Transcript Unit 2 Friendship

Unit 2
Teaching objectives
 Grasp the main idea (never delay expressing
your true feelings to a friend) and the
structure of the text (developing a story
around a letter);
 Appreciate that spoken English is much more
informal than written English;
 Master the key language points
 Integrate four basic skills related to the theme
of the unit
Warm-up
Strategy 1
Step 1
 Sing along: Auld Lang Syne
 Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and
never brought to mind? Should auld
acquaintance be forgot, for auld lang
syne. For auld lang syne, my dear, for
auld lang syne. We’ll take a cup of kind
yet, for auld lang syne.
Step 2
What proverbs about
friends do you know in
English?
Proverb 1
 Friends must part.
 Friendless is the dead.
 Friends agree best at distance.
 A friend in need is a friend indeed.
 The only way to have a friend is to be
one.
 Friends may meet, but mountains never
greet.
Proverbs 2
 Friendship is a plant which must be
often watered.
 Friendship is to be strengthened by
truth and devotion.
 Friendship is, at any rate, a relation of
perfect equality.
 Friendship is love with understanding
(love without wings).
Proverb 3
 Friendship is the golden thread that ties the
heart of all the world.
 Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not
be screwed too tight.
 Friends that desert us in the hour of need are
friends in name, not in reality.
 Friendship multiple joys, and divide grief.
 Friendship? Two bodies and one soul.
 Friendship cannot stand always on one side.
 Friendship is like wine, the older the better.
Warm-up 3
What expressions about
friends do you know in
Chinese?
Expressions about friends
 When people meet and become friends,
they hold a ceremony and promise each
other that they will cherish their friendship
and be loyal to each other until the day of
their death, and during their lifetime, they
will share almost everything they have.
 生死之交
Expressions about friends 2
 Two persons, one being much older than
the other, have become such good friends
that they forget their difference in age
 忘年之交
 bosom friend 知音
 Two students in the same class who have
become friends
 同窗
Warm-up
Strategy 2
Questions on the CD-ROM for T
 1 Have you ever heard of Dionne Warwick?
Have you happened to hear her sing?
 2 What does a fair weather friend mean?
 3 What does Dionne Warwick think friends
are for? 4
 4 Does the song give you any idea of what
stories in this unit will be about?
Do you often write
letters to friends
frequently, sometimes,
rarely, never?
A lead-in question to the text
 Sometimes we put off writing letters
because we think letters can wait until
other matters are dealt with, or
because we think a phone call will do
instead. However, sometimes, as you
are to find in this text, we may leave it
too late to write, and letters are the
best in expressing our innermost
feelings.
While-reading 1
Ask the Ss to read the text, and
put it into a dialogue, and work
in pairs first, then have role
play. Here are the tips:
While-reading (Questions)
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1 Is your cab available?
2 Is the letter from a child or grandchild?
3 He’s someone you’ve known quite a while?
4 Did you go to school together?
5 Is he dead?
6 Did you two work at the same place?
7 The letter must have made you feel good, didn’t
it?
 8 I thought your friend was Ed. Why did he sign
it Tom?
While-reading (Answers)
 1 Yes.
 2 No. Ed was my older friend.
 3 All my life.
 4 All the way through high school.
 5 He died a couple of weeks ago.
 6 No, but we hung out together when
single, later we grew more distant.
While-reading (Answers)
7 The driver said something that
the narrator couldn’t understand.
8 The letter was not from Ed to
me, I am Tom. It’s a letter I wrote
to him before I knew he’d died. So
I never mailed it.
Text Organisation
 Parts Paras
Main Ideas
 Part 1 (1-20): From a conversation with the cab
driver the author learned how much he regretted
failing to keep up correspondence.
 Part 2 (21-35): Reading the letter by himself, the
author learned more about the lifelong friendship
between the driver and Old Ed.
 Part 3 (Para36): The driver’s experience urged
the author to reach for his pen.
Language study
24 language
points
Language Points 1-2
 1 be lost in/ lose oneself in): be absorbed in, be
fully occupied with
 He was lost in playing computer games so he was
unaware of my entering the room.
 She was lost in her novel.
 I had lost in my thought.
 2 available: able to use, had, or reached
 There are tickets available for Jay Chow’s
concert.
 You can use the directions available in the book.
Language Point 3
 3 or something: or something like that,
used when you are not sure about you
have just said.
 The air fare was £199 or something.
 Here’s some money. Get yourself a
sandwich or something.
Language Point 4
4 go ahead: continue, begin
(sometimes followed by with +n)
They will vote today on whether
to go ahead with the plan.
Henry will be late but we will go
ahead with the meeting anyway.
Language Points 5-6
 5 know/learn a classic poem by heart: memorise,
remember exactly
 6 might as well: you have the strong desire to do
it though you may feel reluctant about it
 So many people queue here to get serve. We
might as well go home first.
 Anyway, you’re here; you might as well stay.
Language Points 7+8
 7 not much of a: not a good
 He is not much of a father, but he is an
outstanding professor.
 In their eyes, being a pop singer is not much of a
career.
 8 correspondence: the act of writing, receiving or
sending letter
 His interest in writing came for correspondence
with a penfriend.
Language Point 8
 Letters that sb receives or sends (used
as an uncountable noun)
 Any further correspondence should be
sent to my new address.
 She never mentioned her French
experience in her correspondence.
Language Point 9
9 neighbouthood: one of the parts
of a town where people live
It
seems
like
an
ideal
neighbourhood to raise the kid.
Houses in a good neighbourhood
are likely to be sold at a high price.
Language Points 10-11
 10 lost touch with sb, keep in touch with
sb
 11urge sb to do sth: try very hard to
persuade sb to do sth
 They urged the local authority to take
actions immediately.
 Sir Fred urge that Britain join the European
Monetary System.
Language Points 12+13
 12postpone: delay doing sth
 The couple postpone having kid to establish their
careers.
 Somehow they postponed telling me the sad news.
 13 reference:
 the act of talking about sb/sth, or mentioning
sb/sth
 Strangely he made no reference to any work
experience in his resume.
Language Points 13+14
 Sth that shows you where else to look
for information
 Make a note of reference number
shown on the form
 The act of looking at sth for
information
 See Page 23 for further reference.
Language Points 14-16
 14 absolutely: totally and completely
 Funding is absolutely necessary when
Shenzhou 6 is to travel into the space.
 15 a family reunion/ an annual
reunion
 16 years /each day go(es) by: (time)
pass
Language Point 17
 17 hang out: stay in or near a place
 He often hung out in the pub when
unemployed.
 We can just hang out and have a good time.
 Hang clothes on a piece of string outside in
order to dry them
 What a pain! It’s raining and I have just
hung my bed mattress out.
Language Points 18
 18 every now and then: sometimes, at
times
 Every now and then I have a desire to
quit my tedious job.
 I still see Jane for lunch every now
and then, but not as often as I used to.
Language Point 19
19 mostly: almost all, generally
They have invested their money
mostly in expensive real estate.
The guests at the wedding party
are mostly friends of the bride.
Language Points 20+21
 20 awful: (infml; used to add force)very great;
very bad and unpleasant
 I have got an awful lot of work to do.
 I can’t bear the awful smell of cigarette smoke.
 21 choke up: become too upset to speak
 When he learned the news of his friends’ sudden
death, he was so choked up he couldn’t say a
thing.
 Losing my job left me completely choked up; I
was so upset that I didn’t know what to say.
Language Points 22+23
 22 destination: the place to which sb is going or
being sent
 Singapore is still our most popular holiday
destination.
 Only half of the emergency supplies have
reached their destination because of the bad
weather.
 23 skip: pass from (one point, etc.) to another,
disregarding or failing to act on what comes
between
Language Points 23+24
 The teacher skipped chapter five and said it
wouldn’t be on the test.
 ‘As time is limited, we will have to skip some of
the exercises in Unit 10’, said the teacher.
 24 right away: (infml) at once
 Tom has got a high fever; he should go and see a
doctor right away.
 I wrote him a letter and posted it right away.
Bye-bye and Good Luck!
Unit 2 Friendship
(3rd session)
Objectives
1. Grasp the main idea and structure of the text
(developing a story around a letter), and be able to
retell the whole story.
2. Review the useful expressions.
3. Appreciate that spoken English is much more
informal than written English .
4. Be aware of the skills to conduct conversations.
5. Master different forms of
English letters.
Step 1 Review the text
Step 2 Review the uesful expressions
Step 3 Writing style
a、Colloquial Vs. formal
b、Skills to conduct conversations
Step 4 Role-play
Step 5 Letter writing
Step 6 Assignments
Review : the text
 How many heroes are there in Text A? Who are
they?
 What is the cabbie’s name?
 Who’s Ed?
 What does the story begin with?
 Is it the letter the cabbie received from his friend
Ed?
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Who wrote the letter?
Retell the story.
Back
Review: useful expressions
沉浸于……
Be lost in…
引起某人注意
Get one’s attention
坐在了后座
Settle into the back seat
又或者别的什么（猜测）
Or something
我不忙
I’m in no hurry
背下来了
Know it by heart
在行写作
Be much of a hand at writing
保持，持续（联系）
Keep up (correspondence)
我想象着认为
I take it……
老邻居
Old neighborhood
有点
Kind of /sort of
和某人保持/失去/取得/联系
Stay in/keep in/lose/get in
touch with
在脑海里
On one’s mind
出现
Come up/occur
鼓励某人做……
Urge sb. to do sth./urge +thatclause(“should”)
马上
Right away/at once
推迟/拖延
Postpone/put off/delay
参考
Reference
毕业后的同学聚会
A class reunion
随着时间的流逝
As time goes by
闲逛、徘徊
Hung out
不时的
(every now and then)
窒息
Chock up
Back
Writing Style
 Try to find out the similar meaning/the original
sentence in the text.
 -- Go on reading your letter.
 -- I’m not used to writing letters.
 -- We were friends since our childhood. So our
friendship has a long story.
 -- For one reason or another you lose touch even
though you never forget.
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-- It is painful to lose any friend.
 -- Go on reading your letter.
（Go ahead and finish your letter）
 -- I’m not used to writing letters.
(I’m not much of a hand at writing)
 -- We were friends since our childhood. So our
friendship has a long story.
(We were kids together, so we go way back)
 -- For one reason or another you lose touch even
though you never forget.
(You kind of lose touch even though you never forget)
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-- It is painful to lose any friend.
( It’s no fun to lose any friend)
Which sentences above are more colloquial?
Spoken language in daily life:
1、short and simple, or incomplete
i.e. “ (Is the letter) From a child or a grandchild?”
“ (You) Went to school together?”
“Time.”
“( I have) Enjoyed talking with you.”
2、do not exist in written language
i.e. 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.
Back
 Ways to keep conversation going:
1、Express agreement to show the cabbie what a
sympathetic（富有同情心的）listener he is.
解析：用表示同意的方法表达听者的同情
2、Ask questions directly to get more information
out of the cabbie.
解析：直接发问获取信息
3、Ask indirect questions by making guesses.
解析：用猜测来间接的发问
back
i.e. “ Letters from home always mean a lot. At
least they do with me because I’m on the road so
much.”
“ I don’t think any of us keep our
correspondence too well. I know I don’t.”
“ Well, we should all keep in touch with old
friends more than we do. But things come up
and we just don’t seem to find the time.”
“You know I’d like to receive a letter like
that from my oldest friend.” Back
“You said ‘was’. Does that mean--?”
“Did you two work at the same place?”
“I thought your friend’s name was Ed. Why did he
sign it Tom?”
Back
“From a child or maybe a grandchild?”
“Went to school together?”
“ I take it he’s someone you’ve known quite a
while?”
“ You must have spent a lot of time together.”
“That must have made you feel good, didn’t it?”
Back
Role-play
Later on, you are required to give us wonderful
performance.
Pay attention this is role-play, do as if you
were Tom or the narrator.
Try to be creative and active.
back
Letter Writing
 Two types of letters:
Business letters & personal letters
( formal & informal )
Business Letter
 What kind of letter is “business letter”?
 It is usually consists of six parts:
1、heading （信头）
2、the inside address
3、the salutation （客气称呼）
4、the body
5、the complimentary close（表敬意的）
6、 the signature （签名）
a sample letter
Heading
 The full address of the writer .
 The date of the letter.
 It is indented to the middle of the page.
 Put a comma after each line in the heading and
end the address with a period (British way)
 Samples
 Example:
British
Mr. Zhang Qinghua,
The Faculty of Foreign
Study,
Hubei University,
Wuhan, 430062,
China.
Nov. 1, 2004
American
Mr. Zhang Qinghua
The Faculty of Foreign
Study
Hubei University
Wuhan, 430062
China
Nov. 1, 2004
back
English Department
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Beijing, 100081
Sept. 5, 1993
Editor
Newsweek International
444 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
U.S.A.
Dear Editor,
I read in Newsweek/September 14, 1987 that an updated second edition of the
unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language is being published. I
would be very grateful if you could give me some information on where and how I
can get a copy of the dictionary and if there is a less expensive edition than the one
described.
Thank you for any help you can give me.
Yours faithfully,
Lin Huafeng
back
Personal/friendly letters
 The salutation
 The complimentary close
 The signature
 A model
Nov.1,2004
Dear Liping,
It has been a few months since I last wrote you and
sent you a box of books, and as I have not heard
anything from you, I thought I would write again to
make certain that you did, in fact, receive my letter and
books.
I am concerned about the books arriving there and
would appreciate your letting me know if you have
received them and if they were the kind of books you
could use.
Best regards,
George
Summary
Assignments
1. Finish all the exercises on the book in this unit,
and you will be checked next time.
2. Write a personal letter to whoever you want to
write. Pay attention that you should bear in mind
the format of writing a letter while you are doing
the task.
Teaching objectives:
1 Grasp the main language
points;
2 Use the new words correctly;
3 Conduct a series of reading,
listening, speaking, writing
and
translating
activities
centered upon the theme of
the unit.
Dictations
Check answers and do
some activities.
Read words and phrases in
the third unit.
Assignments:
a) Go over unit 2
b) Prepare for unit 3