文档介绍：Unit 2 Friendship
Part I Warming-Up Exercises:
sayings of friendship:
"Books and friends should be few but good."
"A friend in need is a friend indeed." - Latin Proverb
"The best of friends must part."
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”-- Aristotle
an analogy to describe friendship,
for example, A good friend is the medicine
Of life. You can draw as many analogies possible.
A friend is like ______;_______; ______.
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Part II Background Information :
* Writer:
John Foster Furcolo (1911 -1995) was born in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1948, he was elected to the . House of Representatives, and served in Congress from 1949 to also served as Governor of Massachusetts from 1957 to 1961. He is the author of several books,including "Masacre At Katyn", an account of the Soviet massacre of Polish citizens in the Katyn Forest during World War II.
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Halloween:
Halloween is celebrated annually. It is on the night of 31 October, when people once believed that ghosts could be seen. Now, in Britain and America, it is a time when children have parties, dress up as witches, make lanterns out of pumpkins from which the inside has been removed, and play “trick or treat”, which is a traditional activity at Halloween.
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Children dress in costumes and visit houses. At each house they say “ Trick and treat”. This means that they will play a “trick”, or joke, on the people in the house unless they are given a “treat”. Most people prefer to give treats rather than having tricks played on them.
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•Abstract
The passage develop a letter around a author wanted to take a taxi while the taxi driver was reading a letter, so the conversation began. Because the driver always postponed writing a letter to his life-long friend, until one day he learned that his friend has passed away before he posted the letter. He is full of regret