1-21st_BKIII_Unit+3+Friendship++贺.ppt

Text Organization Text A Friendship 21世纪大学新英语读写译教程 Book 3 Unit 3 Friendship Part I Lead-in Questions for Discussion 1.What’s your understanding of friend, friendliness and friendship? 2. Do you have many friends? What are your channels to make friends? Part II Background Information A. About the author Pieter J. Friedrich He lives in northern California, where he works in the emergency medical response field and hopes to become a paramedic（伞兵医务员）. Hes a self-professed paleoconservative （极端的保守主义者）and a member of the Constitution Party. He writes a weekly column and maintains the weblog Pumpkin Head. Cultural notes Aristotle 384 BC—322 BC He was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many different subjects, including physics, metaphysics（形而上学）, poetry, theater, music logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. Henry Home 1696—1782 He, Lord Kames, was a Scottish philosopher of the 18th century. Born at Kames House, he became an advocate and was one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1752, he was raised to the bench, thus acquiring the title of Lord Kames. David Hume 1711—1776 : He was an 18th century Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian, considered among the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Thoreau Henry David Thoreau, 1817—1862 He was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist（先验论者）, tax resister, development critic, sage（贤明的;睿智的）writer and philosopher. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622—1673 Also known by his stage name Molière, he was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Part III Writing Features In Text A, the author gives readers a clear understanding of friendship by definition. The attention-giving