Unit 1 Friendship Questions 1 Do you need

Unit 1 Friendship

Questions : 1. Do you need friends? 2. Do you think friendship is important in your life? Why do you think so? 3. Do you have any good friends? What do you think of them?

Reasons I need friends: to cope with stressful situations in life to share my worries and secrets in my inner world to show my concern for other people to let other people share my happiness to unfold to other people the secrets in my heart

Brainstorming-I----words (3 m) Words about friends: lovely helpful quick-minded （思维活跃的） honest brave wise loyal smart handsome pretty kindhearted talkative（爱说话的） silent careful generous（大方的） unselfish （不自私的） diligent （勤奋的） active creative thoughtful humorous responsible open-minded funny kind ….

Make a list of the qualities a good friend should be…. . . funny brave strong beautiful rich

The qualities of a good friend humorous loyal responsible honest Good friend patient kind friendly helpful

Pre-reading (1)---questions Does a friend always have to be a person? What else can be your friend? Do you think a diary can become your friend? Why or why not?

Pre-reading(2) Look at the pictures and the title of the reading passage. Guess what it might be about. Anne’s best friend

Pre-reading(3) 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.

Anne’s Best Friend

Scanning: Join the correct parts of the sentences. 1. Anne kept a diary because A. She couldn’t meet her friends. 2. She felt very lonely because B. Jews were caught by Nazis and put away. 3. They have to hide because 4. Anne named her diary Kitty because C. She could tell everything to it. D. D. She wanted it to be her best friend.

Skimming: Read the passage again and fill the following form: Time Nature Before hiding Blue sky, songs After hiding of birds, moonlight, flowers Darkness, rain, wind, thundering clouds Feeling Never felt spellbound Grew crazy

Careful reading: v 1. About how long had her family been in the hiding place when she wrote this part of her diary? v 2. Why do you think her feelings changed towards nature?

Answers: 1. About two years. 2. Her feelings have changed because she was no longer able to go out as she pleased because she is in hiding. Losing freedom has mad her feel more excited about good and beautiful things around her.

Difficulties Listen to the tape and 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。

Difficulties 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. when 引导的定语从句（划线部分）修饰句 中的time spellbind v. 吸引人；迷人 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。

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。

Difficulties 4. I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains 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。

Summary: Fill in the blank I lived in ______in the _______ Amsterdam Netherlands Jewish during _______. My family were ______, World War II hide away so we had to ______ for a year and a half not to be caught in order ________ by the German Nazis. During that time I wasn’t able to go grown so crazy ____ for so long that I had _______ outdoors do with about everything to _______ nature. Once, I at midnight decided to look at the moon ______ by myself.

Summary: Fill in the blank dare to But I didn’t _______ open the window to see face to face the night ______ because I was afraid of being discovered by the Nazis. lonely I felt very _______ without seeing my old friends. So I had to make a new friend -my diary Kitty everything _______, whom I could tell _____ to. Sadly, at last my family was discovered and the German Nazis caught by ________ sometime later.

Activity: discussion Suppose you and your partners 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 ?

Homework 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.