Unit 3 Friendship
TEACHING OBJECTIVES:
1. Master the key words and structures;
2. Get to know the new definition of friends and the importance of wider social circles in our life and career;
listening and speaking skills including the knowledge of '3. Develop the studentsowels);
phonetics (Central V4. Master the rules related to word-building; 5. Learn how to write e-mail.
4 periods/week TEACHING TIME: IMPORTANT POINTS: ocabulary
1. V2. Some useful expressions 3. Study dialogues and practice 4. Central vowels
5.Word building (prefix+stem+suffix) DIFFICULT POINTS: 1. Text understanding 2. Word Usage 3. Practical writing.
Blackboard, chalks, tape-recorder, CD
TEACHING AIDS:
Task Based Language Teaching, Communicative TEACHING APPROACHES: Teaching Method
TEACHING PROCEDURE: Lead In I.
Warm up activities 1.Greetings (T-Ss; Ss-Ss) ）1．
A. Good morning/ afternoon/ evening. 2) Question-discussing
A. What do you think is the friendship? What kind of person is regarded as a friend?
2. Background information 1) friendalholism (交友狂症)
A word coined from friend with the second element from “alcoholic” and the third element “-ism”, meaning a doctrine, theory or practice of having too many friends.
2) Social Network
Social network is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) called “nodes,” which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency,
such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual
relationships, etc. 3) Facebook
Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Since September 2006, anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address can become a Facebook user. Facebook's target audience is more for adults than youths. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. 4) Twitter
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to 140
of up to are text-based posts Tweets send and read messages known as tweets.
characters displayed on the author's pro and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Since late 2009, users can follow lists of authors instead of following individual authors. All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS), or external applications (notably including those developed for smartphones). While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees. The website currently has more than 100 million users worldwide.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and
popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as “SMS of the Internet.” The use of
Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving text messages by other applications often eclipses direct use of Twitter. II. Reading of the text 1. Global reading Questions and Answers
Directions: Skim the paragraphs for answers to the following questions. Paragraph 1:
Question: According to the paragraph, what can help you make a fortune in the future?
Answer: Good education and friends. Paragraph 2:
Question: According to this paragraph, what are the important factors for success? Answer: Social skills, networking, talent and hard work are all important factors. Paragraph 3:
Question: What does the word “friendalholism” mean? Answer: It means young people are fond of making too many friends.
Paragraph 4~5:
Question: Should a friend necessarily be a friend you know personally?
Answer: No, the friend of a friend of some other Facebook friend you don't know could also be your friend. Paragraph 6~7:
Question: What's Meghan Daum's understanding of a friend?
Answer: She thinks a friend should be an actual person with whom she has an actual
history and whom she enjoys actually seeing. Paragraph 8~9:
Question: What's the friendaholic's idea of friends?
Answer: They think having one real friend is not as fun as having thousands of Internet friends.
2. Detailed reading
Language points and the paraphrases of difficult sentences: 1. essay: n. a piece of short writing on one subject 文章
e.g. Students must write a graduation essay in order to get a diploma. 2. fortune: n.
1) fate; chance 运气
e.g. He has the good fortune to be immune to certain disease.
2) whatever comes by chance, good or bad; that which will happen to a person in the future 命运
e.g. The old man is very famous for fortune telling. 3) success; good luck 大量财产
e.g. Many people from Wenzhou made their fortunes doing business in Europe. Collocations: make a fortune; seek one's fortune
3. the more..., the more...: used for saying that sth. is increasing in number or degree all the time 越……，越……
e.g. The more angry he became, the more she laughed at him. 4. earn: v.
1) receive money for work that you do 赚得，挣得
e.g. Some students earn pocket money by mowing lawns for their neighbors. 2) acquire or deserve as a result of effort or action 博得；赢得 e.g. They earned a reputation as hard workers.
5. The idea that popularity could have a serious impact on one's earning potential shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Paraphrase:
It's not very surprising that some people hold the idea that how much money one can earn depends greatly on how popular he/she is. 6. note: v. call attention to; make known 注意
e.g. Many foreigners have noted a great change in Shanghai since 1990. 7. kid: v. deceive 欺骗
e.g. When you said that you were not hurt, I knew that you were just kidding.
8. If you want to get ahead in life, social skills and networking are easily as powerful as talent and hard work. Paraphrase:
If you want to gain success in your life, skills in communication and interacting with others to expand your friend circle are almost as important as your talent and hard work.
9. get ahead: continue going forward; advance 前进
e.g. The government granted our proposal to get ahead with the expansion of our company.
10. A woman even complained that the networking website Facebook's 5,000-friend limit was too low for her large reserve of social contacts. Paraphrase: networking
the on friends 5,000 of limit the that complained even woman A
website Facebook was not large enough for her to keep all her friends. 11. regard as: consider someone or something as something 把……看作，把……认为
e.g. Yang Liwei has been regarded as a hero.
12. In any case, these friends have been assigned value not necessarily because of anything they've actually done with you or for you, but because, well, they just exist in the world and so do you. Paraphrase:
But anyhow, you still think such friends valuable. They become your friends not because they have done something with you or for you, just because they exist in the world, as you exist in the world.
13. “Call me uncool, but I think of a friend as an actual person with whom I have an
actual history and whom I enjoy actually seeing. It seems, however, that this is no longer the definition (定义) of ‘friend'.” Paraphrase:
You may think I'm not cool, but I think a friend should be a person with whom I have spent some time and whom I can actually meet in my life. However, it seems that my idea of a friend is out of date now, and it's quite different from the popular definition of “friend” now.
think of … as: regard … as 认为
e.g. People think of the Great Wall as one of the four world wonders.
14. She thought the idea of friendship, at least among the growing population of Internet social networkers, was to get as many of not-really-friends as possible. Paraphrase:
In her mind, more and more people are making friends through the Internet.
Their idea of friendship is to make as many friends as possible without caring whether there is true friendship or not 3. Text analysis
新世纪高职高专英语第一册教案1 Unit 3
