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Unit 4 Friends Forever
—— Click For A Friend?
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After this lesson, you are able to:
catch the main idea and basic structure of the passage.
konw the features of argumentative essays(议论文).
develop correct attitudes towards making friends online.
Learning Objectives
Look at the questions about friendship and tick your answers.
Lead in
Pre-reading
What does click refer to?
Why is there a question mark in the title?
Look at the title and picture.
Click usually means “click the mouse on the computer”. In the title, it means “find a friend online”.
The question mark means whether we can find a real friend online is unknown. (open answer)
Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage.
Fast-reading
To prove that making friends was easier in the past.
To illustrate how it is better to make friends online.
To persuade people to abandon traditional ways of making friends.
To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online.
Fast-reading
Read the passage and match the main ideas.
Possible dangers of making friends online.
Ways of making friends at present
Para. 3
Ways of making friends in the past
Para. 4-7
Para. 8
Para. 1
Para. 2
The digital age makes it easier for us to find friends who share our interest.
We should take a right attitude towards online friendship.
Ways of making friends
People lost track of their friends after
1______________________.
The only way to stay____ was 2_____________.
Thanks to ________ advances, it’s easy to 3_____________
with social media tools.
Online, people can easily
make new friends with those
who 4_____________.
Past
Present
moving to a new town
writing letters
maintain friendships
share their interests
Careful-reading
Read paragraphs 1 - 3, and complete the diagram.
in touch
technological
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Online friendship: real or not?
Careful-reading
Read paragraphs 6 - 7, and complete the diagram.
It can be real if people
5_____________