英语必修三unit3百万英镑 reading.pptVIP

Step 1 Pre-reading The brief introduction of Mark Twain Mark Twain was born in Florida on November 30th,1835.He was brought up in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River. He is best known for his novels set in his boyhood world on the river, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain loved the river so much that even his pen name is about the river. Twain is an old word for two. The phrase mark twain means that the water is two fathoms deep. The author’s real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Writing Characteristics of Mark Twain Earl