English 10

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Mark Twain

I- Reading

1- Vocabulary 2- Questions

3- Role play

Steamboat/i/ /ou/ Tàu hơi nước

River Pilot/i/ /ai/ Thuûy thuû

Pen name Buùt danh

1- Steam boat (n)

2- River Pilot (n)

3- Pen name (n)

A-Bút danh

B-Tàu hơi nước

C-Thủy thủ

Matching English word with Vietnamese meaning

 Listen to the selection

Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, knows to most people as Mark Twain, was born in a small town near Hannibal, Mo He spent his boyhood in Hannibal, which is on Mississippi River When he grew

up he became a river pilot

Later he went west and worked as a newspaper reporter in Virginia City, Nev While he was on this job he began to sing his articles “Mark Twain” These words, used by river pilots, mean “two fathoms (12 feet) deep.” From then on Clemens used Mark Twain as his pen name

Clemens worked on other newspapers, traveled, and gave lectures His first literary success was “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” published in 1865 In 1869 he published Innocents Abroad, a book about his European travel

Clemens spent summers on his farm near Elmira, N.Y there he wrote The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, published in 1876 The Tom in the story is really Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn is his close boyhood friend, Tom Blankenship Te book tells of the boy’s exciting adventure

 Answer the following questions :

1- Where was Mark Twain born?

A Los Angeles

B Missouri

C California

D Nevada

That’s right

 Answer the following questions :

2- When was Mark Twain born?

B 1910

A 1835

C 1920

D 1890

That’s right

 Answer the following questions :

3- What was his job?

A River Pilot

D All are correct

C Magazine Reporter

B Writer

That’s right

 Answer the following questions :

4- The real name of Mark Twain was:

A Clemens

B Samuel Langhorne Clemens

C Langhorne

D All are correct

Congratulation

!

 Answer the following questions :

5- Which is the literary work of Mark Twain?

A Gone with the wind

D The adventure of Tom Sawyer

B Langhorne

C To build a fire

Very good!

Mark Twain’s Biography

1- Real name:

2-Pen name:

3- Place of birth:

4-Year of birth:

5- Year of death:

6- Job:

Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain

Missouri 1835

1910 River pilot, Magazine Reporter, Writer