(共13张PPT)
Unit 4 Friends Forever
—— Click For A Friend
After this lesson, you are able to:
Get a clear understanding of this passage.
Enhance your reading strategies such as skimming and scanning.
Develop the correct attitude towards making friends online.
Learning Objectives
Look at the questions about friendship and tick your answers.
Lead in
Pre-reading
What does click refer to
Why is there a question mark in the title
Look at the title and picture.
Fast-reading
Read the passage and match the main ideas.
Possible dangers of making friends online.
Ways of making friends at present
Para. 3
Ways of making friends in the past
Para. 4-7
Para. 8
Para. 1
Para. 2
The digital age makes it easier for us to find friends who share our interest.
We should take a right attitude towards online friendship.
Ways of making friends
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_____________.
Past
Present
moving to a new town
writing letters
maintain friendships
share their interests
Careful-reading
Read paragraphs 1 - 3, and complete the diagram.
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
exchange true personal
information
the whole truth about a person
post only positive updates
Careful-reading
Read paragraphs 4 - 7, and complete the diagram.
Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage.
Careful-reading
To prove that making friends was easier in the past.
To illustrate how it is better to make friends online.
To persuade people to abandon traditional ways of making friends.
To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online.
Careful-reading
According to the author, what are the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online
Advantages
Disadvantages
maintain friendship
not the whole truth
Attitude: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Click for a friend
find
new friends
only positive updates
1. Why does the author say “But this doesn’t mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater”
To remind us to treat the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online rationally and wisely.
Do you know of any similar sayings in Chinese
Post-reading
It literally means stopping eating for fear of choking. It’s used as a metaphor (暗喻) of the action of stopping doing something for fear of its disadvantages.
2. Can you give me some useful suggestions about making friends online
Post-reading
(1)Always be friendly even when you completely disagree with someone.
(2)Never give anyone on the Internet any personal information unless you have come to know them very well and trust them. This includes your real name, home address, email address, phone number and so on.
(3)Never go and meet your net friends without knowing him/her very well.
Homework
Prepare for a debate about the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online.
Point of view:
Arguments: In my opinion…/ From my point of view…
Supporting examples:
I like making friends online.
vs
I dislike making friends online.
Thank you!