高中英语外研版 (2019)必修 第一册Unit 4 Friends forever教课内容ppt课件

Unit

Unit 4, Book 1

Title

Unit 4 Friends Forever- Developing ideas

After Twenty Years

Type

Reading lesson

Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will …

be able to know the basic information and writing style of the author O. Henry.

be able to understand the main features of a short story and analyze the basic elements of After Twenty Years, including setting, characters, plot and theme.

 be able to develop their logical thinking through inferring the original ending based on the given information.

 be able to cultivate their critical thinking through discussing the relation between friendship and duty.

 be able to understand the real meaning of friendship, internalize the moral awareness learned in the lesson and apply it into reality.

Key points and / or difficult points

 Key points: (1) Analyze the literature elements of After Twenty Years (setting, characters, plot and theme). (2) Have a deeper understanding of friendship through discussing the relation between friendship and duty critically.

 Difficult points: (1) Identify and analyze the personalities of the characters based on supporting evidence in the text. (2) Think about their ideas on the dilemma between loyalty to friendship and devotion to duty.

Methodology & Strategies

 Task-based Language Teaching.

Aids and / or Materials

Courseware, textbook, worksheet, etc.

Worksheet is shown as follows:

Discourse Analysis

 主题语境(Theme)：Human and Society- Friendship

 语篇类型(Genre)：Narration- a short story

 文本分析(Discourse analysis)：The text is excerpts from the short story After Twenty Years written by O. Henry, which tells a story of two old friends meeting each other again after twenty years. The excerpts demonstrate the scene that while a policeman was walking on the beat, he met a man named Bob who was waiting for his old friend. They had a talk, in which Bob told the cop about the appointment made twenty years ago.

教学环节

Steps

活动形式与步骤

Activities

活动意图

Activity goals

活动层次

Activity Level

环节时长

time

Warm-up

1. T shares her own story with her old friends.

To lead in the topic of the lesson.

To activate Ss’ background knowledge about friendship.

感知与注意

4 mins

2. Ss recall the stories between them and their old friends.

Pre-reading

1. Ss think about their own knowledge of the author- O.Henry.

To activate Ss’ background knowledge.

To equip Ss with basic information of O. Henry and his writing style, contributing to a better understanding of the story.

获取与梳理

6 mins

2. T introduces the basic information and writing style of O. Henry.

While- reading

1. Ss predict the story based on the picture and title, and then T plays the listening tape of the text and Ss check their prediction.

To practice students’ ability in predicting, locating the specific information, analyzing and summarizing.

概括与整合

描述与阐释

15 mins

2. T introduces basic elements of a short story, including setting, characters, plot and theme.

3. Ss read the text and finish the parts of setting, characters and plot.

4. T leads Ss to check the answers (setting, characters and plot).

Post-reading

1. T plays the video on the original ending to the story.

To attract Ss’ attention and give them a general impression of the original ending to the story.

To cultivate Ss’ logical thinking and inference ability.

To develop Ss’ deeper understanding of the real meaning of friendship.

To let Ss internalize the moral awareness and apply it into reality through solving a dilemma in a real context.

感知与注意

获取与梳理

推理与论证

分析与判断

内化与运用

10 mins

2. Ss read aloud the note (can be seen below) from the original ending and find out what happened in the original story.

3. Deep thinking:

T guides Ss to think about the following questions.

(1)  Why couldn’t Jimmy arrest Bob himself?

(2)  Do you think that Jimmy did the right thing?

Why or why not?

(3)  Have you ever experienced similar situations in your daily life? How did you deal with them?

Conclusion & Homework

1. T makes a conclusion of the lesson.
2. T assigns homework:

(1)  Read the complete short story “After Twenty Years”.

(2) Write down a summary of the whole story (around 200 words).

To consolidate what the Ss have learned in this lesson.

To cultivate Ss’ summarizing ability and deeper their understanding of friendship.

内化与运用

5 mins