品程《高级英语》三版一册 制作人：徐李洁.ppt

2008-10-17 省级精品课程《高级英语》第三版第一册 制作人：徐李洁 Teaching Aims To enable students to appreciate the story. To help students analyze the plot, theme and characterization To help students enlarge vocabulary, esp., colloquial English, slang and ungrammatical English. Arthur Hailey (1920-2004) ----- born in England; ---- began his writing career while an RAF（British Royal Air Force ） pilot during the Second World War; ----- became a Canadian citizen as well as British; -----Haileys novels have been published in thirty-nine languages. -----An estimated 160 million copies are in print worldwide. ---- Most of his books have been made into films or TV series.  Major works : Pre-reading questions 1) What happens in the story? 2) When is the climax of the story? 3) What is the theme of the story? 4) Who are the main characters? The story of Hotel: The setting: the St. Gregory Hotel, the largest in New Orleans, Louisiana. From Monday to Friday. The Hotel is experiencing a crisis of being forced to be sold to a chain hotel owner. The events: in the crisis, there are four knotty problems that face the Hotel managers: dealing with an attempted rape in a room; catching a thief operating in the hotel; several hundreds of dentists threatening to leave the hotel in protest against the hotel’ objection to serving a black dentist, and finally the case of the Duke of Croydon. The end: 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. Earlier, 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-presiden