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1、,Midnight Visitor,Robert Arthur,The Midnight Visitor,Unit 4,Questions / Activities,Check-on Preview,Objectives,W,B,T,R,Unit 4,Warming up,The Midnight Visitor,Warming up,Questions / Activities,Have you ever seen a spy movie, or read a spy story? What is it? Do you like it? Why? What is a spy like? Wh
2、at 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.,W,B,T,R,Age, appearance,Personality,Tasks, responsibilities,Reasons,Warming up,Questions / Activities,Young or
3、old? Handsome or ordinary-looking?,Adventurous Courageous Intelligent Shrewd (精明的) Presence of mind,Collect and pass on significant information Recruit new agents,For money? For ambition? For patriotism?,They live in a secret world of deception, fraud (欺骗), and sometimes violence.,Espionage,Question
4、s / Activities,Warming up,Espionage,Fr. spying Espionage (谍报)： the secret collection of information, or intelligence, the source of such information wishes to protect from disclosure. Intelligence (情报)：evaluated and processed information needed to make decisions. Intelligence generally has a nationa
5、l security connotation and therefore exists in an aura (光环) of secrecy.,Warming up,Questions / Activities,An Example,British intelligence agents secretly intercepted (截获) conversations of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his New York office last year.,Questions / Activities,Warming up,CIA中央情报局,C
6、entral 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 A
7、gency (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 presidents advisers.,Warming up,
8、Questions / Activities,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 i
9、s responsible for such operations outside the US.,Questions / Activities,Warming up,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
10、. 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.,Warming up,Questions / Activities,KGB苏联国家
11、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 di
12、sbanded（解散）when the USSR collapsed. During its years of operation the agencys 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 t
13、he USSR.,Questions / Activities,Warming up,1. spy 2. espionage 3. international spy 4. double agent 5. secret agent 6. secret service 7. special agent 8. intelligence 9. intelligence agency 10. counterintelligence agency 11. spy movies 12. detective stories 13. undercover agent or undercover operati
14、on,1. 间谍 2. 侦察、谍报 3. 国际间谍 4. 双重间谍 5. 秘密特工 6. 特工处 7. 特工 8. 情报 9. 间谍机构 10. 反间谍机构 11. 间谍片 12. 侦探故事 13. 秘密的地下工作者/活动,Do you know these terms?,Warming up,Questions / Activities,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 s
15、tory 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): official hands, course, drama, a start, management, to take a chance,W,
16、B,T,R,Warming up,Objectives,By the end of the Unit, 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.,W,B,T,R,Warming up,Background,Genre,Author,B,W,T,R,Unit 4,The Midnight Visitor
