miPeriod one Warming up

Teaching aims:

1. To know the characters of play, esp. the type of its language.

2. To know the background of the play.

Teaching procedures:

Hello, everyone! This class, we are going to a new unit. In this class, we will learn lots of information about Mark Twain and his works.

Mark Twain is probably one of the few American writers with whom your students are already familiar. This exercise allows you to discover just how much your students remember about this 19th century writer.

Step 1. Read and answer

Mark Twain was born in Florida on November 30th, 1835. He was brought up in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River. He is best know for his novels set in his boyhood world on the river, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain loved the river so much that even his pen name is bout the river. "Twain" is an old word for "two". The phrase "mark twain" means that the water is two fathoms deep. The author's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

NOTES Read name Meaning of his pen name Birth date Birthplace Place where he grew up His famous stories Now, close your books and answer the following questions.

1. What was the real name of Mark Twain?

What century was he born?