新世界3unit1教案

Unit one Friendship

Text A what is Friendship

Teaching objective:

To enable students to have a correct understand of the deep meaning of friendship

To enable students to grasp the new words and expressions involved in the text.

Pre-reading

1: listen to a song called Forever Friends to activate students to interest in class

2: Directions: What words will occur to you whenever we mention the word “Friendship.” Write down as many words as possible about it. beloved, cherish , intimacy. Ever-lasting, heartfelt, pure, companionship.

3: A Brief Introduction to Aristotle and Plato

While-reading

1: Structure analysis: ask students to skim the text and divide it in parts. And

guess the main idea of each part

Part1 (1) It’s necessary to review some classical views of friendship in order to acquire a better understanding of it.

Part2 (2-5) According to Aristotle, there are three kinds of friendship, which are respectively based on utility, pleasure and goodness. Friendship based on goodness is perfect and totally different from friendship based on utility or pleasure.

Part3 (6) According to Cicero, true friendship is only possible between good men and it is virtue that creates and preserves true friendship.

Part4 (7) Friendship is permanent between virtuous people who share a commitment to the good or to what is morally right or worthy of praise.

2: Listening to the text part by part, after listening, students are asked to answer several questions:

Part1: Questions: what are your criteria for what makes a person?

Difficult sentences:

1,When we approach the notion of friendship, our first problem is that there is

a lack of socially acknowledged criteria for what makes a person a friend

2, In one setting, we may describe someone as a friend; in another, the label may seem less appropriate.

Key words and expressions:

Approach the notion of; socially acknowledged criteria for; some classical view of

Describe…… as; a very thin understanding of;

Part 2 Q: 1, How many kinds of friendship are there according to Aristotle?

2, Does friendship based on utility last long?

3, What kind of friendship can be considered perfect??

Complex sentences

1,Friendship between the young is thought to be grounded on pleasure, because the lives of the young are regulated by their feelings, and their chief interests are in their own pleasure and the opportunity of the moment.

2,Only the friendship of those who are good, and similar in their goodness, is perfect. 3It is between good men that both love and friendship are chiefly found and in the highest form. Words &Expression

Break up; in so far as; be worthy of ; be grounded on

Part3 Q:1, what is the similarity between Cicero’s view of friendship and that of Aristotle’s?

2, How does Cicero define “good people”?

3, what is required to establish true friendship in a community of shared reason?

4, what creates and preserves true friendship?

Difficult sentences:

1,He further defines “the good” as “those whose actions and lives leave no question as to their honor, purity, equity, and liberality; who are free from greed,

lust, and violence; and who have the courage of their convictions.”

2, …and they must share a commitment to the good.

Words&Expressions

Leave no questions to; are free from; are bounded together;

Part 4 Q: What does the traditional idea of friendship consist of?

How are virtuous friends bound together according to the classical views?

Explain the statement “each can be said to provide a mirror in which the other may see himself?”

Words &Expression:

Enjoy each other’s company;

share a commitment to ,

virtuous friends, moral excellence

After-reading

Ask students to retell the main idea of text, and review the words and phrases.

Home work 1, Let students read text B after class, and ask two of them to summarize it up in Chinese as well as English.

2, Let students do exercises.