Background: Fortune-telling
• • • • snake (enmity or falsehood) spade (good fortune through industry) mountain (journey of hindrance) house (change, success)
Let Me Read Your Tea-Leaves
Background: Fortune-telling
Tea-reading or coffee-reading(Tasseography): After a cup of tea has been poured and the tea is drunk or poured away, The fortune teller looks at the pattern of tea leaves in the cup and allows the imagination to play around the shapes suggested by them. They might look like a letter, a heart shape, or a ring. These shapes are then interpreted intuitively or by means of a fairly standard system of symbolism.
Comparision of the Two Ladies
Miss Clara
Appearance lky and firmly Jawed
Miss Melissa
Slender and wiry
Occupation
in the robbers’ eyes In fact Details to show their Characte rs
slender
adj. Long and thin in an attractive way
profit
n. money earned from business
analysis
n. 分析
detest
v. hate
glance
v. to look somewhere quickly and then look away
An example of a tea leaf reading showing a dog and a bird on the side of the cup .
Zodiac cup and saucer with zodiac signs and shamrock.
Palm reading
Crystal ball
Tarot Cards
Comparision of the Two Ladies
Miss Clara
Appearance
Miss Melissa
Occupation
in the robbers’ eyes In fact Details to show their Characte rs
President and treasurer of a company
The lion The woman of action
The cook and house keeper
The lamb The timid homebody Slaves to routine
Retelling
• • • • • Time: Location: Characters: What had happened: The Result: