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...点击查看全部>> -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 introductionStep 2 fast reading1. 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, |helpless, depressed, |
|power |lonely >>收起