1、Understanding ideasTo read for the main idea of the passageTo read for detailed information and figure out authors purpose in writing the passageTo talk about your feelings and experiences about communicating with online friendsTo write a passage to introduce your ways of making new friendsTo learn
2、some key words and expressionsLead-in:Do a questionnaire Look at the questions about friendship and tick your answers.1.How do you prefer to make friends?Joining a club to meet people who share the same interests.Using a social app.Through other friends.Posting a“friends wanted”notice online.Taking
3、part in community activities.Lead-in:Do a questionnaire 2.How do you prefer to communicate with friends every day?Talking face to face.Using social networking apps.Writing letters.Writing emails.3.How do you stay in touch with faraway friends?Using social networking apps.Writing letters.Writing emai
4、ls.Telephoning.Visiting friends whenever possible.Lead-in:Do a questionnaire Some social apps1.Have you ever made friends through the Internet?2.What effect has it had on you?Lead-in1.What does click refer to?2.Why is there a question mark in the title?1.What does click refer to?To search something
5、online.Here it means to find a friend online.2.Why is there a question mark in the title?It is a question worth discussing.Answer the questionRead the passage and choose authors purpose and opinions 1.To prove that making friends was easier in the past.2.To illustrate how it is better to make friend
6、s online.3.To persuade people to abandon traditional ways of making friends.4.To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of making friends online.A.Positive（积极的）B.Negative（消极的）C.Indifferent（冷淡的）D.Objective（客观的）How to read for authors purpose and opinions?1.Decide what kind of article the passage is
7、.2.Find the topic sentence of each paragraph.3.Summarize these sentences and get the idea.What kind of article the passage is?Argumentation(议论文)Match each part with the main idea.Para.1Paras.2-3Paras.4-7Para.8When you“friend”people online,make sure this means that they really are your friends.We sho
8、uld treat technology objectively.Social media tools allow us to maintain our friendships and make new friends.Technology has changed the way we make friends.Read the passage and choose authors purpose and opinions 1.To prove that making friends was easier in the past.2.To illustrate how it is better
9、 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.advantages and disadvantagesRead for the authors opinions about online friendship.A.Positive（积极的）B.Negative（消极的）C.Indifferent（冷淡的）D.Object
10、ive（客观的）pastpastComplete the diagrams with expressions from the passage.Ways of making friends People lost track of their friends after _ _.The only way to stay in touch was _.Its easy to _ with social media tools.Online,people can easily make new friends with those who _.moving to a new townpresent
11、presentwriting lettersmaintain friendshipsshare their interestsCareful readingOnline friendship:real or not?It can be real if people _ onlineIt might not be real because social media doesnt present _,and people tend to _.exchange the whole truth about a person post onlypositive updatestrue personal
12、informationThink and share1.How do you understand the sentence:On the Internet,nobody knows youre a dog?2.Why does the author say“But this doesnt mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater”?Do you know of any similar sayings in Chinese?3.Do you prefer to make friends online?Why?Think
13、and shareThis caption is about the uncertainty and possible risks of making friends online.It accompanies(伴随)a cartoon featuring two dogs,one of which is sitting at a computer and turns knowingly to the other with these words.Despite the witty humour,the cartoon wasnt a hit when it was first publish
14、ed on 5 July 1993,few people being familiar with the Internet at that time.Its popularity grew over the years,however,and today it is one of the most iconic and recognisable works about the Internet.Think and share2.Why does the author say“But this doesnt mean that we should throw the baby out with
15、the bathwater”?Do you know of any similar sayings in Chinese?Think and shareDont throw the baby out with the bathwaterBecause there are both advantages and disadvantages to online friendships,and the author wants to remind us to treat them rationally and wisely.Similar saying in Chinese:因噎废食因噎废食.It
16、literally means to stop eating for fear of choking.Itsused as a metaphor(比喻比喻)of the action of stopping doing something for fear of its disadvantages.Think and share3.Do you prefer to make friends online?Why?Its good to make friends online.The Internet helps us make more friends,and chatting online
17、gives us more freedom to express ourselves.Whats more,I think that if we make foreign friends online itll help us with our English learning.Making friends online is a waste of time,which may affect our studies.Besides,some students may get cheated online.We should pay more attention to our studies,health and safety.As for friendship,we can find it in our classmates and other people around us.It is true that making friends online has its own advantages and disadvantages.Whats your opinions about it?THANK YOU
