(共16张PPT)
Lesson 3
So close, yet so far
Relationships
Unit 1
Pre-reading: Activate and share
Cellphones Are Everywhere!
P14 1
What roles do social networking and the Internet play in your daily life
What do you use them for
chat with friends
listen to music
search for information
study
…
watch
videos
How many online friends do you have
Do social networking and the Internet help improve your relationships with others Give some examples.
P14 2
Possible answer: I have more than 300 online friends. I think that social networking and the Internet help improve my relationships with my friends. For example, one of my best friends went abroad when I was in junior secondary school. The only way that I can contact her is the Internet. I always chat with her and we talk about our lives with each other.
Mark has 500 friends online and he spends a lot of time on the Internet.
Predict what Mark will say about social networking and his relationships with others.
Now, let's read the text to
check your answers.
P16 4
Read the plete the information about Mark. Then use examples to talk about how social networking has affected Mark's life.
Mark's routine activities online What social networking has done to Mark and Mark's friends Reasons Mark can't drop social networking
routines
check through his social networking apps
read his emails and answer text messages
scroll through his friends’ posts and photos
download song after song, video after video
Mark's routine activities online
Careful reading
What social networking has done to Mark and Mark’s friends. Read and find the impacts.
Impact
Social networking dominates my life in so many ways
I constantly feel depressed, dissatisfied and alone
whether on friends’ get-together or a family holiday, we are together physically but not mentally
reasons
a dinner get-together: my best friend took a call for 30 minutes; Some kept texting friends online.
his classmates and teachers may need to contact him at any time
Reasons Mark can't drop social networking
P16 6
Task 4
Read the text again.
Choose the correct meaning of the colloquial phrases.
1. way beyond (line 13)
= a short way past / a long way past
2. go cold turkey (lines 43-44)
= do something less frequently /
stop doing something completely
3. booze (line 47)
= alcoholic drinks / soft drinks
4. be hard-wired in (line 49)
= be born with the character /
work like a computer
超越;远远超出
放弃做某件事,戒掉坏习惯
酒
天生的
Skill Builder
Guessing the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words from the Context
When you come across a difficult word/phrase in a text, try to guess what it means first before looking it up.
· Read the sentence the word is in and
decide what type of word it is, e.g.
noun, verb.
· Read the paragraph the word is in
and try to work out the meaning
from the context.
· Then use a dictionary to check the
exact meaning of the word.
1. Why does Mark say “They say that phones
bring people closer together but in reality, my
mind is always a million miles away.” Find
examples from the text to illustrate how phones
drive people further away.
2. How do you understand “We are hard-wired
in, but we're more disconnected than ever”
Why does Mark say we are more disconnected
than ever
Task 5
1. Why does Mark say “They
say that phones bring
people closer together but
in reality, my mind is
always a million miles
away.”
Find examples from the
text to illustrate how
phones drive people
further away.
Because he does not talk to his friends face-to-face when he attends parties or plays sports.
Example 1
Example 2
2. How do you understand “We are hard-wired in,
but we're more disconnected than ever”
Why does Mark say we are more disconnected
than ever
Mark suggests that young people today have been brought up with social networks and that they are an important part of our lives which we can’t live without. However, our addiction to social networks can lead to a loss of friendships or meaningful relationships due to less face-to-face contact in real life.
P16 6
Read the text again.
Answer the following questions.
· Decide what text type this piece of writing is.
· What is its communicative purpose
· What impresses you the most about Mark's
use of language Find examples from the text to
support your idea.
Check your answers.
· Decide what text type this piece of writing is.
The text type of this piece of writing is a web blog, which uses a mixture of exposition and description.
· What is its communicative purpose
Its purpose is to tell young readers that social networking on the Internet is causing distance and disconnection in real life relationships through the detailed description of his experience and feelings.
· What impresses you the
most about Mark's use of
language
Find examples from the
text to support your idea.
1
asking rhetorical questions
2
irony
3
using examples to support his ideas
Mark's use of language could be:
(1) asking rhetorical questions,
e.g. “Where am I What am I doing ”
(2)irony, e.g. most of the words in the second paragraph describe how busy he is but then he ends the paragraph with the truth of being lonely, which is a sharp contrast.
(3)using examples to support his
ideas, like the dinner get-
together to show that friends
say nothing in real life.
(4) the use of “I” to start a
sentence, which is typical of
personal blogs.
Preview the Writing part on pages 18-19.