Unit 1 Friendship

Step1.Reading-I----skimming

Who/ what is Anne’s best friend?

When did the story happen?

Step2.Reading-II----scanning

What did she do?

Why did she do that way?

How did she enjoy herself?

Step3.Matching

1. Anne kept a diary because

2. She felt very lonely because

3. They have to hide because

4. Anne named her diary Kitty because

5. They were finally caught because

A. She could n’t meet her friends.

B. Jews were caught by Nazis and put away.

C. She could tell everything to it.

D. they were discovered.

E. she thought it was her best friend.

Step4.Reading-III----filling

Time Nature Feeling

Before hiding

After hiding

Step5.Reading-IV----intensive reading

Students work in pairs to discuss the following open questions:

1.Why did the windows stay closed?

2.How did Anne feel?

3.What do you think of Anne?

4.Guess the meanings of “spellbound”, “ hold me entirely in their power” from the discourse(語(yǔ)篇,上下文).

Step6. 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.

Step7.Language focus

Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.

1. be afraid of I wasn’t afraid of the car, I was afraid of the driver.

be afraid to do sth. He is afraid to go there.

be afraid that I’m afraid I don’t understand.

2. laugh at Don’t laught at him. We all laughted at his joke.

3. go through These countries have gone through too many wars.

4. make/call + O +Noun (as O.C.)

5. hide away

6. discover Columbus discovered America in 1492.

7. set down: to write down something so that you have a record of it:

I want to set down my feelings on paper.

Other verbal phrases of “set”

set apart: to make someone or somebody different from other people or things.

set aside: to keep some money or time for a special purpose

set off: to start to go somewhere/ to cause a explosion

set out: to start a journey/ to talk about something in an organized way

set up: to start an organization/ to build something

8. wonder I wonder who he is ,where he came from and why he came.

9. ourdoors / indoors Don’t stay indoors since the weather is so fine.

10. nature Peter has a happy nature. He is a good-natured boy.

11. well They speak well of him. Well done.

12. on purpose I came here on purpose to see you.

13. in order to In order to catch the train , she hurried through her work.

14. too much/ much too

15. dare She dare not do it.

16. entirely For him, this will be an entirely new hobby.

17. in one’s power / out of one’s powers

18. it was the first/second time that …

It is the first time that he has been in this city.

It was the second time that he had made the same mistakes

19. face to face

I rushed out of the office and found myself face to face with the boss.

20. put away

The boy put the food away in the cupboard after he finished his dinner.

21. trust: n. a strong belief in the honesty, goodness etc. of someone or something

e.g. You shouldn’t put your trust in a man like that.

vt. to believe that someone is honest and will not harm you or cheat you:

I trusted Max, so I lent him the money. Can he be trusted to look after your pet dog?

22. disturb Please don’t disturb me while I’m working.

Step8. Closing down

Closing down by doing exercises

To end the lesson you are to do the comprehending Exercises 1 and 2.

Closing down by discussion of ideas

Work in groups of four. Discuss the ideas put forward in the reading passage. It does not matter whether you agree or disagree. What is important is that you should have a reason for what you say. Also you can put forward your own ideas, either criticising the text or using it as a support:

★ What would you do if your family were going to be killed just because they did something the Emperor did not like?

★ Where would you plan to hide?

★ How would you arrange to get food given to you every day?

What would you do to pass the time?

Step9. Homework

一、 按要求寫(xiě)出相應的形式。

1.reason (adj.) 2.thought (verb.) 3. outdoors(ant.) 4. trust(n.)

5.nature(adj.) 3.crazy(synonym) 4.entirely(synonym) 8.power(adj.)

二、寫(xiě)出英語(yǔ)

1.經(jīng)歷、經(jīng)受 2.躲藏、隱藏 3.放下、記下、登記

4.一連串、一系列 5.對……瘋狂 6.收藏

7.合計、總計 8.安定下來(lái)、鎮定 9.不得不

10.關(guān)心、掛念 11.遛狗 12.故意

13.為了 14.面對面 15.處理、相處

16.按照、根據 17.只有一次 18.期末

19.兩年半 20.與……分享 21.藏身處