Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note
Ｉ． 单元教学目标
II． 目标语言
III． 教材分析与教材重组
1. 教材分析
本单元的主要内容是根据马克·吐温的名著《百万英镑》改编而成的剧本中的几个片段。
1.1 WARMING UP 提出问题，通过对马克·吐温及其作品的讨论引发学生
学习兴趣，使学生对马克·吐温及其作品, 有个初步的了解。
1.2 PRE-READING要求学生展开想象，假如自己有了一张百万英镑的钞票会怎么做，并阐述自己对《百万英镑》这部电影的评价。
1.3 READING 是剧本中第一幕的第三场。富商兄弟俩打赌把一张百万英镑钞票给一个一无所有，诚实可靠的穷人，想看看会发生什么事。最后他们物色到一个穷困潦倒流落伦敦街头的美国小伙子Henry Adams。教师可以引导学生通过戏剧情节的发展，理解、感受戏剧的语言。同时，还可利用剧本的朗诵和表演帮助学生改进语音语调。
1.4 COMPREHENDING 中Fact or Opinion 的练习和几个形容词的填空练习旨在检测学生对事实和观点的判断，加强对这部分词语在语境中的理解和运用。
1.5 LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE 通过英语释义，在文章中填空等形式帮助学习理解掌握本单元的重点词汇， 并通过先发现再简单运用的模式帮助学生了解、掌握本单元的语法项目：宾语从句和表语从句。
1.6 USING LANGUAGE 中的Reading and acting 介绍了第一幕的第四场。这一场生动地讲述了衣衫褴褛的流浪汉Henry Adams到餐馆用餐时, 先遭到冷遇， 而后由于拿出了一张百万英镑的大钞,又倍受关照的有趣故事。作者用诙谐的笔调讽刺了资本主义社会拜金主义者的丑陋嘴脸。
1.6.1 READING && ACTING 是剧本中第一幕的第四场。 1.6.2 LISTENING &&WRITING中又介绍了第一幕的第五场，进一步印证了Henry Adams 诚实正直的品格。
1.6.3 READING 是关于马克·吐温的介绍。 1.6.4 WRITING要求学生自己写一个场景---第一幕的第五场。 1.7 SUMMING UP 总结本单元所学到的内容：《百万英镑》，有用的动词，名词，表达和新的语法项目。
1.8 LEARNING TIP 是关于如何写一个剧本的。 2. 教材重组 2.1从本单元话题内容和功能上分析,Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading, Comprehending和Using language中的 Reading (about Mark Twain)相一致，可以
整合成一节任务型“阅读课（精读）”。
2.2 将Learning about language中的 Words and expressions, Using language中的Useful structures与Workbook中的Using structures, Using words and expressions放在同一节课中处理，上一堂 “语法课”。
2.3 将Using language中的listening （ACT ONE Scene 5）， Workbook中的 Listening（ACT TWO Scene 2）整合成一节“听力课”。
2.4 将Workbook中的Talking (ACT TWO Scene 1), Speaking Task (ACT TWO Scene 3)和Speaking Task (ACT TWO Scene 4)上一节“口语课”。
2.5将Using language中的Reading and acting (ACT ONE Scene 4)上成一节“阅读和表演课”。
2.6将Using language中的Writing (ACT ONE Scene 5)与Workbook中的Writing Task 和Checking yourself, Learning Tips 上成一节“写作课”。
3. 课型设计与课时分配 (经分析教材, 本单元可以用六课时完成) 1st period Intensive Reading Grammar Listening 2nd period 3rd period 4th period Speaking 5th period Extensive Reading and Acting 6th period Writing
Ⅳ. 分课时教案
The First Period Intensive Reading
Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语
bet, make a bet, permit, go ahead, by accident, stare, account for, to be honest, jealous b. 交际用语
Expressions on request:
Would you step inside a moment, please?
Would you please come in?
May we ask what you’re doing in this country and what your plans are?
Well, why don’t you explain what this is all about?
c. 重点句型
1) Have you ever made a bet with a friend? If so, what did you bet on?
2) He is lost in London.
3) Permit me to lead the way, sir.
4) As a matter of fact, I landed in Britain by accident.
5) His eyes stare at what is left of the brothers’ dinner on the table.
6) I wonder, Mr Adams, if you’d mind us asking a few questions.
7) I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand, which accounts for my appearance.
2. Ability goals能力目标
a. 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.
b. Enable students to sum up the main idea of ACT ONE Scene 3.
c. Enable students to understand the details about the whole scene.
d. Retell the scene using the key words of the whole scene.
e. Express their opinions by answering the following questions:
1) Do you think money is everything? Why?
2) Do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
a. Help students to understand natural language in the dramatic context and increase their self-confidence in using English.
b. Help students to sum up the main idea of ACT ONE Scene3.
c. Help students to understand the details of the whole scene.
d. Get students to retell the whole scene.
e. Help them to answer the following questions:
1) Do you think money is everything?
2) Do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?
Teaching important points 教学重点
a. How to interpret language through tone of voice and body language, gaining a greater appreciation of the various verbal and non-verbal ways in which language works.
b. Discuss the questions:
1) Do you think money is everything?
2) Do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?
Teaching difficult points教学难点
Discuss the questions:
1) Do you think money is everything?
2) Do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?
Teaching methods 教学方法
Elicitation, discussion, listening, reading and pair work.
Teaching aids 教具准备
A computer, a projector and a tape recorder.
Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式
Step I Warming up
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 more about the auther before they read the play.
T: Morning, everyone! Look at the screen, please. I will show you some pictures of a famous play. Talk about them in your own words. (The teacher shows them some
pictures of THE MILLION POUND BANK-NOTE.)
Picture one: I just need a suit.
Picture two: I know that gentlemen like you carry only large notes.
Picture three: Godness me! Six zeros.
(Students discuss the three pictures)
T: Ok, class. After watching and discussing the pictures, can you guess what the famous play is?
Ss: Yes. It is called THE MILLION POUND BANK-NOTE.
T: Then, do you know the writer of the play?
Ss: Yes. He is Mark Twain.
T: Do you want to know about the American writer Mark Twain? Next, read “ABOUT MARK TWAIN” on Page23 so that you can know more about him.
2. Students read this passage about Mark Twain and answer the questions given in the form on Page23.
T: What’s the real name of Mark Twain?
Ss: Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
T: When was he born and when did he die?
Ss: He was born in 1835 and died in 1910.
T: Do you know all the places where he lived?
Ss: He was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River, but traveled much of the US, and also lived for a time in Europe.
T: Can you name three of his famous stories?
Ss: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, etc.
T: Why did you forget this one—THE MILLION POUND BANK-NOTE? 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’ll learn some parts of this famous play. Of course, if you want to read more about this great writer, you can go to the library or surf the Internet to find more about him.
Step Ⅱ Pre-reading
Get the students to discuss the question with their partners and then ask them to report their work. Encourage them 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? (The teacher draws a picture on the blackboard.)
￡1,000.000
Money Flied to me from the sky. Everything
changed from A to Z.
(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.)
S1: I’ll buy a big house, a new car of my own and get married with a beautiful girl. In my opinion, the most important thing for a person is to enjoy the life. So, if I have a lot of money, I’ll make full use of it to meet my needs for a rich life.
S2: I’ll give some money of the one million pound to the poor people in the western part of our country to help them live a happy life, especially the children. Because they really need help and they can learn more knowledge in order to develop the western part of our country. This way of spending money is meaningful.
S3: ...
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? Have you seen the movie? If so, what do you think of it? So, this class we’ll learn the story together.
Step Ⅲ While-reading
First reading: scanning
Get the students to comprehend the whole scene quickly and accurately and meanwhile help the students to form a good habit of reading. Teachers give the students a couple of minutes to look through the whole scene. Tell the students to read the text silently and then ask some detail questions about the text on the slide show with their partners. Teacher encourages the students to express their ideas.
T: Now we are going to learn ACT ONE Scene 3. Read the whole scene quickly and find out the answers to the four questions here.
Teacher shows the questions on the screen:
1) How did Henry Adams come to England?
2) Where did Henry work before? How much did he have?
3) What did the two gentlemen give Henry?
4) When can Henry open the letter?
Students read the whole scene (ACT ONE Scene 3) for three minutes and try to answer the questions.
T: Well, class, have you finished reading the whole scene?
Ss: Yes.
T: Ok, who can answer the first question? How did Henry Adams come to England? S1: It was the ship that brought him to England.
T: Very good. You did a good job. Next, where did Henry work? How much did he have?
S2: He worked for a mining company before and he had no money at all.
T: Very good. Then what did the two gentlemen give him?
S3: They gave him a letter.
T: When can Henry open the letter?
S4: He can’t open it until two o’clock.
T: Ok, great.
Second reading: reading aloud
In this part, students will read the text again and try to understand the sentences and the main ideas of the whole scene.
Listening
After that the students discuss the questions and then the teacher checks the answers with the whole class.
T: Please listen to the tape and try to find the characteristics of the whole scene. (Students listen to the tape.)
T: Well. Can you tell me the characteristics of the passage?
Ss: Yes. This is part of a play. So, the narration is written in the present tense.
T: Ok, all of you did a good job. Next, let’s read the scene again and do some exercises.
Step Ⅳ Post-reading
Do comprehending exercises.
T: Read the scene again and do some comprehending exercises.
The students begin to prepare for these two exercises. After a while, the teacher starts to check the answers. Later the teacher gives the answers. using a slide projector. Exercise 1
T: Have you found out the answers?
Ss: Yes.
T: Ok! Let’s check the answers. Who’d like to tell us which of the statements are opinions?
S1: I think statement 3, 4 and 5 are opinions.
T: Very good. Now who will tell us which of the statements are facts?
S2: I think statement 1 and 2 are facts.
Exercise 2
Get the students to do this exercise by themselves, and then ask them to check their answers with the whole class.
(Later the teacher gives the answers, using a slide projector.)
Explain language points.
T: Well, class. What do you think of the scene? Do you think it is difficult to understand some sentences?
Ss: Yes.
T: Now, please look at the screen and let me explain some sentences.
The following are the language points that the teacher will explain:
1) 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.
2) 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.
3) permit somebody to do something: allow somebody to do something
e.g. My mother doesn’t permit me to ride in the street after it rained.
4) by accident: as a result of chance.
e.g. I only found it by accident.
5) stare at: look at somebody or something with the eyes wide open in a fixed gaze ( in astonishment, wonder, fear, etc)
e.g. Do you like being stared at?
6) 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.
Students read the whole scene again and again and try to retell it.
T: Well, class, have you got the main idea?
Ss: Yes.
T: What’s the main idea? And can you retell it?
(Then the students begin to prepare for retelling the whole scene.)
Step Ⅴ Retelling
Show the key words and relevant pictures on the screen, using the computer.
Ask the students to retell the whole scene, according to the following key words: summer, 1903, Henry Adams, American businessman, rescued, British ship, London, without money, lost, walk down, street, led to, two rich brothers, made a bet, a letter, a million-pound bank-note, open, two o’clock.
T: Now, look at the key words and pictures, who can retell the reading?
S1: It was the summer of 1903, and Henry Adams, an American businessman, had some very luck. He was rescued at sea by a British ship that takes him to London
where he finds himself without money, friends and the prospect of a good job. He was lost and alone in London. He had no money and did not know what he should do. Walking down the street, he heard someone calling him. Then he came in and was led to two rich brothers, Roderick and Oliver, who made a secret bet and gave him a letter in which there was a one-million-pound bank-note. He was asked to open the letter until two o’clock in the afternoon. Roderick believes that a man can’t survive in the city for a month with only a million pound bank-note in his possession but Oliver believes he can. (The play takes us along Henry’s misadventures with humor and surprise to discover who will win the bet.)
T: Good, the next one, who wants to try?
(Then another student retells the whole scene.)
T: You’ve done a good job. Now let’s retell the whole scene together.
Step Ⅵ Summary and Homework
T: Ok, class, what do you think of this play? Is money so important?
Ss: No.
T: Some people say that money is everything. What do you think of this opinion?
S1: I don’t think so. Yes, money is very important in some occasion. But that doesn’t mean it is everything. For example, when your hometown is flooded and you are trapped in the water, can you save yourself even if you have a lot of money with you? No! So, we should not regard money as everything.
T: Great! But some people still think that money can bring them happiness. What do think of this?
S2: I don’t agree with this. Since money doesn’t mean everything, so it can’t bring happiness to us. For example, you have a lot of money but you haven’t a happy family, can’t you say that you are happy?
T: So, class, we should have a correct attitude towards money. Now, let’s look at today’s homework.
1. Review the key sentences in this part.
2. Preview the words in the second period.
详细内容请订阅
《名师说课》
Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note
Ｉ． 单元教学目标
II． 目标语言
III． 教材分析与教材重组
1. 教材分析
本单元的主要内容是根据马克·吐温的名著《百万英镑》改编而成的剧本中的几个片段。
1.1 WARMING UP 提出问题，通过对马克·吐温及其作品的讨论引发学生
学习兴趣，使学生对马克·吐温及其作品, 有个初步的了解。
1.2 PRE-READING要求学生展开想象，假如自己有了一张百万英镑的钞票会怎么做，并阐述自己对《百万英镑》这部电影的评价。
1.3 READING 是剧本中第一幕的第三场。富商兄弟俩打赌把一张百万英镑钞票给一个一无所有，诚实可靠的穷人，想看看会发生什么事。最后他们物色到一个穷困潦倒流落伦敦街头的美国小伙子Henry Adams。教师可以引导学生通过戏剧情节的发展，理解、感受戏剧的语言。同时，还可利用剧本的朗诵和表演帮助学生改进语音语调。
1.4 COMPREHENDING 中Fact or Opinion 的练习和几个形容词的填空练习旨在检测学生对事实和观点的判断，加强对这部分词语在语境中的理解和运用。
1.5 LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE 通过英语释义，在文章中填空等形式帮助学习理解掌握本单元的重点词汇， 并通过先发现再简单运用的模式帮助学生了解、掌握本单元的语法项目：宾语从句和表语从句。
1.6 USING LANGUAGE 中的Reading and acting 介绍了第一幕的第四场。这一场生动地讲述了衣衫褴褛的流浪汉Henry Adams到餐馆用餐时, 先遭到冷遇， 而后由于拿出了一张百万英镑的大钞,又倍受关照的有趣故事。作者用诙谐的笔调讽刺了资本主义社会拜金主义者的丑陋嘴脸。
1.6.1 READING && ACTING 是剧本中第一幕的第四场。 1.6.2 LISTENING &&WRITING中又介绍了第一幕的第五场，进一步印证了Henry Adams 诚实正直的品格。
1.6.3 READING 是关于马克·吐温的介绍。 1.6.4 WRITING要求学生自己写一个场景---第一幕的第五场。 1.7 SUMMING UP 总结本单元所学到的内容：《百万英镑》，有用的动词，名词，表达和新的语法项目。
1.8 LEARNING TIP 是关于如何写一个剧本的。 2. 教材重组 2.1从本单元话题内容和功能上分析,Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading, Comprehending和Using language中的 Reading (about Mark Twain)相一致，可以
整合成一节任务型“阅读课（精读）”。
2.2 将Learning about language中的 Words and expressions, Using language中的Useful structures与Workbook中的Using structures, Using words and expressions放在同一节课中处理，上一堂 “语法课”。
2.3 将Using language中的listening （ACT ONE Scene 5）， Workbook中的 Listening（ACT TWO Scene 2）整合成一节“听力课”。
2.4 将Workbook中的Talking (ACT TWO Scene 1), Speaking Task (ACT TWO Scene 3)和Speaking Task (ACT TWO Scene 4)上一节“口语课”。
2.5将Using language中的Reading and acting (ACT ONE Scene 4)上成一节“阅读和表演课”。
2.6将Using language中的Writing (ACT ONE Scene 5)与Workbook中的Writing Task 和Checking yourself, Learning Tips 上成一节“写作课”。
3. 课型设计与课时分配 (经分析教材, 本单元可以用六课时完成) 1st period Intensive Reading Grammar Listening 2nd period 3rd period 4th period Speaking 5th period Extensive Reading and Acting 6th period Writing
Ⅳ. 分课时教案
The First Period Intensive Reading
Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语
bet, make a bet, permit, go ahead, by accident, stare, account for, to be honest, jealous b. 交际用语
Expressions on request:
Would you step inside a moment, please?
Would you please come in?
May we ask what you’re doing in this country and what your plans are?
Well, why don’t you explain what this is all about?
c. 重点句型
1) Have you ever made a bet with a friend? If so, what did you bet on?
2) He is lost in London.
3) Permit me to lead the way, sir.
4) As a matter of fact, I landed in Britain by accident.
5) His eyes stare at what is left of the brothers’ dinner on the table.
6) I wonder, Mr Adams, if you’d mind us asking a few questions.
7) I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand, which accounts for my appearance.
2. Ability goals能力目标
a. 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.
b. Enable students to sum up the main idea of ACT ONE Scene 3.
c. Enable students to understand the details about the whole scene.
d. Retell the scene using the key words of the whole scene.
e. Express their opinions by answering the following questions:
1) Do you think money is everything? Why?
2) Do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
a. Help students to understand natural language in the dramatic context and increase their self-confidence in using English.
b. Help students to sum up the main idea of ACT ONE Scene3.
c. Help students to understand the details of the whole scene.
d. Get students to retell the whole scene.
e. Help them to answer the following questions:
1) Do you think money is everything?
2) Do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?
Teaching important points 教学重点
a. How to interpret language through tone of voice and body language, gaining a greater appreciation of the various verbal and non-verbal ways in which language works.
b. Discuss the questions:
1) Do you think money is everything?
2) Do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?
Teaching difficult points教学难点
Discuss the questions:
1) Do you think money is everything?
2) Do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?
Teaching methods 教学方法
Elicitation, discussion, listening, reading and pair work.
Teaching aids 教具准备
A computer, a projector and a tape recorder.
Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式
Step I Warming up
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 more about the auther before they read the play.
T: Morning, everyone! Look at the screen, please. I will show you some pictures of a famous play. Talk about them in your own words. (The teacher shows them some
pictures of THE MILLION POUND BANK-NOTE.)
Picture one: I just need a suit.
Picture two: I know that gentlemen like you carry only large notes.
Picture three: Godness me! Six zeros.
(Students discuss the three pictures)
T: Ok, class. After watching and discussing the pictures, can you guess what the famous play is?
Ss: Yes. It is called THE MILLION POUND BANK-NOTE.
T: Then, do you know the writer of the play?
Ss: Yes. He is Mark Twain.
T: Do you want to know about the American writer Mark Twain? Next, read “ABOUT MARK TWAIN” on Page23 so that you can know more about him.
2. Students read this passage about Mark Twain and answer the questions given in the form on Page23.
T: What’s the real name of Mark Twain?
Ss: Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
T: When was he born and when did he die?
Ss: He was born in 1835 and died in 1910.
T: Do you know all the places where he lived?
Ss: He was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River, but traveled much of the US, and also lived for a time in Europe.
T: Can you name three of his famous stories?
Ss: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, etc.
T: Why did you forget this one—THE MILLION POUND BANK-NOTE? 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’ll learn some parts of this famous play. Of course, if you want to read more about this great writer, you can go to the library or surf the Internet to find more about him.
Step Ⅱ Pre-reading
Get the students to discuss the question with their partners and then ask them to report their work. Encourage them 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? (The teacher draws a picture on the blackboard.)
￡1,000.000
Money Flied to me from the sky. Everything
changed from A to Z.
(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.)
S1: I’ll buy a big house, a new car of my own and get married with a beautiful girl. In my opinion, the most important thing for a person is to enjoy the life. So, if I have a lot of money, I’ll make full use of it to meet my needs for a rich life.
S2: I’ll give some money of the one million pound to the poor people in the western part of our country to help them live a happy life, especially the children. Because they really need help and they can learn more knowledge in order to develop the western part of our country. This way of spending money is meaningful.
S3: ...
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? Have you seen the movie? If so, what do you think of it? So, this class we’ll learn the story together.
Step Ⅲ While-reading
First reading: scanning
Get the students to comprehend the whole scene quickly and accurately and meanwhile help the students to form a good habit of reading. Teachers give the students a couple of minutes to look through the whole scene. Tell the students to read the text silently and then ask some detail questions about the text on the slide show with their partners. Teacher encourages the students to express their ideas.
T: Now we are going to learn ACT ONE Scene 3. Read the whole scene quickly and find out the answers to the four questions here.
Teacher shows the questions on the screen:
1) How did Henry Adams come to England?
2) Where did Henry work before? How much did he have?
3) What did the two gentlemen give Henry?
4) When can Henry open the letter?
Students read the whole scene (ACT ONE Scene 3) for three minutes and try to answer the questions.
T: Well, class, have you finished reading the whole scene?
Ss: Yes.
T: Ok, who can answer the first question? How did Henry Adams come to England? S1: It was the ship that brought him to England.
T: Very good. You did a good job. Next, where did Henry work? How much did he have?
S2: He worked for a mining company before and he had no money at all.
T: Very good. Then what did the two gentlemen give him?
S3: They gave him a letter.
T: When can Henry open the letter?
S4: He can’t open it until two o’clock.
T: Ok, great.
Second reading: reading aloud
In this part, students will read the text again and try to understand the sentences and the main ideas of the whole scene.
Listening
After that the students discuss the questions and then the teacher checks the answers with the whole class.
T: Please listen to the tape and try to find the characteristics of the whole scene. (Students listen to the tape.)
T: Well. Can you tell me the characteristics of the passage?
Ss: Yes. This is part of a play. So, the narration is written in the present tense.
T: Ok, all of you did a good job. Next, let’s read the scene again and do some exercises.
Step Ⅳ Post-reading
Do comprehending exercises.
T: Read the scene again and do some comprehending exercises.
The students begin to prepare for these two exercises. After a while, the teacher starts to check the answers. Later the teacher gives the answers. using a slide projector. Exercise 1
T: Have you found out the answers?
Ss: Yes.
T: Ok! Let’s check the answers. Who’d like to tell us which of the statements are opinions?
S1: I think statement 3, 4 and 5 are opinions.
T: Very good. Now who will tell us which of the statements are facts?
S2: I think statement 1 and 2 are facts.
Exercise 2
Get the students to do this exercise by themselves, and then ask them to check their answers with the whole class.
(Later the teacher gives the answers, using a slide projector.)
Explain language points.
T: Well, class. What do you think of the scene? Do you think it is difficult to understand some sentences?
Ss: Yes.
T: Now, please look at the screen and let me explain some sentences.
The following are the language points that the teacher will explain:
1) 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.
2) 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.
3) permit somebody to do something: allow somebody to do something
e.g. My mother doesn’t permit me to ride in the street after it rained.
4) by accident: as a result of chance.
e.g. I only found it by accident.
5) stare at: look at somebody or something with the eyes wide open in a fixed gaze ( in astonishment, wonder, fear, etc)
e.g. Do you like being stared at?
6) 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.
Students read the whole scene again and again and try to retell it.
T: Well, class, have you got the main idea?
Ss: Yes.
T: What’s the main idea? And can you retell it?
(Then the students begin to prepare for retelling the whole scene.)
Step Ⅴ Retelling
Show the key words and relevant pictures on the screen, using the computer.
Ask the students to retell the whole scene, according to the following key words: summer, 1903, Henry Adams, American businessman, rescued, British ship, London, without money, lost, walk down, street, led to, two rich brothers, made a bet, a letter, a million-pound bank-note, open, two o’clock.
T: Now, look at the key words and pictures, who can retell the reading?
S1: It was the summer of 1903, and Henry Adams, an American businessman, had some very luck. He was rescued at sea by a British ship that takes him to London
where he finds himself without money, friends and the prospect of a good job. He was lost and alone in London. He had no money and did not know what he should do. Walking down the street, he heard someone calling him. Then he came in and was led to two rich brothers, Roderick and Oliver, who made a secret bet and gave him a letter in which there was a one-million-pound bank-note. He was asked to open the letter until two o’clock in the afternoon. Roderick believes that a man can’t survive in the city for a month with only a million pound bank-note in his possession but Oliver believes he can. (The play takes us along Henry’s misadventures with humor and surprise to discover who will win the bet.)
T: Good, the next one, who wants to try?
(Then another student retells the whole scene.)
T: You’ve done a good job. Now let’s retell the whole scene together.
Step Ⅵ Summary and Homework
T: Ok, class, what do you think of this play? Is money so important?
Ss: No.
T: Some people say that money is everything. What do you think of this opinion?
S1: I don’t think so. Yes, money is very important in some occasion. But that doesn’t mean it is everything. For example, when your hometown is flooded and you are trapped in the water, can you save yourself even if you have a lot of money with you? No! So, we should not regard money as everything.
T: Great! But some people still think that money can bring them happiness. What do think of this?
S2: I don’t agree with this. Since money doesn’t mean everything, so it can’t bring happiness to us. For example, you have a lot of money but you haven’t a happy family, can’t you say that you are happy?
T: So, class, we should have a correct attitude towards money. Now, let’s look at today’s homework.
1. Review the key sentences in this part.
2. Preview the words in the second period.
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