Unit 1 Honesty and responsibility Welcome to the unit & Reading 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）选择性必修第四册

Unit 1 Honesty and responsibility Friendship? Law? Welcome to the unit & Reading (I) To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person. —Noam Chomsky 过诚实、正直的生活是每一个正派人的责任。 ——诺姆·乔姆斯基 Read the list and tell the relationship between honesty and responsibility. Honesty and responsibility are inevitably connected to one another. Welcome to the unit vs If you are an honest and responsible monitor, but you see your best friend cheat in the exam, will you tell the teacher truth? friendship justice Lead-in The short story below is about someone who has to make such a choice. Pre-reading Adapted from O. Henry’s short story of the same title. O. Henry(pen name) William Sydney Porter (original name) (1862-1910) What do you know about O. Henry? “the master of the American short story”. known for Surprising and profound endings. the O.Henry Award for outstanding short stories. ———the author Pre-reading O.Henry’s works After Twenty Years is set in the early 1900s, near the end of America’s Westward Expansion (美国西进运动), which started in the early 1800s. During the expansion, many Americans went to the West (美国西部) to make money. Pre-reading ———Background information who policeman Bob Jimmy Wells when barely ten o’clock at night where doorway of a store, New York Summary The man __________________(where) is___________(what) his friend whose name is _________(who) to turn up at _________(when) because of their ___________(why) made 20 years ago. at the doorway of a store waiting for Jimmy Wells around 10 appointment what Fast reading ———elements Fast reading ———the plot Analysing the plot Plot refers to a series of events within a story, which are put in sequence according to the principle of cause and effect. To analyse the plot, we try to grasp its five main elements—introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. Tip ③climax L