必修3教案 Unit3 The Million Pound Bank Note[Period 3&4]

H: Yes, it would seem to be so.
P: What’s the matter?
H: Oh, nothing. Nothing, at least, that anyone can help with.
P: Are you in some kind of trouble, Henry?
2. Students discuss each of the following things in pairs:
(1) Which things Henry might tell Portia about himself?
(2) Which things he might keep a secret himself?
(3) Which things Portia might tell Henry about herself?
(4) Which things she might keep a secret about herself?
(5) What they might say about each other?
3. Students finish writing the dialogue for Act Two, Scene 3, making the words sound believable.
Suggested dialogue:
Henry: In a way, yes. It is not of my own doing though. I was given a million pound banknote to use for 30 days. Now everybody thinks I am rich. But I really don’t have a penny.
Portia: Is that all? I thought you were a bank robber or had hit your grandmother.
Henry: How could you have such terrible thoughts?
Portia: I do tend to think about the bad side of the people I meet.
Henry: Why is that? I am sure people could only be kind and thoughtful to you.
Portia: Well, you see….
Henry: If I am going to let you see all my bad points, I had better do it now. I can not sail a boat well and I have no job.
Portia: Well I can not sail a boat well either and have no job either.
Henry: I knew we were meant for each other.
Portia: What a lovely thought. Now my bad points. I have no money of my own and I c an not earn my own living at all. In fact I am useless.
Henry: Not to me! You look the sweetest and most honest girl in the world to me!
T: Well done! Your dialogues are different, but they are all good. Do you want to know which is fit for the next scene? Now, let’s read Act Two, Scene 4.

Step IV Reading and Speaking Task (P59)
1. Students read Act Two, Scene 4 by themselves.
T: After reading this part, can you guess how the play will end? Now, in pairs, talk about the end and be sure to describe what you think Portia will say and do next. Then describe what you think Henry and the two brothers will say and do after that.
2. Students discuss the end to the play:
S1: I think the play has to end happily. But it will be difficult if Portia thinks Henry is rich and he is not.
S2: Yes, I agree. There must be some way of letting Henry and Portia get married but have money too.
S1: But how can that happen when Henry has to give back the banknote?
S2: There is also the problem of him having brought a lot of things and not paid for them.
S1: So I think one of the brothers must come to the rescue and help him.
S2: Perhaps they can adopt him as their son so he gets a lot of money that way.
S1: Perhaps the job they give him will pay very well.
S2: Yes, I think that is the answer. He will have to be given a job with a very large salary.
3. Students read the real end to the play.
4. Students listen to the tape that is about Act Two, Scene 4 and the real end to the play so that they can correct their pronunciation and be ready for acting.

Step V Homework
T: Boys and girls, you did very well today. But suppose that Henry feels tricked by Portia when he finds out that Oliver is her stepfather. How might the play end differently under these circumstances? So, today’s homework: Write a different end to the play.

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