Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note（Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading）

l        will the bank-note help him or get him into trouble? l        give a possible development to the story. homework:p20ex1.3

period 2 reading---教案step 1 revisionin this part, students will read the text again and try to understand the sentences and the main ideas of the whole scene.step 2 listeningin this part, students will listen to the tape and try to find the characteristics of the whole scene. after that, teachers discuss the question with the students and then check the answer. and then the teacher as well as the students read the passage together, which will be served as the ground for the retelling afterwards. step 3 post-reading1.p19 exercise 1statement 3, 4 and 5 are opinions.statement 1 and 2 are facts.2.p19 exercise 3step 4 retelling1. show the key words and relevant pictures on the screen, using the computer.2. ask the students to retell the whole scene, according to the following key words: summer, 1903, henry adams, american businessman, rescued, british ship, london, without money, lost, walk down, street, led to, two rich brothers, made a bet, a letter, a million-pound bank-note, open, two o’clock.t: now, look at the key words and pictures, who can retell the reading? s1: it was the summer of 1903, and henry adams, an american businessman, had some very luck. he was 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. he was lost and alone in london. he had no money and did not know what he should do. walking down the street, he heard someone calling him. then he came in and was led to two rich brothers, roderick and oliver, who made a secret bet and gave him a letter in which there was a one-million-pound banknote. he was asked to open the letter until two o’clock in the afternoon. roderick believes that a man can’t survive in the city for a month with only a million pound banknote 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.)step 5 summary what do you think of this play? is money so important? homework 1.                   review the key sentences in this part.2.                   english weekly page 4 part 2