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Unit 5 Text A What Are Friends For? Teaching Objectives: By the end of the unit, students will be better able to 1.understand the varied parts friendship plays in one's life and be better friends themselves; 2.use about 30 new words and 10 new phrases and expressions in brief conversations, translation and preliminary writing tasks; 3.use the subjunctive mood with implied condition in real life communication; 4.read material of a similar topic and degree of difficulty; 5.Know how to write concisely by avoiding overstated, pompous words and redundant phrases. Teaching Methods: Audio lingual Method; Presentation; Discussion; Question-answer. Important/Difficult Points: New words and expressions: chat, turtle, model Pick up, happen to, CD player, out of touch, put in perspective, betrayed confidence on the planet, get rid of, in good/bad shape Some sentences in the text are difficult to understand, such as I was thinking about how everybody can’t be every thing to each other, but some people can be something to each other, but some people can be something to each other; Wherever, whenever, there’s that spark of recognition; They have beautiful homes filled with special handmade things presented to them by villagers in the remote areas they have visited in their extensive travels. Teaching Procedure: Step 1. Warming Up(30 mints) 1) Work in pairs or groups, and discuss the following questions. 1. Do you have different kinds of friends? How do you classify them? 1 2. What is so great about friends? 3. Under what circumstances can one lose a friend? 4. Is it possible to love and hate a friend at the same time? Give examples. 2) Ask students to skim the text for the 8 kinds of friends mentioned in the text. Buddies/ Relative Friends/ Work Friends/ Former Friends/ Friends You Love to Hate/ Hero Friends/ New Friends 3) Introducing the main idea of the article It is said that friends are the best gift god has given us. Now that we have eight kinds of friends from the text, what kind of happiness or benefit can each of them bring us? That’s exactly what the text is about. Step 2. New Words and the Notes (20 mints) Learn new words and expressions of text A Explain some important and difficult words and expressions. cement n. 水泥,粘合剂v 巩固,粘牢 nostalgic a.—nostalgia n.—nostalgically ad. subdivision n.—subdivide v.—divide v. inopportune a.—(opposite) opportune a. invisible a.—(opposite) visible a. Look at the Notes on page 116 1. Marion Wink: poet, essayist, and regular commentator on National Public Radio’s. The author made up the capitalized expressions in the text such as “Faraway Friend,”“Relative Friend,” which would make no sense at all out of context, with the latter in particular. 2. You quit doing drugs, you’re not such good friends with your dealer anymore: This is not meant to be taken seriously. Possession or sale of illegal drugs can result in long prison terms. Step 3. Key Points (60 minutes) 1.cry on sb.’ s shoulder: get sympathy from someone when you tell them your problems 向某人诉苦以寻求安慰(或同情) e.g. At least she hadn’t cried on his shoulder again. If you ever need a shoulder to cry on, just call me. 2. in return (for sth.): as payment or reward for something作为报答或回报 e.g. He is always helping people without expecting anything in return. We offer an excellent all-round(全面的,多方面的)education to our students. In return, we expect students to work hard. 3. They hold out through innumerable crises before...: They are always reliable(可靠的,可信信赖的)and nice when you are in difficult times even though they don’t like what you are doing... 4. While so many family relationships are tinged with guilt and obligation: While so many people may feel something of a sense of guilt or responsibility in dealing with family relationships... 5. Company gossip, once an infallible(绝对可靠的)source of entertainment, soon awkwardly accentuates the distance between you: Office chat used to be an effective way of amusement for you; however, it makes you feel uneasy since you do not work together anymore and therefore increases the feeling of distance between you. 6. Work Friends share certain memories which acquire a nostalgic glow after about a decade: Memories of your Work friends makes you happy after ten years, so you somehow wish that you could return to those days. 7. dead end: a street with no way out at one end or a situation from which no more progress in possible e.g. He realized that the job at which he had been aiming all these years seemed to him to be a dead end. He thinks they have reached an evolutionary(逐渐发展的,演变的)dead end. 8. When you feel you’ve hit a dead end, come to a confusing fork in the road, or gotten lost in some cracker-box subdivision of your life: Whenever you feel helpless, confused or at a loss(困惑的,不知所措的) in the complicated journey of your life... Notice that “cracker-box division” is not a general expression, but is rather made up by the author. cracker: 薄脆饼干;咸饼干 9. in possession of sth.: formal owning or having obtained something from somewhere 占有(或拥有)某物 e.g. She was found in possession of stolen goods. How did the painting come into your possession (=how did you get it) ? 10. to death: informal used to emphasize that a feeling or emotion is very strong be bored / scared / frightened etc. to death She was scared to death of what might happen next. I’ m absolutely sick to death of it (=very angry, bored, or unhappy about something) . bore / scare / love etc. somebody to death He drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death. She used to worry me to death. 11. make me/you sick: spoken a) make you feel very angry e.g. People like you make me sick! b) indicate a feeling of jealousy —used humorously e.g. You make me sick with your “expenses paid”holidays! 12. Wherever, whenever, there’s that spark of recognition(认识): When you meet a “New Friend” for the first time you instantly feel a connection with each other. Step 4. Assignment (5 minutes) 1. Read the article repeatedly and try to remember the new words and expressions in text A 2. Finish the Study and Practice on page 118-130. The Teaching Plan of Unit 5What Are Friends For? (College English 2) English Department Sun Xiaofang