Unit 1 Friendship

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I. Pre-reading1. Look at the pictures and the title of the re

ading passage. Guess what it might be ab

out.Anne’s best friend

2. Now observe the text carefully to find out:

• how many parts it contains• what the different parts are about

It contains two parts. One part is one page of Anne’s diary, the other one is the background knowledge about Anne and her diary.

Pre-reading

Background: World War II

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

The remains of Jews

（幸存者）

The Holocaust（大屠杀）

Victims

of the gas

chambers

（毒气室）

II. Fast reading

1. Read the first part of the reading section and answer these questions:

• Who was Anne’s best friend?

• When did the story happen?

Her diary―Kitty.

During World War II.

Skimming

The place of the story

The heroine’s （女主人公） full name

Her best friend

The length of time her family hid away

The time they started to hide

2. Fill in the form below:

Netherlands

Anne Frank

her diary--Kitty

over two years

Scanning

July 1942

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.

•Ann expressed_______________________ after hiding for a long time.

•________________________ kept Anne spellbound.

Skimming

her feelings about nature

Everything about nature

III. Careful reading

1. Read the diary carefully and fill in the table.

Time Nature Feeling

Before hiding

After hiding

blue sky, songs of birds, moonlight, flowers

never felt spellbound

darkness, rain, wind, thundering clouds

felt crazy

Careful reading

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

eager

excited

anxious

sad

lonely

earnest

crazycalm

How do you think he felt?

Josef, a Jewish boy rescued （解救） during World War II

Before he was rescued:

After he was rescued:

IV. Difficulties

Pick out the difficult sentences from the reading passage. Discuss in groups of four and work out the meaning together.

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 because…grow/be crazy about…

something/anything/everything 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

when 引导的定语从句（划线部分）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… 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 , 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 theGerman 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 awayJewishnot to be caught

outdoorsso crazy do with

at mid-

grown

night

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 to

face to face

lonely

my diary Kitty everything

the German Nazis

1. Read the text again and review the meaning and usage of the key words and phrases:

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

2. Retell the story yourself in the first person.

VI. Homework