Unit3 The Million Pound Bank Note
Learning Objectives (教学目标)
1.Enable students to read and hear natural language in a dramatic context and increase their self-confidence in using English, which will increase their overall motivation to learn English.
2.Enable students to sum up the main idea of ACT ONE Scene 3.
3.Enable students to understand the details about the whole scene.
Step 1 Lead-in
Ask students the question:
1. Do you want to be rich ?
2. Suppose you got a large amount of money by buying lottery tickets (彩票) and became a millionaire (百万富翁).
3. What will you do with the money?
Step 2. Fast reading
Some questions about Mark Twain:
1. What was his first successful story?
2. What are his most famous books?
3. Where was he born?
4. What happened when he was at the age of twelve?
5. Why did his writing become famous?
6. What has happened to his writing in the last years of his life?
7. How did he became rich?
8. What was Mark Twain’s life like in the last years of his life?
9. Tell us his wok experience
10. What was his pen name?
11. Tell us the meaning of his pen name
12. Where did he spend his childhood
Answer the following questions.
1. When and where did the story happen?(
2. How many characters are ? Who are they? And who’s the hero(main character)?
Characters （人物）：
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3.Where did Henry come from?
Step 3 Detailed Reading
I. Enjoy the text and fill in the blanks
About a month ago
Henry was __________ out of the bay;
Towards nightfall
Henry found himself _________ out to sea by a strong wind;
The next morning
Henry was __________ by a ship;
Lastly
Henry arrived in______ by working on the ship as an unpaid hand;
Now
Henry was______ in London and wandering in the street
Just at that time
Roderick _______ him and asked him to step in;
To Henry’s surprise
Roderick gave Henry a _________ with money in it.
II.Put the following events in correct order:
1.Henry wandered in London streets.
2.About a month ago Henry Adams was sailing out of the bay.
3.The next morning he was spotted by a ship.
4.Towards nightfall he found himself carried out to sea by a strong wind.
5.On the ship he earned his passage by working as an unpaid hand.
Step 4 Group work
Character’s lines（台词） tell us what they are like. We can know more about the main characters only after we study their lines carefully.
The characteristics of Henry:
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The characteristics of the two brothers:
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Step 5. Assignment
What do you think will happen to Henry?
Will the bank note help him or get him into trouble?
Give a possible development to the story.
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