Book 3 Unit 5 Friendship
Part II Listening and Speaking
Lesson A
Task1: Check(Page50)
Directions: Accordingto the recording of Lesson A, how do you understand the following questions?
1. According to two different studies, how many friends does an average person have on a social network?
2. What do many teenagers like about Facebook?
3. What are the advantagesand disadvantages of social network?
Task 2: Pair-work (Page51)
Directions: Work in pairs and makea dialogue according to the conversation sample.
| Sample A: This is my friend Ajay. B: How do you know him? A: He was a classmate of mine in high school. B: Not anymore, but we keep in touch on Facebook? |
| Reference: l Expressions for introducing a friend She is a friend from elementary school. He’s a friend of a friend. We met in college. We are coworkers. l Expressions for describing the degree of closeness Yeah, we hang out all the time. No, we’re just friends on Facebook. Kind of; we still get together sometimes.
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| Language Note The suffix -ship, used in the word friendship, shows the state or condition of something. For friendship, the word describes the state of being a friend to someone. Other words that use the suffix -ship are: relationship, membership, internship. The terms close friend and best friend are usually reserved for the one or two friends whom you have a special bond with. A close friend or best friend is someone you’d feel comfortable sharing a secret with and discussing your problems with. The term good friends can describe the people you consider part of your circle friends. A companion is someone you spend a lot of time with. An acquaintance is someone you have met before but don’t exactly consider a friend yet. |
Lesson B -Listening1
Task3: Check(Page52)
Directions: Accordingto the recording of Listening1 and supplemental materials, how do you understand the following questions?
| Supplemental Information: Social Network Service (also social networking site, or SNS or social media) is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. The social networks are distributed across various computer networks. The social networks are inherently computer networks, linking people, organization, and knowledge. Social networking services vary in format and the number of features. They can incorporate a range of new information and communication tools, operating on desktops and on laptops, on mobile devices such as tablet computers and smartphones. They may feature digital photo/video/sharing and "web logging" diary entries online (blogging).Online community services are sometimes considered by whom? social-network services by programmers and users, though in a broader sense, a social-network service usually provides an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group- centered. Defined as "websites that facilitate the building of a network of contacts in order to exchange various types of content online," social networking sites provide a space for interaction to continue beyond in person interactions. These computer mediated interactions link members of various networks and may help to both maintain and develop new social ties. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, digital photos and videos, posts, and to inform others about online or real-world activities and events with people in their network. While in-person social networking – such as gathering in a village market to talk about events – has existed since the earliest development of towns. The Web enables people to connect with others who live in different locations, ranging from across a city to across the world. Depending on the social media platform, members may be able to contact any other member. In other cases, members can contact anyone they have a connection to, and subsequently anyone that contact has a connection to, and so on. The success of social networking services can be seen in their dominance in society today, with Facebook having a massive 2.13 billion active monthly users and an average of 1.4 billion daily active users in 2017. |
1. Why do we form friendships with some people and not others?
2. What does the expression “have our back” mean?
3. Accordingto Dr. Peter Descioli and Robert Kurzban, how do we rank our friends?
4. What is social network service?
Lesson B -Listening 2
Task4: Check(Page53)
Directions: Accordingto the recording of Listening2 and supplemental materials, how do you understand the following questions?
| Supplemental Information: Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people.Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association. Friendship has been studied in academic fields such as communication, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and philosophy. Various academic theories of friendship have been proposed, including social exchange theory, equity theory, relational dialectics, and attachment styles. Although there are many forms of friendship, some of which may vary from place to place, certain characteristics are present in many types of such bonds. Such characteristics include kindness, love, virtue, sympathy, empathy, honesty, altruism, loyalty, mutual understanding and compassion, enjoyment of each other's company, trust, and the ability to be oneself, express one's feelings to others, and make mistakes without fear of judgment from the friend. |
1. What are the four different words Rath uses to describe friends types?
2. Accordingto Rath, who can be your companion?
3. Whois Tom Rath?
4. Friendship has been studied in many academicfields. Can you just name two of these fields?
Lesson B -Listening 1&2
Task5: Group Discussion (P52-54 )
Directions: Work in group and discuss the following questions.
1. Why do we need friendships?
2. Whatare your friends like?
3.Are your friends similar to or different from you? How?
| Reference: When two people have something in common, it means they have a point of similarity. It can be anything, from interests to hair color to names. If you have a lot in common, it means you have a lot of similarities. When someone has your back, it means they will protect you and take care of you if something goes wrong. Note that the expression got your back is also used to mean the same thing. For example, my best friend has always to my back. Both expressions refer to the friend watching out for what’s behind your back, or what you cannot see coming, to help you with any trouble. The phrase get along is used to show that you are friendly and on good terms with someone. It can also be used with don’t to describe the opposite. Instead of saying something direct such as I don’t like him, a person can communicate the same meaning more politely by saying we don’t really get along. |
ExtensiveActivity
Task 6: Assignment (Page 58)
Directions: Discuss the topic of assignment and explain your point of view with specific reasons and detail.
How to make a friends at a new school.
Beginwith some background
Thenlist and explain your ideas
| Background | ideas |
| One way to make friends at a new school is to ... | |
| How can you make friends at a new school? Today my partner and I will tell you. | Doing this is helpful because ... |
| Another way is to ... A third way is to ... | |
| And finally, you can ... |
Video
Task7: Check(Page55)
Directions: Accordingto the recording of Video and supplemental materials, how do you understand the following questions?
| Supplemental Information: National Geographic Channel is a subscription television network owned jointly by 21st Century Fox and the National Geographic Society. It has a television program called Unlikely Animal Friends. The show highlights friendships between a dog and a dolphin, a cat and an owl, and other animals that have forged strong emotional bonds with other species. The San Diego Zoo Safari Park, originally named the San Diego Wild Animal Park until 2010, is an 1,800 acre zoo in the San Pasqual Valley area of San Diego, California. It is one of the largest tourist attractions in San Diego County. The park houses a large array of wild and endangered animals including species from the continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Australia. The park is in a semi-arid environment, and one of its most notable features is the Africa Tram, which explores the expansive African exhibits. These free-range enclosures houses such animals as antelopes, giraffes, buffalo, cranes, and rhinoceros. The park is also noted for its California condor breeding program, the most successful such program in the United States. |
| Language Note We’re off to ... is a casual way to say We’re going to ... The term social creature is used to describe an animal that needs social interaction with others in order to thrive. The term is also used to casually describe people who have very social personalities. Cross-speciesfriendship refers to a friendship between different species of animals. In this case, cross is an adjective that means to combine, such as in the term cross-cultural. |
1. Why do you think Koza and Cairo became friends?
2. Where does Randy Rieches work?
3. What special sight can we see in the San Diego Zoo?
4. Do cross-species friendships happen in the wild?
5. What is National Geographic Channel?
Video
Task8: Group Discussion
Directions: Work in group and discuss the following questions.
1. Howlikely would you be to be friends with the people below?
Amember of the opposite sex, a person your parents’ age, someone much richer or poorer than you, an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend, a person from another country.
2. what makes good friendship?
3. My best friend
| Describing similarities and differences My best friend Jin and I ... have a lot in common. = We are very similar. are kind of similar. = We are a little bit similar. are completely / totally different. = We are very different. |
| Jin and I are different. He’s older / nicer than I am. |
| I’m quieter than he is. He’s friendlier than I am. |
| I’m more patient / thoughtful than he is. He’s more outgoing than I am. |
| He’s good in English, but I’m better in math. |
| He’s way / much more outgoing than I am. |
Supplementary Listening
Task9: Listening Skills
Directions: Look at your supplemental material, Understanding pros and cons, and answer the following questions.
| Supplemental Information: Understanding pros and cons Pros and cons refer respectively to the positive and negative aspects of an idea, a process, or a thing. You may hear in various situations people discuss, examine, and weigh the pros and cons of the issue concerned, especially before they make a decision. For example, when people consider whether they will work in a big city, they may look at its pros and cons. Understanding pros and cons is a very important listening strategy for you to identify a speaker’s point of view. To recognize pros and cons in listening material, one method is to listen for evaluative language which makes either positive or negative evaluation of the person or the thing concerned. Evaluations can be explicit, for example, through the use of evaluative adjectives such as good, great, fantastic, perfect, comfortable, elegant, competent, impressive, profitable, sensible, remarkable, productive, innovative, significant, constructive, bad, terrible, irresponsible, questionable, unsatisfactory, weak, etc., or such sentences as The good thing / advantage is ..., The problem / disadvantage / downside / limitation is ..., as in the following examples: It is a great city to live in. (pro) The public transport system is terrible. (con) Th good thing is that the food is cheap. (pro) The only problem is traffic. (con) Since pros and cons are positive and negative sides of an idea or a thing, when taking notes, it is advisable to divide a piece of paper into two columns, writing the pros in one column and the cons in another, thus providing a clear visual guide that helps you take every aspect of a situation into consideration, and make a sensible decision, especially when one side overwhelmingly outweighs the other.
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Questions:
1. What are pros and cons?
2. What method listeners can use to identify prosand cons?
3. Please list some evaluative adjectives concerningpros.
4. Please listsome evaluative adjectives concerning cons.
5. Can you list some expressions that signify pros?
6. Can youlist some expressions that signify cons?
Task 10: Listening Skill Practice
Directions: In the following exercises, identify thesignal words, and pay close attention to what follows the signal words.
| Exercises Read the table. Then listen to three interviews and complete the table. | ||
| Cities | Pros | Cons |
| Dubai | l A great city for 1) and going out l A really 2) , with lots of bars and clubs. l Not much crime, 3)_____ streets l 4)______ petrol l Lots of cheap taxis | A lot of people, very crowded 5) _______ traffic |
| Tokyo | l Cheap Japanese food in the supermarkets and 6) _______ l 7) ______ metro system, very 8)______ and cheap l Lots of parks and 9)_____ spaces, less polluted than people think. | l The metro is 10)_______ |
| Sydney | l Lots of young, 11)_____ people, a really good 12)_____ l 13)_____ and 14)_____ streets l Lots of things to 15)_____ and 16)______ l Beautiful buildings l One of the most 17)______ coastlines in the world l 18)_____ weather l A great cafe 19)_____ | l 20)_____ traffic and a terrible public transport system |
