Book 3 Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note
The first period Reading
Teaching goals
1. Target language
a.Key words and phrases
bet, make a bet, permit, go ahead, by accident, stare, account for, to be honest, jealous
b.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 scen
e.
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
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 scen
e.
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
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
Discuss the questions:
1) Do you think money is everything?
2) Do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?
Teaching methods
Elicitation, discussion, listening, reading and pair work.
Teaching aids
A computer, a projector and a tape recorder.
Teaching procedures and ways
Step 1
Warming up-I
What do you know about Mark Twain? Do you know any of his works?
Real name
Meaning of his pen name
Birth date
Birthplace
Place where he grew up
His famous stories
1.Ask one of the students to report his/her anwsers to the class and then check them with the class;
2.Then give an introduction of Mark Twain(1835—1910): The greatest humorist of the 19th century American literature.
Novels:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)(汤姆·索亚历险记）
The Prince and the Pauper (1882)(皇子与贫儿)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1894)(哈克贝利·费恩历险记)
Discussion
Suppose a rich person gives you a million pound bank-note, what will you do with it ? Give the reasons.
Ask some of the Ss to give their answers.
Introduce some new words to the students:
incredible: difficult to believe (unbelievable)
stare at: look at sb. / sth. for a long time
nightfall: the time in the evening when it becomes dark
survive: continue to live or exist
spot: see or notice a person or thing
account for: to be the explanation or cause of sth.
charity:
by accident: by chance
Step 2
Pre-reading
1. First, give students a brief introduction of the story by showing some pictures of the play on the screan.
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?
Ask some Ss to give their prediction.
Step 3
Reading
Scanning:
Scan the passage and find out :
What happened to Henry?
What does the brothers choose Henry for?
What happened to Henry?
Answers:
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.
Ask some Ss to give their Answers
Skimming:
Aswer the following questions:
1. Where does Henry Adams come from? Does he know much about London?
2. What did he do in America?
3. Why did he land in Britain?
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) About a month ago Henry Adams was sailing out of the bay.
(4) Towards nightfall he found himself carried out to sea by a strong wind.
(3) The next morning he was spotted by a ship.
(5) On the ship he earned his passage by working as an unpaid hand.
(1)Henry wandered in London streets.
Step 4
Retell the story
Step 5
After-reading
What kind of persons you think the characters are? (Henry Adams, Oliver Roderick)
Step 6
Enjoy a short film based the same story.
Step7 Homework
Divid the class into several groups and ask them to play the roles of the play .
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Unit 3 Book 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note
背景介绍
1. About the ￡1, 000,000 Bank-note
英格兰银行出于特殊的需要发行了两张面值一百万的钞票，其中一张收回并作废，但还有一张却留在银行，两兄弟打赌，一个身无分文的人带着这张钞票会发生什么，兄弟A说会死去，兄弟B说他肯定能活一个月。他们物色了一个年轻人做试验，带着这张毫无使用价值的百万英镑钞票。年轻人走进商店买东西，拿出钞票要求找钱，店老板都震惊了并立刻改变态度，极力讨好这个年轻人，年轻人得到了他想得到的，包括爱情和受人尊敬。他爱上的女孩正是兄弟B的女儿。最后，百万英磅被银行收回并作废，年轻人过上了幸福的生活。
The Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds, to be used for a special
purpose connected with some public transaction with a foreign country. For some reason or other only one of these had been used and canceled; the other still lay in the vaults of the Bank. Well, the brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wonder what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned adrift in London without a friend, and with no money but that million-pound bank-note, and no way to account for his being in possession of it. Brother A said he would starve to death; Brother B said he wouldn’t. Brother A said he couldn’t offer it at a bank or anywhere else, because he would be arrested on the spot. So they went on disputing till Brother B said he would bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days. They thought “me”to be the right person, a poor, honest and intelligent stranger. They handed “me”an envelope that contained ￡1,000,000 bank-note. “I”, dressed in rag, with nothing but a bank-note, got into a restaurant. “I”took the banknote to pay for the bill and asked for changes. The boss who looked down upon me at first changed his attitude completely. He flattered me that I could have anything I wanted, any time I chose, and let the account run as long as I pleased. They all treated me as an honored guest. Then “I”got into a tailor’s shop, the same thing happened. “I”drifted naturally into buying whatever I wanted, and asking for change. “I”owned the respect and fell in love with a girl, Portia. Everything went well having ￡1,000,000 bank-note on “me”. After a month, Brothers returned, to my surprise, one of them was My Portia’s papa. He took that friendly and hospitable bill back to the Bank of England and cashed it, then the Bank canceled it and made him a present of it, and he gave it to us at our wedding.
2. Characters in THE MILLION POUND BANK-NOTE
Henry: a lost American businessman in London
Roderick: a rich Englishman, brother to Oliver
Oliver: a rich Englishman, brother to Roderick
Banker: for the Bank of England
Todd: an especially helpful clerk at the tailor’s shop
Owner 1: of a small but fancy restaurant in London
Waiter: works for the restaurant owner
Hostess: greeter at the restaurant and wife of the owner
Mr Clemens: a diner in the restaurant and expert on banknotes
Owner 2: of a small but fancy tailor shop in London
Ambassador: the chief US diplomat in Britain
Portia: a friend of the ambassador who he introduces to Henry
Various narrators
Various clerks
3. Supplementary lines that did not appear in the textbook:
ACT ONE
Scene 1
Narrator: A hundred years ago when Britain was very rich, there was more gold deep within the Bank of England than anywhere else in the world. Money was safe, people used to say, as safe as the Bank of England.
Banker: Here it is Mr Montpelier. I trust you will not be disappointed with its design. (He hands him a bank-note.)
Oliver: No, it seems to me a thing of beauty.
Roderick: Allow me, Oliver. (He takes the note from his brother.) It looks good, it feels good, it is
good.
Banker: And there’s only one other like it that was used for a foreign loan.
Oliver: Yes, we read about it. That’s what gave us the idea.
Banker: The idea?
Roderick: I suppose it does seem strange that we should need such a large sum in one bank-note. Banker: It certainly is a unusual request. I imagine it’s for business.
Oliver: Important business, isn’t it, Roderick? Do we tell this gentleman?
Roderick: Yes. You see, my brother and I need this pretty, special piece of paper for a bet. Banker: A bet? Did you say a bet?
Oliver: A very important bet.
Banker: I should say it must be-for one million pounds!
Scene 2
Narrator: It is the summer of 1903. Henry Adams, an American businessman, has had some very bad luck. He is lost in London. He has no money and does not know what he should do. As Henry is walking down a sidewalk, he sees a family having a picnic in a park. However, he doesn’t look at them but at their food. He keeps walking. Then he reaches the entrance to a large old building and enters it.
Henry: “This embassy does not provide money to Americans in London.”Well, that’s too bad. (He turns to the clerk.) I thought this would be just the place.
Clerk: It doesn’t mean we’re not glad to help you in other ways. You can work on a ship to take you home, if you like. (Henry notices the clerk eating peanuts from a bag.)
Henry: Any chance I can find work here?
Clerk: Well, if you’d like to come back in a week, we can find out for you.
Henry: A week? That’s a long time. If I can just get money to last me a few days, I can find work for myself.
Clerk: We can give you a small loan if you can repay it. Can you offer us anything in exchange? Henry: Well, I’m smart and I can use my hands. Unless you don’t trust me, isn’t that enough? Clerk: No, I’m afraid not. Many people pass through this office making similar requests. If we help you in this way, others will expect the same.
Henry: I think I’ll try to help myself.
Clerk: Well, that’s up to you, young man. Come back if you have no luck.
Henry: I’ll do that. (He is still looking at the peanuts.) Say, may I have some of those?
Clerk: Of course, you can. Oh, sorry, all gone. (He blows into the bag and pops it.)
4. Major Works by Mark Twain
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was first published in the November 18, 1865, edition of The New Y ork Saturday Press under the title “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.” The story, which has also been published as “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, is set in a gold-mining camp in Calaveras County, California, and has its origins in the folklore of the Gold Rush era. It was one of Twain’s earliest writings, and helped establish his reputation as a humorist. He eventually included it as the title story in his first collection of tales.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
(From the Preface) Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two
were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.
The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the west at the period of this story—that is to say, thirty or forty years ago. Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.-THE AUTHORHARTFORD, 1876
The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
Edward Tudor and Tom Canty are the same age and share the same features only one of them is a pauper’s child and the other is the heir to the throne of England. When chance brings the boys together, they decide for fun to switch clothes, but fate suddenly casts them into each other’s worlds. Tom learns what is to be caught in the pomp and folly of the royal court and the young prince learns what it is to survive in the lower depths of 16th century English society. Through the switched identities Mark Twain has fashioned both a scathing attack on social hypocrisy and injustice, and an irresistible comedy imbued with the sense of spirited play that belongs to this creative period. The delightful fable of The Prince and the Pauper has delighted readers young and old for over 100 years.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Mark Twain’s classic novel, Adventures of Huckle-
berry Finn, tells the story of a teenage misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet with adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious. Although the story was mostly written in the 1880’s it is set in the time of slavery prior to the Civil War. Twain uses Huck’s predicaments to illustrate the failure of reconstruction in the post-Civil War South.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is held to be one of the word’s first stories about time travel. The main character, Hank Morgan, superintendent at the Colt Firearms Factory in Hartford, Connecticut, is hit on the head in a fight, knocking him unconscious. He wakes up in the time of King Arthur and uses his 19th century sensibilities and know how to gain power over the people. Hank introduces conveniences and structures familiar to 1880’s Hartford such as schools, factories, bicycles, and gunpowder. At first, Hank is convinced that his ideas will do the citizens of Arthur’s court good, but as he takes command he turns more and more to violence and loses control of his circumstances. Connecticut Yankee was one of the last large-scale novels Mark Twain produced and its dark, cynical themes foreshadow ideas he would delve into more deeply in much of his later work.
5. Know some sayings of Mark Twain and have a better understanding of his works.
（1）The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can’t read them. （2）Always tell the truth; then you don’t have to remember anything.
（3）When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart
no man much respects himself.
（4）
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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How much do you
know about him?
Mark Twain (1835
—1910)
The greatest humorist of the 19th century
in American literature. Also one of the greatest
writers in the world.
his masterpieces
1876
The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer
his masterpieces
1881
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
his short stories
The ￡1,000,000
Bank -Note
Gregory Peck
Act One Scene One Array The Bank of England banker
Embassy of the USA
Act One Scene Two