Unit 1 Friendship Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading Reading “Anne’s Best Friend” 1. Teaching objectives: 1) To develop the st udents’ reading ability, learn to use some reading strategies such as guessing, key sentences, skimming and so on; 2). To get the studen ts to realize the importance of friends and friendship, and to tell true friends from false friends; 3). To grasp some use ful 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 enj oy three pieces of music and find out what they are about. 2. Does a friend al ways 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: Why did Anne made her diary her best friend What is an ordina ry 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 unders tand the expressions “spellbound” and “held me entirely in their powder” 2. Reading to summarise the main idea of each paragraph. Skim the text and summ arise the main idea of each paragraph in one sentence. Para. One: An ne made her diary her best friend whom she could tell everything. Para. Two: A nne’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 Feeling Before hiding After hiding 2. Discuss what kin d 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, power helpless, depressed, 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. What will you take Why How will you spend the 3 months How will you treat each other and make friends Step 6. Homework Review the important words, phrases and difficult sentences in the text and make sentences using the words given by the teacher. Finish Ex.1-3 on p4. Unit 1 Friendship Vocabulary and Useful Expressions Learning about language Teaching aims: To discover and learn to use some w ... ...
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