百万英镑公开课课件.ppt

The First Period;We are living in a magic world, one where anything may happen!;I would...;Buy a car;Do you know what happened to Henry Adams in the reading text?;视频《百万英镑》;Main characters;About the ￡1, 000,000 Bank-note The Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds each, to be used for 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 bank. The brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wondering what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned a drift in London without a friend and with no money but a million-pound bank-note, and no way to account for his being in possession of it? Would he starve to death or not? Would he get arrested if he tried to change it? Could he live for a month without being sent to jail? The brothers could not agree on the fate of the young man, so they made a bet, which was a quite common way to settle a problem at that time in Britain. ;3. They saw Henry’s personalities.;While-reading Scan the passage and find the answers to the questions: 1. When and where did the story take place? 2. What do the two old men give Henry?;while-reading Skimming 1.Questions based on the surface understanding of the whole scene: 1) What happens one day when Henry was walking down the street? 2) Where does Henry come from? 3) Why does he come to London and how? ;4) Why does he stare at the food on the table when he is talking with the men? 5) What did Henry do before coming to London? 6) How much money does he own? 7) When can Henry open the letter the men give him? 8) What’s inside the letter? 9) Does Henry accept the letter?;2. Questions based on the further understanding of the whole scene: 1) Why do the brothers smile at each other on hearing Henry’s unlucky experience? 2) Henry doesn’t quite follow the brothers when Roderick says “It’s an adv