人教版高中英语必修三 Unit 3 Warming Up 课件

Samuel Langhorne Clemens Fill in the blanks
Do you know any of his works? Can you name any of them?
His famous works
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《汤姆· 索亚历险记》
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克贝利· 弗恩历险记》
Running for Governor 《竞选州长》
Life on the Mississippi 《密西西比河上的生活》
The Million Pound Bank Note 《百万英镑》
Discuss
Unit 3 The Million Pound Note
Warming up 必修三
Do you know him?
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
What do you know about the American writer Mark Twain?
“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.” “Always tell the truth; then you don’t have to remember anything.” --- Mark Twain
the water is two fathoms deep. The
author’s real name was Samuel
Langhorne Clemens.
Real name
Meaning of the water is two fathoms deep his pen name Real name November 30th, 183534 Birth date Meaning of his pen name Birthplace Hannibal, Missouri Birth date Hannibal, Missouri, Place where he grew up along the Mississippi Birthplace The Adventures of Tom His famous Place where he grew up Sawyer, The Adventures stories His famous stories of Huckleberry Finn
Have you ever read any of Mark Twain’s novels? Choose one and tell the class about it.
Have you ever read Mark Twain’s The Million Pound Bank Note or seen the film?
Characters Henry: An American businessman, who arrived in London by accident, penniless, hungry and lonely.
Characters Roderick and Oliver: Two rich brothers, who made a bet. Roderick believed that a man couldn’t survive in the city for a month with only a million pound bank-note. But Oliver believed he could.
Read the short passage below and then fill in the chart.
Mark Twain was born in Florida on ought up in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River. He is best known for his novels set in his boyhood world on the river, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of
They gave him a million pound bank note and saw whether he could win other’s respect even though he was in rags and looked poor. So the story began…
Huckleberry Finn.
Twain loved the river so much that
even his pen name is about the river.
“Twain” is an old word for “ two”.
The phrase “mark twain” means that
The Million Pound Bank Note Act I Brief introduction to the story: Two brothers Oliver and Roderick brothers bet on what would happen if one had nothing but a bank-note of ￡ 1,000,000. They made a bet on a poor man Henry, who was in rags.