文档介绍：Lesson Nine Mark Twain – Mirror of America
大学高级英语Lesson9课件
I. Questions for preparing the text
1. Search on Internet or in the library for the information about Mark Twain and prepare a presentation about his life story.
2. Why is Mark Twain one of America’s best-loved authors?
3. Give a brief account of Mark Twain’s experience before he became a writer.
大学高级英语Lesson9课件
II. Background information
1. Mark Twain
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
大学高级英语Lesson9课件
大学高级英语Lesson9课件
II. Background information
Mark Twain
1. Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910),
1)America’s most famous humorist
2)printer
3)steamboat pilot
4) reporter
5)writer
2. humorist
autobiographical works,
travel books and novels.
大学高级英语Lesson9课件
1) Boyhood
A. When and where he was born: the small village in Missouri/miˈzuəri/ on Nov. 30, 1935
B. the third son and sixth child of a storekeeper (and at times also a lawyer).
大学高级英语Lesson9课件
C. What did he see on the river
People from all walks of life, mainly some bad ones, such as professional gamblers and hustlers 耍诡计的骗子
大学高级英语Lesson9课件
2) Early Life
relatively little schooling
After his father’s death, took up odd jobs 零活(as a delivery boy, grocery clerk and blacksmith’s helper, etc.)
大学高级英语Lesson9课件
He left school at 13, and became a full-time apprentice to a printer.
At 18, he became a tramp printer, (a person who goes around doing odd jobs of printing)
to set type排字 for his brother’s local paper. By then he had tried his hand at writing juvenile burlesque.（滑稽剧
juvenile delinquency青少年犯罪
大学高级英语Lesson9课件