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(共39张PPT)
Developing ideas — reading
Learning Objectives
Students can understand the content of the text, define the characters in the story, and evaluate the behavior of the characters;
Students can master the basic features as well as common reading methods of novel styles, and understand the theme of After Twenty Years and the characteristics of “O.Henry style endings”;
Students can establish a correct view of friendship.
世界三大短篇小说大师
O. Henry 欧 亨利
Maupassant 莫泊桑
Chekhov 契诃夫
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.
People now refer to such endings as “O.Henry-style endings”. In these 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.
Pre-reading
O. Henry
1. Have you read any stories by O. Henry Share one with the class.
2. Do you like stories with surprise endings Why or why not
Let’s read the excerpts from “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry, and get a deeper understanding of his works and the surprise endings to his stories.
P58-60
Read the excerpts and finish the table.
Setting
Character
Theme
Read the excerpts and answer the questions.
A2P58-Why is the man standing outside the shop
What appointment did the man make with his friend Jimmy
Read the excerpts and finish the table.
Setting
Character
Theme
in New York on a cold, dark night
the policeman; the man with a scar on his face
the appointment the man made with his friend Jimmy
Read the excerpts and answer the questions.
A2P58-Why is the man standing outside the shop
What appointment did the man make with his friend Jimmy
Because he is waiting for his friend Jimmy.
They made the appointment that they would meet at the ‘big joe’ again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what their conditions might be or from what distance they might have to come.
Reading for information
1. What is the policeman doing when he
happens to see the man
2. Why did the man and his friend separate
twenty years ago
3. What agreement did they make at that time
4. Did they keep in touch during the twenty years
Read the story again and answer the following questions.
1. What is the policeman doing when he happens to
see the man
2. Why did the man and his friend separate twenty years ago
3. What agreement did they make at that time
4. Did they keep in touch during the twenty years
Reading for information
What is the policeman doing when he happens to
see the man
He is checking the area on a cold, dark night although most
people have left work to go home and this part of the city is
quiet.
He is devoted to his work.
Reading for information
2. Why did the man and his friend separate twenty years ago
The man dined with his friend Jimmy at ‘Big Joe’ Brady’s and
he was to start for the West to make his fortune but Jimmy
would like to stay in New York.
Reading for information
the West: In the early 1800s, America’s Westward Expansion started. During the expansion, many people
went to the West to make money. New York City is
located in the north-east of the US and was already
a big city by then.
make one’s fortune:
to make money, to become very rich
Reading for information
2. Why did the man and his friend separate twenty years ago
The man dined with his friend Jimmy at ‘Big Joe’ Brady’s and
he was to start for the West to make his fortune but Jimmy
would like to stay in New York.
The man: adventurous, brave, ambitious
Reading for information
3. What agreement did they make at that time
They agreed that they would meet there again exactly
twenty years from that date and time, no matter what
their conditions might be or from what distance they
might have to go.
Reading for information
Why did they agree to meet twenty years later
The reason why they agreed to meet twenty years later
might be that “We figured that in twenty years each of us
ought to have our destiny worked out and fortunes made,
whatever they were going to be”.
Reading for information
4. Did they keep in touch during the twenty years
For a time they corresponded but after a year or two they lost
track of each others.
to get or keep in touch with…
to lose touch with…
They didn’t know what happened in each other’s life.
Reading for opinions
1. In the man’s eyes, how was his friend Jimmy Wells
2. Did the man value their friendship Why
3. What has the man experienced in the West in the past twenty years How about Jimmy How do you know that
Read it for the third time and answer the questions.
1. In the man’s eyes, how was his friend Jimmy Wells
2. Did the man value their friendship Why
3. What has the man experienced in the West in the past twenty years How about Jimmy How do you know that
Reading for opinions
1. In the man’s eyes, how was his friend Jimmy Wells
reliable trustworthy
Reading for opinions
Yes, he did value their friendship.
“I know Jimmy will meet me here if he’s alive. He’ll never
forget. I came a thousand miles to stand in this door tonight,
and it’s worth it if my old partner turns up.”
2. Did the man value their friendship Why
Reading for opinions
3. What has the man experienced in the West in the past twenty years How about Jimmy How do you know that
The man: He must have experienced some bad things.
The sentence “he has a scar on his face” and “I kept hustling around over it pretty lively” in paragraph 3 can tell us.
Reading for opinions
Jimmy: He may continue to be in New York and have a
steady job. The sentence “You couldn’t have dragged
Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place
on earth.” can support the idea.
Jimmy was stubborn and conservative.
Make a summary (1).
Work in groups to summarize the characteristics of the characters in the story.
The man:
Jimmy:
The policeman:
Make a summary (1).
The man:
adventurous, brave, ambitious, experienced some bad things
Jimmy:
stubborn, conservative, the truest and staunchest
The policeman:
devoted to his work, the symbol of duty, justice
and law
Did Jimmy come to meet his friend
What has Jimmy experienced over the past twenty years
What might happen between the policeman and the man
What does the note tell you about the ending of the story
How do you think Bob would react when he read the note
Do you think that Jimmy did the right thing Why or why not
Do you like this ending Give your reasons.
Think and share (2).
1. What does the note tell you about the ending of the story
The man was Bob and a criminal and Jimmy was the policeman. Jimmy turned up as they agreed twenty years earlier, but he decided to fulfill his duty and have Bob arrested.
Possible answers
2. How do you think Bob would react when he read the note
Bob would be very sad and angry when he read the note
because Jimmy was his best friend and he trusted him deeply
but Jimmy made him arrested.
Or Bob would feel sort of comfortable because he might think
that Jimmy had a good sense of duty and was just and fair. In
some ways, he didn’t have to hide himself restlessly in his later life.
Make a summary.
surprise
unexpected
understandable
memorable
dramatic
O. Henry endings
Bob
Jimmy
Twenty years
Best friends
Criminal
Policeman
rich; hard-working;
confident; vain; keen;
clever; proud of Jimmy;
loyal to friendship
experienced; sharp; calm;
true and reliable;
considerate; relatively silent; devoted to job;
loyal to friendship
Step 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.
The story is about two friends named Bob and Jimmy. Twenty years ago, …
Step 3：Act!
narrator (旁白)
Bob
Jimmy
policeman
Step 2：Choose a character to play and decide what you will say and do.
Find the following words and phrases in the passage and work out their meanings.
Important words and phrases
______________________
把故事情节安排在
______________________
[非正式，过时]老朋友
______________________
[非正式，过时]家伙，伙计
______________________
劝人勉强来（或去）
______________________
状况，状态
chum n
chap n
drag v
condition n
set v
Important words and phrases
______________________
认定，认为
______________________
命运
______________________
相一致
______________________
提议，建议，计划
______________________
（常指非法地）兜售
Find the following words and phrases in the passage and work out their meanings.
figure v
destiny n
correspond v
proposition n
hustle v
Important sentences
The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune.
第二天早上，我就要动身到西部去挣大钱了。
1.
make a fortune
a small fortune
发大财
一大笔钱
Important sentences
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.
那天晚上，我们约定，无论我们的条件如何，无论我们要走多远，从那个日期和时间起整整二十年后，我们将在这里再次见面。
2.
Important sentences
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.
我们认为，二十年后，我们每个人都应该规划好自己的命运，创造出自己的财富，不管将来会是什么样子。
3.
Important sentences
You see, the West is a pretty big proposition, and I kept hustling around over it pretty lively.
你知道，西部是一个很大的市场，我努力工作，又总是不断地东奔西跑。
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