Unit 2 Friendship

1. Unit 2 Friendship

2. Objectives To grasp the main idea about friendship To appreciate spoken English To master key language points and grammatical structure To conduct a series of speaking activities to theme of the unit To know about Halloween To give a small talk between a cabbie and passengers

3. Tasks Pre-reading Tasks While-reading Tasks Post-reading Tasks

4. Pre-reading Tasks Listen to the audio clip two or three times Answer questions about it Introduce the singer

5. Listen! Listen!

6. Answer! What does a fair weather friend mean? What does the singer think friends are for? Does the song give you any idea of what the stories in this unit will be about?

7. Introduce! Dionne Warwick

8. While-reading Tasks Skim, divide the text into parts and tell the main idea of each part Words and Phases

9. Words and Phases lose face: be humiliated, suffer loss of credit or reputation. lose one�s head: lose self-control. eg. Don�t lose your head in an emergency. lose heart: be discourage. eg. Don�t ~; all will turn out well. lose one�s heart to sb / sth: become very fond of, fall in love with lose one�s temper: become angry. lose touch (para 12, line 14)

11. Words and Phrases not much of a (line 15, Para 6.): not a good. 1.He isn�t much of a linguist/scholar. 2. It wasn�t much of a dinner. 3. I�m not much of a cinema-goer. some kind of: (??)???,???? E God, isn�t she some kind of a singer? ??,?????????,???

12. Words and Phases come up (but things come up, para 17, line 37) l������� happen, esp. unexpectedly Sorry, I am late�something came up at home. l������� Be mentioned or discussed = make /had reference to sth (para 21, line 48) The issue of safety came up twice during the meeting. The term �Project Hope� has come up a lot recently in the newspapers. It as strange that he made no reference to any work experience in his resume. �His recent book makes references to the political events of those days.

13. Words and Phases Choke up (always used in passive voice) 1.When he learned the news of his friend�s sudden death, he was so choked up he couldn�t say a thing. 2.Losing my job left me completely choked up; I was so upset that didn�t know what to say. Urge sb to do sth / urge that (subjunctive mood) para 20 Postpone doing (para 21, line 46)

14. Words and Phases Correspondence (line 16, para 7) 1.�??,?? There isn't much correspondence beween their views and ours! 2.��???? the act of writing, receiving or sending letters ( ???s, ?? ?with) The correspondence dropped after the enemy's airraid. 3.???? the letters that sb, receives or sends (uncountable n) Mary really never mentions her step-mother in her correspondence. Any further correspondence should be sent to my new address.

15. Words and Phases hang out para 28 ?(infml, Ame ): stay in or near a palace, for no particular reason, not doing very much I often hung out in coffee bars while I was unemployed. We can just hang out and have a good time. ?hang clothes on a piece of string outside in order to dry them I was worried that I had no time to hang out my washing. What a pain!�it�s raining and I�ve just hung the washing out.

16. Words and Phases get the hang of ??�??;?�?? (= have the hang of) hang about ???,?????? ??;???? He hung about outside my house. ??????????? Don't hang about--we have a train to catch! "??????,????????!"

17. While-reading Tasks Work in pairs to find out how many questions the narrator asked and what were the cabbie�s responses Detailed reading

18. Detailed Reading S: He sounded he had a cold or something. Q:What can we infer from this sentence? S: At least they do with me because I�m on the road so much. Q: Paraphrase the sentence.

19. Detailed Reading S: It might just as well have been family. Q: Translate into Chinese. S: Your friendship over the years has meant an awful lot to me, more than I can say because I�m not good at Q: Paraphrase the sentence.

20. Text Analysis Spoken English Most of this text is actually a re-creation of the conversation between a taxi driver and narrator. Therefore it provides ample examples of how English is spoken is daily life by native speakers. In spoken English sentences tend to be short and simple. Some sentences are incomplete. Besides, some words or phrases do not usually find their way into written English,for example, sort of, kind of, you know, I think, I guess, I take it, well, go ahead, hang out, it�s no fun to do sth., not much of a hand at doing sth., a couple of, every now and then, an awful lot,etc.

21. Cultural Notes

25. Post-reading Tasks Group Discussion Role Play Pair Work

26. Group Discussion What is your idea of a friendship? How important are friends to you?

27. Role Play Turn out a dialogue between a cabbie and passengers, which covers the text in question or any possible small talk

28. Pair Work Look at the following pictures based on the text and the two students alternate to describe them

29. Word Bank 1.????? be completely lost in 2.??�??? get sb.�s attention 3.???? settle into the back seat 4.??? in no hurry 5.???� not much of a hand at� 6.?????? keep up correspondence 7.???????? all the way through both grade and high school 8. ??? an old neighborhood 9. ???? keep in touch with keep in touch with 10. ????? a class reunion 11. ????? Time goes by 12. ????? hang out on the same corner 13. ???? nod in agreement 14. ??? in the distance