内容正文:
Of Friendship
Lead-in
Do you enjoy solitutde(独处)?If yes, share with us your experience.
Why is social life with friends still important to us according to paragraph1?
More often than not, close friendships will help smooth out the sometimes rocky road that we are all meant to travel.
the potential difficulties and challenges
be bound to do sth (注定)
Close friendships will help us get over the potential difficulties and challenges we are bound to encounter.
What is the genre of the passage?
An essay ( 散文)
An essay is a short piece of writing giving someone’s ideas about various topics.
Do you know the writer? Who is he?
The writer of this essay is Francis Bacon, a great English writer, scientist and philosopher.
Basic questions
Knowledge is power.
Reading makes a full man.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Bacon’s sayings
Read for the structre
Para. 1: The importance of friendship
Para. 2-5: The three “fruits” of friendship
Of Friendship
Why does the author use “fruit”?
Fruit refers to the rewards of one’s hard work, which implies that a close friendship ______________________.
takes time and effort
Metaphor (隐喻)
Fruit 1; Fruit 2; Fruit 3
Para. 6: Advice on making friends
Read for “Fruit 1”: Para. 3
Fruit 1: The peace that comes from sharing with friends our joy, sadness, success and failure ________________.
comforts the heart
Why can we have this kind of fruit by sharing?
Friendship has a double advantage– happiness takes on a greater meaning and a trouble shared becomes a trouble halved.
your friend falling out of love
What advice will you offer?
Do you think best friends should share everything with each other?
Friendship is about sharing. But we should keep a distance between each other for privacy.
Para. 1: The importance of friendship
Para. 2-5: The three “fruits” of friendship
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Fruit 1; Fruit 2; Fruit 3
Sensibility (情感)
Para. 6: Advice on making friends
Read for “Fruit 2”: Para. 4
Fruit 2: The better understanding and judgement that may be achieved through conversations with well-meanig and wise friends ________________.
adivse the head
Why conversations can help us achieve better understanding?
If we are guided by our own feelings, our judgements might be one-sided.
Friends are better able to offer advice.
Putting our thoughts into words can help make our thoughts clearer and bring us a more thorough understanding of our problems.
当局者迷,旁观者清。
Lookers-on see most of the game.
Para. 1: The importance of friendship
Para. 2-5: The three “fruits” of friendship
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Fruit 1; Fruit 2; Fruit 3
Sensibility (情感)
Sense
(理智)
Para. 6: Advice on making friends
Read for “Fruit 3”: Para. 5
Fruit 3: The help that a friend may offer in many different ways ____________.
help us achieve the goals we set for ourselves
Sometimes a friend is even known as our “second self”.
How do you understand this sentence?
A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies, who we can always c_____ on to achieve our goals during life, and perhaps even after death in p____ of ourselves.
place
count
After-reading
Of Friendship
Para. 1: The________ of friendship
importance
Para. 2-5: The three _______ of friendship
argument
evidence
conclusion
“fruits”
Para. 6: We should carefully ________ our friends and _______ the relationship.
choose
develop
the first, the second, the third
as a result, on the other hand, also
linking words
After-reading
What kind of people will you choose as your friends?
Those who _________________________.
Those who are kind and wise;
Those who can offer us advice and suggestions;
Those who can relate to ourselves and enjoy our company.
After-reading
Which do you prefer when you need comfort or advice, the company of a crowd or just a couple of friends? Why?
with an open heart, feeling emotionally connected
without any quality talk or sincere exchange
What matters is not the quantity but the q_____ of friends.
quality
Mini-writing
Write a summary of the essay.
According to Francis Bacon, friendship is important in the following three aspects-- we get a peaceful mind by sharing feelings with our friends; we make wiser decisions through discussion with them and we achieve our goals with their help. So we should carefully choose our friends and develop soud relationships with them.
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