大学英语第二册 Unit2 Friendship .ppt

Unit 2 Friendship 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 Warm-up Strategy 1Step 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 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 wa