Unit 7 The Chaser綜合英語(yǔ)3（課堂PPT）

1、Unit 7Unit 7The ChaserThe ChaserCultural Information The proposal of marriage is an event where one person in a relationship asks for the others hand in marriage. If accepted, it marks the beginning of engagement. 1. Proposal of MarriageIt often has a ritual quality, sometimes involving the presenta

2、tion of an engagement ring and a formalized asking of a question such as “Will you marry me?” Often the proposal is a surprise. In many Western cultures, the tradition has been for the man to propose to the woman. Cultural Information1. Proposal of Marriage In Ireland, there is a custom that on leap

3、 day woman can propose to the man. 2. EngagementCultural Information An engagement is a promise to marry, and also the period of time between proposal and marriage which may be lengthy or trivial. Future brides and grooms are often referred to as fiance or fiancs respectively (from the French word “

4、fianc”).2. EngagementCultural Information Long engagements were once common in formal arranged marriages. In 2007, the average engagement time in the United States was 17 months, but the figure around the world varies greatly depending on culture and customs.3. Wedding ceremonyCultural Information I

5、n western countries, most newly-married couples choose to have a wedding ceremony in the church with the presence and blessing of their families, friends, and the god. Cultural InformationI, Grooms name, take you Brides name, to be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love.I will cherish our

6、friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever.I will trust you and honor you.I will laugh with you and cry with you.I will love you faithfullyThrough the best and the worst,Through the difficult and the easy.What may come I will always be there.As I have given you my hand to holdSo I give you

7、 my life to keepSo help me GodCultural InformationI, Brides name, take you Grooms name, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love.I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and foreverI will trust you and honor youI will laugh with you and cry with you.I will love yo

8、u faithfullyThrough the best and the worst,Through the difficult and the easy.What may come I will always be there.As I have given you my hand to holdSo I give you my life to keepSo help me GodCultural InformationEntreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you,For where you go I w

9、ill go,and where you stay I will stay.Your people will be my people,and your God will be my God.And where you die, I will die and there I will be buried.May the Lord do with me and more if anything but death parts you from me. Brain Teaser Why cannot the bride marry the best man? The best man: 伴郎The

10、 short story is a fable of love with a strong sarcastic tone. The protagonist, Alan Austen, wants to find an easy solution to the problem of love by purchasing a love potion. However，its not the love potion that the old man intends to sell primarily, but “l(fā)ife cleaner”. Text AnalysisThe theme of “Th

11、e Chaser” is the cynicism of experience, portrayed through Alans youthful naivety and the old mans pessimistic certainty.The title of this short story is somehow a pun. “A chaser” can be a person that pursues someone like in “a woman chaser”. In addition, it can refer to a weaker alcoholic drink tak

12、en after a strong one. A whisky, like the love potion, intoxicates. A beer chaser, like the “l(fā)ife cleaner”, mollifies the harshness of the spirits. The love potion and the poison go together like a strong alcoholic drink and a chaser.Text AnalysisStructural AnalysisThis short story, which combines e

13、lements of horror and love, is built almost entirely through dialogue between a young man, Alan Austen, who is deeply in love and wants to possess his lover entirely, and an unnamed old man who believes in a life free of romantic involvement.Structural AnalysisParagraph 1: In this part, the protagon

14、ist, Alan Austen, has been introduced.Paragraphs 13-45: Alan Austen got to know about the love potion and bought it in the end. Paragraphs 2-12: The old man is trying to sell his mixture: the life-cleaner.Detailed ReadingThe ChaserJohn Collier1 Alan Austen, as nervous as a kitten, went up certain da

15、rk and creaky stairs in the neighborhood of Pell Street, and peered about for a long time on the dim hallway before he found the name he wanted written obscurely on one of the doors. 2 He pushed open this door, as he had been told to do, and found himself in a tiny room, which contained no furniture

16、 but a plain kitchen table, a rocking-chair, and an ordinary chair. On one of the dirty buff-coloured walls were a couple of shelves, containing in all perhaps a dozen bottles and jars. 3 An old man sat in the rocking-chair, reading a newspaper. Alan, without a word, handed him the card he had been

17、given. “Sit down, Mr. Austen,” said the old man very politely. “I am glad to make your acquaintance.” Detailed ReadingDetailed Reading4 “Is it true,” asked Alan, “that you have a certain mixture that has er quite extraordinary effects?” 5 “My dear sir,” replied the old man, “my stock in trade is not

18、 very large I dont deal in laxatives and teething mixtures but such as it is, it is varied. I think nothing I sell has effects which could be precisely described as ordinary.” 6 “Well, the fact is ” began Alan.7 “Here, for example,” interrupted the old man, reaching for a bottle from the shelf. “Her

19、e is a liquid as colourless as water, almost tasteless, quite imperceptible in coffee, wine, or any other beverage. It is also quite imperceptible to any known method of autopsy.” 8 “Do you mean it is a poison?” cried Alan, very much horrified. 9 “Call it a glove-cleaner if you like,” said the old m

20、an indifferently. “Maybe it will clean gloves. I have never tried. One might call it a life-cleaner. Lives need cleaning sometimes.” 10 “I want nothing of that sort,” said Alan. 11 “Probably it is just as well,” said the old man. “Do you know the price of this? For one teaspoonful, which is sufficie

21、nt, I ask five thousand dollars. Never less. Not a penny less.” 12 “I hope all your mixtures are not as expensive,” said Alan apprehensively. Detailed ReadingDetailed Reading13 “Oh dear, no,” said the old man. “It would be no good charging that sort of price for a love potion, for example. Young peo

22、ple who need a love potion very seldom have five thousand dollars. Otherwise they would not need a love potion.” 14 “I am glad to hear that,” said Alan. 15 “I look at it like this,” said the old man. “Please a customer with one article, and he will come back when he needs another. Even if it is more

23、 costly. He will save up for it, if necessary.” 16 “So,” said Alan, “you really do sell love potions?” 17 “If I did not sell love potions,” said the old man, reaching for another bottle, “I should not have mentioned the other matter to you. It is only when one is in a position to oblige that one can

24、 afford to be so confidential. ”18 “And these potions,” said Alan. “They are not just just er ” 19 “Oh, no,” said the old man. “Their effects are permanent, and extend far beyond the mere casual impulse. But they include it. Oh, yes they include it. Bountifully, insistently. Everlastingly.” 20 “Dear

25、 me!” said Alan, attempting a look of scientific detachment. “How very interesting!” Detailed ReadingDetailed Reading21 “But consider the spiritual side,” said the old man. 22 “I do, indeed,” said Alan. 23 “For indifference,” said the old man, “they substitute devotion. For scorn, adoration. Give on

26、e tiny measure of this to the young lady its flavour is imperceptible in orange juice, soup, or cocktails and however gay and giddy she is, she will change altogether. She will want nothing but solitude and you.” 24 “I can hardly believe it,” said Alan. “She is so fond of parties.”25 “She will not l

27、ike them any more,” said the old man. “She will be afraid of the pretty girls you may meet.” Detailed Reading26 “She will actually be jealous?” cried Alan in a rapture. “Of me?” 27 “Yes, she will want to be everything to you.” 28 “She is, already. Only she doesnt care about it.” 29 “She will, when s

28、he has taken this. She will care intensely. You will be her sole interest in life.” 30 “Wonderful!” cried Alan. 31 “She will want to know all you do,” said the old man. “All that has happened to you during the day. Every word of it. She will want to know what you are thinking about, why you smile su

29、ddenly, why you are looking sad.” 32 “That is love!” cried Alan. 33 “Yes,” said the old man. “How carefully she will look after you! She will never allow you to be tired, to sit in a draught, to neglect your food. If you are an hour late, she will be terrified. She will think you are killed, or that

30、 some siren has caught you.” 34 “I can hardly imagine Diana like that!” cried Alan, overwhelmed with joy. 35 “You will not have to use your imagination,” said the old man. “And, by the way, since there are always sirens, if by any chance you should, later on, slip a little, you need not worry. She w

31、ill forgive you, in the end. She will be terribly hurt, of course, but she will forgive you in the end.” 36 “That will not happen,” said Alan fervently. Detailed ReadingDetailed Reading37 “Of course not,” said the old man. “But, if it did, you need not worry. She would never divorce you. Oh, no! And

32、, of course, she will never give you the least, the very least, grounds for uneasiness.” 38 “And how much,” said Alan, “is this wonderful mixture?” 39 “It is not as dear,” said the old man, “as the glove-cleaner, or life-cleaner, as I sometimes call it. No. That is five thousand dollars, never a pen

33、ny less. One has to be older than you are, to indulge in that sort of thing. One has to save up for it.” 40 “But the love potion?” said Alan. Detailed Reading41 “Oh, that,” said the old man, opening the drawer in the kitchen table, and taking out a tiny, rather dirty-looking phial. “That is just a d

34、ollar.” 42 “I cant tell you how grateful I am,” said Alan, watching him fill it. 43 “I like to oblige,” said the old man. “Then customers come back, later in life, when they are better off, and want more expensive things. Here you are. You will find it very effective.” 44 “Thank you again,” said Ala

35、n. “Good-bye.” 45 “Au revoir,” said the man. What is the image of Alan Austen in the first part? (Paragraph 1) Alan Austen is depicted as a timid, skeptical and hesitant character. Through descriptions like “as nervous as a kitten,” “peering about for a long time on the dim hallway”, the writer crea

36、tes a sense of apprehension. Detailed ReadingThe sophisticated old man had encountered many young men who had been in the grip of romantic desire before, but who eventually got tired of the possessive love they had experienced. He knew for sure that Austens possessive love wouldnt last long. It woul

37、d eventually bore and repel him. He expected that when his enthusiastic passion changed into hatred, Austen would come to him again, because he had already seen those disillusioned customers return to buy the “chaser” so that they could be free from the women for whom they had previously bought the

38、love potion. Why do you think the old man told Austen about the life-cleaner before selling the love potion? (Paragraph 7)Detailed ReadingWhat is the implied meaning of the old mans remark, “Young people who need a love potion very seldom have five thousand dollars. Otherwise they would not need a l

39、ove potion” (Paragraph 13)A young man who falls in love one-sidedly is seldom rich enough to win a girls heart; if he were rich enough, it would be much easier for him to win the girls heart. His words imply that money is one of the crucial factors for love. If a man is not rich, he can rarely expec

40、t to be loved by a girl.Detailed ReadingWhat is Austens understanding of love? (Paragraphs 23-32)Austen was filled with illusions and unrealistic expectations of love. To him, love meant the entire possession of the lover. When the old man talked about the magic effect of the love potion and describ

41、ed the expectant possessive love, Austen cried “That is love!”, which suggests that he was overwhelmed with joy. Detailed ReadingDetailed ReadingWhat does the old mans remark in Paragraph 39 “ one has to be older than you are, to indulge in that sort of thing” mean? (Paragraph 39)Young people tend t

42、o be over-passionate for love, sometimes senselessly and irrationally, while the old, just like the old man who sells the mixtures, would take a cool and sensible, sometimes even cynical attitude toward love. peer & peeppeep: look at sth. quickly and secretly, esp. through a hole or other small open

43、ingpeer v. look very carefully or hard, especially as if not able to see clearlye.g.She sat next to me, peering through the windscreen.Detailed Readinge.g.His door was ajar and she couldnt resist peeping in.Comparison:laxatives and teething mixturesLaxatives (or purgatives) are foods, compounds, or

44、drugs taken to induce bowel movements, most often taken to treat constipation. Teething mixture is a preparation which consists of a syrup designed to cure the teething pain.Detailed ReadingDetailed ReadingDerivation:perceive (v.), perception (n.), perceptible (a.), imperceptible (a.), imperceptibly

45、 (ad.)imperceptible a.that cannot be noticed or felt because so small, slight or graduale.g.an imperceptible change in temperatureMarthas hesitation was almost imperceptible.apprehensively ad.full of anxiety about the future e.g.They looked at each other apprehensively.Detailed ReadingDerivation:app

46、rehensive (a.), apprehension (n.)love potiona magical potion, drug or charm that supposedly has the power to make a person fall in love with another or excite sexual passion especially toward a particular personDetailed ReadingDetailed Readingoblige v. 1. do sb. a favor; fulfill the wishes ofe.g.She

47、 asked him to lend her his car, and he willingly obliged (her).I should/would be obliged if you could speak louder.e.g.The heavy snow obliged me to abandon the car and continued on foot.Eric felt obliged to resign after such an unpleasant quarrel with the vice president2. make it necessary for sb. t

48、o do sth.detachment n.the state of not reacting or being involved in sth. in an emotional waye.g.She studied the blood with detachment.Detailed ReadingDerivation:detach (v.), detached (a.)As the pianist suddenly fell ill the day before the concert, we had to find someone to substitute for him.Detail

49、ed Readingsubstitute v. put sth. or sb. in place of anothersubstitute A for B substitute for: replacee.g.They were expected to substitute dialogue for violence.The doctor advised him to substitute low-fat cheese for butter.Comparison:e.g.If dairy milk disagrees with your stomach, soya milk could be

50、a good substitute.e.g.Detailed Readingsubstitute n.sb. or sth. that takes the place of anotherDetailed ReadingThey stared with rapture at the new opera house.Smith was in / went into raptures at / about the news.e.g.rapture n.great joy and delightDerivation:rapturous (a.), rapturously (ad.)Detailed

51、ReadingA woman who is considered to be dangerously attractive. In ancient Greek mythology, the Siren refers to a group of sea nymphs whose beautiful singings lured sailors to sail into their destruction. siren n.Detailed ReadingThe family of the victim was overwhelmed by / with grief.The need to tal

52、k to someone, anyone, overwhelmed me.e.g.overwhelm v.1. give sb. a particular feeling very strongly2. make powerless by using forceGovernment troops overwhelmed the rebels.e.g.Detailed Readingoverwhelming (a.): very large or very greate.g. The overwhelming majority of small businesses go broke withi

53、n the first twelve months.Derivation:Detailed ReadingI think nothing I sell has effects which could be precisely described as ordinary. Paraphrase: I think everything I sell could be well deemed as extraordinary.Detailed ReadingIt is only when one is in a position to oblige that one can afford to be

54、 so confidential. Paraphrase: Just because I have decided to do you a favour / sell you the love potion, I feel safe telling you so much about my other mixtures.Detailed ReadingTheir effects are permanent, and extend far beyond the mere casual impulse. Paraphrase: They have much more everlasting eff

55、ects than only the momentary impulse.Detailed Reading“For indifference,” said the old man, “they substitute devotion. For scorn, adoration.”P(pán)araphrase: “They, the love potions,” said the old man, “will help change the girls attitude towards you. She will no longer hold you in contempt. Instead, She

56、will begin to give you her deep-felt love and care.”Detailed ReadingShe will never give you the least, the very least, grounds for uneasiness. Paraphrase: You will never find any reason on her part to feel uneasy or worried.She came from an obscure Chinese mountain village.He was briefly famous in h

57、is twenties but then sank into obscurity.VocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammar1) obscure a. obscurity n. obscurely ad.e.g.她來(lái)自中國(guó)一個(gè)偏僻的小山村。她來(lái)自中國(guó)一個(gè)偏僻的小山村。他二十多歲時(shí)成名，之后就一直默默無(wú)聞。他二十多歲時(shí)成名，之后就一直默默無(wú)聞。Ours was a strictly professional acquaintanceship.VocabularyTranslation Integrate

58、d SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammar2) acquaintance n. acquainted a. acquaintanceship n.e.g.我是在新年聚會(huì)上第一次認(rèn)識(shí)他的。我是在新年聚會(huì)上第一次認(rèn)識(shí)他的。“你認(rèn)識(shí)那個(gè)穿黑衣服的人嗎？你認(rèn)識(shí)那個(gè)穿黑衣服的人嗎？”“”“不，我們不認(rèn)識(shí)。不，我們不認(rèn)識(shí)。”我們的交往僅限于工作關(guān)系。我們的交往僅限于工作關(guān)系。It was at the New Year party that I first made his acquaintance.“Do you know the man in black?” “No,

59、Im afraid were not acquainted.”VocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammar3) perceive v. perceptible a. perception n. perceptive a.e.g. 人們往往認(rèn)為女性雜志很膚淺。人們往往認(rèn)為女性雜志很膚淺。去年一年工作標(biāo)準(zhǔn)方面有了顯著的提高。去年一年工作標(biāo)準(zhǔn)方面有了顯著的提高。這些照片會(huì)影響到人們對(duì)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的看法。這些照片會(huì)影響到人們對(duì)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的看法。他是一位富有洞察力的批評(píng)家。他是一位富有洞察力的批評(píng)家。Womens magazi

60、nes are often perceived to be superficial.The past year has seen a perceptible improvement in working standards.These photographs will affect peoples perceptions of war.He is a perceptive critic.We often fail to apprehend the real nature of change.VocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral Activiti