(共17张PPT)
Unit 4 Friends Forever
Starting out & Understanding ideas
Learning Objectives
By the end of the class, I will be able to:
1. Understand the background and reasons for making friends online and identify the writer’s opinion of online friendship (A)
理解网络交友现象产生的背景和原因并判断作者对网络交友的态度
2. Analyze and summarize the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online and sort out the structure of the passage (M)
分析并概况网络交友的利弊并理清文章结构
3. Evaluate making friends online critically using argumentative skills and form a proper outlook on making friends (T)
运用议论文论述技巧,辩证地评价网络交友,树立正确的交友观
What is the poem about
It’s about friends and friendship.
Lead-in (4mins)
Activity 1 (1min)
How do you prefer to make new friends
club/community
interest/hobby
recommendation
引荐
Others
---Make Friends Online
Activity 2 (1min)
What will the writer talk about in the passage
Read the passage quickly and answer the following questions.
Activity 3 (5mins)
1. What has changed our ways of making friends
2. What does the writer think of making friends online
1. Advances in technology.
2. He thinks it has both advantages and disadvantages.
What advantages and disadvantages does making friends online have
Past
Present
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__________
________.
moving to a new town
writing letters
maintain friendships
share their
interests
Read Paragraph 1-3 and complete first two diagrams on P53.
Activity 4 (5mins)
Different ways of making friends
Advantages
Which aspect of making friends online is this part about
It can be real if people _______
5_______________________ online.
It might not be real because social media doesn't present
6_________________________, and people tend to7__________
___________.
exchange
true personal
information
the whole truth
about a person
post only
positive updates
Read Paragraph 4-7 and complete the other two diagrams on P53.
Activity 5 (5mins)
Online friendship: real or not
Disadvantages
Which aspect of making friends online is this part about
give up eating for fear of choking(哽噎)
throw the baby out with the bathwater a slang(俚语)
Give up something valuable because of the bad things along with it.
Similar saying in Chinese:
Activity 6 (7mins)
Why does the writer use a slang in his conclusion
To make his opinion more persuasive(有说服力的).
How do we call this kind of argumentative skill
Using quotes/Quoting.
What other quotes does the writer use in the passage
Remember the saying: on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
As Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods.
What is the function of the circled expressions
To introduce the quotes.
What is the writer’s conclusion
What other argumentative skills does the writer use
Activity 6 (7mins)
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.
Expressions to introduce examples:
for example for instance
such as like
giving examples
举个栗子
What other argumentative skills can we use
Activity 6 (7mins)
Expressions to introduce figures:
It is estimated that ...(据估计......)
According to statistics, ...(据统计)
Expressions to introduce comparison:
Compared to/with ...
By comparison, ...(相比之下)
What do you think of making friends online
Activity 7 (10mins)
Tips for preparation
1. State your opinion in the first sentence and then defend it.
2. Try to use argumentative skills to make your opinion more persuasive.
Work in group to discuss your group’s opinion. You’d better write down some key words.
1. prefer
2. not prefer
3. neutral
(中立的)
Expressions you can use in your opinion
prefer: thanks to stay in touch with maintain friendship
not prefer: lose track of keep in mind not the whole truth about
neutral: this doesn’t mean throw the baby out with the bathwater
Every coin has two sides ...
Activity 8 (1min)
Advances in technology have changed our ways of making friends.
What is the meaning of friendship
We need friends.
No matter how you prefer to make friends, make sure the friends you make are real. After all, “A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED”.
Activity 8 (1min)
And we believe in friendship.
No one is an island.
Self-assessment
Now at the end of this class, I can ...
1. Understand the background and reasons for making friends online and identify the writer’s opinion of online friendship
2. Analyze and summarize the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online and sort out the structure of the passage
3. Evaluate making friends online critically using argumentative skills and form a proper outlook on making friends
Homework
1. Writing---Write a passage titled “Making friends online is ... to me”. (Compulsory)
2. Project---Make a poster with your group members about how to create a safer environment to make friends online.(Optional)