Using LanguageⅡ第二课时教学设计

M3Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note Period 2

Reading Teaching goals

1. Target language

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?

2. Ability goals 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. 3. Learning ability goals

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. Teaching important points

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. Teaching methods

Teaching procedures and ways

Step I Lead-in: Brief intoduction of Mark Twain Pictures +Q:

Who is it? What do you know about Mark Twain?

Read the short passage quickly and fill in the chart. Real name Meaning of his pen name Birth date

Birthplace Place where he grew up His famous stories literature. Masterpieces:

Mark Twain (1835—1910): The greatest humorist of the 19th century American The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) The Prince and the Pauper (1882) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1894) Step II Pre-reading 1.

Picture+title+Q: Can you predict the story? Characters: Two rich gentlemen, Henry Two rich gentlemen made a bet on what would happen to a person if he was given a million pound note. Henry, the hero of the story, an American young man, sailed too far, drifted out to the ocean. A British ship, for London, passing by, fortunately saved him.

2. Prediction: What would happen to Henry? Step III While reading Qs: What happened to Henry? What does the brothers choose Henry for? What happened to Henry? He was given a letter by the two brothers and was asked not to open it until two o’clock.

What does the brothers choose Henry for? They wanted to make a bet on Henry. 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. Keys:

(2)

(4) (3) (5) (1) Step IV Post- Reading What kind of persons you think the characters are? (Henry Adams, Oliver, Roderick)

StepV Acting Students act out the story in groups