Unit FiveUnit FiveUnit FiveUnit FiveThe Tapestry of The Tapestry of

FriendshipFriendship

Teaching ObjectivesPre-reading QuestionsGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingExtended knowledgeSupplementary Reading

Teaching Objectives

• Practice reading, writing, listening and talking, and translating about friendship

• Discuss the differences between buddiness and friendship

Pre-reading Questions

• Do you still keep in touch with your childhood friends?

• What do you need friends for?

Global Reading

How are men and women portrayed in movies?

What are the differences between men’s friendship and women’s friendship?

Detailed Reading

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Paragraph 1-2Questions:

What kind of film did the woman see?

And what did she think of it?

Language work:

big-budget: → on a ～ : within a restricted amount of money, e.g. We’re traveling ～ .

pan: swing (a video or film camera) in a horizontal or vertical plane, typically to give a panoramic effect or follow a subject ← panorama, panoramic

tapestry: 1. a piece of thick textile fabric with pictures or desig

ns formed by weaving coloured weft threads or by embroidering on canvas, used as a wall hanging or soft furnishing

2. fig. used in reference to an intricate or complex sequence of events

fragility: ← fragile1. easily broken or damaged 2. (of a person) not stro

ng, or sturdy, delicate or vulnerable. E.g. Fragile. Handle with care. （易碎物品，轻拿轻放）

resiliency: ← resilient 1. (of a substance or object) able to recoil or spring back into shape after bending, stretching, or being compressed 2. (of a person or animal) able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions, e.g. the fish are ～ infections

Paragraph 3-6Questions:

• Why does the author list the movies the woman had seen?

• What led the woman to think that the cinema has drastically shifted its focus? And what was the shift?

Language work

flick: infml a cinema film → the ～ s: the cinema, e.g. Fancy a

night at ～ . Metonymy the use of a phrase which describes one thing by referring to something which is near to it or part of it, e.g. the pen – writing: The pen is mightier than the sword. Washington, the sceptre – government, the Bar – profession of lawyers, the stage – profession of actors/actresses, gray hair – the aged, the bottle – drinking, celluloid – films, 投笔从戎： throw away the pen and take up the sword in defense of the country

Burch Cassidys, Sundance Kids, Hemingways: → Antonomasia 借代 the use of a proper name to express a general idea, e.g. a modern Samson, a local Cicero, village Hercules, a Scrooge, a Solomon 这对年轻夫妇并不相称，一个是西施，一个是张飞 (ill- tempered brute) 。 / 三个臭皮匠，合成一个诸葛亮。

pick on: 1. single out 2. repeatedly single (sb/sth) out for blame,

criticism, or unkind treatment in a way perceived to be unfair 找茬子，唠叨指责

Paragraphs 7-13

Questions:

• What did Phil’s wife mean when she answered, “I already have?”

• Did his children know him well?

• Why is “he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning” so many

times?

Burch Cassidys, Sundance Kids, Hemingways: → Antonomasia 借代 the use of a proper name to express a general idea, e.g. a modern Samson, a local Cicero, village Hercules, a Scrooge, a Solomon 这对年轻夫妇并不相称，一个是西施，一个是张飞 (ill- tempered brute) 。 / 三个臭皮匠，合成一个诸葛亮。

pick on: 1. single out 2. repeatedly single (sb/sth) out for blame,

criticism, or unkind treatment in a way perceived to be unfair 找茬子，唠叨指责

… that duality must have been mortally wounded in …:

that double standard must have been proved no longer convincing/applicable.

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Questions:

• What is the fundamental difference between buddies and friends?

• What are the conditions of men becoming buddies and of women becoming friends?

Language work

border on: come close to or be developing into (a particular

extreme condition)

Buddies hang tough together: → hang/bond together through

moan:

1. the ～ of the wind in the chimneys 2. complain which is perceived as a trivial not taken seriously by others, e.g. ～ s about the rise in taxation 3. despair or sexual pleasure C.f. groan 1. complain, e.g. They were moaning and groaning about management. 2. make a low creaking or moaning sound when weight is applied, e.g. The shelf ～ s with books. → ～ ing board 丰盛的餐桌 , e.g. He was seated at the ～ , making away with a monster meal. 3. ～ beneath/under: be oppressed, e.g. ～ the dictator’s rule, an economy ～ ing the heavy burden of defense costs 压得透不过气来

Extended knowledge

Friendship Quotations and Proverbs

-There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin-The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. Molière-Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. Jacques Delille

-Table friendship soon changes.-They are to be feared even though they offer gifts.-We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.-Many friends in general, one in special.-Prosperity makes/gets friends, adversity tries them.-Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows.-Fire is the test of gold, adversity of frienship.-Friends agree best at a distance.