Unit 4 Friends Forever Starting out & Understanding ideas 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 4 Friends Forever (Period 1) 年 级：高一年级 学 科：英语（2019外研版） 1 Unit 4 Friends Forever Starting out & Understanding ideas 2 Activity 1 Listen and read the poem. Answer the questions. What is the poem about? Who would you send this poem to and why? Starting out 3 4 Activity 1 Starting out What is the poem about? The poem is about friendship. Who would you send this poem to and why? Maybe a friend at another school. 5 Which poem is mentioned in the video? Auld Lang Syne 2. What idea does the poem mainly express? It mainly reminds people to remember and value old friendships. Activity 2 Watch the video and answer the questions. 6 Friends Forever 7 Learning objectives By the end of the lesson, you will be able to: conclude the message that the writer intends to convey about making friends online; interpret the writer’s opinion on making friends online; form your own idea about qualities of being a true online friend; evaluate the importance of friendship and thus determine how to be a good friend to others. 8 Activity 3 Pre-reading Look at the questions about friendship and tick your answer. Understanding ideas 9 1. How do you prefer to make 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. 10 2. 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. 11 3. How do you stay in touch with faraway friends? □Using social networking apps. □Writing letters. □Writing emails. □Telephoning □Visiting friends whenever possible. 12 Thanks to _______ in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed ___________ . advances significantly 13 Click for a friend? 14 Activity 4 Reading Read the passage quickly and try to get the main idea. Advantages and disadvantages of making friends online. Read the passage carefully and figure out what the advantages and disadvantages are. skimming scanning 15 Advantages With a wi-fi __________, we can ________ friendships easily. (Para.2) The digital age also _______ us to make like-minded friends and stay _________ with them. (Para.3) connection maintain enables connected 16 Disadvantages People you “______” online are sometimes not really your friends as people do not always ________ true personal information.(Para.4-6) On social media sites, people tend to post only positive _______, which will _____their real problems.(Para.7) friend updates exchange hide 17 18 What's the author's opinion about making friends online ? _________ all the disadvantages, we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Despite Although technology has _____________ the way we acquire friends, the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends _______________. What's the reason behind it ? Writing Purpose changed/altered remain the same 19 Click for a friend ? Is it possible to find a true friend online? What qualities do you think are needed to ensure we make true friends online? 20 1. Aristotle once said, “no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods”. What is your understanding of friendship; how can friendship benefit us ? Activity 5 Think & Share 21 Friendships are a powerful aid in maintaining both mental and physical health, as well as our happiness. We are social beings, so friendships are key to happiness. There’s relief and strength in knowing that you don’t have to handle the ups and downs of life on your own. And it seems that what we do now with regards to friendship will be reflected later in life. 22 A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. ---William Shakespear 23 2. Since friendship can benefit us significantly, how can we be a good friend to maintain quality friendship ? Be dependable/reliable/trustworthy. Help your friends deal with their struggles. Be there in a time of crisis. Give thoughtful advice. Do not let your friends feel left out, ever. Let your friendship evolve( self growth). 24 Like any good soup， this won’t fail to make you smile when you’re feeling down. AII you need to get started is a box of love. Pour it into a pot and mix it with five grams of smiles. Next, add: two cups of trust, one spoon of encouragement, three spoons of helpfulness, three cups of good conversation, one pack of similar interests, one glass of comfort, two drops of patience, one bag of passion, one piece of generosity, … and a slice of humour! Friendship soup 25 $$