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
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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 introductionStep 2 fast reading1. 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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|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.
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|Para. Two: |
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Step 4 Post-reading 1. Comprehending exercises (on paper)
|Time |Nature |Feeling |
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|After hiding | | |
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