(共20张PPT)
U4
Unit 4 Developing ideas
Warm-up: See You Again
After twenty years
Author
Pre-reading: Story elements
While-reading
Post-reading
Homework
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A: Do you miss your old friend after entering senior high school
B: If you make promise with your friend to meet each other after twenty years, will you go as promised
See You Again is to express deep missing to his friend.
And after appreciating the music, there are two questions:
After twenty years
--O. Henry
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.
Author
O. Henry's works
After twenty years
--O. Henry
Pre-reading:Elements of a Story
characters
settings
beginning
development
climax
ending
natural
social
plots (情节)
Place: New York
Time: a cold , dark night
1.A policeman, Jimmy Wells .
2.A man has a scar on his face.(Bob)
While-reading
1.What is relationship between the policeman and the man with a scar on his face
2.Why is the man standing outside the shop
3.What had happened in the past 20 years to Jim and Bob
4.Why did Jim not arrest Bob right away
5.What is the main idea of story
1.What is relationship between the policeman and the man with a scar on his face
They may be strangers.
2.Why is the man standing outside the shop
He is waiting for his best friend, Jimmy.
3.What had happened in the past 20 years to Jim and Bob
Jim became a policeman. Bob went to the West to make money, and he was the man wanted in Chicago.
4.Why did Jim not arrest Bob right away
He was so touched by Bob’s loyalty to their friendship that he did not have the heart to arrest him.
5.What is the main idea of story
The man met a policeman and began to talk about his story. He was waiting for his best friend, Jimmy, at the outside of the shop. They made it their appointed place twenty years ago.
Post-reading
What might happen between the policeman and the man
O·Henry's ending
Plots
Beginning
Development
Climax
Ending
Bob read the note and found out what happened.
Jimmy and Bob are best friends. They made a date to meet each other again after twenty years.
A plain clothes man greeted Bob, and Bob realized that he was not his friend, Jimmy. He was a fake “ Jimmy”. An undercover policeman told Bob that he was under arrested.
Bob waited for Jimmy outside a shop.
beginning
development
ending
climax
O. Henry-style endings
There will be a sudden twist that results in an unexpected change of the characters' inner world, experience, destiny.etc, thus creating an unexpected yet understandable result. Such endings will make the story more appealing and dramatic, as well as more memorable for its readers.
Work in groups. Act out the whole story.
1 Think about what happened in each of the three scenes, using the information you have already read in the story. Retell the whole story.
Scene 1:
Bob dining with Jimmy at “Big Joe” Brady’s twenty years ago
Scene 2:
Bob making his fortune in the West
Scene 3:
Bob and Jimmy meeting again after twenty years
The story is about two friends named Bob and Jimmy. Twenty years ago, ...
2 Choose a character to play and decide what you will say and do.
3 Act out the whole story.
Homework: Watch and Review
THANK YOU
for your listening
--WU Yuwei