Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note教案

1) do you think money is everything? why?

2) do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?

3. learning ability goals 學能目標

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 教學重點

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教學難點

discuss the questions:

1) do you think money is everything?

2) do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?

teaching methods 教學方法 

elicitation, discussion, listening, reading and pair work.

teaching aids 教具準備

a computer, a projector and a tape recorder.

teaching procedures and ways教學過程與方式

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 tw 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.