Unit 4
Friends forever
Watch&think
How many friends do you need?
What makes a real friend?
Watch&think
How many friends do you need?
What makes a real friend?
Starting out
Read the English poem together and enjoy the rhymes of it.
(韵律)
[??]
[u:]
[a?]
friendship
To my friend
You are a star in the sky,
lighting up my heart
and the dark night.
.......
Recite the Chinese poem based on its English translation.
However deep the Lake of Peach Blossom may be, it's not so deep as Wang Lun’s love for me.
A bosom(知心的) friend afar (遥远的) brings a distant land near.
These poems remind us to remember and value old friendships.
go to a gym
How do we make friends?
through other friends
join in
community activities
join a club
How do we make friends?
use social network apps
post friends wanted notice online
How do you maintain friendships?
talking face to face
telephoning each other
writing letters
visiting friends
using social network apps
danger
fake
lie
Q1:What does “Click” mean?
Q2:Why is there a question mark?
Maybe in the whole passage, there is a question which is worth being discussed.
Click
computer
internet
technology
Predicting
Making friends on the Internet?
Activity 1 Judge the genre (体裁) of the passage
1. What's the genre (体裁) of the passage?
A. Narration(记叙文)
B. Argumentation(议论文)
C. Practical Writing(应用文)
Review the structure of argumentation.
Argument
论点
Supporting idea 1
分论点1
Supporting idea 2
分论点2
evidence
论证
evidence
论证
1. Read fast for the argument.
Making friends online is good or bad?
Advantages
(Para2-3)
Disadvantages
(Para 6-7)
Social media tools
1. make us ________
with friends and
_______ friendships
2. enable us to make
friends with those
_______________.
1. What we see on social media is often not _____ about a person.
2. On social media, people have a tendency to ______ that maybe isn’t real.
(2. Read carefully for supporting details to the argument)
Advantages
(Para2-3)
Social media tools
1. make us ____________ with friends and _______ friendships.
2. enable us to make
friends with those
.
Check
stay in touch
sharing the same interests
maintain
Check
Disadvantages
(Para 6-7)
1. What we see on social media is often not ___________about a person.
2. On social media, people have a tendency to ____________________ that maybe not be real.
the whole truth
post only positive updates
How to judge?
Keep this tip in mind to make
friends online safely!!!!!
conclusion
Making friends online
is good or bad?
Advantages
Disadvantages
What's the author's attitude towards online friendship? How do you know?
A. supportive/positive
B. opposed/negative
C. neutral/objective?
D. doubtful
1.Title : A question.
3.Para8: But this doesn’t mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
2.Para4-5: It depends.
Related sentences:
Tip1:
focus on title
topic sentences
key sentences
We should treat them wisely and rationally(理性地).
Because there are both ___________ and ______________to online friendships.
advantages
disadvantages
Why?
The questions in Paragraph 1 are mainly used to .
A. remind us of writing letters to our friends
B. say how technology has changed our life
C. introduce the old way of keeping in touch with friends
D. show writing letters to friends is old-fashioned
From the first paragraph we can learn the following EXCEPT __________.
A.?more and more people are moving to a new place
B.?technology has greatly changed the way how people are connected
C.?it was not easy for people before to know about the updates of their friends
D.?people have communicated with their friends by writing letters for a long time
The phrase “up to” in the second paragraph has the closest meaning to _____.
A. busy with?????? ???????????
B. worried about
C. familiar with???????????
D. interested in
What does“they” in the last sentence of Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. People moving to a new town.
B. People on the other side of the world.
C. People with the same hobbies with us.
D. People moving around the world.
What does the sentence “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” mean?
A. You can pretend to be a dog on the Internet.
B. You may communicate with a dog on the Internet.
C. You don’t exactly know who the person on the Internet is.
D. You may have a chance to be a lucky dog on the Internet.
Remember the saying: on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
What is the purpose of the last paragraph?
A.To introduce another topic.
B.To sum up the whole text.
C.To offer us some examples.
D.To give us more details.
A.To prove that making friends was easier in the past.
B.To illustrate how it is better to make friends online.
C.To persuade people to abandon traditional ways of making friends.
D.To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online.
Choose the author's purpose in writing the passage.
1. Firstly,...
2. Morever,...
3. Furthermore,...
4. In addition,...
5. Finally,...
Discussion
What should we do when we make friends online?
Not long ago,the only way of 1. (get) news from faraway friends was writing letters, but thanks 2. the Internet, 3._______ way we make friends and communicate with them has greatly changed.?
At present,no matter 4. we are in this world,we can still keep in touch with our friends.It is social media that lets us 5. (see) what our friends are doing and maintain our friendships.No matter what our 6. (hobby) are,the Internet can enable us 7. (connect) with people who have the same interests with us,even though they live on the other side of the world.?
getting
to
where
see
hobbies
to connect
But we have to remember the Internet is a virtual world and sometimes what we see and hear on the Internet is not real.Therefore,we have to be 8. (care).?
Although technology 9. (change) the way we are connected,the meaning of friendship and our 10. (long) for friends remain the same.?
careful
has changed
longing
Checking
the