马克吐温英文简介 Mark Twain.ppt

Mark Twain is a pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens(萨缪尔·兰亨·克里曼斯),he was born in a poor countryside family. When he was 12 years old, his father died unfortunately, their life became harder and harder. His experience as an apprentice, newspaper delivery boy, typer and sailor means a lot to him, the difficult in his childhood later became the source of his inspiration . 他的笔名“马克·吐温”即来自水手的行话，意为“水深两噚”（“安全水域”），他的许多小说的背景也与这条大河有关。 Mark Twain went bankrupt in the 90s of the century, then his wife and daughter died one by one, he reached the bottom of his life time. However, he never complaint his life or gave in . His masterpiece was a shock at that time, His black humor revealed the darkness about leading politician of the day. now,let me show you some of his fantasy. What can we learn from Mark Twain？ A: avoid negative people, things and habits. B: believe in yourself. C: consider things from every angle. D: don’t give up and don’t give in. E: enrich your life today. F: family and friends are hidden treasures. G: give more than you plan to. H：hang on to your dreams. What can you learn from this? Q: quitters never win and winners never quit. R: read ,study and learn everything that around your life. S: stop complaining. T: take control of your own destiny. U: understand yourself in order to better understand others. V: visualize it. W: want it more than anything. X: xcellerate(accelerate)your efforts. Y: you are unique. Z: zero in your target and go for it! * In my mind, Mark Twain was beyond question a great man in his time, you may heard lots of about Mark Twain before, his humour and brilliant mind ,composing many well-known novels and stories such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finntheman,who’s really god’s favor. People speak of Mark Twain as a signal humorous writer. Now, let’s learn more about this wonderful man . Can u retell the whole story ? Life is not that smooth, we no doubt encounter with many d