1、Before Reading,1. English Song - Thats What Friends Are For,Introductory Remarks,Thats What Friends Are For,Questions and Answers,2. Background Information,3. Word Web,4. Topic-related Prediction,5. Warm-up Questions,BR,Introductory Remarks,Introductory Remarks,Thats What Friends Are For,Thats What
2、Friends Are For,Listen to the song and fill in the blanks with what you hear.,And I never,And I never thought Id feel this way And Im concerned Im glad I got the chance to say That And if Well, then close your eyes and try To feel today And then if you can remember, Knowing you can always me, thats
3、what friends are for,as far as,I do believe I love you,I should ever go away,the way we do,Keep smiling,keep shining,count on,For sure,For ,For Ill be forevermore Thats what friends are forWell, you me And now theres so much more I see And so , I thank you And then for the times were apart Well, the
4、n close your eyes and know These words are And then if you can remember, Knowing you can always me,good times and bad times,on your side,came and opened,by the way,coming from my heart,Keep smiling,keep shining,count on,thats what friends are for, thats what friends are for In Ill be forevermore Tha
5、ts what friends are for, Knowing you can always methats what friends are for For Ill be forevermore Thats what friends are for,For sure,good times , in bad times,on your side,Keep smiling,keep shining,count on,For sure,good times and bad times,on your side,Keep smiling,keep shining,Knowing you can a
6、lways,Knowing you can always meCount on me Thats what friends are for For Ill be forevermore Thats what friends are for Count on me, for sure Count on me, for sure Count on me, for sure Thats what friends are for Keep smiling, keep shining,count on,For sure,good times and bad times,on your side,Ques
7、tions and Answers1,Questions and Answers,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.,Questions and Answers2,Questions and Answers,2. Do you know anything about the singers?,Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Stevie Wonder
8、 and Gladys Knight .,Questions and Answers2(popwin_ Dionne Warwick ),Questions and Answers,2. Do you know anything about the singers?,Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight .,Dionne Warwick,Dionne Warwick was a pop and R&B (Rhythm and Blues, 节奏蓝调音乐) music star of the 1960s and 19
9、70s. In the 1980s she worked jointly with Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder on the Grammy-winning single Thats What Friends Are For, a fundraiser for AIDS victims.,Questions and Answers2(popwin_ Elton John1 ),Questions and Answers,2. Do you know anything about the singers?,Dionne Warwick，E
10、lton John, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight .,Elton John,Questions and Answers2(popwin_ Elton John2),Questions and Answers,2. Do you know anything about the singers?,Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight .,Elton John (1947), an English rock composer, singer and pianist, is one of
11、 rock musics durable (持久的) performers. He played the piano by ear from age four, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music at 11.The top pop star of the 1970s, his performance was featured by wild eyeglasses and outlandish (奇异的) costumes on the stage. Despite health problems in 1993 he continues to
12、perform live across the world, mostly on the softer side these days. His latest success includes the best-selling sound track for The Lion King (1994), a Disney film. And the recording of Candle in the Wind 97, sung at the funeral of Princess Diana, became the largest-selling single in history withi
13、n a month of its release (发行). He was knighted (授予爵士称号) in 1998.,Questions and Answers3,Questions and Answers,3. According to the song, what are friends for?,For both good times and bad times.,Questions and Answers4(popwin_friend_A),Questions and Answers,4. How can friend and friendship be defined?,
14、Questions and Answers4(popwin_friend_A),Questions and Answers,4. How can friend and friendship be defined?,Friends,A,A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of ones heart, chaff（谷壳） and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift (筛，过滤) them, keep what is worth kee
15、ping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.- George Eliot (18191880), English novelist,Questions and Answers4(popwin_friend_B C),Questions and Answers,4. How can friend and friendship be defined?,Friends,B,C,A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
16、- Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882), American poet and philosopher,A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.- Doug Larson (19021981), English middle-distance runner,Questions and Answers4(popwin_friendship_A B),Questions and Answers,4. How can friend and friendship
17、be defined?,Friendship,A,True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.- Charles Caleb Colton (17801832), English author and clergyman,B,Friendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul（天气恶劣的）.- Ambrose Bierce (18421914), Ame
18、rican author and journalist, from The Devils Dictionary,Questions and Answers4(popwin_friend_C),Questions and Answers,4. How can friend and friendship be defined?,Friendship,C,Friendship is a treasure that always helps us overcome any kind of difficulty. Friendship is a comfort which always understa
19、nds worries and emotions. Friendship is a blessing because it teaches the way to live.- Unknown,Questions and Answers5,Questions and Answers,5. Can you give some examples of great friendship?,Questions and Answers5(popwin_ Marx and Engles1 ),Questions and Answers,5. Can you give some examples of gre
20、at friendship?,Marx and Engles,Questions and Answers5(popwin_ Marx and Engles2 ),Questions and Answers,5. Can you give some examples of great friendship?,Marx valued Engels friendship so highly that he once said he loved and admired his friend very much. Engels had been aiding Marx who suffered grea
21、tly from bitter poverty. Were it not for the help Marx obtained from Engels, Marx would hardly have been able to overcome poverty and he surely would not have left behind him a monument.,Questions and Answers5(popwin_ Qu Qiubai and Lu Xun1 ),Questions and Answers,5. Can you give some examples of gre
22、at friendship?,Qu Qiubai and Lu Xun,Questions and Answers5(popwin_ Qu Qiubai and Lu Xun2 ),Questions and Answers,5. Can you give some examples of great friendship?,Qu Qiubai was one of CPCs principal leaders in the early period. Under the persecution（迫害）of Wang Ming, one of the CPCs early leaders, Q
23、u was dismissed from his important posts in the CPC Central Committee. But he soon took an active part in the struggles launched by the left-wing cultural front, together with Lu Xun, in Shanghai. During the two years of joint work , they became true friends.,Background Information,Background Inform
24、ation,Halloween,Background Information (Popwin_ Halloween1 ),Background Information,Halloween,Halloween,Halloween is celebrated annually. It is on the night of 31 October, when people once believed that ghosts could be seen. Now, in Britain and America, it is a time when children have parties, dress
25、 up as witches, make lanterns out of pumpkins from which the inside has been removed, and play “trick or treat”.,Background Information (Popwin_ Halloween2 ),Background Information,Halloween,“Trick or treat ” is a traditional activity at Halloween. Children dress in costumes and visit houses. At eac
26、h house they say “Trick or treat”. This means that they will play a “trick”, or joke, on the people in the house unless they are given a “treat”, e.g. sweets or money. Most people prefer to give treats rather than having tricks played on them.,Word Web 1,Word Web,The stories in this unit are about f
27、riendship. Write down five words which you would use if you were writing a poem on this subject.,friendship,Word Web 2,friendship,durable,everlasting,warm,lifelong,perpetual,trust,close,intimate,long-standing,enduring,genuine,help,generous,Topic-related Prediction1,Topic-related Prediction,Text A is
28、 titled “All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter”. Before you read the story, think about the answers to the following questions.,What does a cabbie do? What is a letter used for? Who wrote the letter to the cabbie? Why was all the cabbie had only a letter?,Topic-related Prediction2,Topic-related Prediction
29、,Read the last sentence of Text A and try to guess what the story is about.,When I got to my hotel room I didnt unpack right away. First I had to write a letter - and mail it.,Read Text A as quickly as possible, and find out if you are right. Can you summarize the story with three sentences?,Key wor
30、ds: lost in thought; read a letter; an old friend; lifelong friendship; regret; author decided,Warm-up Questions,Warm-up Questions,1. Do you often write letters to your friends?,2. Did you ever write a letter which was not sent?,Why did you keep it?,Global Reading,GR,1. Scanning,2. Group Discussion,
31、3. Part Division of the Text,4. Further Understanding,For Part I True or False,For Part 2 & 3 Questions and Answers,Scanning,Scanning,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 f
32、riend.3. A true friend will stand by you forever.4. Late is better than never.,Never delay expressing your true feelings to a friend.,Group Discussion1,Group Discussion,1. The following questions are what the narrator asked the cab,driver. Put them in the right order.,Did you go to school together?
33、The letter must have made you feel good, didnt it? Is your cab available? Is he someone youve known quite a while? Is he dead? I thought your friend was Ed. Why did he sign it Tom? Is the letter from a child or a grandchild? 8) Did you two work at the same place?,3-7-4-1-5-8-2-6,Group Discussion2,Gr
34、oup Discussion,2. What were the cabbies responses to these questions?,3. The narrator thought that the cabbie had received a letter,from a friend named Ed. Which round of question-and-,answer in the text leads to the misunderstanding?,The second round: “Is the letter from a child or a grandchild?”,“
35、No. Ed was my oldest friends.”,Part Division of the Text,Part Division of the Text,Parts,Lines,Main Ideas,1,142,2,4387,3,8889,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
36、author learned more about the lifelong friendship between the driver and Old Ed.,The drivers experience urged the author to reach for his pen.,True or False,True or False,1. The driver caught a cold that day.,2. The driver had never seen Ed in the past 25 or 30 years.,3. The driver had never forgott
37、en his old friend.,4. The narrator was quite eager to read the letter.,F,F,T,F,( ),( ),( ),( ),True or False,True or False,1. The driver caught a cold that day.,2. The driver had never seen Ed in the past 25 or 30 years.,3. The driver had never forgotten his old friend.,4. The narrator was quite eag
38、er to read the letter.,( ),( ),( ),( ),F,F,T,F,True or False,True or False,1. The driver caught a cold that day.,2. The driver had never seen Ed in the past 25 or 30 years.,3. The driver had never forgotten his old friend.,4. The narrator was quite eager to read the letter.,( ),( ),( ),( ),F,F,T,F,T
39、rue or False,True or False,1. The driver caught a cold that day.,2. The driver had never seen Ed in the past 25 or 30 years.,3. The driver had never forgotten his old friend.,4. The narrator was quite eager to read the letter.,( ),( ),( ),( ),F,F,T,F,Questions and Answers1,Questions and Answers,1. W
40、hat 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?,The letters author often postponed writing to his friends.,Questions and Answers2,Questions and
41、 Answers,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 Id like to receive a letter like that from
42、my oldest friend.”,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 wouldnt wait until it was too late.,DR_All the Cabbie(Article_page1_S),All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter,He must have been completely lost in somet
43、hing he was reading because I had to tap on the windshield to get his attention.“Is your cab available?” I asked when he finally looked,up at me. He nodded, then said apologetically as I settled into the back seat, “Im sorry, but I was reading a letter.” He sounded as if he had a cold or something.,
44、“Im in no hurry, ” I told him. Go ahead and finish your letter.”,or something.,“Go ahead,DR_All the Cabbie(Article_page1_SPopwin_He sounded),All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter,He must have been completely lost in something he was reading because I had to tap on the windshield to get his attention.“Is y
45、our cab available? I asked when he finally looked,up at me. He nodded, then said apologetically as I settled into the back seat, “Im sorry, but I was reading a letter.” He sounded as if he had a cold or something.,“Im in no hurry, ” I told him. Go ahead and finish your letter.”,What can we infer fro
46、m this sentence?,This sentence implies the sad state of mind the taxi driver was in.,or something.,“Go ahead,DR_ He shook (Article_page2_S),He shook his head. “Ive read it several times already. I guess I almost know it by heart.”“Letters from home always mean a lot,” I said. “At least they do with
47、me because Im on the road so much.” Then, estimating that,he was 60 or 70 years old, I guessed: “From a child or maybe a grandchild?”“This isnt family,” he replied. “Although,” he went on, “come to think of it, it might just as well have been family. Old Ed was my oldest friend. In fact, we used to
48、call each other Old Friend-when wed meet, that is. Im not much a hand at writing.”,it might just as well have been family.,might just as well,estimating,. not much of,DR_ He shook (Article_page2_SPopwin_At least ),He shook his head. “Ive read it several times already. I guess I almost know it by hea
49、rt.”“Letters from home always mean a lot,” I said. “At least they do with me because Im on the road so much.” Then, estimating that,he was 60 or 70 years old, I guessed: “From a child or maybe a grandchild?”“This isnt family,” he replied. “Although,” he went on, “come to think of it, it might just as well have been family. Old Ed was my oldest friend. In fact, we used to call each other Old Friend-when wed meet, that is. Im not much a hand at writing.”,
