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Unit 4 ? The Boy and the Bank Officer 教学目的： 了解银行的发展历史。 掌握happen to do, in the first place, over-lighted, authority, more than, think twice about, as to whether, no…but to, one cannot but do, move in sth,. zero in on sth, damn等重点词汇和短语的意义及用法。 通过句子释义，理解课文中难句。 教学重点：掌握重点词汇及其同义、同形词辨析。 加强学生的口语练习。 教学内容：语言难点 语言技能训练 难句讲解 课堂讨论 练习及作业 教学方法：精讲多练，讲练结合 Unit 4 ? The Boy and the Bank Officer Questions for Pre-class reading: 1. How do you understand the author’s friend’s attitude toward banks? ? He hates the bank. A banker is a man who lends you un umbrella when the weather is fair and takes it away from you when it rains. 2. What can banks do for us? And what about churches? Keep your money. Churches represent God, give people moral advices and preach moral lessons, tell people what to do and what not to do. 3)3. Why did the author go to bank one day? To open a checking account. 4. What did he see in the bank? A school boy tried to withdraw money from the bank. 5. Why did the officer refuse to have the boy withdraw money? A fourteen-year-old is not able to withdraw money without a letter from his parents. 6. What did the author do then? He thought the bank policy is very ridiculous. He thought what he saw confirmed his friend’s comment on banks. He decided not to open his account and found it a good chance to attack the bank policy. 74)888. What do you think of the ending of the story? What effect may it bring to the story? The exaggeration of the speaker’s anger and determination to attack produces comic(喜剧的；逗人的；幽默的) effect. Appreciation of the text: Plot: a boy’s withdrawal of money from bank Setting: at the bank Main characters: the bank officer, the boy, “I” Theme: traditionally, poor people and people who sympathize them regard bank as evil, or as enemy of the poor. Such suspicions and misgivings still linger on. This article seems to prove that prejudices of people like the author are ungrounded. Structure of the text: Part Ⅰ( para.1) : the attitude of the a