Unit 1 Good Friends

The 3rd Period

Reading

Pre-reading:Q1: Most of you have left your parents and old friends. Do you think it is quite necessary for you to make some new friends in this new school as quickly as possible? Why?

Q2: Have you ever been left alone without your parents, friends and all other people and things you need in your daily life? (If the answer is yes)How were you feeling at that time? Q3: Imagine that you were alone on an island where no people live. That is to say, you were alone on a deserted island (=an island where no people live).

How will you feel? ---worried, afraid, homesick,…

Discussion:

Q1: If you have to survive on the deserted island, what will you do to overcome such terrible feelings?

a knife, a box of matches, a mirror, a radio ,

a frying pan, a gun, a book, a saw, a hammer,

an umbrella, a rope, a compass

You can use the following to express your opinion:

I think that ___ would be the most useful, because I could use it to _____ ,to _____ , and to ______ .

Q2: Which item do you think is the most useful on the deserted island?

Q3: If you are allowed to have three items, what will you choose?

Cast Away

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks ( 1956 -- ) a famous actor; won two Oscar Prizes;

“Flying To The Future” 1988 “Philadelphia” 1993 《费城》 “Forrest Gump” 1995 《阿甘正传》 “Cast Away” 《漂流者》 / 《浩劫重生》 / 《荒岛余生》

The movie stars areTom Hanks & Helen Hunt & the movie is directed by Robert Zemeckis ( also director of Forrest Gump).

Hanks plays Chuck Noland, a workaholic Federal Express systems engineer, who always lives by the clock. His fiancee is often neglected. On Christmas Day, he has a call & has to board a plane to Malaysia, leaving his fiancee. In a terrible storm, his plane crashes over the South Sea, killing the few on board with the exception of Chuck.

The plane crash leaves Chuck stranded on a deserted island for four years.

He communicates with an unusual friend. After 4 years, Chuck returns to the civilization. He becomes transformed both physically & emotionally. He realized that there is much more to life than work.

3. Reading:

1)Fast Reading

Q.: Who’s Chuck’s friend?( Wilson is a volleyball.)2) Careful Reading:

Q.1: What’s Chuck’s job?

Q.2: What happened to Chuck one day?

Q.3: What things must Chuck learn to do to survive on the island?

Q.4: What does Chuck learn about himself when he is alone on the island?

Q.1: What’s Chuck’s job?

Q.2: What happened to Chuck one day?

Q.3: What things must Chuck learn to do to survive on the island?

( a businessman and a successful manager in a company )

( One day Chuck is on a flight across the Pacific Ocean when suddenly his plane crashes. But Chuck survives the crash and lands on a deserted island where there are no people.)

( Chuck must learn to survive all alone. He has to learn how to collect water, hunt for food, and make a fire. The most importance is that Chuck has to learn how to survive without friends.

Q.4: What does Chuck learn about himself when he is alone on the island?

( When Chuck is alone on the island, he learns how to be a good friend to Wilson even though Wilson is just a volleyball. He learns that we need friends to share happiness and sorrow, and it is important to have someone to care about. He also learns that he should have cared more about his friends. And he understands that friendship is about feelings and that we must give as much as we take.)

*** Group work. Exchange your understanding of the passage with your group members and work together to fill in the form below:

Title: CHUCK”S FRIEND

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Main Idea Detailed Information

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General idea about the film “Cast Away ” Physically / materially

Emotionally / spiritually

What Chuck learns and realizes

Unusual friends; importance of friends and friendship

How Chuck learns to survive on the island

The lesson we can learn from Chuck

Who is Chuck? What is he?

What happened to him?

About himself;

About friends and friendship

Par.

Main Idea Detailed Information

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Title: CHUCK”S FRIEND

General idea about the film “Cast Away ”

A businessman who … so … that ..A successful manager that …survived in an air crash and landed..How Chuck learns

to survive on the island

collected water, hunt for food and make fire; develop a friendship with an unusual friend -- a volleyball called Wilson

What Chuck learns and realizes

hasn’t been a very good friend; has always been thinking about himself; should have cared more about his friends; we need friends to share happiness and sorrow; it is important to have someone to care about;..

The lesson we can learn from Chuck

not only can we make friends with human beings, but with animals and even things;

friends are teachers; friendship helps us understand who we are, why we need each other and what we can do for each other.

1)Which of the following is Chuck most likely to eat on the island?

a. Bread, beef and vegetables b. Fish, birds and fruits

c. Rice, cheese and hot dogs d. noodles, chicken and fruits

2) What does the writer mean by “friends are teachers”?

a.  We can learn from friends and become better persons

b. We need friends to share happiness and sorrow

c. We cannot survive without friends

d. It is important to have someone to care about

Consolidation:

3. If Chuck is rescued and returns to his normal life, he will ___.

a. work even harder than he used to

b. shut himself up at home

c. play volleyball every day

d. spend more time with his friends

4.Which of the proverbs best expresses the main idea of the passage?

a. Where there is a will, there is a way.

b. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

c. No pains, no gains.

d. Dead men have no friends.

Answers: 1—4 b a d d

Discussion:Q1. If you were alone on an island, what would you do in order to survive? (if time permits, discuss it)

Q2. Imagine that four people are in an airplane that is going to crash. One is a policeman, one is a doctor, one is a teacher, and one is a scientist. There is only one parachute. Decide who should get the parachute and explain why.

5. Homework:1) Pair work: Choose one of the

situations to do your oral practice.

Suppose you are a newspaper reporter, or Chuck’s wife. You are very curious about what has happened to Chuck and keeps on asking him a lot of questions. Each of you should try to put yourself in the situation with at home or in an interview, and think of as many questions as possible.

2) Read the passage again and again

2.3) Prepare the language study on Pages 2 -3

4) Do vocabulary on Page 87