Unit 4 Friends Forever Developing ideas Reading 课件 2023-2024学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 4 Period 4 Reading 新 课 导 入 A short introduction of O. Henry 课 堂 学 习 1 Read the short introduction to O. Henry and answer the questions. William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), whose pen name was O. Henry, was a world-famous American short story writer. In his stories, he often focused on the everyday life of ordinary people in New York City at that time. His stories are best known for their surprise endings. 1.Have you read any stories by O. Henry? Share one with the class. You may answer like this: Yes, I have. I have read The Gift of the Magi. It’s a love story of a poor couple, who sacrifice themselves for each other. It’s really moving. You may answer: Yes, I do. Because I think a surprise ending is more attractive and beyond expectation. That’s really cool. 2.Do you like stories with surprise endings? Why or why not? 2 Read the passage and find out why the man is standing outside the shop. The short story "After Twenty Years " is set in New York on a cold, dark night. Most people have left work to go home, and this part of the city is now quiet. A policeman who is checking the area sees a man outside a shop. He goes up to the man and finds he bas a scar on his face. They have a chat and the man starts to tell his story. "Twenty years ago tonight,"said the man, "I dined here at ‘Big Joe’ Brady's with Jimmy Wells, my best chum, and the finest chap in the world. He and I were raised here in New York, just like two brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. You couldn't have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place on earth. Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our destiny worked out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be." "It sounds pretty in