UnitAlltheCabbieHadWasaLetter.ppt

Unit 2 Friendship Warm-up Questions Global Reading Text Organization Vocabulary Detail Reading Language points Exercise Warm-up Questions: What does friendship mean to you? What qualities are important while choosing a friend? But the way we express our friendship is limited in short massages and telephone? Have your ever thought of writing letters again? Questions and Answers for conversation Is your cab available? Is the letter from a child or a grandchild? No. He is someone you’ve known quite a while? All my life. Did you go to school together? All the way through high school. Is he dead? He died a couple of weeks ago. Questions and Answers Did you two work at the same place? No, but we hung out together when single, later we grew more distant. The letter must have made you feel good, didn’t it? The driver said something that the narrator couldn’t understand. I thought your friend was Ed. Why did he sign it Tom? The letter was not from Ed to me. I am Tom. It is a letter I wrote to him before I knew he’d died. So I never mailed it. As it is an example of native speakers talking about daily life, the style of language in this text: Simple Colloquial Short Incomplete of information Explain the words in English: absolutely available correspondence destination estimate postpone urge A couple of be lost in every now and then hang out kind of/sort of might/ may (just) as well or something Part I (Paras 1-20) Main idea: From a conversation with the cab driver the author learned how much he regretted failing to keep up correspondence with his old friend Ed. Questions What was the cab driver doing when the author wanted to take a taxi? Did the driver have a cold? Whom did he talk about with the driver? How long had they been friends? What did the driver and