Period 2 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:

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 Feeling

Before hiding

After hiding

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, 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

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.

3. Discovering useful words and expressions

Complete the following sentences, using words and expressions from Reading

1) She has grown _______ about computer games.

2) Was it an accident or did David do it on _______?

3) From the beginning ,Paul made it clear that he would be ______ (完全地)in control.

4) He used to work _______ even in the middle of winter.

5) Just the _______ of more food made her feel sick.

6) You had better have a _________ talk with him.

7) Born in a poor family, the manager _________ lots of hardships in his childhood.

8) A diary is often kept to ________ what happens in people’s daily lives.