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B1U4 Friends forever
UI: Click for a friend?
CLICK FOR A FRIEND?
Viewing
Observe the layout and answer.
What does click refer to?
Why is there a question mark in the title?
Click usually means “click the mouse on the computer”. In the title, it means “find a friend online”.
The question mark means whether it’s a real friend, it’s unknown.
While reading
Divide the passage into different parts and summarise their main ideas.
Click for a friend?
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
para. 1
para. 2-3
para. 4-7
para. 8
past ways of making friends:
letters
present ways of making friends: social media tools
online friendship: real or not?
final thought: a reasonable attitude
While reading (A3, P52)
Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage.
1 To prove that making friends was easier in the past.
2 To illustrate how it is better to make friends online.
3 To persuade people to abandon traditional ways of making friends.
4 To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online.
While reading (A4, P53)
Complete the diagrams(示意图) with expressions from the passage.
While reading (A4, P53)
moving to a new town
writing letters
maintain friendships
share their interests
While reading (A4, P53)
exchange true
personal information
the whole truth
post only positive updates
about a person
Thinking and sharing
1. What does “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog (para.7)” mean?
This sentence is about the uncertainty and possible risks of making friends online.
It accompanies a cartoon featuring two dogs, one of which is sitting at the computer and turns knowingly to the other with these words.
Despite the witting humour, the cartoon wasn’t a hit when it was first published on 5 July 1993, few people being familiar with the Internet at that time. Its popularity grew over the years, however, and today it is one of the most iconic and recognisable works about the Internet.
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Thinking and sharing
2. Why does the author say “But this doesn’t mean that