1、While-reading Task 1: Read the title and the passage quickly, and find your answers. 1. What does click refer to? 2. Why is there a question mark in the title? 3. What does the passage talk about? Task 2: Read the passage and find out the authors opinions about online friendship? Task 3: Choose the
2、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 online. Task
3、 4: True or false. 1. What we see on social media is always true about a person. 2. The way that we make friends and communicate with them has not changed so much. 3. It is of no danger to share your information with others online without consideration. 4. Although technology has changed the way we
4、connected, the meaning of friendship remains the same. Task 5: Fill in the blanks and try to retell the passage CLICK FOR A FRIEND. After-reading Think and Share 1. What do you think the author means by “we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater?” 2. Do you know of any similar sayings in China? 3. Do you prefer to make friends online? Why?