新版大学英语综合教程第一册Unit.ppt

1、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?,Friendship,durable,perpetual,trust,warm,close,intimate,everlasting,generous,help,genuine,lifelong,enduring,long-standing,Warm-up Exer

2、cise,Now lets listen to the song- Thats 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,Whats your

3、understanding of friend and friendship? Now lets 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

4、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 dri

5、ver 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 aut

6、hor got to learn more about their friendship by reading the letter himself.,Global Reading,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 lifel

7、ong friendship between the driver and Old Ed.,The drivers 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, di

8、dnt it? 3) Is your cab available? 4) Is he someone youve 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? 3-7-4-1-5-8-2-6,Further Questions,Part One: True or False 1. The

9、 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

10、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 frien

11、ds.,Further Questions,3. Who wrote the letter? Who did the narrator think had written the letter? Find out sentences that demonstrate the narrators 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 lik

12、e 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 wouldnt wait until it was too late.,Detailed Reading,Words and Phrases be lost in available or something go ahead

13、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 ones 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

14、 sentences He sounded as if he had a cold or something. At least they do with me because Im on the road so much. It might just as well have been family. But I take it hes someone youve known quite a while?,Detailed Reading,But I realized that Old Ed was still on his mind when he spoke again, almost

15、more to himself than to me: “I should have kept in touch. Yes,” he repeated, “I should have kept in touch.” It had references to things that probably meant something to the driver. “Like it says there,” he answered, “about all we had to spend in those days was time.” There are fewer and fewer still

16、around.,Detailed Reading,But we hung out on the same corner when we were single. But for the last 20 or 30 years its been mostly just Christmas cards. Your friendship over the years has meant an awful lot to me, more than I can say because Im not good at saying things like that.,Exercise,Language Se

17、nse 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

18、_I absolutely available every now and then are urging/ urged destination mostly hangs out right away reunion or something estimate going ahead,Language Focus,Vocabulary_II in the examination was still on his mind was completely choked up by the sight of his team losing in the final minutes of the ga

19、me. was so lost in study that she forgot to have dinner. has come up and I am afraid I wont be able to accomplish the project on time. of equipping the new hospital was estimated at $2 million.,Language Focus,Vocabulary_III were postponed; the awful; is estimated reference; not available; am kind of

20、 not much of a teacher; skips; go ahead,Language Focus,Collocation,Usage,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,choked up awful practically neighborhood correspondence available desti

21、nation reunion Mostly postponing absolutely,how savings embarrassment phone interrupted touch envelope signed message needed,Translation_I,Half an hour had gone by, but the last bus hadnt come yet. We had to walk home. Mary looks as if she is very worried about the Chinese exam because she hasnt lea

22、rned the texts by heart. Since the basketball match has been postponed, we might as well visit the museum. He stayed in Australia with his parents all the way through World War II. Since I graduated from Nanjing University in 1985, I have kind of lost touch with my classmates.,Translation_II,It is n

23、ot 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. Ive been meaning to write to them but something or other comes up and I just dont seem to find the time. Th

24、ey 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. Childhoo

25、d 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

26、 and what will you do.,Review of the Text,Useful Expressions Sentence Translation,Useful Expressions,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,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 Letter

27、s 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 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

28、 on the same corner nod in agreement in the distance,Sentence Translation,I hadnt 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