Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note
I. 单元教学目标
技能目标Skill Goals
Talk about short stories and dramas.
Learn how to act out a play.
Learn how to request and order food.
Learn Noun clauses as the object and predicative.
Write a play or drama.
II. 目标语言
功
能
句
式
Request(请求)
Would you please come in?
Would you mind
waiting just a few minutes?
May I ask you how much money you have?
— Well, to be honest, I have none.
Could you offer me some kind of work?
I wonder, Mr. Adams, if you mind us asking a few questions?
— Go right ahead.
Ordering food (点餐)
I’d like some ham and eggs and a nice big steak.
I’ll have a nice long glass of beer.
词 汇
1. 四会词汇
bet, scene, tale, servant, permit, bay, stare, spot, passage, account, appearance, patience, silly, jealous, unbelievable, steak, tiny, wolf, dessert, rude, manner, scream, shoulder, rag, indeed, bow, decade, pilot, humour, novel, character, director, barber
2. 认读词汇
narrator, incredible, Roderick, Oliver, nightfall, unpaid, charity, willingness, simply, Clemens, issue, fake, boyhood, Hannibal, Missouri, Mississippi, fathom, contest, Yale, loneliness, playwright, script
3. 固定词组
make a bet, go ahead, by accident,
account for, to be honest, in rags, even if, get into trouble
4. 重点词汇
bet, make a bet, permit, go ahead, by accident, stare,
account for, to be honest, jealous, in rags, indeed, even if, get into trouble
语
法
Noun clauses as the object (宾语从句)
I can’t say that I have any plans.
...and he does not know what he should do.
I did not know whether I could
survive until morning.
Noun clauses as the predicative (表语从句)
That’s why we’ve given you the letter.
重
点
句
子
1. Have you ever made a bet with a friend? If so, what did you bet on?
2. He is lost in London.
3. Permit me to lead the way, sir.
4. As a matter of fact, I landed in Britain by accident.
5. His eyes stare at what is left of the brothers’ dinner on the table.
6. I wonder, Mr Adams, if you’d mind us asking a few questions.
7. I earned my passage by
working as an unpaid hand, which accounts for my appearance.
8. Well, we will have to take a chance.
9. (in a rude manner) What’s there to wait for?
10. He’s in rags!
III. 教材分析与教材重组
1. 教材分析
本单元的主要内容是根据马克·吐温的名著《百万英镑》改编而成的剧本中的几个片段。
1.1 WARMING UP 提出问题,通过对马克·吐温及其作品的讨论引发学生学习兴趣,使学生对马克·吐温及其作品, 有个初步的了解。
1.2 PRE-READING要求学生展开想象,假如自己有了一张百万英镑的钞票会怎么做,并阐述自己对《百万英镑》这部电影的评价。
1.3 READING 是剧本中第一幕的第三场。富商兄弟俩打赌把一张百万英镑钞票给一个一无所有,诚实可靠的穷人,想看看会发生什么事。最后他们物色到一个穷困潦倒流落伦敦街头的美国小伙子Henry Adams。教师可以引导学生通过戏剧情节的发展,理解、感受戏剧的语言。同时,还可利用剧本的朗诵和表演帮助学生改进语音语调。
1.4 COMPREHENDING 中Fact or Opinion 的练习和几个形容词的填空练习旨在检测学生对事实和观点的判断,加强对这部分词语在语境中的理解和运用。
1.5 LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE 通过英语释义,在文章中填空等形式帮助学习理解掌握本单元的重点词汇, 并通过先发现再简单运用的模式帮助学生了解、掌握本单元的语法项目:宾语从句和表语从句。
1.6 USING LANGUAGE 中的Reading and
acting 介绍了第一幕的第四场。这一场生动地讲述了衣衫褴褛的流浪汉Henry Adams到餐馆用餐时, 先遭到冷遇, 而后由于拿出了一张百万英镑的大钞,又倍受关照的有趣故事。作者用诙谐的笔调讽刺了资本主义社会拜金主义者的丑陋嘴脸。
1.6.1 READING && ACTING 是剧本中第一幕的第四场。
1.6.2 LISTENING &&WRITING中又介绍了第一幕的第五场,进一步印证了Henry Adams 诚实正直的品格。
1.6.3 READING 是关于马克·吐温的介绍。
1.6.4 WRITING要求学生自己写一个场景---第一幕的第五场。
1.7 SUMMING UP 总结本单元所学到的内容:《百万英镑》,有用的动词,名词,表达和新的语法项目。
1.8 LEARNING TIP 是关于如何写一个剧本的。
2. 教材重组
2.1从本单元话题内容和功能上分析,Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading, Comprehending和Using language中的 Reading (about Mark Twain)相一致,可以整合成一节任务型“阅读课(精读)”。
2.2 将Learning about language中的 Words and expressions, Using language中的Useful structures与Workbook中的Using structures, Using words and expressions放在同一节课中处理,上一堂 “语法课”。
2.3 将Using language中的listening (ACT ONE Scene 5), Workbook中的 Listening(AC
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