[00:-1.00]CHUCK'S FRIEND
[00:-2.00]In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks plays a man named Chuck Noland.
[00:-3.00]Chuck is a businessman who is always so busy
[00:-4.00]that he has little time for his friends.
[00:-5.00]He is a successful manager in a company that sends mail all over the world.
[00:-6.00]One day Chuck is on a flight aeross the Paeifie Ocean
[00:-7.00]when suddenly his plane crshes.
[00:-8.00]Chuck survives the erash and lands on a deserted island.
[00:-9.00]On the island, Chuck has to learn to survive all alone.
[00:10.00]He has learn how to collect water, hunt for food, and make fire.
[00:11.00]Perhaps the most difficult challenge is how to survive without friends.
[00:12.00]In order to survive.
[00:13.00]Chuck develops a friendship with an unusual friend -
[00:14.00]a volleyball he calls Wilson.
[00:15.00]Chuck learns a lot about himself when he is alone on the island.
[00:16.00]He realises that he hasn't been a very good friend
[00:17.00]because he has always been thinking about himself.
[00:18.00]During his five years on the island,Chuck learns how to be a good friend to Wilson.
[00:19.00]Even though Wilson is just a volleyball,he becomes fond of him.
[00:20.00]He talks to him and treats him as a friend.
[00:21.00]Chuck learns that we need friends to share happiness and sorrow,
[00:22.00]and that it is important to have someone to care about.
[00:23.00]He also learns that he should have cared more about his friends.
[00:24.00]When he makes friends with Wilson,
[00:25.00]he understands that friend ship is about feelings and that we must give as much as we take.
[00:26.00]A volleyball is certainly an unusual friend.
[00:27.00]Most of our friends are human beings,but we also make friends with animals and even things.
[00:28.00]For example,many of us have pets,
[00:29.00]and we all have favourite objects such as a lucky pen or a diary.
[00:30.00]The lesson we can karn from Chuck and all the others who have unusual friends
[00:31.00]is that friends are teachers.
[00:32.00]Friendship halps us understand who we are,
[00:33.00]why we need each other and what we can do for each other.
[00:34.00]plays a man named Chuck Noland.
[00:35.00]Chuck is a businessman who is always so busythat. he has little time for his friends.
[00:36.00]After reading the READING piece a second time and doing the POST-READING,
[00:37.00]try to translate the whole piece sentence by sentence into correct Chinese.
[00:38.00]LANGUAGE STUDY Just read and do this seetion and do all the exercises on pages 4-6.
[00:39.00]Link all the 10 sentences into a complete passage
[00:40.00]by changing part of their content if you can.
[00:41.00]Act out the long conversation on page 6 when you are sure there are no mistakes.
[00:42.00]Do you know that you can use the internet to make friends?
[00:43.00]You may know that a pen friend, nor pen pal, is someone you write letters to.
[00:44.00]But what is an e-pal,or key pal? Yes you guessed it! An e-pal is someone you write e-mail to.
[00:45.00]E-mail is fasfer and cheaper than letters,
[00:46.00]so you can write to your e-pals every day and you don't have to wait for a letter to arrive.
[00:47.00]Just write your message and click it away!
[00:48.00]Read the following e-pal ads. Write an e-mail to one of them.
[00:49.00]Hello everyone,I'm Jane. I live in South Carolina. I like painting.
[00:50.00]I'm 15 and I'm a student.
[00:51.00]I like painting and joking around and I like to tisten to rock musie!
[00:52.00]I am looking for e-pals from any country.
[00:53.00]Hi. My name is Jack. I am tall and I have blue eyes.
[00:54.00]I like sports. I play soccer. I love to make people laugh.
[00:55.00]I love singing and dancing. I am honest and I like to have fun.
[00:56.00]I like talking to people.If you're interested in being friends,drop me a line.
[00:57.00]E-mail is fasfer and cheaper than letters,so you can write to your e-pals every day |