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
   
   
   
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.
   
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
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.
   
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。
穷人教案    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 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, ComprehendingUsing 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 Learning about language中的 Words and expressions, Using language中的Useful structuresWorkbook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 Using language中的listening ACT ONE Scene 5), Workbook中的 ListeningACT TWO Scene 2)整合成一节听力课
    2.4 Workbook中的Talking (ACT TWO Scene 1), Speaking Task (ACT TWO Scene 3)Speaking Task (ACT TWO Scene 4)上一节口语课
    2.5Using language中的Reading and acting (ACT ONE Scene 4)上成一节阅读和表演课
    2.6Using language中的Writing (ACT ONE Scene 5)Workbook中的Writing Task Checking yourself, Learning Tips 上成一节写作课
    3. 课型设计与课时分配 (经分析教材, 本单元可以用六课时完成)
    1st period        Intensive Reading
    2nd period        Grammar
    3rd period              Listening
    4th period          Speaking 
    5th period          Extensive Reading and Acting
    6th period          Writing
. 分课时教案
The First Period    Intensive Reading
Teaching 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, jealous 
b. 交际用语
Expressions on request:
Would you step inside a moment, please?
Would you please come in?
May we ask what you’re doing in this country and what your plans are?
Well, why don’t you explain what this is all about?
c. 重点句型   
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.
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 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.
e. Express their opinions by answering the following questions:
1) Do you think money is everything? Why?
2) Do you agree that only money can bring people happiness?
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
a. Help students to understand natural language in the dramatic context and increase their self-confidence in using English.