1、The ChaserRead aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Two:Global ReadingSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementI.Read aloudRead the following passage aloud,making a pause between sense groups.1-1Section Three:Detailed Reading Rumor is th
2、e most primitive way of spreading stories/by passing them on from mouth to mouth./But civilized countries in normal times/have better sources of news than rumor./They have radio,television,and newspapers./In times of stress and confusion,however,/rumor emerges and becomes widespread./At such times t
3、he different kinds of news are in competition:/the press,television,and radio versus the grapevine.Rumors are often repeated/even by those who do not believe the tales./There is a fascination about them./The ChaserRead aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Two:Global
4、 ReadingSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhancement1-2Section Three:Detailed Reading The reason is that the cleverly designed rumor/gives expression to something deep in the hearts of the victims:/the fears,suspicions,forbidden hopes,/or daydreams which they hesitate to vo
5、ice directly./Pessimistic rumors about defeat and disasters/show that people who repeat them are worried and anxious./Optimistic rumors about record production or peace/are soon coming point to complacency or confidence /and often to overconfidence.Read aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-r
6、eading ActivitiesII.Audiovisual supplementsWatch the film episode and then answer the following questions.Questions:1.What is going on?2.How did they describe the love?Film episode:CloserAnswers for reference:1.The man apologized to the woman and expressed his love to her.2.The woman described“love”
7、as something“I cant see it.I cant touch it.I cant feel it.”And only hearing is not enough.1-2-1Section Three:Detailed ReadingSection Two:Global ReadingThe Chaser Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementRead aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading Activities
8、Dan:Alice:Dan:Alice:Dan:Alice:Dan:Alice:Dan:Alice:Dan:Alice:Dan:I knew that.He told me.You knew?I needed to hear it from you.Why?Because he might have been lying.I had to hear it from you.I would never have told you,because I know youd never forgive me.I would.I have.Why did he tell you?Because hes
9、a bastard.How could he?Because he wanted this to happen.But why test me?Because Im an idiot.1-2-2Section Three:Detailed ReadingSection Two:Global ReadingThe Chaser Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementRead aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading Activiti
10、es1-2-3Section Three:Detailed ReadingSection Two:Global ReadingThe Chaser Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementAlice:Dan:Alice:Dan:Alice:Dan:Alice:Dan:Alice:Dan:Alice:Yes.I would have loved you.forever.Now please go.Dont do this.Alice Talk to me.I am talking.Fuck off
11、.No,Im sorry.You misunderstand.I didnt mean to Yes,you did.I love you.Where?What?Show me.Where is this love?I cant see it.I cant touch it.I cant feel it.I can hear it.I can hear some words.but I cant do anything with your easy words.Whatever you say,its too late.Please dont do this.Its done.Now plea
12、se go,or Ill call security.Read aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading Activities1-2-1-1Section Three:Detailed ReadingSection Two:Global ReadingThe Chaser Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementText analysis Structural analysisSection One:Pre-reading Acti
13、vitiesSection Two:Global Reading2-1Cultural backgroundThis short story,which combines elements 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
14、 of romantic involvement.As the dialogue develops,Austens attitude towards the potion changes from skeptical and hesitant to excited and overwhelmed.Readers have been kept in suspense of what will happen to the young man when the story comes to the last line“Au revoir”.Whats the function of the last
15、 line?I.Text analysisSection Three:Detailed ReadingThe Chaser Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementText analysis Structural analysisSection Two:Global Reading2-2-1Cultural backgroundII.Structural analysis Section Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading Activiti
16、esThe Chaser Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementParagraphs 2 12how the old man tried to sell his mixtureParagraph 1the introduction to the protagonist in the story Alan Austen Paragraphs 13 45how Alan Austen got to know the love potion and how he bought it in the e
17、ndSometimes you may ask,“Why does a boy chase a girl?”It may because1.Hes after something!2.He expects to experience something desirable.3.She has promise of offering or providing something thrilling.4.Boys are created with a built-in drive to have a relation with a girl.Text analysis Structural ana
18、lysisSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading2-3-1Cultural backgroundIII.Cultural backgroundA healthy relationship is based on respect.Its formed when you have fun together,or when you dont have to spend all of your spare time together you can spend time on your own,or with your own
19、friends and family.Section One:Pre-reading ActivitiesThe Chaser Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementText analysis Structural analysisSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading2-3-2Cultural backgroundSometimes you may also ask,“Is it possible to be marr
20、ied and to be free?”Love is the highest value in life:It should not be reduced to stupid rituals.And love and freedom go together you cannot choose one and leave the other.A man who knows freedom is full of love,and a man who knows love is always willing to give freedom.If you cannot give freedom to
21、 the person you love,to whom can you give freedom?Giving freedom is nothing but trusting.Freedom is an expression of love.So remember the purpose of marriage is not to imprison you and bind you to each other;the purpose is to help you to grow with each other.Section One:Pre-reading ActivitiesThe Cha
22、ser Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementAlan Austen,as nervous as a kitten,went up certain dark and creaky stairs in the neighborhood of Pell Street,and peered about for a long time on the dim landing before he found the name he wanted written obscurely on one of th
23、e doors.He pushed open this door,as he had been told to do,and found himself in a tiny room,which contained no furniture 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
24、.An old man sat in the rocking chair,reading a newspaper.Alan,without a word,handed him the card he had been given.“Sit down,Mr.Austen,”said the old man very politely.“I am glad to make your acquaintance.”The ChaserSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text1-SSection One:Pre-read
25、ing ActivitiesThe ChaserSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementJohn Collier“Is it true,”asked Alan,“that you have a certain mixture that has.er.quite extraordinary effects?”“My dear sir,”replied the old man,“my stock in trade is not very large I dont deal in laxatives
26、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.”“Well,the fact is.”began Alan.“Here,for example,”interrupted the old man,reaching for a bottle from the shelf.“Here is a liquid as colourless as water,almost tastel
27、ess,quite imperceptible in coffee,wine,or any other beverage.It is also quite imperceptible to any known method of autopsy.”“Do you mean it is a poison?”cried Alan,very much horrified.The ChaserSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text2-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection
28、 Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhancement“Call it a glove-cleaner if you like,”said the old man indifferently.“Maybe it will clean gloves.I have never tried.One might call it a life-cleaner.Lives need cleaning sometimes.”“I want nothing of that sort,”said Alan.“Probably it is j
29、ust as well,”said the old man.“Do you know the price of this?For one teaspoonful,which is sufficient,I ask five thousand dollars.Never less.Not a penny less.”“I hope all your mixtures are not as expensive,”said Alan apprehensively.“Oh dear,no,”said the old man.“It would be no good charging that sort
30、 of price for a love potion,for example.Young people who need a love potion very seldom have five thousand dollars.Otherwise they would not need a love potion.”“I am glad to hear that,”said Alan.The ChaserSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text3-SSection One:Pre-reading Activi
31、tiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhancement“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 costly.He will save up for it,if necessary.”“So,”said Alan,“you really do sell love p
32、otions?”“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 afford to be so confidential.”“And these potions,”said Alan.“They are not just.just.er.”“Oh,no,”said
33、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.”“Dear me!”said Alan,attempting a look of scientific detachment.“How very interesting!”The ChaserSection Two:Global ReadingSection T
34、hree:Detailed Reading3.text4-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhancement“But consider the spiritual side,”said the old man.“I do,indeed,”said Alan.“For indifference,”said the old man,“they substitute devotion.For scorn,adoration.Give one
35、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.”“I can hardly believe it,”said Alan.“She is so fond of parties.”“She will not like them any mo
36、re,”said the old man.“She will be afraid of the pretty girls you may meet.”“She will actually be jealous?”cried Alan in a rapture.“Of me?”“Yes,she will want to be everything to you.”“She is,already.Only she doesnt care about it.”The ChaserSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.tex
37、t5-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhancement The ChaserSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text6-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhancement“She will,wh
38、en she has taken this.She will care intensely.You will be her sole interest in life.”“Wonderful!”cried Alan.“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 suddenly,why y
39、ou are looking sad.”“That is love!”cried Alan.“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 some siren has caught you.”“I
40、can hardly imagine Diana like that!”cried Alan,overwhelmed with joy.The ChaserSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text7-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhancement“You will not have to use your imagination,”said the
41、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 will forgive you,in the end.She will be terribly hurt,of course,but she will forgive you in the end.”“That will not happen,”said Alan fervently.“Of course not,”said the old
42、 man.“But,if it did,you need not worry.She would never divorce you.Oh,no!And,of course,she will never give you the least,the very least,grounds for uneasiness.”“And how much,”said Alan,“is this wonderful mixture?”“It is not as dear,”said the old man,“as the glove-cleaner,or life-cleaner,as I sometim
43、es call it.No.That is five thousand dollars,never a penny less.One has to be older than you are,to indulge in that sort of thing.One has to save up for it.”The ChaserSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text8-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activiti
44、es Section Five:Further Enhancement“But the love potion?”said Alan.“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 dollar.”“I cant tell you how grateful I am,”said Alan,watching him fill it.“I like to oblige,”said th
45、e 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.”“Thank you again,”said Alan.“Good-bye.”“Au revoir,”said the man.The ChaserSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text1-WSection O
46、ne:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementAlan Austen,as nervous as a kitten,went up certain dark and creaky stairs in the neighborhood of Pell Street,and peered about for a long time on the dim landing before he found the name he wanted written o
47、bscurely on one of the doors.He pushed open this door,as he had been told to do,and found himself in a tiny room,which contained no furniture 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 d
48、ozen bottles and jars.An old man sat in the rocking chair,reading a newspaper.Alan,without a word,handed him the card he had been given.“Sit down,Mr.Austen,”said the old man very politely.“I am glad to make your acquaintance.”The ChaserJohn Collier The ChaserSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:D
49、etailed Reading3.text2-WSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhancement“Is it true,”asked Alan,“that you have a certain mixture that has.er.quite extraordinary effects?”“My dear sir,”replied the old man,“my stock in trade is not very large I d
50、ont 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.”“Well,the fact is.”began Alan.“Here,for example,”interrupted the old man,reaching for a bottle from the shelf.“Here is a liquid as colourless
