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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Title
Unit9
Mark Twain ---A Mirror of America
Teaching Aims
1. Improving Reading Skills---- understanding biographical works
2. Enriching Vocabulary--- enlarging vocabulary
cultivating students’ sense of word building
understanding that synonyms have fine shades
3. Improving Writing skills --- of writing summaries & of achieving special effect by applying sentence variety
       
Teaching Activities
Vocabulary
1 hour
Text Analysis
4 hours
Discussion
3 hours
Practice
2 hours
Teaching Process
I .Warming up
to Additional Background Knowledge
III. Text Analysis
Introduction to the Passage
Effective Writing Skills
Rhetorical Devices
Special Difficulties
IV. Questions
Assignment
Write a summary of the text.
Reference Books
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
A Handbook of Writing
English Rhetoric & Writing
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
《英语修辞大全》
A Guide to Advanced English
Britannia Encyclopedia
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Text Book
《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Title
Unit9
Mark Twain ---A Mirror of America
Warming-up Activities
Let e up with a list of Mark Twain’s works
Divide students into groups to discuss his writing style
Some students present what they have learned about Mark Twain in the library
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Text Book
《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Title
Unit9
Mark Twain ---A Mirror of America
Additional Background Information
About Mark Twain
He is the pseudonym of the American humorist and writer, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910).the phrase, meaning “two fathoms deep”, was employed in making soundings on the Mississippi river boats. Among his well-known works are
Innocents Abroad(1869), Tom sawyer(1876), and Huckleberry Finn(1884-5?)
The American Civil War
It is also called the War of Secession. The war was fought between the northern states (Federal States or the Union) and the southern states (the Confederacy or confederate States of America), which