UNIT 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note

get the students to discuss the question with their partners and then ask them to report their work. encourage them to express their opinions freely.
step iii while-reading
1. first reading: scanning
get the students to comprehend the whole scene quickly and accurately and meanwhile help the students to form a good habit of reading. teachers give the students a couple of minutes to look through the whole scene. tell the students to read the text silently and then ask some detail questions about the text on the slide show with their partners. teachers encourage the students to express their ideas.
2. second reading: reading aloud
in this part, students will read the text again and try to understand the sentences and the main ideas of the whole scene.
3.listening
in 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 iv post-reading
1. do comprehending exercises.
t: read the scene again and do some comprehending exercises. (p19)
(the students begin to prepare for these two exercises. after a while, the teacher starts to collect the answers. ) (later the teacher gives the answers, using a slide projector.)
get the students to do this exercise by themselves, and then ask them to check their answers with the whole class.
(later the teacher gives the answers, using a slide projector.)
2.explain language points.
3.students read the whole scene again and again and try to retell it.
step v retelling
1. 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.

step 6 homework.
1. review the key sentences in this part.
2. preview the words in the second perio