1. Why do you need friends? Make a list of reasons why friends are important to you. 2. Does a friend always to be a person? What else can be your friends? 3. Skim the first paragraph of the reading passage below and find who was Anne’s best friends.
2. Does a friend always to be a person? What else can be your friends?
No, I don’t think so. A dog, a cat, a camera, an MP3,or even a mouse can be a friend. Yes, I think so. (Because persons can understand
Families were separated and transported in trains. For many days, they went without sanitation , food, water or fresh air. To avoid this terrible fate, some Jewish families went into hiding, often with the help of non-Jewish friends. This diary was written during the time when Anne and her family moved to escape from being killed by Nazis.
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.
Detail Reading
Read the whole text and try to find out the answers to the following questions. 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?
Unit One
Friendship
Reading Reading
Pre-reading
Read the following questions or statements, discuss with your partners and try to find out the answers to them.
Because she was afraid that she might be discovered by the German Nazis.
Discussion Discussion
1. What would you miss most if you went into hiding like Anne? Explain why.
each other easily.)
3. Skim the first paragraph of the reading passage below and find who was Anne’s best friends.
Her diary was her best friend.
Background
I would miss my relatives and friends, my school, the department store and the lovely nature. Because I long for freedom and peace and I think these ought to be done by anyone freely.
2. How would you describe Anne’s feelings when she was looking out into the night sky?
1. What would you miss most if you went into hiding like Anne? Explain why.
Her diary Told everything to World War II Amsterdam, Netherlands Hid away not to be caught
Scanning
Fill in the form below: The time of the story World War II The place of the story
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.
Anne’s father
Anne’s mother
Anne’s Frank Anne’s aunt
Born on June 12, 1929, Anne was a German-Jewish girl who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust (大屠杀).
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.
Lead-in
Look at the pictures and the heading discuss and guess what the text might be about.
outdoors
curtain
indoors
curtain
outdoors
indoors To avoid being found by German Nazis, they had to stay indoors. Usually they had to had the curtains drawn so as not to attract unwanted attention, let alone going outdoors.
This is a true story. It took place in Amsterdam, Holland in the early 1940s after the German Nazis had occupied most of Europe. The Nazi Party ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. One of their key policies was to kill all the Jews in Europe. If any persons known to be Jews were found, they would be sent to concentration camps farther east, mostly in Poland.
Language points
1) reason--- a cause or explanation for sth. that has happened or that sb. has done (理由, 原因） often used in: a) the reason for (doing) sth. e.g. 1. I have no particular reason for doubting
2. How would you describe Anne’s feelings when she was looking out into the night sky?
Anne’s feelings were very sad and lonely for she realized what she was missing by going into hiding.
The heroine of the story
Netherlands Anne her diary--Kitty
over two years
Thursday 15,June,1944