1、The Fourth Period Extensive ReadingTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target language目标语言a. 重点词汇及短语determined, reputation, resemble, exception, shallow, vivid, establish, start with, lead a . life, leave school, make ones fortune, set off, up and downb. 重点句式He left school early, and as an adolescent, determined
2、to make his fortune in ., set off from . for .He arrived in . without a penny in his pocket only to find that.Forced to ., he worked for several years as a pilot ., taking passengers up and down the Mississippi, the great river which flows from . down to .2. Ability goals能力目标a. Enable the students t
3、o talk about the life of Mark Twain.b. Enable the students to know about adventure stories.3. Learning ability goals学能目标a. Help the students learn how to talk about the life of Mark Twain.b. Help the students get to know about adventure stories.Teaching important & difficult points教学重难点 Stimulate th
4、e students curiosity of finding out the beauty of art, and develop a love for art and artists.Teaching methods 教学方法Fast reading and careful reading; asking-answering activity; discussion.Teaching aids 教具准备A tape recorder, a projector and some slides.Teaching procedures ways 教学过程与方式Step I Cultural co
5、rnerTask 1 Lead-inT: In the reading part, weve learned an extract of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain. How much do you know about Mark Twain?S: I know he is a very world-famous writer. He wrote a lot of works, which are popular with people all over the world. He is an America
6、n. T: Good! Today lets learn more about Mark Twain. Please turn to page 29 and read the passage The Life of Mark Twain.Task 2 Fast readingT: First read the passage quickly and decide whether the following statements are true or false.Show the following on the screen.1. The lives of writers are usual
7、ly different from the lives of the characters they create.2. “Mark Twain” means “watermark one”.3. Like Huck, Mark Twain led a peaceful life.4. Mississippi is the great river which flows from the north of the US near the Canadian border, down to the Gulf of Mexico.5. Mark Twain wanted to take a boat
8、 to the Amazon.A few minutes later, check the answers.Sample answers: FFFTTTask 3 Careful readingT: This time Id like you to read the passage carefully. After reading, please have a discussion about the first question listed on page 29 with your partners.After several minutes.T: Whod like to answer
9、the question?S: He left school early, and as an adolescent, determined to make his fortune in South America, set off from his home Hannibal Missouri, for New Orleans.S: He wanted to take a boat to the Amazon, where he thought he could get rich quickly.S: He worked for several years as a pilot on a s
10、teamboat, taking passengers up and down the Mississippi.Task 4 Read aloudAsk the students to read aloud the text and meanwhile ask them to retell it.T: Please read the text aloud, and then retell it according to the key words given on the screen. Show the following on the screen.Paragraph 1. the liv
11、es of writers, characters, no exception, pen name, real name, watermark two, warn shipmates, shallow riverParagraph 2. led a . life, leave school, make his fortune, set off, take a boat, get rich, without a penny, forced to change, worked, a pilot, up and down, Mississippi, north of the US, the Gulf
12、 of MexicoParagraph 3. journalist, vivid and amusing description, established the reputationSeveral minutes later, ask several students to retell the text.Step II Reading (P81)T: Just now, weve learnt about a famous writer, Mark Twain. Next, lets learn something about another famous writer Patrick O
13、Brian. Have you heard about him or read his works?S: Sorry, never.T: It doesnt matter. Please turn to page 81 and read the text. Then youll know Patrick OBrian. First read the text quickly and answer the questions in Exercise 7.Several minutes later.T: Have you finished?Ss: Yes.T: Good. Who would li
14、ke to answer the first question?S: Let me have a try. Patrick OBrians real name was Richard Patrick Russ.T: Right. What type of books did he write?S: He wrote historical adventure books.T: Good. Then when did he become famous?S: After writing for over 40 years, he started to become famous.T: Excelle
15、nt. Why do you think he told people he was Irish?S: I think he wanted to make his own life more romantic to people.T: What three things do readers love about his books?S: They love the descriptions of fighting between ships at sea, the jokes and the historical facts.T: You did a good job. What very
16、sad thing happened to him?S: His child died aged three and he and his first wife separated.T: Well done. Why do you think he wrote about life at sea when he did not know how to sail?S: I think perhaps as a child, he had dreamt of sailing at sea and was interested in reading books about sailing.T: Yo
17、u are imaginative. Then let the students read the text again and carefully and complete Exercises 8 9 on page 82. Check the answers.Step III Supplementary readingThis step is designed to make the students know more about the great writer Mark Twain.T: Here are some supplementary reading materials on
18、 the screen. Please read them by yourselves and know more about the great writer Mark Twain.A Tiny Biography of Mark TwainEver A Gold Digger! Sam Clemens never finished what he started before the age of twenty-five, that is. By age twenty-five he had quit school to work for a newspaper typesetter, q
19、uit setting type to pilot a Mississippi steamer, quit river-boating to join the Confederate Army and shortly thereafter, deserted the army to go West and dig for riches. Thankfully for generations of readers, he found none; and, while recouping his losses, he instead latched onto a bit of wisdom tha
20、t would change the landscape of American literature.“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boys life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”Which is Twains birth place? Florida? Missouri? Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, o
21、n 30 November 1835. As he later said, he was brought in on Halleys Comet and wished to go out on its return. He was raised in Hannibal, on the Missouri banks of the Mississippi. He was the sixth of seven children. At age twelve, sometime after his fathers death in 1847, he left school and apprentice
22、d at a local printers shop. There, in what Abraham Lincoln later called the “poor boys college”, Clemens trained as a writer and critic.How Twain Set His Writing Style?“One isnt a printer ten years without setting up acres of good and bad literature, and learning unconsciously at first, consciously
23、later to discriminate between the two . and meantime, he is unconsciously acquiring what is a “style”.The literature he set into type varied in genre from anecdotes, to monologues, brief book excerpts, poems, and sketches by contemporary humorists. What these selections had in common was that they w
24、ere all self-contained pieces short and to the point. “Training is,” as Twain later wrote, “everything”; and so, it should come as no surprise that Twain himself survives in our hearts (and on the tip of our tongues) as easily excerpt able and eminently quotable. We can all picture Tom Sawyer persua
25、ding his friends to pay money for the privilege to whitewash his fence, but how many of us remember the novel at length? That scene rather than the plot stays fresh in our minds because it encapsulates how much we admired and resented that conniving kid on our own block, or in the cubicle just outsi
26、de our office door.Twain As A Hopper Before His First Book Twain would write short pieces for nearly two decades before penning his first novel. But it was his skills as a printer, and not a writer, that bought him his first ticket out of Hannibal. Working as a tramp printer, he traveled to St. Loui
27、s and Iowa and then east to New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. D.C. During that time, he contributed travel letters to his brothers newspaper, the Hannibal Gazette. A prolific writer, his career as a journalist was off to a fine start, writing feature stories, political reports, and sketches. T
28、hen, in 1957, Twain traveled to New Orleans and apprenticed to the pilot master George Ealer on the steamboat Pennsylvania. One and a half years later, he was a licensed steamboat pilot.By 1861, the Civil War had all but cut off traffic on the Mississippi. Twain enlisted in a Confederate company fro
29、m Missouri. A few weeks later, he deserted and went off with his brother for the New Territory of Nevada. After failing as prospector, Twain served as city editor for the Virginia City Enterprise. One year later, in 1865, a real good liar and a jumping frog brought Twain into national prominence. Ne
30、w Yorks The Saturday Press published his “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and newspapers throughout the United States reprinted it. In 1867, that jumping frog was binded with other short sketches by Twain as his first book.In the meantime, as early as 1866, Twain began lecturing. He tol
31、d stories about himself and about his travels, which he continued to make as a correspondent. Twain visited the Sandwich Islands and, in 1867, set sail for the Holy Land. Later, he toured France and Italy gathering material for The Innocents Abroad. This book, published in 1869, truly established Tw
32、ains reputation as a humorist. In it he satirized American tourists learning about Europe from guidebooks and, relying on his own voice of brash practicality, managed to extol the virtues of the New World as opposed to the Old.Step IV Homework1. Go over the cultural corner.2. Recite the key sentences and retell the life of Mark Twain.3. Preview the next part writing.
