion Exercise and Homework
However, the novel ends with a pleasant surprise. A sick, old, eccentric man staying in the hotel turns out to be an extremely wealthy man from Montreal, Canada. Early, he fell seriously ill and was saved by Peter and his girlfriend. To show his gratitude and to repay their kindness, he buys the hotel from its former owner and makes Peter the new executive vice-president, with complete authority to run the hotel as he thinks fit.
pacifying a whole convention of several hundred dentists that threaten to leave in protest against the hotels objection to putting up a member of the convention– a black doctor. Then there is the Duke of Croydon. The Duke is an international famous statesman and the newly-appointed British ambassador to Washington. He and his wife occupy the best with his suite in St. Gregory. On Monday evening while driving back with his wife