Unit 3

Tell me about your friends

Lead-in Watching and

Discussing Brainstorming Oral Assignment

Contents

Lead-in

Work in groups, discuss the following questions and then share your answers with the whole class.

Lead-in

Questions for groups 1 and 2:

1. Who is your best friend? What makes this friend so special?

2. What does friend mean to you? What do you think of “A friend in need is a friend indeed”?

Questions for groups 3 and 4:

3. Have you ever quarreled with a friend? Why?

4. Your friend is having trouble in his schoolwork and asks to copy yours. What should you do?

Lead-in

Questions for groups 5 and 6:

5. Do you have any long distance friendships? How do you manage to maintain them?

6. Should students make friends on line? Why?

Lead-in

Keys >> T means trust R means respect A means affection V means virtue E means enjoyment L means laughter

Brainstorming

A. How do you understand friendship? Some define it as TRAVEL, each letter standing for a word that is closely related to friendship. Can you figure out what the six letters refer to respectively?

Brainstorming

B. What are your criteria for making friends? Please work in groups and arrange them according to their importance. You may add more items that you think important.

looks

age

personality

ability

habit

intelligence…

background

social status

achievements

interests and hobbies

self-reliance

kind heart…

Brainstorming

actual behavior

the way he/she speaks

being on the same wavelength

the same ideas and beliefs

mutual support and understanding

shared experiences and emotions

accept one another as equals

learn from each other

make allowances for…

confident

forward

friendly

honest

open-minded

sympathetic

considerate

generous

tolerable…

Describing

Figure fat/overweight thin/bony plump slender slim

Stature tall short strapping small of medium height

A. Work in groups and take turns to describe one of your classmates to your partners. One member sketches according to your description and the others guess who this classmate is.

Hair color dark red black auburn brown blond grey

Describing

Hair style long short straight curly ponytail baldheaded brush cut

Shape of face oval narrow chubby square bony

Complexion

fair

pale

tan

dark

yellow

white

A. Work in groups and take turns to describe one of your classmates to your partners. One member sketches according to your description and the others guess who this classmate is.

Watching and Discussing

Now watch a clip of the American TV series FRIENDS. After that work in groups of 4 and have a discussion. Then finish the following tasks.

Main characters: Phoebe, Monica and Amanda

Watching and Discussing

1. What does Monica plan to do to cut out Amanda?

2. What secret does Amanda tell unconsciously?

3. How does Phoebe manage to make up with Monica?

Task 1. Answer the following questions after you watch the video clip.

Video Clip

See

You

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Time!