Transcript Unit 2

Unit 2
Friendship
Warm-up Exercise
• Do you have friends?
• Do you often contact each other? How?
• If ask you to use one word to describe your
friends, what would you say?
durable
perpetual
long-standing
enduring
trust
lifelong
Friendship
warm
close
genuine
help
generous
intimate
everlasting
Warm-up Exercise
• Now let’s listen to the song- That’s What
Friends Are For
• According to the song, what are friends for?
For both good times and bad times.
• What is a fair-weather friend?
One who is happy to stay with you when things
are going well but leaves as soon as trouble
arrives.
Warm-up Exercise
• What’s your understanding of friend and
friendship?
• Now let’s read a story about friendship together
Global Reading
• Scan Text A and decide which of the following
statements is the theme.
1. One should keep in touch with his friends.
2. Never delay expressing your true feelings to a
friend.
3. A true friend will stand by you forever.
4. Late is better than never.
Never delay expressing your true feelings to a
friend.
Global Reading
Please answer the following questions.
• What does the story begin with?
The story begins with the cab driver reading a
letter.
• What helped start a conversation between the
cab driver and the passenger?
The letter Tom wrote to his friend Ed.
Global Reading
• What was their conversation centered on?
Their conversation was centered on the lifelong
friendship between the driver and Old Ed.
• How did the author get to learn more about the
friendship between the driver and Ed?
The author got to learn more about their
friendship by reading the letter himself.
Global Reading
Parts
Para(s)
1
1-20
2
21-35
3
36
Main Ideas
From a conversation with the cab driver the author
learned how much he regretted failing to keep up
correspondence with his old friend Ed.
Reading the letter by himself, the author learned
more about the lifelong friendship between the
driver and Old Ed.
The driver’s experience urged the author to reach
for his pen.
Global Reading
• The following questions are what the narrator asked
the cab driver. Put them in the right order.
1) Did you go to school together?
2) The letter must have made you feel good, didn’t it?
3) Is your cab available?
4) Is he someone you’ve known quite a while?
5) Is he dead?
6) I thought your friend was Ed. Why did he sign it Tom?
7) Is the letter from a child or a grandchild?
8) Did you two work at the same place?
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Further Questions
• Part One: True or False
1. The driver caught a cold that day.
F
He had just cried.
2. The driver had never seen Ed in the past 25 or
30 years.
F
He had only seen him once or twice a year.
Further Questions
3. The driver had never forgotten his old friend.
T
4. The narrator was quite eager to read the letter.
F
He thought it was very personal.
Further Questions
• Part two and three
1. What did the driver and Ed use to do before
they got married?
They went to school and passed time together.
2. What did the narrator mean by saying the first
sentence in the letter reminded him of himself?
He often postponed writing to his friends.
Further Questions
3. Who wrote the letter? Who did the narrator
think had written the letter? Find out sentences
that demonstrate the narrator’s
misunderstanding.
The driver wrote the letter. The narrator thought
that Ed had written the letter. For example, “I
know I’d like to receive a letter like that from my
oldest friend.”
Further Questions
4. What did the narrator decide to do when he
arrived at the hotel? Why?
He decided to write a letter and mail it
immediately because he wouldn’t wait until it
was too late.
Detailed Reading
• Words and Phrases
be lost in
available
or something
go ahead
estimate
might / may (just) as well
not much of
keep up
correspondence
practically
kind of / sort of
lose touch (with sb.)
a couple of
on one’s mind
keep in touch (with sb.)
come up
urge
postpone
reference
reunion
hang out
(every) now and then
awful
choke up
skip
right away
Detailed Reading
• Difficult sentences
1) He sounded as if he had a cold or something.
2) At least they do with me because I’m on the
road so much.
3) It might just as well have been family.
4) But I take it he’s someone you’ve known quite a
while?
Detailed Reading
5) But I realized that Old Ed was still on his mind
when he spoke again, almost more to himself
than to me: “I should have kept in touch. Yes,”
he repeated, “I should have kept in touch.”
6) It had references to things that probably meant
something to the driver.
7) “Like it says there,” he answered, “about all we
had to spend in those days was time.”
8) There are fewer and fewer still around.
Detailed Reading
9) But we hung out on the same corner when we
were single.
10)But for the last 20 or 30 years it’s been mostly
just Christmas cards.
11) Your friendship over the years has meant an
awful lot to me, more than I can say because
I’m not good at saying things like that.
Exercise
• Language Sense Enhancement
• Language Focus
 Vocabulary
 Comprehensive
Language Sense Enhancement
• Read aloud paragraphs 6 to 15 and learn them by
heart.
1) come to think of
2) as well
3) used to
4) much of a
5) correspondence
6) take it
7) quite a while
8) so
9) All the way
10) friendship
Language Focus
• Vocabulary_I
1) absolutely
2) available
3) every now and then
4) are urging/ urged
5) destination
6) mostly
7) hangs out
8) right away
9) reunion
10) or something
11) estimate
12) going ahead
Language Focus
• Vocabulary_II
1) in the examination was still on his mind
2) was completely choked up by the sight of his
team losing in the final minutes of the game.
3) was so lost in study that she forgot to have
dinner.
4) has come up and I am afraid I won’t be able to
accomplish the project on time.
5) of equipping the new hospital was estimated at
$2 million.
Language Focus
• Vocabulary_III
1) were postponed; the awful; is estimated
2) reference; not available; am kind of
3) not much of a teacher; skips; go ahead
Language Focus
Collocation
Usage
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to
for
at
from
in
to; on
on
with
more or less
kind of/ sort of
Something
kind of/ sort of
more or less
or something
Comprehensive Exercise
Cloze I
Cloze II
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choked up
awful
practically
neighborhood
correspondence
available
destination
reunion
Mostly
postponing
absolutely
how
savings
embarrassment
phone
interrupted
touch
envelope
signed
message
needed
Translation_I
1) Half an hour had gone by, but the last bus hadn’t come
yet. We had to walk home.
2) Mary looks as if she is very worried about the Chinese
exam because she hasn’t learned the texts by heart.
3) Since the basketball match has been postponed, we
might as well visit the museum.
4) He stayed in Australia with his parents all the way
through World War II.
5) Since I graduated from Nanjing University in 1985, I
have kind of lost touch with my classmates.
Translation_II
It is not easy to keep in touch with friends when
they are far away. This is certainly true in my case.
It has been a couple of years since I left my old
neighborhood and all the friends I had there. I’ve
been meaning to write to them but something or
other comes up and I just don’t seem to find the
time. They are always on my mind, however, and I
think I will certainly make an effort to keep up
correspondence with them in future.
Discussion
• The texts in this unit are about friendship.
Decide which of the following statements you
agree or disagree with.
— Real friends are always of the same sex.
— Childhood friendship rarely lasts into
adulthood.
— Time and distance can never alter real
friendship.
Assignment
• Writing a letter to your friends
---Tell him or her how much you miss the days
you were together.
---Tell him or her something about your new life
on campus
---Discuss about when will you meet next time
and what will you do.
Review of the Text
Useful Expressions
Sentence Translation
Useful Expressions
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完全沉浸于
引起…的注意
坐进后座
得了感冒什么的
不着急
接着，继续
记住了，能背出来
家书抵万金
• 老是在外旅行
• 不大会…
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be completely lost in
get sb.’s attention
settle into the back seat
have a cold or something
in no hurry
go ahead
know sth. by heart
Letters from home always
mean a lot.
• be on the road so much
• not much of a hand at …
Useful Expressions
• 保持通信往来
• 从小学一直到高中
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老街坊
沉默
失去联系
老同学聚会
时间不饶人
在一起闲逛
点头称是
在远处
• keep up correspondence
• all the way through both grade
and high school
• an old neighborhood
• in silence
• lose touch
• a class reunion
• Time goes by
• hang out on the same corner
• nod in agreement
• in the distance
Sentence Translation
• I hadn’t seen him more than once or twice a year
over the past 25 or 30 years because I moved
away from the old neighborhood.
• 近25到30年来，我跟他一年只见一两次面，因为
我从原来住的老街坊搬了出来。
Sentence Translation
• But I realized that Old Ed was still on his mind
when he spoke again, almost more to himself
than to me: “I should have kept in touch. Yes,”
he repeated, “I should have kept in touch.”
• 可我知道他还在想着老埃德。他又开口时，与其
说是跟我说话，还不如说是自言自语：“我真该
一直保持联系。真的，”他重复道，“我真该一
直保持联系。”
Sentence Translation
• Of course there’d be always a note we’d each add
to the cards ─ usually some news about our
families, you know, what the kids were doing,
who moved where, a new grandchild, things like
that ─ but never a real letter or anything like that.
• 当然，我俩都总在卡上写几句 —— 通常是关于
各自家里的情况，不是吗，孩子们在干些什么，
谁搬到哪儿，添了个小孙子，都是这类事 ——
可一直都没正儿八经地写过信什么的。
Sentence Translation
• I’ve been meaning to write for some time, but
I’ve always postponed it.
• 早就想写信了，可就是一拖再拖。
• Every time I go to a class reunion, for example,
there are fewer and fewer still around.
• 比如说，每次我去参加老同学聚会，来的人总是
越来越少。
Sentence Translation
• Your friendship over the years has meant an
awful lot to me, more than I can say because I’m
not good at saying things like that.
• 你多年的友谊对我非常重要，远比我能说出来的
重要得多，因为我不擅长说这样的话。
• He looked sort of sorrowful, or as if he were
trying to see something in the distance. “I guess I
should have written it sooner.”
• 他神情有点悲伤，似乎想看清远处什么东西。
“我想我真该早些写这封信。”