Unit 4 Friends forever Understanding ideas Reading 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语外研版必修第一册

Unit 4 Friends forever Understanding ideas by Ada Understanding ideas 1 Look at the questions about friendship and tick your answers. 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. Understanding ideas 1 Look at the questions about friendship and tick your answers. 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. Understanding ideas 1 Look at the questions about friendship and tick your answers. 3 How do you stay in touch with faraway friends?  Using social networking apps.  Writing letters.  Writing emails.  Telephoning.  Visiting friends whenever possible. Understanding ideas 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. 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. 3 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. 3 Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage. In the author’s opinion, the social media tools enable us to find people who share our interests and to stay in touch with the people that we want to remain friends with. But some people tend to hide something from others and make them appear happy and friendly. They are not true friends. CLICK FOR A FRIEND? 2 Read the passage and find out the author’s opinions about online friendship. 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. CLICK FOR A FRIEND? 4 Complete the diagrams with expressions from the passage. People lost track of their friends after1_____________________________. 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 Past Present moving to a new town writing letters maintain friendship share their interests CLICK FOR A FRIEND? 4 Complete the diagrams with expressions from the passage. 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 about a person post only positive updates CLICK FOR A FRIEND? CLICK FOR A FRIEND? 1 How would you feel if moving to a new town meant losing track of your friends? What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters that took ages to be delivered? This was how things worked not very long ago. Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed significantly. Back CLICK FOR A FRIEND? 2 Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with the people that we want to remain friends with. Social media tools let us see what our friends are up to and maintain friendships. All you need is a wi-fi connection. 3 The digital age also enables us to find people who share our interests, such as collecting model cars or playing an unusual instrument. Back CLICK FOR A FRIEND? 3 Whatever our hobbies, the Internet can connect us with others who also enjoy doing them, even if they live on the other side of the world. 4 But when you “friend” people online, does this mean that they really are your friends? 5 It depends. CLICK FOR A FRIEND? 6 If people always exchange true personal information online, then yes, these friendships can be real and meaningful. But we need to keep in mind that what we see on social media is often not the whole truth about a person. 7 On social media sites, people tend to post only positive updates that make them appear happy and friendly. But smiling photos can hide real problems. Back CLICK FOR A FRIEND? 7 Remember the saying: on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. A young person could be old; a woman could be a man; we could even be sharing our information with criminals. 8 But this doesn’t mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. Although technology has changed the way we acquire friends, the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends remain the same. As Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods. CLICK FOR A FRIEND? Think and share 1 Why does the author say “But this doesn’t mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater”? Do you know any similar sayings in Chinese? Because there are both advantages and disadvantages to online friendships, and the author wants to remind us to treat them rationally and wisely. Similar saying in Chinese: 因噎废食 It literally means to stop eating for fear of choking. CLICK FOR A FRIEND? Think and share 2 Do you perfer to make friends online? Why? Thank you for watching $