UnitTheTapestryofFriendship.ppt

The Tapestry of Friendship Ellen Goodman Contents Ⅰ. Speaking Activities Ⅱ. Listening Activities Ⅲ. Background Information Ⅳ. Structural Analysis Ⅴ. Language Work Ⅵ. Important and Difficult Sentences Ⅶ. Rhetorical Analysis Ⅰ. Speaking Activities Do you keep in touch with your childhood friends? What do you need friends for? What makes a good friendship? How to make friends? What can friendships give us? Fun Ways To Share Feelings Learn New Skills Find Understanding and Support Ways To Feel Needed And Useful You Can Be Yourself A man dies often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by new contacts, new friends. —Bacon In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. — C.Collins -My friends are my estate. － Emily Dickinson, American Poet To preserve a friend three things are required: to honour him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities. Cultural information 4 What Makes A Good Friendship? Shared Interests Shared Values Trust Honesty Respect Cooperation Reliability Support Understanding Sensitivity Forgiveness Tolerance How to make friends? Go where people are most friends you make who have the same interests you do. Be a friend to yourself- don’t put yourself down. Be cheerful- smile, don’t always wait for the other person to speak first. Be yourself- no one is perfect. Your friends won’t expect you to be, so it is best to just be yourself. Don’t expect perfection in your friends -like you, your friends will make mistakes now and then. Laugh with them about it, but don’t put them down. Friendship is to give and take- friendship is sharing things like feelings, plans, and dreams. To make and keep a friend, you have to give as well as take. Learn to compromise.  Realize you will sometimes disagree with your friend- nobody agrees all the time. Disagreements don’t have to mean the end of a relationship. Give your friend space- almost everyone likes to be alone sometime. Give your friend sp