高三英语Amrican-Literature课件2.pptVIP

cows were more than people, so cowboys were needed. To run after the cows, cowboys rode horses and wore leather boots. They created their special songs, stories, lifestyles and special characters. If you want to know more about them, you can read some books, for example, Life on the Back of Horse and The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. A: Thank you very much. I will go to the library. A: You have been to the library, haven’t you? B: Yes, I’ve just borrowed some interesting books. A: Well, let me see. Er… You seem to like Mark Twain. B: Not very much, but I really like his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, his well-known book. A: It sounds interesting. What is about? B: The story happened during American Civil War. A clever and kind-hearted boy named Huckleberry Finn helped his friend, a slave, escape from his owner’s garden. They traveled along the Mississippi, and finally they got to the north part of America. During their incredible trip, they built a friendship. As the slave got freedom, the story got a happy ending. The story shows us some facts of the war and tells us that the slaves should be treated fair. A: It is really interesting. I hope I can read this book when you finish reading it. B: No problem! A: Do you know something about the Great Depression at 1933-1937? B: It’s a terrible event for the whole world. No one can forget it. Millions of businesses went bankrupt, millions of people lost their jobs, and millions of people could not support A: No, I don’t want to read this kind of books. I want some stories at that time, just for pleasure. It needs their children’s food. It was also one reason of the World War II. If you want to know it, you can read the book “Live of Roosevelt”. It describes this event. interesting characters, exciting plots