内容正文:
Unit 4 Friends forever
Section 4 Developing ideas
【学习目标】(2分钟)
1. 理解课文内容,明确故事中的人物形象和特点,评价人物的行为;
2. 初步掌握小说类文体的基本特征和常见的阅读方法,了解欧·亨利小说的主题和结尾特点;
3. 联系自身实际,辩证思考,树立正确的友情观。
【重点难点】
重点:
1. 理清故事情节,把握小说的基本特征;
2. 深入理解友谊的内涵和意义,树立正确的友情观。
难点:辩证思考情与法之间的关系,树立正确的友情观。
【新课导入】(2分钟)
Have you read any stories by O. Henry? Share one with the class.
【自主学习】【要求】(时间:10分钟)
内容:完成【自主学习】中所布置的任务
方法:独立思考,自主探究。
任务一: Read the passage and get its setting, characters and plot.
任务二: Read the passage and answer the following questions.
1.What’s the policeman doing?
2.Why is the man standing outside the shop?
3.Where did the man and Jimmy agree to meet?
【合作探究】【要求】 时间:10分钟
内容:完成【合作探究】中所布置的任务
方法:起立讨论,小组合作交流,未解决的部分准备大胆质疑。
任务一:Work in groups. Think of a possible ending to “After Twenty Years” and find evidence to support your ideas. Using the following questions to help you.
1. Did Jimmy come to meet his friend?
2. What has Jimmy experienced over the past twenty years?
3. What might happen between the policeman and the man?
任务二:Now read the note from the original ending and find out what actually happened.
1. What does the note tell you about the ending of the story?
2. Why couldn’t Jimmy arrest Bob himself ?
3. How do you think Bob would react when he read the note?
任务三:Read Bob's story after he was released from jail on page 47 and answer the questions.
1. How did Bob feel when he finally got out of jail?
2. What kind of ending is this? More than one description.
【展示讲解】【要求:】时间:11分钟
1、展示方式:可以口头展示,也可以借助展台展示讲解。
2、展示讲解同学姿态规范,态度大方,声音洪亮,语言简洁,
注意书面用语
3、其他同学认真倾听,积极思考,做好记录,并大胆质疑。
【归纳总结】(2分钟)
【当堂检测】(3分钟)
Read the ending again and find the expressions that describe:
Settings:
Characters:
Actions:
参考答案:
【自主学习】
任务一:
Setting:It is set in New York on a cold, dark night.
Characters:A policeman and a man outside a shop.
Plot:The man and Jimmy had obviously been close friends twenty years ago when they were young. Before their separation, they made an appointment to meet again at exactly the same place
and the same time twenty years later.
任务二:
1.He is checking the area.
2.Because he is waiting for his friend Jimmy.
3.They agreed to meet at the same place ('Big Joe' Brady') , in which they dined at that night 20 years ago.
【合作探究】
任务一:Open.
任务二:
1.Jimmy was the policeman. He turned up as they agreed twenty years earlier,but he decided to fulfil (履行) his duty and have Bob arrested.
2.Jimmy had mixed feelings. He knew what his duty was. But the memories of their friendship, the expressions of Bob’s undying respect and admiration for him and the fact that Bob had come all the way from thousand miles away just to keep the appointment made 20 years ago must have deeply touched him.
3.Open.
任务三:
1. Bob felt lost and helpless.
2. A happy ending and a surprising ending.
【当堂检测】
Settings:out of jail, cold wind, cold, dark night
Characters:now 58, lost and helpless, a young man, a familiar-looking man in his thirties, doubtfully
Actions:stepping out of, smiled bitterly, heard, turned around, was surprised to find, replied, unfolded, shaking,finished reading, shouted in surprise, smiled
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