MySpace brings friends together (P8)

重庆第二外国语学校 董莉

导读：网络带给我们的不仅仅是高科技发展的社会信息，还有我们无法忘记的友谊。
I. Before you reading

1. What kind of friends would you like to have?
2. What do you do with your friends?
3. How do you keep in touch with your friends? Make a survey.

1. What did the two friends do when they were young?
A. Read comic books and watch TV.
B. Play soccer and watch movies.
C. Read comic books and play video games.
2. How long have they been apart?
A. 10 years.        B. 14 years.       C. 15 years.
3. What changed their relationship?
A. A telephone call.  B. The Internet.    C.A letter.
4. What did they do after they met on the Internet?
A. They e-mailed each other and caught up on news.
B. They met somewhere.
C. They lost touch with each other.
5. What surprised Stephan about the author?
A. It was as if I was 14 again.
B. The author wants to be a doctor.
C. The author lives in China.

III. Vocabulary in use
Some useful phrases and notes from the passage.
1 best friends 好朋友
2 watch movies 看电影
3 play video games 玩电子游戏
4 get older 长大，变老get +adj.变得…
5 grow apart 分离
6 lose touch 失去联系
7 hear from 收信
8 from time to time 一次次地
9 think about 思考，想
10 back and forth 来来回回
11 each other 相互
12 be like 好像
13 allow sb to do 允许某人做某事
Fill in the blanks using the correct phrase.
each other, get older, hear from, think about, allow …to
1 Mother doesn’t _____ me _____ play games for too long.
2 I didn’t _____ _____ him for two years.
3 We should help ____ ____ if we are good friends.
4 While our parents ____ ____, we are growing up.
5 Don’t ____ _____ yourself so much. It’s selfish!
IV. Activities
Write a passage about friendship. Tell us something about a friend, and what you do together.

V. Cloze test
Stephan Butler was one of my best friends when we were 14. We did   1   together. We read comic books. Watched movies. Played video games. But then we got   2  . We grew apart and finally lost touch.
I didn’t   3   him for 10 years. From time to time I would   4   Stephan. I would wonder what he was doing. I hoped he was OK. But I didn’t have his   5   so I couldn’t call him.
But then one day the Internet changed our relationship.
Stephan found me at MySpace.com. It is a social website   6   connects people around the world. He sent me a message. Then we e-mailed each other back and forth and caught up. It was great. I learned Stephan lives in Philadelphia. He might become a doctor! He was surprised that I lived in China. The years between us did not   7  . When we e-mailed each other it was like we were fourteen again and nothing had changed. MySpace had allowed us to be friends   8  !

1 A. something              B. everything             C. nothing                     D. anything
2 A. younger                 B. older                            C. taller                            D. bigger    
3 A. hear from              B. hear of                  C. know                           D. remember
4 A. think over              B. think about            C. talk to               D. talk about
5 A. address                  B. e-mail                    C. phone number          D. QQ number
6 A. who               B. /                              C. that                       D. it
7 A. work                     B. matter                   C. fall                           D. break
8 A. more                     B. ever                            C. again                        D. even

Key:
II. 1-5 C A B A C
III. 1 allow… to 2 hear from 3 each other 4 get older 5 think about
V. 1-4 B B A B 5-8 B C B C