SteamBoat

Unit nine: STEAMBOAT COMING
MARK TWAIN (1835 - 1910 )
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I. Reading:
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* Vocabulary:
- steamboat (n)
=
steamer
- Mo. : Missouri -
a state
in the central United States
- boyhood (n)
=
childhood
- pilot (n) :
person who controls the ship / plane
- Nev. : Nevada
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- a state in the west United States
- sign (v):
write one`s name on (a document, etc )
sigature
signature (n)

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- fathom (n)
river
river pilot (n)
=
1.82m
- pen name (n)
≠
real name
Ex: The pen name of Nguyen Khac Hieu is "Tan Da".
- literary (adj) :
interested in literature
literature (n)
Ex: Kieu Story is Nguyen Du`s literary work.
- N.Y: New York
- a state in the northeast United States
- adventure (n)
adventurous (adj)
adventurer (n)
Ex: I wish I would make an adventure around the world.
-steamboat (n) - fathom (n)

Missouri (Mo.) - pen name (n)

boyhood (n) - literary (adj)

river pilot (n) - New York (N.Y.)

Nevada (Nev.) - adventure (n)

sign (v)


* New words:
*Questions:
1. What’s the real name of Mark Twain ?
2. Where did he spend his boyhood ?
3. When did he begin to sign his articles “ Mark
Twain” ?
4. Tell some works that he wrote ?
->His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
-> He spent his boyhood in Hannibal, which is on the
Mississippi River.
-> He began to sign his article " Mark Twain" when he
went west and worked as a newspaper reporter in
Virginia City, Nevada.
->"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County",
"Innocents Abroad" &"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
* Exercise 1: True or False sentences?
1. Mark Twain is an American writer.
2. Mark Twain was born in Missouri in 1825.
3. He grew up on the banks of the Mississippi River.
4. “Mark Twain” means “ two fathoms deep”.
5. He worked as a river pilot in Virginia City, Nevada
6. “ The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County” was a book about his European travels.
7. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” was published
in 1876.
8. Mark Twain died when he was seventy four.
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Exercise2: Complete the chart:

* Homework:
- Learn new words by heart
- Read the text and answer the questions again
- Prepare Unit nine: Steamboat Coming (Paragraph 1)