Unit 5 --Relationships.pptVIP

2. In you opinion, what is a friend? What does friendship mean to you? What do you think are the most important factors that can keep a long-lasting close relationship with your friends? What about with your family members and relatives? How can we make our close relationships last long? * Relationships Unit 5 Relationships Warming-up Reading Language in Use Project Culture Tips Homework Warming-up Listen to the song. Fill the blanks in the lyrics while listening. Warming-up I believe I can loveYou give me your loving I believe in what we areI don’t know where I would beWithout you staying with meSometimes, I’m lost in You will take me all the wayI’m not Oh, you and mehand in hand to everywhere be my friend, oh friendWe are forever friendsOh babyYou give me all the love I needYou are the one Forever Friend care misery afraid Amazing only Warming-up BACK Reading Pre-reading Tasks Reading Comprehension After-reading Tasks Pre-reading Do you think people’s perception and thinking are greatly influenced by others? If so, by whom are people most probably influenced? Discuss these questions in groups. BACK Comprehension Bonded by Loops and Flares 1 Douglas was a happily married man. After dinner parties, his wife Carol and he would wash the dishes together and relive the highlights of the conversation they’d just enjoyed. Unfortunately, when Carol was 42 and their children were 5 and 2, Carol died of a brain tumor. 2 A few months later, Douglas was looking at a picture of Carol. He describes what he felt in his recent book, I Am a Strange Loop. Comprehension 3 “I looked at her face and looked so deeply that I felt I was behind her eyes and all at once I found myself saying in tears, ‘That’s me. That’s me!’ 4 “And those simple words brought back many thoughts that I had had before when I was together with her. I remember