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1、Topic for class presentation:Love at first sightQuiz for Unit 4Read and writeFriends1. Friends are very important in our life2. Friends can bring us practical benefits and satisfy our emotional need3. Flowers of true friendship never fade.Why Do We Need FriendsIn modern society, we may feel that peo
2、ple are more indifferent to others than before. We have telephones, computers, and electrographs. As it is too convenient to communicate with our friends, we may often forget to get in touch with them. We make our living in a hurry. In that case we miss many things really valuable in our life, such
3、as friendship. If other people around us are unconcerned about us, we may feel left behind and lonely. So we should make friends and nurture friends we do have. Why do we need friends especially in modern society? In the first place, friends can bring us many practical benefits. We need friends to s
4、upport and help us out of difficulties. The famous Chinese writer, Ba Jin, wrote in his essay that friends were his saviors. When his life was miserable and gloomy, his friends gave him sympathy, love, joy and tearsthings essential for existence. He didnt run into any trouble because his friends had
5、 done their utmost to make sure that he wouldnt be short of anything after his old residence in Shanghai had been razed to the ground by Japanese troops. Besides, friends can lead us to new advantages, new opportunities and new life. We exchange our points of view and then get a boarder outlook and
6、become more thoughtful. We complement each other with our own strengths and then become stronger and more powerful.In the second place, owning friends is our emotional need. We need friends to talk to and listen to us; we need friends to play with and share our joys and tears; we need friends to und
7、erstand us and keep our secrets. Owning friends means that we have somebody to care about, to love, to help. This feeling that were needed and loved fulfills our hearts and makes us dont feel lonely. Once I came across the following words by a French philosopher, “Survival in this world is inseparab
8、le from generosity, without which we would perish and become dried-up from within. We must put forth flowers. Moral integrity and unselfishness are the flowers of life.” If we dont have friends, our hearts will be empty and we will be dried-up from within. Many people always talk about how many bene
9、fits they can acquire from their friends. But I think how many benefits our friends can get from us are also important. Ones power lies in ones ability to give. To some extent, we need friends because they need us.With friendship, life is happy and harmonious. With my friends, I know what to treasur
10、e, what to tolerate and what to share. They bring happiness and colors to my life. I think thats the reason why we need friends.Weeping for my smoking daughter ( unit 5 )Discussionreasons to smoke (ignorance of its harm)-relax and refresh, for pleasure-be fashionable, mature, tough, confident, world
11、ly, beautiful-avoidance of withdrawal in social contactreasons for non-smoking ( harms of poisonous cigarette)-unpleasant, stale smell, -be hooked/ addicted easily, especially to adolescence-lead to disease such as pneumonia, lung cancer, heart attack, abortion, etc-harm passive-smokers, especially
12、children, even unborn children.-a waste of money-a potential cause of fire measures to reduce the demand of cigarette* for governments-price increase by way of higher taxes to prevent new smokers-comprehensive bans of advertising and promotion of tobacco manufacture to reduce the scale.-actions agai
13、nst smuggling-restrictions on smoking in work, study and other public places to drop the consumption-finance nicotine replacement or drugs to get rid of smoke* for mass media-counter-advertising and publicity of research findings on hazardous health consequences* for manufactures-prominent health wa
14、rning labels on the package of cigarette* for individuals-strong will to quit, family members can induce them to give up for the sake of their childrens health.Structure Analysis1. sum up the main idea of the text. Feeling hurt at her daughters smoking and recalling how her father was killed by ciga
15、rettes, the writer gains a further insight into the harm of smoking, attacks the tobacco companies together with their advertisements and calls for people to stop smoking at families. 2. identify the outline of the text. Paragraph 1: I feel terrible seeing my daughter smoking.Paragraphs 2-5: My fath
16、ers story.Paragraph 6: The cases in Third World countries.Paragraphs 7-8: The authors feeling as a mother and her view on smoking.3. Writing PatternCentering around the harmful effects of smoking, the passage is written in a problem-solution-evaluation pattern.Useful Phrases几何题 geometry problems一包烟 a package of cigarettes感到十分难过 feel terrible炯炯有神的眼睛 glowing eyes40 年代末 50 年代初 the late forties and early fifties烟草业 the tobac
