高级英语2-Unit13-自主学习课件.ppt

Advanced English I Unit 13 Friendship Self-access Learning Contents page Learning Objectives Pre-R: picture activation-1 What do you mean when you say “we are friends”? Pre-R: Pre-questions-1 1. Friendship provides positive emotional support. Friends care for one another and look out for each other. Friendship shades life with colours and saves people from loneliness. But friendship is sometimes fragile and may not be able to stand the destruction caused by, say, separation, misunderstanding and so on. So how do you think friendship can be kept steady and lasting? Pre-R: Pre-questions-2 2. A friend is someone you care for and also you think you can trust. But sometimes you may find your trust misplaced, in which case you will be greatly frustrated and your belief in friendship badly shaken. Would you like to share one such unpleasant experience you have had with your classmates? G-R: text introduction This text is an excerpt from Emerson’s essay “Friendship” which was written in 1841. In the essay we can find that the author’s discussion on friendship is not confined to the relationship between friends, but rather extends to the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others. Given this proposition, the author discusses the nature of human affection in general and provides his own perception about the importance of such affection in human life. G-R: CN-transcendentalism Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson.? Emerson and Thoreau sought this relation in solitude amidst nature, and in their writing. By the 1840s they, along with other transcendentalists, were engaged in the social experiments of Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden; and, by the 1850s in an increasingly urgent critique of American slavery. G-R: author bio Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), US philosopher and poet. Associated with German idealism, he evolved the con