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Teaching Objectives: In this unit students are required to:
1. Practice reading strategies such as predicting, skimming, guessing, etc.
2. Grasp some new words and expressions to enrich students’ vocabulary;
"Professor, that's literature, that's REAL
literature."
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Questions on the story
1. When and where did the story take place? Who
were the main characters?
4. Learn some writing skills in narration and letter writing;
5. Get to know more information about O Henry;
6.Do some other after-class exercise including listening and translation to improve students’ comprehensfocuses:
1. The comprehension and appreciation of Text I;
2. New words and expressions:
habitual, twirl, correspond, proposition, egotism, submerge, astir, staunch, revolve, cynical, stalwart, groove, moderately, glare, confrontation, be subject to