Unit 3
Teaching aims:
1. Talk about short stories and dramas.
2. Learn how to act out a play
3. Learn how to request and order food
4. Learn noun clauses as the object and predicative
Teaching importance:
Noun clauses as the object I can’t say that I have any plans.
...and he does not know what he should do.
I did not know whether I could survive until morning.
Noun clauses as the predicative
That’s why we’ve given you the letter.
Teaching methods: skimming, scanning, discussing.
Teaching aids: a tape recorder, a projector and a computer.
The first period Intensive reading
Step I.Warming up
1.Mark Twain is probably one of the few American writers with whom students are already familiar. This exercise makes the teacher find out how much the students know about this writer and decide how much they need to know about the author before they read the play.
T: Do you know something about the American writer Mark Twain?
Ss: A little.
T: Today we will learn something about this great writer in the American history. Now please read “About Mark Twain” on page 23 so that you can know more about him.
1. Students read the passage about Mark Twain and answer the questions given in the form on page 23.
a. What’s the real name of Mark Twain?
b. When was he born and when did he die?
c. Do you know all the places where he lived?
d. Can you name three of his famous stories?
T: As we know, Mark Twain is known as a humorist during his life. And this is reflected in THE MILLION POUND BANK-NOTE. So, today we will learn some parts of this famous play.
Step ⅡPre-reading
Get the students to discuss the question with their partners and then ask them to report their work. Encourage to express their opinions freely.
T: If a rich person gives you a large amount of money to use as you like, for example, one million pound, what will you do? Why?
( Students have a discussion on this question. Whatever choice students make here, they should be ready to offer their classmates a good reason for it.)
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T: I think all of you have a good idea. Do you want to know what happened to Henry Adams in THE MILLION POUND BANK-NOTE written by Mark Twain? Have you ever read the story? So this class we will learn the story together.
Step Ⅲ While reading
1. Scanning
Get the students to comprehend the whole scene quickly and accurately and meanwhile help them form a good habit of reading. Give the students some time to read through the scenes and then answer some questions
a. How did Henry Adams come to England?
b. Where did Henry work before? How much did he have?
c. What did the two gentlemen give Henry?
d. When can Henry open the letter.
2. After the students discuss the questions and then check the answers with the whole class.
T: Listen to the tape and try to find out the characteristics of the whole passage.
Ss: This is part of a play. So, the narration is written in the present tense.
T: OK. All of you have done a good job. Next, let’s read the scene again and do some exercises.
Step Ⅳ Post-reading
Do comprehending exercises and explain :
a. a large amount of: a large quantity of; a great deal of
e.g. They bought a large amount of furniture before they moved their new house.
b. make a bet: make an arrangement to risk money, etc. on an event of which the result is doubtful.
e.g. We made a bet on the result of the match.
c. permit sb to do something: allow somebody to do something
e.g. My mother doesn’t permit me to ride in the street after it rained.
d. by accident: as a result of chance
e.g. I only found it by accident.
e. stare at: look at somebody or something with the eyes wide open in a fixed gaze( in astonishment, wonder, fear, etc)
f. to be honest: to tell you the truth; to be frank
e.g. To be honest, I don’t think we have a chance of winning.
Step Ⅴ Homework
1. Review the key sentences in this part
2. Preview the words in the second period.
3. Act out the play in groups
The second period Extensive Reading
Step 1 New words
Tell the new words in these part
steak: eat like a wolf: genuine: reserve: scream: fake:
shoulder
Step 2
Listen to Act One, Scene 4 in the restaurant
And answer the following questions:
1. What was it in the letter?
2. Before Henry took the note out of the envelope, did the waiter serve him politely? Why?
3. Did the owner believe that the note was genuine or not? Why?
Step 3 acting
In group of four, play the parts of “Henry, waiter, owner, hostess and Clemens”.
Step 4 Explanation
1. It’ll cost a tiny bit.
1) tiny: very small 极小的，微小的
a tiny baby, a tiny school
2) not a little 许多，很
not a bit 一点也不
I’m not a bit tired. 我一点也不累。
I’m not a little hungry. 我非常饿。
2.take a/ the/ chance/ chances 碰运气；冒风险
3. in a rude manner
manner 表“方式，方法”，常用单数；
表“举止，态度”，也用单数；
表“礼貌，礼仪”，常用复数。
He answered in an arrogant manner.
His manner was impolite.
It is bad manners to talk with your
mouth full.
6. issue
1) publish 出版，发行
The Bank of England issued the
million pound notes.
2) come, go or flow out 流出
blood issuing from a wound
7. in rags 衣衫褴褛
rag: odd cloth
He is in rags.
8. indeed
1) in fact 事实上，其实
I don’t mind. Indeed, I am willing to help you.
2) truly, really, certainly
的确，实在的，确实
- Did he finish the work?
- Indeed, he did.
9. even if
even though 即使
He doesn’t want to buy the nice house, even if he gets a lot of money.
They came to help us, even if they had many things to do.
Step 5 Homework
1. Read and perform the whole play with the help of the scripts in the book.
2. Review what you have learnt in the whole unit.
The third Period Grammar
Step 1 Learning about language
Ask some students to tell the right answer in this part
Step 2 Using words and expressions in Workbook P57
Encourage the students to read the sentences and correct them if there are some errors
Step 3 Grammar
1. What is the noun clause?
2. the differences between what and that
Eg. (1) What you said yesterday is right.
(2) That she is still alive is a puzzle.
3. 否定的转移
若主语谓语动词为think, consider, suppose, believe, expect, guess, imagine等,其后的宾语从句若含有否定意义,一般要把否定词转移到主句谓语上,从句谓语用肯定式。
4 it常可以放在动词think, find, consider, believe, feel, make等后作为形式宾语
5.Then do some exercises about the noun clause.And finish the exercises in the Using structures (P57 and 58)
Step 4 Homework
1. Recite the key sentences on the grammar-noun clauses as the object and predicative.
2. Preview the third period
The fourth period Listening
Step 1 Listening
Listen to the tape and answer the following questions
1. Why does Henry worry after he leaves the restaurant?
2. Why does he go back to the two brothers’ house?
3. Why can’t he see the two brothers again?
4. What do they ask him to do?
Step 2 Listening text
Hand out the listening materials and listen to the tape and complete the passage, at last ask some students to read the passage with right answers.
Step 3 Listening in Workbook (P55-56)
Ask: What you think will happen in the tailor’s shop after Henry shows the clerk and the owner the bank-note.
Then listen to the tape and answer the following questions
1. Why doesn’t the clerk give Henry his change right away?
2. Is the owner really angry at the clerk or does he just pretend to be angry? How do you know?
3. Is Henry glad to get more than one suit coat? How do you know?
4. Henry tells the owner that he is moving. Give two reasons why the owner isn’t surprised to hear this news.
5. What does the owner offer to do for Henry? Why?
At last , give them the listening materials and ask them to complete the passage
Step 4 Homework
Preview the fourth period.
The fifth period Speaking and Writing
Step 1 Cooperative learning
Have an interview with Henry.
1. What did you do before you came to London?
2. Did you find it hard to get a job there?
3. How did you feel when you were asked to the rich brother’s house?
4. Did you believe that the letter will work?
5. Did you feel angry when the clerk at the tailor’s shop treated you badly at first?......
Make a dialogue for Act Two and ask some students to act
Step 2 Listening, Speaking and Writing Task (P58)
Imagine that Henry meets the woman of his dreams-Portia, how will they talk with each other? How would Portia know if Henry was telling her the truth? How would Henry say that he likes her very much in a way that she would like?
Step 3 Writing Task (P60-61
Imagine that after Henry marries Portia he has bad luck in business and becomes poor once again. Now he must tell his wife the bad news. Before you write, however, discuss these questions with your partner:
1) Do you think Henry would worry about what his wife would say to him after she heard the bad news? For example, do you think she would get angry at him?
2) Do you think Henry would worry that his wife would leave him?
3) Do you think Portia would ask Henry how he suddenly became so poor?
4) Do you think Portia would worry about their marriage now?
Step 4 Homework
1. Review the words and expressions learnt this class.
2. Review Act One, Scene 4 on Page 21-22 and be ready to act it out.
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