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教学设计Warming Up and Reading整体设计教材分析At the beginning of the class，the teacher can lead in the topic of the unit by having a free talk with students about the background knowledge，talking about Mark Twain and his play.Mark Twain is probably one of the few American writers with whom students are already familiar.Warming Up is intended to discover just how much students know about this 19th century writer and let those who don't know about him know about him before they read the play.The teacher can use this part to introduce information that Chinese students should have.Exercise 1 in Pre-reading provides students with an important choice.For some，knowing what they would do with the money is easy to decide.For others，it may pose a real dilemma，especially if they feel obligated to help others with the money.Whatever choice students make here，they should be ready to offer their classmates a good reason for it.Exercise 2 is to check whether students have read the story or have seen the film and for students to be ready for the next part Reading.The reading passage is a play which is adapted from Mark Twain's short story by the same title.It briefly describes that Henry，a San Francisco businessman，is rescued at sea by a British ship that takes him to London where he finds himself without money，friends，or the prospect of a good job.Hungry and alone，he walks along the streets of the city when unexpectedly he is summoned to a mansion.Two rich brothers，Roderick and Oliver，have made a secret bet.Roderick believes that a man cannot 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 on Henry's misadventures with humor and surprise to discover who will win the bet.Students are encouraged to preview the text and find out the new words and structures themselves.They should try to work out the meaning of the new words through the context.Then if necessary，they can look them up in the dictionary or turn to the teacher for help.Plays will enable students to read and hear natural language in a dramatic context.Just as importantly，reading and acting plays aloud will increase students' self-confidence in using English，which in turn will increase their overall motivation to learn English.Through their active participation in reading characters' parts in a play，students relive what others have said.When reading a play aloud，students not only speak to the teacher but directly to their classmates.This oral interaction can contribute to greater class cooperation，especially if reading the play results in trying to act it out.In doing so，students can learn how to interpret language through the tone ofvoice and body language，gaining a greater appreciation of the various verbal and non-verbal ways in which language works.Therefore，provide students with the opportunity to interpret language by acting out a few scenes of the play.To consolidate the contents of the reading passage，students should be required to give a brief introduction to the story The Million Pound Bank Note in their own words and act out Scene 3 of this play with their group members at the end of the class.In order to arouse students' interest，the teacher can hold a competition between groups.教学重点1．Let students learn more about Mark Twain and his play.2．Get students to learn different reading skills.3．Have students learn how to act out this play.教学难点1．Develop students' reading ability.2．Enable students to act out this play.三维目标知识目标1．Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part：birthplace，novel，adventure，phrase，author，scene，wander，pavement，businessman，permit，ahead，bay，stare，fault，spot，passage，account，embassy，seek，patience，contrary，envelope，bring up，go ahead，by accident，stare at，account for，on the contrary2．Let students learn about Mark Twain and his play.能力目标1．Develop students' reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.2．Enable students to talk about Mark Twain and his play.3．Enable students to act out this play.情感目标1．Stimulate students' interests of learning English by reading and acting this play.2．Develop students' sense of cooperative learning.教学过程Step 1 Warming UpTalk about background knowledge about Mark Twain and his play.1．Getting to know a great literary giant：Mark TwainLet students read the following information about Mark Twain and his works.Two rich gentlemen in London made a bet on what would happen to a person if he was given a million pound bank note.An American young man who sailed too far was carried out to sea，but was saved by a British ship for London.So he was now in London，tired，hungry and penniless....Step 2 Pre-readingDiscuss with students：Have you read the story The Million Pound Bank Note? Have you ever seen the film? If ever，what do you think of it?Step 3 While-readingTry to gain as much information as possible from the story through reading and train reading skills.1．ScanningReading strategy：Go through the play for specific information.Don't read sentence by sentence.Fill in the blanks.1）Time：____________2）Characters：Henry Adams：____________________Roderick and Oliver：____________________3）Events1）the_summer_of_19032）Henry Adams：a_lost_American_businessman_in_LondonRoderick and Oliver：two_brothers_and_rich_Englishmen3）Reading strategy：Go through the play for the gist.1）Answer 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?Suggested answers：（1）Henry comes from San Francisco.No，he doesn't know London at all.（2）He worked for a mining company.（3）He was sailing out the bay when he was carried out to sea by a strong wind and was rescued by a ship for London.2）Put the following events in a correct order to form a short passage：Henry wandered in London streets.About a month ago Henry Adams was sailing out of the bay.The next morning he was spotted by a ship.Towards nightfall he found himself carried out to sea by a strong wind.On the ship he earned his passage by working as an unpaid hand.Suggested answers：About a month ago Henry Adams was sailing out of the bay.Towards nightfall he found himself carried out to sea by a strong wind.The next morning he was spotted by a ship.On the ship he earned his passage by working as an unpaid hand.Henry wandered in London streets.3．Detailed-readingReading strategy：Read the play carefully and try to get as much information as possible.Try to keep them in mind.Fill in the blanks and retell the story.Henry was an ______.One day he had an accident in a ______.Luckily he was rescued by a ship for ______.He arrived in London by earning his passage without pay.He was ______ in the street in ______.To his surprise an ______ thing happened.Two rich brothers gave him a million pound bank note because they had made a ______.Suggested answers：American；bay；London；wandering；rags；incredible；bet4．Reading aloud and underliningAsk students to read the play aloud to the tape and let them pay attention to the pronunciation and the pauses within each sentence.Tell them to pick out all the useful expressions or collocations from the passage while reading and copy them to the notebook after class as homework.Step 4 Post-reading1．Discussing and talkingWhat kind of person do you think Henry is? Why do you think so? Find some of his words to prove.1）Is Henry honest?It is my first trip here.Well，to be honest，I ha v e none.（no money）Well，I can't say that I ha v e any plans.2）Is Henry hard-working?I earned my passage by w orking as an unpaid hand.Could you offer me some kind of w ork here?I don't w ant your charity；I just w ant an honest job.3）Is Henry direct/straightforward?Well，it may seem luck to you but not to me.If this is your idea of some kind of joke，I don't think it's v ery funny.No w，if you'll excuse me，I think I'll be on my w ay.2．Acting1）Listen to the text again.2）Complete the table.3）Act out the play in groups of four or five，including the narrator.4）Invite two or three groups to perform before the class.3．DiscussionHave a discussion with students.Suppose you get a large amount of money by buying lottery tickets and become a millionaire. What will you do with the money?4．WritingRewrite the play into a story.Step 5 Homework1．Learn the useful new words and expressions in this part by heart.2．Read the play again and again and try to act it out with your classmates.3．Enjoy the movie The Million Pound Bank Note.备课资料Background Information1．About Mark TwainMark Twain（Samuel Langhorne Clemens）（1835-1910）American writerMark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30,1835 in Florida，Missouri.He was the fifth surviving child of John and Jane Lampton Clemens.Halley's Comet was visible at the time of his birth，making his arrival an even more momentous occasion.Mark Twain died on April 21,1910 in Redding，Connecticut of angina pectoris.Upon hearing of Twain's death，President Taft said，“Mark Twain gave pleasure—real intellectual enjoyment—to millions，and his works will continue to give such pleasure to millions yet to come...His humor was American，but he was nearly as much appreciated by Englishmen and people of other countries as by his own countrymen.He has made an enduring part of American literature.”Mark Twain's Achievements：Mark Twain wrote novels [principally “The Gilded Age”（1873），“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”（1876），“The Prince and the Pauper”（1881），“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”（1884），“A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”（1889）and “The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson”（1894）] short stories，speeches，and essays.He also wrote some autobiographical works，including “The Innocents Abroad”（1869），“A Tramp Abroad”（1880），“Life on the Mississippi”（1883），and “Mark Twain's Autobiography”．Mark Twain's Professions：Besides his work as a novelist，speech writer，essayist and short story writer，Mark Twain wasa journeyman printer，steamboat pilot，army volunteer，gold prospector，timber prospector，and journalist.Mark Twain's Biography：Mark Twain（Samuel Langhorne Clemens）is one of the most famous writers in American literature.He went to work in 1847 when his father died，starting off as an apprentice to a printer，writing for his brother's newspaper，and then working as a riverboat pilot（1857-1861）．The work that first brought Twain literary acclaim was “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog”（also known as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”）in 1865.Also，as a journalist during those early literary days，Twain traveled to the Sandwich Islands，Europe and the Middle East in 1867.He shaped his travel adventures into several books：“The Innocents Abroad”（1869）and “Roughing It”（1872），which depicted West Coast travels.Financial security brought about by his literary success allowed him to marry Olivia Langdon in 1870，and moved to Hartford，Connecticut the following year.During that time，he continued to write，and in 1873，he published “The Gilded Age”．His success with “The Gilded Age” was followed by his ever-popular novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”（1876），which he only returned to after abandoning it in 1874.“Huckleberry Finn”was first published in 1884.Ernest Hemingway would later write，“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn’．”After years of literary success，Twain's financial situation was destabilized in the 1890s when speculations didn't pay off.He moved his family to Europe，and began a lecture tour，but another shock hit him in 1897 with the death of his daughter，Susie.Mark Twain has been called a realist and a romantic，a humorist and a satirist.His mark on American literary history cannot be understated.The popularity of his works has been met with an equal portion of controversy，with “Huckleberry Finn” as one of the most banned and debated books in American literature.His life was remarkable in its triumphs and tragedies.His words are remarkable in their depth and perception of human experience.2．About the ReadingThe Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds，to be used to 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.The two brothers，chatting along，happened to get to wonder what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be adrift in London without a friend，and with nothing 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 oranywhere 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 banknote....Warming Up and Reading林碧琴，福建省龙岩市连城一中教师。
