Teaching Aims and demands
本单元通过学习马克·吐温的《百万英镑》并改编成短剧形式的课文，学生能初步了解作者的风格。学生应能在教师的指导下，排演这个短剧。通过对话课的学习与操练，学生接触表示坚持个人意见的常用语句，并要求学生运用到实际会话中。学习并初步掌握as if和no matter引导让步状语从句的用法。
Teaching important and difficult points
1.单词
run, choice, note, change, fool, order, pleasant, right, assistant, customer, foolish, insist, tailor depend, favo(u)r , apologize, excited
2.词组
shop assistant, a clothes shop, give back, or else, change…for …, in the sun, try on, depend on, take place, get off, put on, drop in, once upon a time, do up, in fact, keep back, play the part of, next to
3.交际用语
There seems to be something wrong with it.
I would like you to change this blouse.
You sold me a blouse that I can’t use any more.
I am afraid I can’t do that right now.
Why can’t you do something about it?
Is anything the matter?
4.语法
学习as if和no matter的用法。
教学建议
课文建议
在Lesson 38课，建议教师应组织学生1)以节目的形式演出这段对话。2)教师可选取录像或多媒体形式完成此课的教学任务。3)教师把学生分成三人一组，适当准备一些道具排演本课的最后结局的短剧。4)教师要求学生找出能刻画服装店老板人物特征和心理变化的相关语句。如：There’s a customer, Tod, Will you serve him? / No matter what he is wearing , Tod, just show him the cheapest./Come, come. Get him his change, Tod..
对话分析
本单元对话是讲述在服装店调换衣服的经过，学生对其内容较易理解，但一些新单词的用法应掌握，如：customer, run, insist, change…for…。本课中也提供了给学生做相应对话的练习，如：A pair of trousers, A radio的口语练习。
教学重点难点
1.serve的用法
1)serve(sb.) as sth.表示“为(某人)工作，(尤指)当佣人”。
He served as a gardener and chauffeur.他做园艺工人兼司机。
2)serve还可表示“供职，服役”。
He has served his country well.他为国尽职。
3)serve sb. (with sth.). 表示“将(饭菜)端上桌。”
Four waiters served lunch for us.有四位服务员招待我们吃午饭。
4)serve 还可用于“(在商店等处)接待(顾客)或为顾客取货物”的意思中。
Are you being served?有售货员接待您吗?
He served some sweets to the children.他为孩子们拿来了他们想要的糖。
5)serve 还指“(一份饭)够……”。
This packet of soup serves two.这包汤料够两个人食用。
