unit 5 Friends for Life.ppt

Unit Five
Friends for Life
Topics for discussion
a. Is there true friendship between opposite sexes?
b. What do you expect of friendship?
c. What is needed to make friendship grow, blossom and last?
Structural analysis of the text
Main idea of each part:
Part I (1-2) ---supplies a psychological definition, as well as the author’s understanding, of friendship.
Part II (3-4) ---gets down to a discussion of friendship within family ties.
Part III (5-8)---moves on to the significance of friendship outside kinship ties and offers suggestions on friend-making.
Part IV (9-11) --- discusses the friendship between opposite sexes.
Part V (12-13) ---tells us how to fix a broken friendship
Part VI (14-15) ---is about the author’s friendship with her grandchildren.
Language work
identify
to find out exactly what something is
She identified him as her attacker.
Identifiable: able to be recognized:
In her bright yellow coat, she was easily identifiable in the crowd.
Identity: who someone is:
The identity of the killer is still unknown.
identification
1) something official that shows your name, address etc, usually with a photograph; ID:
You can use a passport as identification.
2).when you say that you recognize someone or something:
The bodies are awaiting identification.
rank as / among
to regard as having a certain position
In my opinion, he ranks among the theatre's greatest actors.
This town ranks high among beauty spots.
这城市在风景区中享有盛名。
She said that 1989 must rank as (= be) the most remarkable year for change in Europe since 1848.
Woods is ranked number one in the world.
I rank London as one of the best cities in the world.
Most rank and file police officers rejected the new pay offer.
He’s just been promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
tend to
to be likely to有某种倾向;有…的趋势
People under stress tend to express their full range of potential.
处于压力下的人容易发挥自己全部的潜力。
He tends to pitch the ball too high.
他往往把球掷得过高。
Divorced people have a tendency to live with new partner