(共25张PPT)
Unit4 Friends Forever
Understanding ideas
Lead-in
How does Panda make new friends in this video
Use a social app
BFF
best friends forever
Pre-reading
1. How do you prefer to make friends
□ Joining a club to meet people who
share the same interests.
□ Through other friends.
□ Taking part in community activities.
□ Using a social app.
□ Posting a “friends wanted” notice online.
offline
online
2. How do you prefer to communicate with friends every day
□ Talking face to face.
□ Writing letters.
□ Using social networking apps.
□ Writing emails.
□ Telephoning each other.
offline
online
time-wasting
offline
online
3. How do you stay in touch with faraway friends
□ Writing letters.
□ Visiting friends whenever possible.
□ Using social networking apps.
□ Writing emails.
□ Telephoning.
high-cost
Under the conditions of the limit of time and space, do you perfer to make friends online
Is it reliable to make friends online
1. What does click mean
Internet / technology
2. What’s the meaning of “click for a friend”
A. Make a friend face to face
B. Make a friend online
C. Pen friends
3. Pay attention to the punctuation mark.
It is a _________ about making friends online.
question
While-reading (Task 1)
Read the passage quickly and answer the question.
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 disadantages of making friends online.
What is the author's purpose
√
What is the type of the passage
证实,证明
说明
劝说
放弃
What’s the type of the passage
A. Narration (记叙文)
B. Argumentation(议论文)
C. Exposition (说明文)
While-reading (Task 2)
Task 2
How many parts can the passage be divided
Para1-3: Ways of making friends
Para4-7: Online friendship
Para8 : attitudes towards friendship
Page40 Read paragraph 1 and fill in the blanks.
People lost track of their friends after 1_____________.
The only way to stay in touch was 2_____________.
Past
Ways of making friends.
moving to a new town.
writing letters
Read for details: Part 1 (Para. 1-3)
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.
1. Why does the author use two questions at the beginning of this passage
2. What cause the way of making friends and communicating with them changed significantly
To lead in the topic.
1
Page40 Read paragraph 2-3 and fill in the blanks.
It’s easy to 3_____________
with social media tools.
Online, people can easily
make new friends with those
who 4_____________.
Present
Ways of making friends.
maintain friendships
share the same interests.
Read for details: Part 1 (Para. 1-3)
Nowadays, we can move around the world and still saty 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 wifi-connection.
The digital age also enables us to find people who share our interests, such as collecting model cars or playing an unusual instrument. 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.
1. What make it easier for us to communicate with friends
2. How do they achieve that
2
3
Read paragraph4-7: 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.
Read for details: Part 2 (Para. 4-7)
But when you “friend” people online, does this mean that they really are your friends
It depends.
4
5
1. What is the function of paragrapgh 4
2. According to the passage, what’s the author’s answer to this question
Transitional sentence(过渡句)
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
Nobody knows who you are.
You can easily hide your real personal information behind the screen.
Read for details: Part 3 (Para. 8)
What’s the author’s opinion towards making friends online
throw the baby out with the bathwater
throw online friendship away with risks.
There are both advantages and disadvantages of making friends online. However, we shouldn’t become afraid when it comes to making friends online.
因噎废食
It literally means to stop eating for fear of choking.
Stopping doing something for fear of its disadvantages.
Post-reading
Do you prefer to make friends online Why
I prefer to make friends online for ...
Thanks to... we can make friends online.
The reason why I prefer to make friends online is that I think...
...so as to/in order to ...
broaden my horizons
I don't like making friends online because...
As far as I am concerned, friends online aren't real, and we don't have...on social apps.
What's worse/what’s more...
If we exchange true personal information online, we can/will....
Guess: Is Panda’s online friendship real
Actually, at the end of this story, Panda was cheated(欺骗) by Tom and Tom imprisoned(囚禁) Panda in his house. Fortunately, Panda’s friends in real life saved him successfully.
Post-reading
How can we protect ourselves when making friends online
protect our privacy(隐私)
keep an appropriate(合适的) distance
don’t meet the online friends secretly
don’t expose(暴露) our information easily
increase our awareness of protecting ourselves
Homework
Choose one way of making friends,and write a short passage to discuss its advantages and disadvantages.
Thanks for your attention!