高二英语选修6 模块3 cutural corner 教学设计.docVIP

高二英语选修6 模块3 cutural corner 教学设计 Period 5: CULTURAL CORNER-Friends Reunited Objectives ●?To read to know more about friendship Procedures Before you read We have come to the cultural corner. But before we take the article let’s go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling. ▇While you read Now it is time to read the text Friends Reunited and cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives. Friends Reunited One of the biggest Internet successes is a website/ called/ Friends Reunited. Friends Reunited brings together-that is,unites--old friends,people who used to be friends/ with each other,but have not seen each other/ for a long time. The website was begun in 1999/ by a London couple /called Stephen and Julie Pankhurst.Julie wanted to know what her old school friends/ were doing. Did they all have families of their own?Did they still live in the same area?Were they married?Did they have children? She and her husband realised that the Internet was the perfect way/ to get in touch with old friends,and Steve and his business partner, Jason Porter, built the website. Slowly.people heard about the site/ and became interested.By the end of 2000/ the site had 3,000 members.Then/ the website was mentioned/ on radio programme/ and suddenly/ the site became very popular. By the end of 2001/ the website had 4 million members,and/ by the end of 2002/ it had over 8 million! How do you find old friends/ using Friends Reunited?It’s very easy. People join the webs/ and give information/ about themselves--the name of their old school, the neighbourhood/ they lived in, the college/ they went to, the sports team/ they belonged to,etc.To find an old friend, you type in their name,school,etc.You may find that your friend is a member of the website,and you can