T: Now who’d like to answer the first question? Volunteer! Sa: Let me try. I think friends are important to all of us. Because we need to help with each other.
Sb: We also need someone to care and understand, to share sorrows and happiness. Sc: Everyone needs a friend to be true to us whether near or far apart. T: Quite right. Next question?
Sd: I think my good friend should have a lot in common and our thoughts are always near.
Se: I need my friends to give me courage to solve all kinds of problem. Sf: I think my friends should support me whenever I need help. Sg: I’d like my friends to communicate with me frequently.
Sh: In my opinion, my friends should have the same kind of sense of humor so that we can laugh together.
T: Terrific! I wish everyone to have some good friends whose friendship always be treasured in our hearts. Not only can we make friends with human beings, but also with animals and even things that have no life. How about the third question?
Si: Yes, because persons can understand and communicate with each other more easily and conveniently.
Sj: I think other things like pets, books, toys, balls, and instruments can also be our friends.
T: Wonderful! You have a very great imagination. Now who can answer the last question?
Sk: Yes, I think so. Because you can tell everything to it freely, it can accompany me all the time. It never needs me to pay back.
Sl: But I don’t think so. Because it’s unbelievable for a person to communicate with a diary. And your secrets will be easily and completely let out in case that it is read by others or your diary books are lost. If I had been Anne, I would have made friends with my parents.
T: Most of our friends are human beings, but sometimes we make friends with animals or even things like diary. You’ve done an excellent job.
Step IV Reading Scanning
Get the Ss to comprehend the passage quickly and accurately and meanwhile help the Ss to form a good habit of reading. Teacher gives the Ss a couple of minutes to look through the whole passage. Tell the Ss to read the text silently and then ask some detail questions about the text on the slide show with their partners. Teacher encourages the Ss to express their ideas.
T: We’re going to learn a passage about Anne’s best friend. The story happened during World War II. Now let’s look at the slide show. Read the text quickly and find answers to the following questions. Show the questions on the screen.
1. What was Anne’s friend? How and why did Anne make it her only true friend? 2. Had Anne ever been spellbound by nature before? How about being in the hiding place? Why? 3. Why didn’t she go downstairs one evening until the window had to be shut? T: Now who can tell me what was Anne’s best friend? How and why did Anne make it her only true friend?
S1: Anne made her diary her best friend, to whom she could tell her deepest feelings and thoughts.
S2: Because during World War II, as Jewish, Anne and her family had to hide away in order not to be caught by the German Nazis.
S3: After hiding, she didn’t dare to go out. She felt very lonely and unhappy. So she couldn’t meet her old friends and make any other new friends besides her diary. S4: Maybe she didn’t trust others except her diary, to whom she could tell everything. S5: She didn’t set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do, treating her diary as her friend, to whom she told her deepest feelings and thoughts. T: Exactly. How about question 2?
S6: No, she hadn’t. Nature had never have kept her spell-bound before she came to Amsterdam.
S7: After being in the hiding place, Anne had grown crazy about everything to do with nature.
S8: Because she didn’t dare to face nature, being afraid of being discovered by the Nazis.
S9: But she was eager to enjoy the light and longed for the peace and happiness. T: Quite right. Question3?
S10: Because she was held entirely in the nature’s power. S11: She didn’t dare to face the night except that evening.
S12: She was always worried about being caught by the Nazism, although she was crazy about nature.
S13: It exposed the heroine’s complicated and conflicting spirit mood of either scaring and hating the war and oppress, or longing for peace and looking forward to happiness.
T: Well done! I think you may continue to read it again to get more details. Skimming
In this part, the Ss will read the text again and then work together with their partners to get the main idea. Then teacher shows the form on the screen. Give the a few minutes to fill in the form about the whole text. Check the answers with the whole class.
T: Now please skim the passage fast to get the main idea with your partners.
S1: It exposed the crimes that the Nazis oppressed the Jewish and made them suffer the extreme misery and hardship.
S2: It showed the common ideal and wish of the whole world people, hating wars and terrors while longing for peace and freedom.
T: Good job. Now let’s try to obtain a general under-standing of the whole passage, including the diary. While reading, please fill in the form. Show the form with blanks on the screen. Anne’s best friend What Her diary What kind When Where Told everything to World War II Amsterdam , Netherlands Hid away not to be caught What happened Sample diary Time Nature Feeling Before hiding Blue sky, songs of birds, Never felt spellbound moonlight, flowers After hiding Darkness, rain, wind, Grew crazy, held in their power thundering clouds T: Now it’s time for us to check the form. Explanation
T: Now let’s deal with some language points. Turn to Page 2. Let’s look at the sentences.
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.
This sentence means that Anne couldn’t go out for so long that she had felt wildly
exited about nature.
For example, when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself.
This sentence tells us that on a very warm evening, Anne stayed up until half past eleven so as to look at the moon for once by herself.
It was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face....
This sentence means that it was a year and a half since she and her family hid away and she had a look at the moon face to face with the window open by herself. Step V Comprehension
Read the passage again. First ask the Ss to do Ex 1 by themselves. And then do Ex 2 with their partners. At last, get them to discuss the answers of Ex 3 in groups of 4. T: Now please read the passage again and then turn to page 3. First let’s do Ex 1 by
yourselves. A few minutes later.
T: OK, now let’s check the answers with the whole class. Ss: 1. Anne kept a diary because she could tell everything to it. 2. She felt very lonely because she couldn’t meet her friends. 3. They had to hide because Jews were caught by Nazis and put away. 4. Anne named her diary Kitty because she thought it was her best friend. 5. They were finally caught because they were discovered.
T: Now, it’s time for us to do Ex 2, please talk about the answers with your partners. The Ss are talking about their choices.
T: All right! Let’s choose the correct answers and tell us why.
Ss: 1. D. Because in her diary, she wrote that “it was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face.”
2. C. Because “she wanted a friend whom she could tell everything to, like her deepest feelings and thoughts.” But it’s dangerous to trust others easily in the hiding place.
3. D. Because she wrote in her diary that “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.”
4. A. Because “Her family was Jewish so they had to hide or they would be caught by the German Nazis.” And “The moon gave far too much light.” That means the moon was so bright that it might make the Nazis discover her family hiding there. If so, they would be caught.
5. B. Because the diary was written in June, 1945 and it was in a year and a half that she’d seen the night face to face.
T: Now let’s deal with Ex 3. Please look at the slide show. Now I’ll give you a few minutes to discuss the answers to the two questions in groups of 4. Show the questions on the screen.
1. What would you miss most if you went into hiding