● Oral work

List:

1. Group Discussion

● Introduce one of your best friends to your classmates.

● Are there things in common that lead to your friendship?

● Why do we need friendship? What can we get from it?

● Can you give us some tips to better cultivate friendship?

● List out the ingredients you think of importance to true friendship.

2.Contrast and Comparison: Sayings About Friendship

List some Chinese sayings about friendship.

● A friend is, as it were, another self.

● Old friends and old wines are best.

● Old friends and old wines are best.

● A friend to all is a friend to none.

● A friend without faults will never be found.

● A man cannot be said to succeed in his life who does not satisfy one friend.

● Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

● Better alone than have a false friend for company.

● Better an intelligent enemy than an ignorant friend.

● 可以说，朋友是自己的化身。

● 陈酒味醇，老友情深。

● 东西新的好，朋友老的佳。

● 滥交者无友。

● 人无完人。

● 不能使一个朋友满意的人，不能说是一个成功者。

● 择友不宜快，绝交更须慢。

● 交损友不如无友。

● 宁树聪明敌，不交无知友。

3. Debating

1) People who are very different in age can develop a rewarding friendship.

2) Old people know more about true friendship.

3) Cross-age friendship should be encouraged.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

—Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi", Atlantic Monthly, 1874

To be continued on the next page.

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going. —Author Unknown

Being old is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.—Author Unknown