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U N I T
4
Friends forever
P2 Understanding ideas
Before
Reading
P50 1
How do you prefer to
make friends?
How do you prefer to communicate
with friends every day?
How do you stay in touch with
faraway friends?
Joining a club to meet people who share the same interests.
Using a social app.
Through other friends.
Posting a “friends wanted” notice online.
Taking part in community activities.
How do you prefer to make friends?
How do you prefer to communicate
with friends every day?
Talking face to face.
Using social networking apps.
Writing letters.
Writing emails.
Telephoning each other.
How do you stay in touch with faraway friends?
Using social networking apps.
Writing letters.
Writing emails.
Telephoning.
Visiting friends whenever possible.
Now work in groups and find out the most popular answers.
Share your group's result with the class.
How many friends do you have?
How did you know each other?
Now let's read a passage about friendship.
While
Reading
Read and finish the tasks
as quickly as possible.
1. What's the title of the passage?
2. What can you see from the picture?
3. What will the passage mainly talk about?
4. Can we replace the title
“Click for a friend?” with
“Online friendship”?
Why or why not?
5. Is the question mark
essential? Why?
Skim the passage and think about the questions.
Task 1
Skim the passage and choose the best answer to the question.
Task 2
What kind of article is the passage?
A. Narration (记叙文)
B. Argumentation (议论文)
C. Practical Writing (应用文)
Read the passage and find out the author's opinions about online friendship.
Task 3
P50 2
Author's opinion
Real
Unreal
Author's
conclusion
Objective
Choose the author's purpose in writing the passage.
Task 4
P52 3
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.
Analyse the passage.
Different ways of making friends
Online friendship,
real or not?
Author's
conclusion
In the past
At present
Author's opinion
Real
Unreal
Argument
Complete the diagrams with expressions from the passage.
Task 5
P53 4
· People lost track
of their friends after
1___________________.
· The only way to stay in
touch was
2_____________.
· It's easy to 3________
__________ with social media
tools.
· Online, people can easily make
new friends with those who
4__________________.
Ways of making friends
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______________________.
Online friendship: real or
not?
Past
Present
moving to a new town
writing letters
maintain
share their interests
exchange true personal information
the whole truth about a person
post only positive updates
friendships
Conclusion: · We shouldn't 9.__________________________________.
· The meaning of 10.__________ and our longing for friends remain the same.
throw the baby out with the bathwater
friendship
After
Reading
analysing, mindmap, summary, retelling
Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with________people that we want to remain friends with. Social media tools let us see what our friends are up_____and maintain friendships. All we need is a wi-fi __________(connect). The digital age also _________(able) us to find people who share our_________(interest). But when you “friend” people online, does this mean that they ________(real) are your friends? It depends. If people always exchange true personal information online, then yes, these friendships
Complete the summary using the correct form of the words.
the
to
connection
enables
interests
meaningful
really
can be real and___________(meaning).
But we need to keep in mind that_______we see on social media is often not the whole truth about a person. On social media sites, people tend_______(post) only positive updates that make them appear happy________friendly. But this doesn’t mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
what
to post
and
meaningful
Discussion
Why does the author say “But this doesn't mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater”?
Because there are both advantages and disadvantages to online friendships, and the author wants to remind us to treat th
P53
It's used as a metaphor隐喻 of the action of stopping doing something for fear of its disadvantages.
Do you prefer to make friends online? Why?
P53
Write a passage about your opinions on making friends online, using the words and phrases in this lesson.
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