Unit16 (课件）-《商务英语综合教程1》同步教学（华东师范大学出版社）

Unit 16 The Midnight Visitor Contents 2 Text A The Midnight Visitor Language in Use Text B Hans Wilsdorf and His Amzaing Watch Warm-up Questions: 3 Warm-up Questions: 1. Have you ever read this story before? 2. Have you ever received a midnight visitor? Pre-class Task 1 4 Pre-class Task 1 Read the text once for the main idea（s）. Do not refer to the notes, the glossary, or dictionaries. Text A The Midnight Visitor 5 Passage Ausable did not fit the description of any secret agent Fowler had ever read about. Following him down the corridor of the gloomy French hotel where Ausable had a room, Fowler felt disappointed. It was a small room on the sixth floor, and hardly a setting for a romantic figure. Ausable was, for one thing, very fat. And then there was his accent. Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. 1 2 6 Passage “You are disappointed,” Ausable said wheezily over his shoulder. “You were told that I was a secret agent, a spy, dealing in espionage and danger. You thought I would have mysterious figures in the night, the crack of pistols, drugs in the wine.” 3 Text A The Midnight Visitor 7 Passage “Instead, you have spent a dull evening in a French music hall with a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. You have been bored!” The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood aside to let his frustrated guest enter. 4 Text A The Midnight Visitor 8 Passage “You are disillusioned,” Ausable told him. “But take cheer, my young friend. Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. Some day soon that paper may well affect the course of history. There is drama in that th