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XB4U1 Reading1
Learning objectives：
1.To tell something about O. Henry.
2.To know the story After Twenty Years.
3.Discuss how to make a choice.
Learning procedures:
Step1 Warming up
If you are an honest and responsible monitor, but you see your best friend cheat in the exam, will you tell the teacher truth
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Step2 Lead in
What do you know about O.Henry
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Step3 Fast-reading
Read the short story quickly and answer the following questions:
1.Find the characters,the time and the place mentioned in the story.
Who:____________________________When:_________________________Where:__________________________
2.Why did Bob come here
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3.How did the story develop
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4.Complete the plot diagram below:
Step4 Detailed-reading
1.Why did Bob stand in the doorway of a store to wait for his friend
2.Why had Bob left New York twenty years before
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3.What time did the man in the long overcoat meet Bob ______________________________________________________________
4.How did Bob realize that the man in the long overcoat was not Jimmy ______________________________________________________________
5.When did Jimmy know Bob was the criminal wanted in Chicago
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Step5 Post-reanding: discussion
1.Do you think that Jimmy did the right thing If you were Jimmy, what would you do To arrest or not to arrest
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2.Fill in blanks with the correct forms of the words in the brackets.
From time to time, poeple find themselves 1._____ situations where they have to make a difficult choice concerning their moral values. The story “After Twenty Years” is set in New York on 2. _____ cold, dark night. It is about two friends named Bob and Jimmy. Twenty years ago, Bob 3. _____(dine) at a restaurant with his friend Jimmy.He decided to leave for the West 4. _________ (make) his fortune, but Jimmy would rather stay in New York. They made a promise that they would meet at the place 5. ______ they had dined.
Bob kept the 6. ___________ (appoint) and came back, believing that Jimmy would come if he was alive, because he was the 7. _______(true) and most reliable person in the world. He struck a match to light his cigar, 8. _______(wait) for his friend. Jimmy arrived at the appointed place but found Bob was just the man 9. ________(want) in Chicago.
However, Jimmy couldn’t catch his best friend 10. _________(he), so he asked a plain-clothes policeman to do it.
Step6 Homework
1.Finish B1 on page 5.
2.Finish exercises A、B on page 57.

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