1、UNIT4 FRIENDS FOREVERUnderstanding ideasWhat were the ways of making friends in the past?What are the ways of making friends nowadays?Tell the class the advantages and disadvantages of them.Look at the questions about friendship and tick your answers.actuvity1actuvity2Read the title and the passage
2、quickly.Answers the questions.1.What does click refer to?Finding online.2.Why is there a question mark in the title?Its a question worth discussing.3.What does the passage talk about?Online friendship.Methods of making Methods of making friendsfriendsPastPastPresentPresent Online friendsAdvantageDis
3、advantageactuvity3Text sortingAuthors conclusion RealUnrealAuthors opinionactuvity4Read the passage and find out the authors opinions about online friendship.actuvity5Choose the authors purpose in writing the passage.1.To prove that making friends was easier in the past.2.To illustrate how it is bet
4、ter 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.actuvity6Complete the diagrams with expressions from the passage.People lost track of their friends after 1_.The only way to stay in to
5、uch was 2_.Past Its easy to 3_ with social media tools.Online,people can easily make new friends with those who 4_.Present1 moving to a new town 2 writing letters 3 maintain friendships 4 share their interests Online friendship:real or not?It can be real if people5_ online.It might not be real becau
6、se social media doesnt present6_,and peopletend to 7_.5 exchange true personal information 6 the whole truth about a person7 post only positive updatesDifferent ways of making friendsIn the pastAt presentOnline friendship,real or not?Authors opinionArgumentRealUnreal6 6 Learn to analyze the passage.
7、Authors conclusion7actuvity8Think and shareWhy 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?Because although technology has changed the way we acquire friends,the meaning of friendship and our longing for
8、 friends remain the same.I know other similar saying,such as,everything has two sides.actuvity8Think and shareI dont prefer to make friends online.Because although its interesting to know a strang er through the Internet,only a few of us have succeeded in getting a real good friend in this way.Most of us have been cheated.Some of us even have committed crimes with the friends online.So we should be careful of making friends online.Do you prefer to make friends online?Why?
