They live in a secret world of deception, fraud欺骗,, and sometimes violence.
Collect and pass on significant information Recruit new agents
Espionage
For money? For ambition? For patriotism?
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Age, appearance Personality
Tasks Responsibilities
Reasons
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Young or old? Handsome or ordinarylooking?
Adventurous Courageous Intelligent Shrewd精明的 Presence of mind
– official hands, course, drama, a start, management, to take a chance
W Bjectives
By the end of the lesson, students are expected to • be able to retell how Ausable defeated his adversary(敌手, 对手)Max. • be able to make character analysis of Ausable, Max and Fowler. • be able to use the key words, phrases, expressions, and grammar items correctly and appropriately. • know more about the author, detective stories and related information about secret agents.
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W arming up
B ackground
T ext Analysis R einforcement
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Questions / Activities Check-on Preview Objectives
• What is your general impression of a spy? Look at the prompts (提示) and pictures on the next slide and try to think of as many words as possible to describe people who work as a secret agent.
CIA中央情报局
• Central Intelligence Agency • Mainly for gathering secret information that may bear on national security • Created in 1947 • The CIA also coordinates the activities of the United States intelligence community, which includes agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA). • In addition, the CIA takes overall responsibility for gathering information from other U.S. intelligence agencies, analyzing the separate pieces of information from each source, and providing a recommendation to the president of the United States and the president’s advisers.
Warming up
Check-on Preview
• Do you like the story? Why/Why not? • Read aloud the sentences/paragraphs you like best and say why. • What is the story about? • How do you understand the historical background against which the story was set? • What have you found about the source of this article? • Give the meaning/ the definition of the following words and expressions (p.270):
KGB苏联国家安全委员会(克格勃)
• Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (State Security Committee) • the government agency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in charge of the Soviet political police from 1954 to 1991. • The KGB, the last in a series of Soviet security agencies dating from 1917, was officially disbanded解散when the USSR collapsed. • During its years of operation the agency’s main directive was to protect the Soviet regime from internal and external threats by means of a vast police and spy network. • During the cold war, both the FBI and the CIA concentrated their attention primarily on KGB of the USSR.
FBI美国联邦调查局
• Federal Bureau of Investigation • Chief investigative agency of the United States federal government and a division of the U.S. Department of Justice • The primary responsibility for counterespionage activities within the US., coordinating its work with the CIA, which is responsible for such operations outside the US.
FBI
• It also provides services to other law enforcement agencies, including fingerprint identification, laboratory analysis of criminal evidence, police training, and access to a centralized crime information database. • Because of its broad mandate (授权), the FBI is one of the most powerful and controversial agencies in the government. • The bureau traces its origins to 1908, when the attorney general appointed a small group of investigators within the Department of Justice.
• Intelligence(情报)：evaluated and processed information needed to make decisions. Intelligence generally has a national security connotation and therefore exists in an aura(光环) of secrecy.
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Genre
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Author Robert Arthur
•Born on Nov. 10, 1909 in the Philippines •Got his B.A. in 1930 at the Univ. of Michigan •Got his M.A. in journalism in 1932 •1930-1940, his stories was published in Wonder Stories, Detective Fiction Weekly, Mystery, The Illustrated Detective Magazine, Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine, Amazing Stories, The Shadow, Street & Smith Mystery Reader, Detective Tales, Thrilling Detective, Double Detective, Startling Stories, Collier’s, The Phantom Detective, Argosy Weekly, Unknown Worlds, and Black Mask. W