Period 6: Everyday English & Cultural Corner

学习目标：1.通过作者了解其作品风格，通过作品分析作者的性格。

2.深入理解Cultural Corner，掌握文中基础知识，提升读、说语言运用能力

3.自主学习，合作探究；掌握泛读、速读和略读的阅读方法

学习重点：1.掌握相关语言点

2.了解马克.吐温（Mark Twain）

学习难点：1.语言点的掌握以及运用

2培养文学欣赏的情操

课前预习：

Preview the passages in Reading and Writing and Cultural Corner.

使用说明与学法指导：1.通过完成课前预习练习题学会欣赏文学作品，并了解马克.吐温。2. 完成时间20分钟。

教材助读：

Everyday English

Cultural Corner

Read the passage and answer the questions on Page 29.

Find out the important phrases.

1.一开始的时候 2. 过冒险的生活

3. 发财

4. 出发，动身，引爆

5. 拿起；占据（时间，空间等）；开始...

6. 确定...的地位

Important sentences

1. He , and as an adolescent, determined to make his fortune in South America, his home in Hannibal, Missouri, for New Orleans.

他很早离开了学校，还是青少年时就下决心要去南美洲发财，于是他离开家乡密苏里州的翰民堡，动身去了新奥尔良。

2. He arrived in New Orleans without a penny in his pocket that there were no boats for South America.

他身无分文地到达了新奥尔良后，才发现那里没有去南美洲的轮船。

3. Forced to change his plans; , taking passengers up and down the Mississippi, the great river which flows from the north of the US near the Canadian border, down to the Gulf of Mexico.

迫不得已，他只好改变了计划，在一艘汽船上当了几年的领航员，带着客人穿梭在密西西比河上，该河是从靠近加拿大边界的美国北部向墨西哥湾的一条大河。

Language points

1. "Mark Twain", which means "watermark two", was a call used by sailors on the Missisippi to warn shipmates that they were coming into shallow water.（P29）

warn vt.警告，提醒(某事)，告诫(人)要......

There were signs warning of fog as soon as we got onto the motorway.

我们一上高速公路，就看到有"雾大"的警示牌。

The police are warning motorists of possible delays.

警方通知驾驶汽车的人交通可能受阻。

He warned me that there were pickpockets in the crowd.