英语必修 第一册Unit 4 Friends forever试讲课课件ppt

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Unit 4 Friends frever
T understand the meaning f the passage T learn the features f a nvelT master the language pints
D yu knw abut O. Henry?
O. Henry was an American writer whse shrt stries are knwn fr wit, wrdplay and clever twist endings. He wrte nearly 600 stries abut life in America.
The father f the mdern American shrt stryAmerican life humr encyclpedia (百科全书)Shrt prse writer laureate as Manhattan 曼哈顿桂冠散文作家
Have yu read any stries by O. Henry? Share ne with the class.
Read the cmplete shrt stry “After Twenty Years” and ther shrt stries by O· Henry, such as “the Gift f the Magi” and “The Last Leaf”. This way, yu can get a deeper understanding f his wrks and the surprise endings t his stries.
O. Henry – style endings
O. Henry’s stries are best knwn fr their twists r surprise endings. S much s that peple nw refer t such endings as “O. Henry endings”. In these endings, there will be a sudden twist that results in an unexpected change f the characters’ inner wrld, experience, destiny, etc, thus creating an unexpected yet understandable result. Such endings will make the stry mre appealing and dramatic, as well as mre memrable fr its readers.
D yu like stries with surprise ending? Why r why nt?
Jim Dillingham Yung and his wife Della are a yung cuple wh are very much in lve with each ther. Fr Christmas, Della decides t buy Jim a chain which csts twenty dllars. T raise the funds, she has her prized lng hair cut ff and sld t make a wig. Meanwhile, Jim decides t sell his watch t buy Della a beautiful set f cmbs. Althugh each is disappinted t find the gift they chse rendered useless, each is pleased with the gift they received, because it represents their lve fr ne anther.
As pneumnia(肺炎) takes her will t live, a yung girl decides that she will die when the last leaf drps frm a dying vine utside her windw. Her neighbr, an elderly artist frustrated by his inability t paint what is in his heart, fllws the example f the Savir and makes the ultimate sacrifice t save her life. In ding s, he creates the masterpiece he has been struggling t paint.
Bb and Jimmy had been clse friends twenty years ag when they were yung. Befre their separatin, they made an appintment t meet again at exactly the same place and the same hur twenty years later. But when they met, ne arrested the ther.
Listen and read the passage and find ut why the man is standing utside the shp.
Because he is waiting fr his friend Jimmy.
Read the passage again, tell yur partner in the man’s eyes, hw is his friend.
Wrk in grups. Think f a pssible ending t “After Twenty Years” and find evidence t supprt yur ideas. Use the fllwing questins t help yu.
1. Did Jimmy cme t meet his friend?2. What has Jimmy experienced ver the past twenty years?3. What might happen between the pliceman and the man?
Bb, I was at the appinted place n time. When yu struck the match t light yur cigar I saw it was the face f the man wanted in Chicag. Smehw I culdn’t d it myself, s I went arund and gt a plain clthes man t d the jb. JIMMY
Nw read the nte frm the riginal ending and find ut what actually happened.
Bb was arrested by his friend!
1 What des the nte tell yu abut the ending f the stry?2 Hw d yu think Bb wuld react when he read the nte?3 D yu think that Jimmy did the right thing? Why r why nt?4 D yu like this ending? Give yur reasns.
Jimmy was the pliceman. He turned up as they agreed twenty years earlier, but he decided t fulfil his duty and have Bb arrested.
Wrk in grups. Act ut the whle stry.
1. Think abut what happened in each f the three scenes, using the infrmatin yu have already read in the stry. Retell the whle stry.
Scene 1:Bb dining with Jimmy at “Big Je” Brady’s twenty years ag
Scene 2:Bb making his frtune in the West
Scene 3:Bb and Jimmy meeting again after twenty years
The stry is abut tw friends named Bb and Jimmy. Twenty years ag, …
2. Chse a character t play and decide what yu will say and d.
3. Act ut the whle stry.
Search nline using these key wrds:After Twenty YearsO. Henry’s shrt striessurprise endings