1、The Second Period: ReadingTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target language 目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语bet, make a bet, permit, go ahead, by accident, stare, account for, to be honest, jealousb. 交际用语Expressions on request:Would you step inside a moment, please?Would you please come in?May we ask what youre doing in this cou
2、ntry and what your plans are?Well, why dont you explain what this is all about? 2. Ability goals能力目标a. Enable students to read and hear natural language in a dramatic context and increase their self-confidence in using English, which will increase their overall motivation to learn English.b. Enable
3、students to sum up the main idea of ACT ONE Scene 3.c. Enable students to understand the details about the whole scene.d. Retell the scene using the key words of the whole scene.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标a. Help students to understand natural language in the dramatic context and increase their s
4、elf-confidence in using English.b. Help students to sum up the main idea of ACT ONE Scene3.c. Help students to understand the details of the whole scene.d. Get students to retell the whole scene.Teaching important points 教学重点How to interpret language through tone of voice and body language, gaining
5、a greater appreciation of the various verbal and non-verbal ways in which language works.Teaching methods 教学方法 Elicitation, discussion, listening, reading and pair work.Teaching aids 教具准备A computer and a projector.Multi-functional teaching equipment (CAI)Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式 Step I Le
6、ad-inGive an introduction of Mark Twain (18351910): The greatest humorist of the 19th century American literature.Novels:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)(汤姆索亚历险记）The Prince and the Pauper (1882)(皇子与贫儿) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1894)(哈克贝利费恩历险记)Step II DiscussionSuppose a rich person giv
7、es you a million pound bank-note, what will you do with it? Give the reasons.Introduce some new words to the students:incredible: difficult to believe (unbelievable)stare at: look at sb. / sth. for a long time nightfall: the time in the evening when it becomes dark survive: continue to live or exist
8、spot: see or notice a person or thingaccount for: to be the explanation or cause of sth. charity: 施舍 by accident: by chanceStep III Pre-reading1. First, give students a brief introduction of the storyTwo rich gentlemen made a bet on what would happen to a person if he was given a million pound note.
9、Henry, the hero of the story, an American young man, sailed too far, drifted out to the ocean. A British ship, for London, passing by, fortunately saved him. 2. Prediction:What would happen to Henry?Step IV ReadingScan the passage and find out:What happened to Henry?What do the brothers choose Henry
10、 for?What happened to Henry?He was given a letter by the two brothers and was asked not to open it until two o clock.What do the brothers choose Henry for?They wanted to make a bet on Henry.Skimming: answer the following questions:1. Where does Henry Adams come from? Does he know much about London?2
11、. What did he do in America?3. Why did he land in Britain?Put the following events in correct order.(1) Henry wandered in London streets.(2) About a month ago Henry Adams was sailing out of the bay.(3) The next morning he was spotted by a ship.(4) Towards nightfall he found himself carried out to se
12、a by a strong wind.(5) On the ship he earned his passage by working as an unpaid hand.Keys:(2) About a month ago Henry Adams was sailing out of the bay.(4) Towards nightfall he found himself carried out to sea by a strong wind.(3) The next morning he was spotted by a ship.(5) On the ship he earned h
13、is passage by working as an unpaid hand.(1)Henry wandered in London streets.Step V Comprehending1. Read the sentences below and for each statement, write F if it is a fact . Write O if it is an opinion.2. Read Act I Scene 3 carefully and find all the examples of polite requests in it. Then rewrite them in informal language.Step VI AssignmentDo Exercises on P41 on the exercise Book
