1. Teaching objectives:

1) To develop the students’ reading ability, learn to use some reading strategies such as guessing, key sentences, skimming and so on;

2) To get the students to realize the importance of friends and friendship, and to tell true friends from false friends;

2. Teaching method: Task-based teaching

3. Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Pre-reading

1) Please enjoy three pieces of music and find out what they are about.

2) Does a friend always have to be a person? What else can be your friend?

3) What do you know about the World War II?

4) Background introduction