Unit 1 Friendship

Period 2Reading

I Pre-reading

Look at the pictures and make a brief description

about these pictures

Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced

to go into hiding during the Holocaust

AnnAnnee

Anne’s diary

What do you know about the World War II?

What has the German Nazis done to the Jewish?

In Nazi Germany, Jews were required to wear a yellow star of David on their clothing.

Jews being rounded up by Nazi soldiers and forced to leave home.

Polish Jews on their way to a Nazi death camp

Jews in a concentration camp （集中营）

A mass grave

Victims of the gas

chambers （毒气室）

In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Many European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence. By 1945, nearly two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the "Final Solution," which was the Nazi policy to murder all the Jews of Europe.

“A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.” – Oct 16, 1946

Hans Frank (Governor of occupied Poland, convicted as a major Nazi war criminal in 1945)

Read fast and 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

World War II

Netherlands

Anne

Diary/kitty

Two years

Thursday 15, June, 1944

Fast reading

3. Join the correct parts of the sentences.

1.Anne kept a diary because

2.She felt very lonely because

3.They have to hide because

4.Anne named her diary

Kitty because

A.she couldn’t meet her friends.

B.Jews were caught by Nazis and put away.

C.she could tell everything to it.

D.she wanted it to be her best friend.

Fast reading

4. Read the diary quickly to find out the main idea of the diary.

•Anne expressed _______________________after hiding for a long time.

•______________________kept Anne spellbound.

Skimming

her feelings about nature

Everything about nature

Interview: suppose you are a TV host, you are interviewing Anne about herself and her dairy. You can use the following questions and of course you can raise your own question as well.

1. What is a true friend like in Anne’s opinion?

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?

Detail Reading

1. What is a true friend like in Anne’s opinion?

In Anne’s opinion, a true friend is a person whom you can trust. That’s to say, you can tell everything to this person.

2. What is an ordinary diary like according to Anne? What about her diary?

According to Anne, an ordinary diary is where most people like to set down a series of facts. But Anne wrote down her deepest feelings and thoughts in her diary. She told everything to her best friend --- her diary.

3. Why was she so crazy about

things to do with nature?

Because she had been indoors too

long, she was so eager to see the

outdoor world --- the blue sky, the

singing birds, the beautiful

flowers, the bright moon.

4. Why did she stay awake on

purpose until very late one

evening?

Because she wanted to have a

good look at the bright moon.

5. Why didn’t she dare open the window when the moon was too bright?

Because she was afraid that she might be discovered by the German Nazis.

Careful reading

Anne’s feelings as she was looking out at the night sky

eager

excited

anxious

sad

lonely

earnest

crazycalm

Read the passage again and fill the following form:

Time Nature Feeling

Before hiding

After

hiding

Blue sky, songs of birds, moonlight, flowers

Never felt spellbound

Darkness, rain, wind, thundering clouds

Grew crazy

Reading-III----filling (4m)

• What did Anne want to express through this diary?

How did Anne feel about nature before they hide away?

What do you think changed her feelings towards nature?

Why did Anne no longer just like looking at nature out

of the window?

• What’s Anne’s tone? sad, angry, happy or thrilled? give

• your reasons.

Post reading

Discussion:Suppose you are being chased by someone, and you are trying to hide away. Where do you want to hide? ( discuss with your desk mate and tell us why you want to hide there.)

If you plan to take five things with you in the hiding place, what will you choose? Give us the reason why you take these things.(write down these five items on a piece of paper and then check them with your partner.)

What is the similarity among the three persons?

Post reading

Difficulties

1. I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature.

• it’s …that …• grow/be crazy about…• to do with…

我不知道这是不是因为我很久无法出门的缘故 ,我变得对一切与大自然有关的事物都无比狂热。

2. I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound.

Difficulties

我记得很清楚，以前，湛蓝的天空、鸟儿的歌唱、月光和鲜花，从未令我心迷神往过。

spellbind v. 吸引人；迷人

Keep sb spellbound: 令…着迷 , 神往 .

when 引导的定语从句 , 修饰句中的 time

Difficulties

3. It was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face…

It’s the first time that sb have/has done … 某人第一次做某事face to face... 面对面

这是我一年半以来第一次面对面目睹夜晚。

4. I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows.

hanging before very dusty windows 现在分词短语做后置定语 , 修饰 curtains.

我只能透过肮脏的窗帘看大自然 ,窗帘悬挂在沾满灰尘的窗前。

Difficulties

Retelling

I lived in ___________in the ______________ during _____________. My family were ______, so we had to ___________ for a year and a half in order ________________ by the German Nazis. During that time I wasn’t able to go ________ for so long that I had ______________ about everything to _______ nature. Once, I decided to look at the moon ___________ by myself.

Amsterdam NetherlandsWorld War II

hide awayJewish

not to be caught

outdoors grown so crazy

do withat midnight

Retelling

But I didn’t _______ open the window to see the night ___________ because I was afraid of being discovered by the Nazis.

I felt very _______ without seeing my old friends. So I had to make a new friend --_____________, whom I could tell _________ to. Sadly, at last my family was discovered and caught by _______________ sometime later.

dare toface to face

lonely

my diary Kitty everything

the German Nazis

Keep these useful phrases in mind

do sth. on purpose, in order to, face to face, hide away, set down, a series of, go through, hold…in one’s power, no longer