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Unit 1 Friendship
Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading
Reading “Anne’s Best Friend”
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;
3). To grasp some useful words and expressions in this passage, such as on purpose, be crazy about etc.;
4). To learn the writing style of this passage. 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
Step 2 fast reading
1. Who is Anne?
Who/What was Anne’s best friend?
When and where did the story happen? 2. fill in the form below. The time of the story The place of the story The heroine of the story Anne’s best friend The length of time they hid away The date of the diary Step 3. Careful Reading 1. Answer the following questions:
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Why did Anne made her diary her best friend?
What is an ordinary diary like according to Anne? What about her diary?
Why was she so crazy about things to do with nature?
Why did she stay awake on purpose until very late one evening? Why didn’t she dare open the window when the moon was too bright? How do you understand the expressions “spellbound” and “held me entirely in their powder”?
2. Reading to summarise the main idea of each paragraph.
Skim the text and summarise the main idea of each paragraph in one sentence.
Para. One: Anne made her diary her best friend whom she could tell everything. Para. Two: Anne’s diary acted as her true friend during the time she and her family had to hide away for a long time. Para. Three: Having been kept indoors for so long, Anne grew so crazy about everything to do with nature. Step 4 Post-reading 1. Comprehending exercises (on paper) Time Nature Before hiding After hiding Feeling 2. Discuss what kind of feelings of Anne the following words from the letter imply.
words Anne’s feeling nature free, peaceful, relaxed outdoors free crazy anxious, eager, thirsty didn’t dare scared, frightened thundering, entirely, helpless, depressed, power lonely Step5. Activity Four students a group to discuss the situation:
Suppose you four have to hide yourselves for 3 months. During the three months, you will be offered the basic food, water and clothes. Your group can take 5 things with you.
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What will you take? Why? How will you spend the 3 months? How will you treat each other and make friends ? Step 6. Homework
1. Review the important words, phrases and difficult sentences in the text and make sentences using the words given by the teacher. 2. Finish Ex.1-3 on p4.
Unit 1 Friendship
Vocabulary and Useful Expressions
Learning about language
Teaching aims:
1. To discover and learn to use some words and expressions.
2. To enable students to rewrite sentences using direct or indirect speech
3. To learn more information about Anne.
4. To cultivate the spirit of cooperation, self-teaching and self-exploring.
Teaching procedures: Step 1 Revision
1. Review something about “Anne’s best friend” by using some True-or-False sentences
1) A friend would laugh at you. F 2) Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War II.
T 3) She and her family hid away for one year before they were discovered.
F
4) She kept a diary as others did. F 5) She was fond of nature. T
6) She stayed awake in the night because she couldn’t sleep well. F 7) She couldn’t go out as she liked. T
2. Collect the sentences students think wonderful or difficult to understand.
Sample sentences
1) She and her family hid away for nearly twenty-five months before they were discovered.
2) I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature. 3) There was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound.
4) The dark, rainy evening ,the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power.
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