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B1U4
Understanding ideas
Before reading
Look at the questions about friendship and tick your answer.
Now work in groups and find out the most popular answers. Share your group’s result with the class.
Activity 1
While reading
Read the passage and find out the author’s opinions about online friendship.
Activity 2
While reading
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.
Activity 3
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While reading
Read again and divide the passage into different parts.
The disadvantages of making friends online
The advantages of making friends online
Part 1: Para. 1
Part 2: Para. 2-3
Part 3: Para. 4-7
Ways of making friends in the past
Part 4: Para. 8
A recommended attitude towards making friends online
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Reading for information
Part 1 Ways of making friends
People lost track of their friends after 1_____________
_________.
The only way to stay in touch was 2_____________.
Past
moving to a
new town
It’s easy to 3________________ with social media tools.
Online, people can easily make new friends with those who 4__________________.
Present
writing letters
maintain friendships
share their interests
Reading for information
Parts 2-3 Online friendship: real or not?
It can be real if people
5__________________
___________________ online.
It might not be real because social media doesn’t present 6____________
_________________, and people tend to 7_________________________.
exchange true
personal information
the whole truth
post only positive updates
about a person
After reading
Look at the title and answer.
What does click refer to?
Why is there a question mark in the title?
CLICK FOR A FRIEND?
Click usually means “click the mouse on the computer”. In the title, it means “find a friend online”.
The question mark means whethe