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.
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?
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3. What do you know about the World War II?
4. Background introduction
Step 2 fast reading
1. Who is Anne?
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Who/What was Anne’s best friend?
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When and where did the story happen?
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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?
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What is an ordinary diary like according to Anne? What about her diary?
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Why was she so crazy about things to do with nature?
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Why did she stay awake on purpose until very late one evening?
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Why didn’t she dare open the window when the moon was too bright?
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How do you understand the expressions “spellbound” and “held me entirely in their powder”?
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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:.
Para. Two:
Para. Three:
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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
outdoors
crazy
didn’t dare
thundering, entirely, power
Step5. Activity
Four students a group to discuss the situation:
高一英语friendship教案3