3. Teaching aims: Deal with yesterday’s homework; Get familiar with the words in Warming up; Have a better understanding of Mark Twain; Arouse Ss’ interest in learning this Unit.

4. Unit 3 by Mark Twain The Million Pound Bank-Note

5. Warming up Mark Twain ▲ a great American writer ▲ a famous speaker ▲ liked to tell funny stories ▲ liked to play jokes on his friends

6. “The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.” “Always tell the truth; then you don’t have to remember anything.” A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minutes it begins to rain. --- Mark Twain

7. I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. --- Mark Twain

8. Real name Pen name meaning Birth date Birth place Grew up places Famous stories Fill in the basic information about Mark Twain: Hannibal, Missouri (along the Mississippi River) Samuel Langhorne Clemens The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Nov. 30th, 1835 The water is 2 fathoms deep. (=12feet) Florida

9. good at writing about children’s adventures good at writing about children’s adventures 1876 1881

10. 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? Pre-reading

11. save them use them up donate buy a big flat run a business spend them on food clothing toys share with friends trip do some science research

12. ACT 1 SCENE 1&2 A brief introduction to the story Background information

13. 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.

14. What do you think will happen to Henry? Will the bank-note help him or get him into trouble? Give a possible development to the story. Prediction

15. Homework for today: 1.Preview the first part of the play, try to guess the meaning of new words. （ 必） 2.Cloze test and Reading A&B.( 必 ) 3.Try to retell the play using your own words.