Lesson 38

　　Teaching Aims

　　1. Learn lesson 38 to get brief idea of the story.

　　2. The students are required to answer some questions.

　　Step I Revision

　　1）Check the homework exercises.

　　2）Ask the students to retell the dialogue.

　　StepⅡWarm---up

　　Questions and answers:

　　1. Show a Mark Twain’s picture and talk about him.

　　2. In our middle school text books. What articles were written by Mark Twain?

　　“Run for a Governor.” “A Million Pound Note”

　　Step Ⅲ Watching and Listening

　　Watch the video or Listen to the tape and then answer these questions.

　　1. Why did the shop assistant show the customer the cheapest clothes?

　　2. What made the manager very excited?

　　Key: 1. He thought the customer was very poor and could not afford to buy expensive clothes.

　　2. He thought the customer was a millionaire

　　Step ⅣReading

　　Read the dialogue quickly and try to answer the questions. Ask them to read the passage carefully.

　　1. What did the customer want?

　　2. How did the customer Tod?                                              

　　3. What did the shop assistant show the customer?

　　4. How did the customer want to pay?

　　5. What made the manager fed excited?

　　6. What can we learn from the story?

　　Keys:

　　1. The customer wanted to buy a suit.         

　　2. He looked poor. And his clothes were old.

　　3. He showed the customer the cheapest clothes 

　　4. He wanted to pay with a large note.

　　5. The million pound note made the manager feel excited.

　　6. We should never judge a person by his clothes.

　　Step ⅤLanguage points

　　1. no matter + wh ---引导让步状语从句

　　2. Is anything the matter? 怎么回事？the matter = wrong 

　　3. do sth. a favour = do a favour for do 帮某人一个忙；答应某人的要求

　　4. drop in on + 人/ drop in at + 地点

　　Step VI Speaking and Talking

　　Please look at two pictures on the book.. Let the students to work in pairs. Check their answers with the whole class.

　　Picture 1: A customer came into a tailor's shop. The shop assistant looked at him up and down. From the clothes, the assistant thought he was a poor man.

　　Picture 2: After the tailor knew the man had one million pound note, he was very surprised. The manager measured him by himself. They changed their attitude to the man completely.

　　Step VII Oral practice

　　Divide the Ss into a few groups to practice a play according to the text.

　　Step VIII Exercise

　　Do Exercise 3 on Page 119

　　Keys: suit; note; down; chose; choice; showed; surprised; up; exceed; favor, off; put; measured; material; to; order; change; all; put; in; when

　　Step IX Homework

　　1. Retell the story in your own words.

　　2.Prepare Lesson 39.

　　教案点评：

　　本教案以阅读及口语练习为主的教学方式，教师由图片导入本课提出课文相关问题，通过听与读,提高学生的阅读能力及课文理解，教师以本课的口语练习与讨论，以调动学生在学习中充分地进行参与，增加课堂的趣味性与生动性。