Friends Reunited

Learning Guidance for

Friends Reunited

Grade

Class

Name

Edition: FLTRP Book6

Number:2014060305

Content: B6M3

Period:5rd

Designer: Leping

Zhang

Checkers: Senior Two Teachers

Background:

Have you ever wondered what your old school-mates are doing now? Well plenty of people in

Britain

do. One of

the

most

successful

internet ventures in

Britain

has

shown

how popular,

and

how lucrative

（赚钱的）

, nostalgia can be.

The

website

Friends

Reunited

was

started

for

fun

in

1999

by

a

couple

who

were

interested

to

know what their old school friends were doing. The project snowballed and by 2005, the site had

12

million

members.

One

extraordinary

fact

is

that

Friends

Reunited

has

never

advertised,

its

success is entirely due to word-of-mouth.

You can search for a school, college or university and find a list of the members who were there

in any year. You can also post a personal profile showing what you are doing now, and read other

people's details.

Steve Pankhurst, one of the founders of the site, thinks that one of the reasons for its success is

that some people like to be anonymous. On Friends Reunited, you can snoop on

（

偷偷窥视）

other

people's

lives

without

giving

away

anything

about

yourself

if

you

don't

want

to.

It's

also

an

opportunity to bolster your self-esteem by showing off to everyone just how successful and happy

you are now, even if you weren't while you were at school.

Friends Reunited has also led to many successful school reunions, and people meeting up with

each

other

after

many

years.

In

particular,

many

people

use

the

site

to

look

up

their

childhood

sweethearts

and

many

couples

have

actually

restored

relationships

after

contacting

each

other

through the site.

There have even been Friends Reunited weddings and babies, and Friends Reunited now has a

new

site

called

Friends

Reunited

Dating

especially

for

people

who

are

looking

for

love.

The

company

has

also

launched

other

sites,

such

as

Genes

Reunited,

which

helps

people

to

find

long-lost relatives and build their family trees online.

Therefore,

whether

you

want

to

be nosy,

contact

old

friends, organise a

school

reunion,

find

your first love, or simply show off your success, Friends Reunited is the site to visit.

Learning goals:

1. Knowledge and skills:

To master the following language items:

Words

:

reunited,

couple,

perfect,

partner,

mention,

contact,

reply,

extraordinary,

bottom

Phrases:

bring together, that is, get in touch with, belong to, through the website, as a

result, as a result of, lose one

’

s memory, put one

’

s memory back together, from the

bottom of one

’

s heart

Sentences:

1). Friends Reunited brings togethe

r

—

that is, unites

—

old fiends, people who used to

be friends with each other , but have not seen each other for a long time.

2). She and her husband realized that the internet was the perfect way to get in touch