高级英语 张汉熙 上册第六课.pptVIP

Teaching Objectives of Unit 6 To help students to appreciate the novel. To help students to analyze the plot, theme, characterization, and plot To help students to enlarge vocabulary, esp., to get familiarized with 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 : 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 hundred 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-president, with complete authority to run the hotel as he thinks fit. Questions to consider 1) Who are the main characters? 2) What happens in the story? 3) Whe