1、Unit4 Friends forever Click for a friend? 1. Students learn to understand the text, be familiar with the topic, get the authors purpose in writing the passage, and further develop their language awareness and sense of English. 2. Students learn to form correct values on making friends online and gui
2、de them to build positive self-confidence and self-improvement. 3. Students learn to understand the meaning of expressions in the context, analyze the structures and internal logic of the argumentative essay, and creatively develop their own ideas. 4. Students learn to expand their learning channels
3、, try to use different strategies to monitor and evaluate their learning process. Learning Aims Should auld asquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind Should auld asquaintance be forgot And days of auld lang syne For auld lang syne my dear For auld lang syne Well take a cup of kindness yet For
4、 auld lang syne And heres a hand my trusty friend And gies a hand of thine Well take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne For auld lang syne my dear For auld lang syne Well take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne Friends forever How do you make friends? Pre-reading Pair work Fast-reading W
5、hat is the authors purpose in writing the passage? 1. To prove that making friends was easier in the past. 2. To illustrate how it is better to make friends online. 3. To persuade people to abandon traditional ways of making friends. 4. To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of making friends o
6、nline. 1. Complete the diagrams with expressions from the passage. Careful-reading Ways of making friends People lost track of their friends after 1_. The only way to stay in touch was 2_. moving to a new town writing letters Its easy to 3_ with social media tools. Online, people can easily make new
7、 friends with those who 4_. maintain friendships share their interests Online friendship: real or not? It can be real if people 5_ online. It might not be real because social media doesnt present 6_, and people tend to 7_. exchange true personal information the whole truth about a person post only p
8、ositive updates Careful-reading 2.What are the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online? Careful-reading Advantages Disadvantages 1. Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with the people that we want to remain friends with. Social media tools let us see what our
9、 friends are up to and maintain friendships. 2. The digital age also enable us to find people who share our interests. On social media sites, people tend to post only positive updates that make them appear happy and friendly. But smiling photos can hide real problems. On the Internet, nobody knows y
10、ou are a dog. 在互联网上，没人知在互联网上，没人知 道你是一条狗”是一道你是一条狗”是一 句互联网上的常用语，句互联网上的常用语， 因为作为纽约客因为作为纽约客 1993年年7月月5日刊登日刊登 的一则由彼得的一则由彼得 施泰施泰 纳（纳（Peter Steiner） 创作的漫画的标题而创作的漫画的标题而 变得流行。变得流行。 3. What is the authors opinion on making friends online? Careful-reading But this doesnt mean that we should throw the baby out
11、with the bathwater. Why ? Because there are both advantages and disadvantages to online friendships, and the author wants to remind us to treat them wisely. 4. Analyze the passage structure Deep thinking Argumentation 论说文 structure Lead-in(para1) Agreement(para2-3) Disagreement(para4-7) Authors opin
12、ion(para8) phrases 1. lose track of 2. What if? 3. thanks to 4. communicate with 5. in advance 6. stay in touch with 7. connect with 8. keep in mind that 1.失去联系 2.要是怎么样？ 3.归功于；多亏 4.与交流 5.提前 6.与保持联系 7.把和联系起来 8.记住 Language Learning 1. How would you feel if moving to a new town mean losing track of you
13、r friend? 【知识链接】 keep/lose track of: to have/ not have information about what is happening or where sb/sth is 了解/不了解的动态；与 保持/失去联系 track: n 踪迹 v to follow or find someone or something by looking for evidence that shows where they have gone. 追踪 【实战演练】翻译句子 1). It is important to keep track of current a
14、ffairs. 2). modern methods of tracking polar bear populations 了解时事很重要。 追踪北极熊数量的现代方法 如果搬到一个新的城镇意味着有朋友失去联系，你会做何感受？ 【知识链接】 What if: what would happen if? 要是要是怎么样？怎么样？ What about: used to make a suggestion=how about 怎么样？怎么样？ 【实战演练】 _they talked a long time about a painting that you werent that intereste
15、d in?(2018 天津阅读B) 要是长时间谈论一幅你不那么感兴趣的画会怎么样？ _having lunch at that new restaurant? 去那家新餐厅吃中午饭怎么样? 2.What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters? 如果从远方的朋友那里得到消息的唯一途径就是写信会怎么样？如果从远方的朋友那里得到消息的唯一途径就是写信会怎么样？ What if What about 3. We stay in touch with the people that we want
16、 to remain friends with. 【知识链接】 【实战演练】 Even when the two girls went to different colleges at the age of 18, they _through email and still stay best friends. 甚至当这两个女孩18岁去了不同的大学时，她们还通过电子邮件保持联系，仍然是最好的朋 友。 stay/keep/be in touch with sb 和某人保持联系（状态）和某人保持联系（状态） get in touch with sb 和某人保持联系（动作）和某人保持联系（动作） l
17、ose touch with sb 和某人失去联系（动作）和某人失去联系（动作） be out of touch with sb 和某人失去联系（状态）和某人失去联系（状态） kept in touch 4.Social media tools let us see what our friends are up to and maintain friendships. 【知识链接】 be up to: (informal) to be occupied or busy with 忙于做某事 be up to还有“从事，忙于；到.为止；达到；胜任；取决于”等意思。 【实战演练】 1).What
18、 shall we do tonight then?Its up to you, whatever you want. 2). I can take up to four people in my car. 3). John was fired because he wasnt up to his work. 4). Social Media tools let us see what our friends are up to. 5). She continued to care for her father up to the time of his recovery. 取决于 达到 胜任
19、 从事，忙于 直到为止 社交工具使我们了解到朋友们在忙些什么并使我们维持友谊。 5.Although technology has changed the way we acquire friends, the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends remain the same. 【知识链接】 当当way后面的定语从句中缺少后面的定语从句中缺少_时，关系词用时，关系词用that或或 which，作宾语时可省略，作宾语时可省略 当当way后面的定语从句中缺少后面的定语从句中缺少_时，时， 关系词用关系词用that/in which，
20、也可以，也可以省略省略。 【实战演练】 1. The way _ he explained to us was quite simple. 2. The way _ he explained sentences to us was not difficult to understand. 句中_是定语从句，修饰定语从句，修饰_ we acquire friends the way 主语或宾语主语或宾语 状语状语 that / which/略略 in which / that/略略 虽然科技改变了我们联系的方式，友情的意义和我们队友谊的渴望依然不变。虽然科技改变了我们联系的方式，友情的意义和我们
21、队友谊的渴望依然不变。 6.As Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods. 【知识链接】 as sb. say/says/said, 意为“正如某人所说” 。 该句中As Aristotle said为非限定性定语从句，其中as指代后面的主句。 As Chairman Mao said, he who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man. 【实战演练】翻译 众所周知，地球围着太阳转。 正如毛主
22、席所说，不到长城非好汉。 正如亚里士多德所说：没有人会选择没有朋友的生活，哪怕他拥有了其他财富。 As everyone knows, the earth goes around the sun. 或As is known to all, . Role-Play Tom has made an online friend, and his classmates A and B hold different views. Class show Homework Polish your role play and write the lines down(pay attention to their spelling and grammar).
