762kj_英语新人教版必修3 Unit3《The Million Pound Bank Note-Warming upReading》复习课件.pptVIP

* There is a humorous story about a famous American novelist. Can you guess who he is . He liked to tell funny stories to make people laugh and play jokes on his friends. Once he was traveling with a friend of his. His friend lost his money, so he asked him to buy a train ticket for him. “But I dont have enough money to buy two tickets,” he said. His friend didnt know what to do. “You can hide under my seat when the conductor comes to check the tickets,” he said to his friend. When the conductor came to check the tickets, he gave the conductor two tickets, one for himself and one for his friend. He said to the conductor, “My friend is a strange man. When he travels on a train, he does not like to sit on the seat. He likes to lie on the floor under the seat.” Everyone in the train looked at his friend under the seat and laughed. Background knowledge about Mark Twain and his play . Real name of Mark Twain Meaning of his pen name Birth Date Birth Place His famous works Samuel Langhorne Clemens Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Life on the Mississippi 1835 Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens Born: 1835 Died :1910 American short story writer Humorist This play was made into a film. Two rich gentlemen in London made a bet on what would happen to a person if he was given a million pound bank-note. An American young man who sailed too far was carried out to sea, but was saved by a British ship for London . So he was now in London , tired, hungry and penniless…… Task 2: Getting to know the story. Million Pound Bank-Note Suppose you get a large amount of money by buying lottery tickets (彩票) and become a millionaire (百万富翁), for example one million pound, what will you do with it? Try to gain as much information as possible from the story through reading and train reading skills. Task 1. Sca