必修一 Unit1 friendship
Warming Up,Pre-reading
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;
2. Teaching method: Task-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 introduction
Step 2 Fast reading
1) 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
Reading
“Anne’s Best Friend”
1. Teaching objectives:
1). To grasp some useful words and expressions in this passage, such as on purpose, be crazy about etc.
2). To learn the writing style of this passage.
2. Teaching method: Task-based teaching
3. Teaching procedures:
Step1. Careful Reading
1. Answer the following questions:
1) Why did Anne made her diary her best friend
2) What is an ordinary diary like according to Anne What about her diary
3) Why was she so crazy about things to do with nature
4) Why did she stay awake on purpose until very late one evening
5) Why didn’t she dare open the window when the moon was too bright
6) How do you understand the expressions “spellbound” and “held me entirely in their powder”
2. 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 2 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, power helpless, depressed, lonely
Step3. Activity
Four students a group to discuss the situation:
Suppose you four have to hide yourselves for 3 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 3 months
How will you treat each other and make friends
Step4. Homework
1.Review the important words, phrases and difficult sentences in the text and make sentences using the words given by the teacher.
2.Finish Ex.1-3 on p4.