Teaching Objectives
Knowledge and skill objectives:
(1) Students master some useful words and expressions in this passage, such as on purpose, be crazy about, etc.
(2) Students learn the writing style of this passage.
Process and method objectives:
Based on Task-based teaching, discussion and cooperation learning, after completing some tasks, students can understand the text well.
Emotion objectives:
(1) Students develop the reading ability, learn to use some reading strategies such as guessing, finding key sentences, skimming and so on;
(2) Students realize the importance of friends and friendship, and can tell true friends from false friends.
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Pre-reading
(1) Background introduction
(2) What do you know about the World War Ⅱ?
(3) Enjoy a short part of the film Schindler's list.
Step 2 Skimming
Read fast and fill in the form below.
The time of the story
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The place of the story
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The heroine of the story
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Anne's best friend
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The length of time they hid away
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The date of the diary
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Step 3 Intensive Reading
(1) Read Anne's diary and fill in the form below.
Time
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Nature
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Feeling
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Before hiding
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After hiding
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(2) Answer the following questions:
Why did Anne make 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"?
(3) Read and summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
Skim the text and summarize 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) Complete the following sentences using the words and expressions from the text.
①She has grown ______ about computer games.
②Was it an accident or did David do it on ______?
③From the beginning, Paul made it clear that he would be ______ in control.
④He used to work ______ even in the middle of winter.
⑤Just the ______ of more food made her feel sick.
⑥You had better have a ______ talk with him.
⑦Born in a poor family, the manager ______ lots of hardships in his childhood.
⑧A diary is often kept ______ to what happens in people's daily lives.
(2) Summarize the text by your own words.
Step 5 Activity
Four students a group to discuss the situation:
Suppose you four have to hide yourselves for three 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 three months?
How will you treat each other and make friends?
Step 6 Homework
Choose one of the following assignments:
(1) Review the important words, phrases and difficult sentences in the text and make sentences using the words given by the teacher.
(2) Interview a high school student, a businessman, a police officer and a housewife to find out their opinions about friends and friendship. Write a report to share it with the whole class in the next class.
(3) Describe one of your best friends following the writing style of this passage.
Ending: Enjoy a song Auld Lang Syne.