M3 Unit 3
The Million Pound Bank-Note

Warming up
* How much do you know about Mark Twain?
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）
Mark Twain:
(1835—1910)

Fill in the basic information about Mark Twain:
Hannibal, Missouri
(along the Mississippi River)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Nov. 30th, 1835
The water is 2 fathoms deep.
Florida
If a rich person gave you a large amount of money to use as you like, for example, one million pounds, what would you do?
Discussion
Buy a house
Travel around the world
What will you do with the money?
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ACT
1
SCENE
Scanning
Time __________________
Place _________
Characters:
Henry Adams
2) Roderick
Oliver
4) Servant
The summer of 1903
London
Listening&Reading : Listening answer the following questions:
1. Where does Henry Adams come from?Does he know much about London?
2. What did he do in America?
3. Why did he land in Britain?
1. Where does Henry Adams come from?Does he know much about London?
Henry comes from San Francisco.
No, he doesn’t know London at all.
2. What did he do in America?
He worked for a mining company.
3. Why did he land in Britain?
He was sailing out the bay when he was carried out to sea by a strong wind and was spotted by a ship for London.
was sailing out of the bay
found himself carried out to sea by a strong wind
was spotted by a ship
London
Read Act one again, then fill in the following form.
Detailed reading
working on the
ship as an unpaid hand
lost
called
an envelop with money in it
wandering
Sum up the main idea of the whole passage
Consolidation
The story happened in _________ in ________. Henry, a tramp who came from ______________ landed in Britain ____________. He earned his _________ by working as an _________ hand. Wandering in London streets, he met _______________ who asked him to _____________ their house. After asking Henry many questions, they gave him _________.
London
1903
San Francisco
by accident
passage
unpaid
two old brothers
step inside
a letter
Discuss the questions in groups:
Why do you think that the brothers chose Henry for their bet?
It was his first visit to London so nobody knew him.
He had no money so he would have to rely on the bank note.
They thought he looked honest because he asked for a job and not charity.
Discussion:
Is he honest ?
Discussion
2.What kind of person do you think Henry is? Why do you think so?
Is he hard-working ?
Is he direct ?
It is my first trip here.
Well, to be honest, I have none. (no money)
Well, I can’t say that I have any plans.
I don’t want your charity. I just want an honest job.
Is he honest？
Discussion
I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand.
Could you offer me some kind of work here?
I don’t want your charity, I just want an honest job.
Is he hard-working:
Well, it may seem luck to you but not to me.
If this is your idea of some kind of joke, I don’t think it’s very funny.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll be on my way.
Is he direct ?
What do you think will happen to Henry?
Will the bank-note help him or get him into trouble?
Give a possible development to the story.
homework