The Million Pound Bank-Note

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Unit 3

• The Million Pound Bank-Note

By Mark Twain
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warming-up
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• There is a humorous story about a famous American
  novelist. Can you guess who he is .

He liked to tell funny stories to make
people laugh and play jokes on his friends. Once
he was traveling with a friend of his.
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• His friend lost his money, so he asked him
  to buy a train ticket for him.
• But I don't have enough money to buy two
  tickets, he said.
• His friend didn't know what to do.
• You can hide under my seat when the
  conductor comes to check the tickets, he said to
  his friend.

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• When the conductor came to check the tickets,
  he gave the conductor two tickets, one for
  himself and one for his friend.
• He said to the conductor, My friend is a
  strange man. When he travels on a train, he does
  not like to sit on the seat. He likes to lie on
  the floor under the seat.

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Everyone in the train looked at his friend
under the seat and laughed.
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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens Born 1835
Died 1910

• American short story writer
• Humorist

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Can you list three of his masterpieces?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ???????
1876
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ??????? ??
1881
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Life on the Mississippi ??????
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The Prince and the Pauper ?????
1881
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Reading About Mark Twain
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Fast reading

• Mark Twain has a meaning, which means ___________
  feet deep or ________ meters deep.
• How old was Twain when he began writing stories?
• For what was his writing famous?

twelve
3.66
About 32 years old.
For its description of common people and the way
they talked, especially his humor.
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Real name of Mark Twain
Year of birth
Places where he lived
Names of three of his famous stories
Working experience
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Careful reading
1835
Raised in Hannibal, Missouri travelled much of
the US lived for a long time in Europe
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn Life on the Mississippi
A printer, a riverboat pilot, a soldier, a gold
miner, a business- man and a newspaper reporter
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Further understanding

• What was Mark Twains life like in the last years
  of his life?
• As a result of this, what happened to his
  writing?

It was filled with sad events, loneliness and the
loss of much money.
His writing lost most of its humour and became
sad like him.
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Million Pound Bank-Note
Suppose you get a large amount of money by buying
lottery tickets (??) and become a millionaire
(????), for example one million pound, what will
you do with it?