1. Project Giving an oral report Teenager ’ s friendships

2. Questions: 1.What is the passage mainly discussing? 2. What puzzles Robert? 3. What’s the difference between boys and girls in their attitudes towards friendship? Careful reading

3. Questions: 1.What puzzles Robert? 2. What is the passage mainly discussing? He can’t understand what girls can talk about for so long. Careful reading Girls and boys have different types of friendships and different attitudes towards friendship.

4. 3. What’s the difference between boys and girls in their attitudes towards friendship? Girls’ friendships are based on shared feelings and support while boys’ friendships are anchored in shared activities or interests. Please look at Para. 2.

5. What friendship means to the writer. What can we always be remembered? Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: 2,3,4 1 5 Different people have different attitudes to friendship Read the second article :

6. Questions: 1. In the writer’s opinion, what’s most important in life? 2. What does friendship mean? 3. What can always be remembered? Friendship. Trust, company,mutual support, helping each other, understanding,or sharing happiness and sorrow. Those whom we loved and those who loved us and our friends.

8. Collect the different attitudes towards friendship according to these questions: 1. Do you have a best friend? 2. How often do you have a long conversation with him/her? 3. What topics do you mostly talk about with your best friends? 4. Do you think boys and girls have the same attitudes towards friendship? (If your answer is NO, what is the difference?) 5. What do you think a best friend should be like? 6. What does friendship mean to you?

9. Friendship means : trust, company, mutual support, understanding, helping each other, Conclusion: What does friendship mean to us?

10. Homework : 1. write down some sentences about friendship. 2. recite several old sayings about friedship.