山西省阳高县高中英语 Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note Usin

Book 3 Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note
Period 4 Using language
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. —大仲马
Learning Goals:
1.To learn the words and expressions from steak to barber.
2.To have a full understanding of the play.
3. To practise acting out a play using a cooperative method.
Step 1 Leading in
1.Imagine that you are given the million pound bank note. What would you do with it?
2.Predict where Henry would go first with the million pound bank note.
3.Predict what would happen to Henry at the restaurant.
Step 2 Reading & Thinking & Watching
1. Fast reading
Read Scene 4 quickly and take down some notes according to the four elements: time, place, character, event.
Henry, the owner, the h
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Tell whether the following state ments are true or false.
(1). Henry has opened the letter before he comes into the restaurant.
(2). The owner of the restaurant shows Henry to a table next to the front window when seeing
his poor appearance.
(3). The waiter of the restaurant rem inds Henry of the fact that the foo d s will co st a
lot of money because he doesn’t want Henry to waste money.
(4). The owner asks the waiter to let Henry to have the same amount of food he orders because
he knows that Henry has a lot of money and will surely be able to pay for it. (5). Henry thinks that the meal is especially good because he has been really hungry for
2 quite a long time. (6). Henry keeps looking at the clock on t he wall because he wants to open the letter on time according to his promise to t he two brothers.
(7). The waiter speaks to Henry in a rude way as Henry asks him to wait for a moment because Henry is very rude to him, too. (8). The wife of the o wner doesn ’t know whether the ba nk note that Henry ho lds is a real one.
3. Watching
Watch the video and pay much attention to the different attitudes towards Henry.
1. Discuss how the attitudes of the owner, the hostess and the waiter towards Henry changed and why.
The great change of their attitudes
2. Answer these questions in small groups. (1) Whose behaviour changes the most during this scene? Give example. (2) What kind of person is the owner of t he restaurant?
(3) Why do you think the owner of the restaurant gave Henry a free meal?。