Extension

● 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

● Quiz

● Match the items in the two columns.

1. Although punctual himself, the professor was quite used _____ late for his lecture.

a. to have students

b. for students' being

c. for students to be

d. to students' being

2. Harry was ___ by a bee when he was collecting the honey.

a. stung     b. stuck

c. bitten      d. scratched

3. People who live in small towns often seem more friendly than those living in ____ populated areas.

a. densely      b. intensely

c. abundantly      d. highly

4. The lost car of the Lees was found ____ in the woods off the highway.

a. vanished       b. abandoned

c. scattered       d. rejected

5. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true ____ it comes to classroom tests.

a. before      b. as

c. since       d. when

6. Mr. Morgan can be very sad ___, though in public he is extremely cheerful.

a. by himself      b. in person

c. in private      d. as individual

7. There were many people present and he appeared only for a few seconds, so I only caught a ____ of him.

a. glance      b. glimpse

c. look       d. sight

8. A lorry ____ Jane's cat and sped away.

a. ran over       b. ran into

c. ran through      d. ran down

9. When he finally emerged from the cave after thirty days, John was ___ pale.

a. enormously       b. startlingly

c. uniquely       d. dramatically

10. Human behavior is mostly a product of learning, whereas the behavior of an animal depends mainly on ____.

a. consciousness      b. impulse

c. instinct      d. Response

11. You see the lightning ____ it happens, but you hear the thunder later.

a. the instant      b. for an instant

c. on the instant      d. in an instant

12. Lightning is a ____ of electrical current from a cloud to the ground or from one cloud to another.

a. rush      b. rainbow

c. rack      d. ribbon

13. Marlin is a young man of independent thinking who is not about ____ compliments to his political leaders.

a. paying      b. having paid

c. to pay      d. to have paid

14. I shall have a companion in the house after all these ____ years.

a. single      b. sole

c. alone      d. Lonely

15. Being somewhat short-sighted, she had the habit of ____ at people.

a. glancing      b. peering

c. gazing      d. scanning

16. He obviously displays a great ____ for some of your poems.

a. consent      b. admiration

c. respect      d. pleasure

17. Just as the soil is a part of the earth, ____ the atmosphere.

a. as it is      b. as it were

c. so is      d. and so is

18. Young adults ____ older people are more likely to prefer pop songs.

a. other than      b. more than

c. less than      d. rather than

19. I don't mind ____ the decision as long as it is not too late.

a. you to delay making

c. your delaying making

d. you delay to make

20. Louis was asked to ____ the man who stole her purse.

a. confirm      b. recognize

c. claim      d. identify

● ________ of discontent became apparent among the staff. (stir)

● Life for the successful doctor can be emotionally and financially _________. (reward)

● They have a downstairs phone and an ________ in each of the bedrooms. (extend)

● He hadn't the slightest _______ to do that, he said. (inclined)

● The affair looks _______ to me. (suspect)

● ________, I took the tin to my room and set it on my bed. (word)

● Writing

On Friendship

● What is true friendship?

● Why can't we live without friendship?

● How could we gain true friendship?

● Listening Lab

Fill out the blanks while you are listening.

A Great Friendship

—Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776. Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to _____ the American Revolution and later to shape the new scheme of government. From that work _____ a friendship perhaps incomparable in intimacy and the trustfulness of collaboration and induration. It lasted _____ years. It included pleasure and utility but over and above them, there were _____ purpose, a common end and an enduring goodness on both sides.

Four and a half months before he died, when he was ailing, debt-ridden, and worried about his _______ family, Jefferson wrote to his longtime friend. His words and Madison's reply _______ us that friends are friends until death. They also remind us that sometimes a friendship has a _______ on things larger than the friendship itself, for has there ever been a friendship of greater public __________ than this one?

"The friendship which has _______ between us now half a century, the harmony of our political principles and pursuits have been sources of _______ happiness to me through that long period. It's also been a great solace to me to believe that you're engaged in vindicating to posterity the course that we've pursued for _______ to them, in all their purity, their _______ of self-government, which we had assisted in acquiring for them.

"If ever the earth has beheld a system of _______ conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those _________ to it, one which, protected by truth, can never know reproach, it is that to which our lives have been _______. To myself, you have been a pillar of support throughout life. Take care of me when dead and be assured that I shall leave you with my last _______."

A week later Madison replied—

"You cannot look back to the long period of our _______ friendship and political harmony with more affecting recollections than I do. If they are a source of pleasure to you, what are they not to be to me? We cannot be _______ of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good with which we discharge the trust committed to us and I _______ a confidence that sufficient evidence will find its way to another generation to ensure, after we are gone, whatever of _______ may be withheld whilst we are here."