Unit 2Friendship

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 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 ReadingParts Para(s) Main Ideas

1 1-20

2 21-35

3 36

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 False1. 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.

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4. The narrator was quite eager to read the letter.

F He thought it was very personal.

Further Questions•Part two and three1. 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 Phrasesbe lost inavailableor somethinggo aheadestimatemight / may (just) as wellnot much ofkeep upcorrespondencepracticallykind of / sort oflose touch (with sb.)a couple of

on one’s mindkeep in touch (with sb.)come upurgepostponereferencereunionhang out(every) now and thenawfulchoke upskipright away

Detailed Reading

•Difficult sentences1)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_I1)absolutely2)available3)every now and then4)are urging/ urged5)destination6)mostly7)hangs out8)right away9)reunion10)or something11)estimate12)going ahead

Language Focus•Vocabulary_II1)in the examination was still on his mind2)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_III1)were postponed; the awful; is estimated2)reference; not available; am kind of 3)not much of a teacher; skips; go ahead

Language FocusCollocation Usage

1) to2) for3) at4) from5) in6) to; on 7) on8) with

1) more or less2) kind of/ sort of3) Something4) kind of/ sort of5) more or less6) or something

Comprehensive ExerciseCloze I Cloze II

1) choked up2) awful3) practically4) neighborhood5) correspondence6) available7) destination8) reunion9) Mostly10)postponing11)absolutely

1) how2) savings3) embarrassment4) phone5) interrupted6) touch7) envelope8) signed9) message10)needed

Translation_I1) 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 TextUseful ExpressionsSentence 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• 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

• 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。”