Unit 2 Friendship,Poem appreciation,To Wang Lun By Li Bai Im on board; Were about to sail, When theres stamping and singing on shore; Peach Blossom Pool is a thousand feet deep, Yet not so deep, Wang Lun, as your love for me.,赠汪伦 李白乘舟将欲行， 忽闻岸上踏歌声。 桃花潭水深千尺， 不及汪伦送我情。,B R _ Questions and Answers 5,Can you give some examples of great friendship?,Marx and Engels,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 greatly 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.,B R _ Marx and Engles,Marx and Engels,B R _ Word Web 1,Word Web,The stories in this unit are about friendship. Can you raise some of the words which are related to friendship?,Friendship,B R _ Word Web 2,Friendship,durable,perpetual,trust,warm,close,intimate,everlasting,generous,help,genuine,lifelong,enduring,long-standing,B R _ Topic-related Prediction 1,Topic-related Prediction,1. Text A is 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? Who wrote the letter to the cabbie? Why was all the cabbie had only a letter?,B R _ Topic-related Prediction 2,2. 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.,3. Read Text A as quickly as possible, and find out if you are right. Can you summarize the story with three sentences?,Key words: lost in thought; read a letter; an old friend; lifelong friendship; regret; author decided,B R _ 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?,G R _ Scanning,Scanning,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.,G R _ Group Discussion 1,Group Discussion,1. 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, didnt 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,( ),G R _ Part Division of the Text 1,Part Division of the Text,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.,G R _ Part Division of the Text 2,The drivers experience urged the author to reach for his pen.,He had only seen him once or twice a year.,G R _ True or False,F,True or False,1. The driver caught a cold that day.,( ),He had just cried.,2. The driver had never seen Ed in the past 25 or 30 years.,F,( ),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 very personal.,G R _ Questions and Answers 1,Questions and Answers,1. What did the driver and Ed use to do before they got married?,They went to school and passed time together.,G R _ Questions and Answers 2,2. 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 like that from my oldest friend.”,3. 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.,D R _ At least they do with ,At least they do with me because Im on the road so much.,Paraphrase the sentence.,At least letters from home mean a lot to me because I travel a lot for long distances.,D R _ be lost in,be lost in / lose oneself in: be absorbed in; be fully occupied with,He was lost in playing computer games so he was unaware of my entering the room.,I had lost myself in thought.,他忙于这项工作而对周围的一切都很漠然。,D R _ or something,or something: used when you are not very sure about what you have just said,The air fare was a hundred and ninety-nine pounds or something.,Heres some money. Get yourself a sandwich or something.,NB:,同义的短语：or something like that,Shes writing a dictionary or something. 她在编写词典之类的书。,D R _ go ahead,go ahead: continue; begin (sometimes