Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学实录与评析

Unit 2 DETECTIVE

STORIES

Teaching Aims

1) to let the students master some important words in this unit

2) to let the students know more about American and English literature

3) to let the students know more about protecting themselves

4) to improve the students’ reading ability

Background Information Arthur Conan Doyle, the son of Charles Doyle and Mary Foley, was born in Edinburgh on 22nd May 1859. Arthur's father was an alcoholic

and thefamily was always short of money. At school, Arthur developed a strong interest in the books written by sir Walter Scottand Edgar Allan

Poe. Conan Doyle studied at Edinburgh University

and helped to fund his course by working as a surgeon on Hope, a 400 ton whaler on a seven month voyage to the Arctic. The following year he worked on Mayumba, a passenger ship bound for West Africa. On this voyage Conan Doyle nearly died of typhoid.

On his return, Conan Doyle set up as a doctor in Southsea, a suburb of Porth mouth. With very few patients, Conan Doyle attempted to make money by writing detective stories. His main character, Sherlock Holmes, was based on Dr. Joseph Bell,

a surgeon and criminal psychologist, who lectured at Edinburgh Infirmary. In 1891 Conan Doyle published six Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine. The following year he was paid £1,000 for a whole series on Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle really wanted to write historical novels like his hero, Sir Walter Scott, and in 1893 decided to kill off Sherlock Holmes in the story, The Final Problem. However, after coming under considerable pressure from his fans, here turned to write his best known detective story, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). Conan Doyle served as a doctor in the Boer War (1899-1902) and wrote The War in South Africa (1902), where he attempted to justify Britain's

actions during the war. On 2nd September, 1914, soon after the start of the First World War, the Liberal politician,

Charles Masterman, the head of the War Propaganda, organised a secret meeting of Britain's leading

writers. To discuss ways of best promoting Britain's interests during the war. Those who attended to discuss thebest way of promoting Britain's interests during the war included Conan Doyle, All the writers present at the conference agreed to the utmost secrecy, and it was not until 1935 that the activities of the became known to the general public. Several of the men who attending the meeting agreed to write pamphlets and books that would promote the government's view of the situation. Although fifty-five when the war Conan Doyle also joined

the Crow borough Company of the Sixth Royal Sussex Volunteer Regiment and served as a private throughout the war. His son, Kingsley

Conan Doyle, joined

the British

Army and was wounded at the Somme. He died in October, 1917, after developing pneumonia. After the war Conan Doyle wrote several books on spiritualism

including The New Revelation (1918) and The History of Spiritualism (1926). Arthur Conan Doyle died at Crow borough on 7th

July 1930 英国杰出的侦探小说家、剧作家。毕业于爱丁堡医科大学，行医

10 余年，收入仅能维持生活。后专写侦探小说。《血字的研究》几经退稿才发表，以《四签名》闻名于世。1891 年弃医从文，遂成侦探小说家。代表作有《波斯米亚丑闻》《红发会》、《五个桔核》等。

1894

年决定停止写侦探小说，在《最后一案》中让福尔摩斯在激流中死去。不料广大读者对此愤慨，提出抗议。柯南道尔只得在《空屋》中让福尔摩斯死里逃生，又写出《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》、《归来记》、《恐怖谷》等侦探小说。塑造的福尔摩斯已成为世界上家喻户晓的任务。福尔摩斯的办公地点也成了旅游点。作品合乎逻辑的推理引人入胜，结构起伏跌宕，人物形象鲜明，涉及当时英国社会现实。对于其艺术成就，英国著名小说家毛姆曾说：“和柯南道尔所写的《福尔摩斯探案全集》相比，没有任何侦探小说曾享有那么大的声誉。”柯南道尔被成为“英国侦探小说之父”，成为世界最畅销书作家之一。.

Teaching Procedure: Step 1. Warming up Let the students look at the picture on the right of P11, ask them what they see on it, what is written on it .(possible answers: a sign which reads “Park smarter, Don’t risk it, take your valuables.” ), then let them

discuss the following questions：

1)

do you think crime in your community has increased in the past 10 years, decreased or stayed about the same?

2)

Which of the following measures would be most likely to decrease crime?

More education about responsible citizenship

Education about how to keep yourself and your property safe

More severepunishments for people who commit crime

More police

More encouragement for citizens to report criminals Step 2. Pre-reading Before the reading part, ask the students the following questions concerning reading on P11, ask them to look at the 2 pictures at the bottom of P11,what do they think has happened to the people in the pictures?

Step 3. ask the students to read the text quickly, complete it using the sentences and clauses below, which are the conclusions drawn by the police, then check it by reading the entire text to yourself.

* this means that the attacker had not been in trouble with the police

* they realized that the fingerprint belonged to one of the attackers

* the police now realize that Leonard and his girlfriend could have been the ones who have attacked

the taxi driver * so they do not think the motive foe the killing had been theft, as Mr Bahmad had been stabbed so savagely, they thought the killer

might be a person with a severe mental illness

* they now knew that he had been killed

with a bow and arrow and that they had both

* this evidence told them that there had been at least 2 passengers in the taxi been injured during the attack on him and so they knew who the dead man was Step 4. after reading, ask them to complete the police notes on P13 from the reading passage Step 5. arrange the following events in the order that they happened, not in the order the police found out about them on P14. Step 6. Group discussion Read the information below and thin in your group discuss the questions

The murders described in the reading passage took place in a country that does not put people to death as a punishment. For very savage murders, a criminal is sentences to prison for the rest of his life. If a murder is not as savage and it can be proved that the murderer is not likely to kill again and is sorry for what he has done, the

punishment

may be

only

20

years

or

less in

prison. For less serious crimes, criminals

can be

given

a

minimum

and

maximum

sentence, for

example

, Leonard’s

girlfriend

was given

a

prison

sentence

of

3-7

years.

How

long

she

stays

in

prison

will depend

on

how

well she behaves in prison and whether she shows she has reformed and will be a good citizen in the future. List reasons why criminals should not be put to death for very serious crimes and reasons why they should.

out of prison after only 15 years?How do you think the family of the murderer would feel?