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Teaching plan of unit I senior Book I
by Luo Lisong
Friendship
(The second period) Reading
Teaching aims and demands:
1) Enlarge the Ss’ vocabulary to express friendship.
2) Enable the Ss to describe the WW II in English.
3) Develop the Ss’ patriotism.
4) Improve the Ss’ reading skills and abilities.
Teaching focuses:
1) Background knowledge about the Second World War.
2) Improvement of reading abilities and skills.
3) Teaching some sentence structures and phrases’ usage.
Teaching methods: Talkative and group action methods
Teaching procedure
Warming up:
1. Warming up the class by asking the following questions:
Who do you think is important in your daily life?
Do you have many good fiends? Who is your best friend?
What qualities make a good friend?
2. Write down the Ss’ answers on the Bb and make a summary of the words expressing friendship.
Leading in
1. Lead the class to the text by asking the following questions:
Does a friend always have to be a person? What else can be your friends?
Do you think a diary can become your friend? Why or why not?
What do you know about the Second World War?
(Show some pictures about wars and ask the students to describe them and then widen the topic to the Second World War. Introduce something about the Second World War, the German Nazis and the Anti-Japanese War. We can use some materials to stimulate the Ss’ patriotism, to love our motherland, to defend our country.)
Reading :
1. Skimming: skim the text and answer the following questions:
Who/ what is Anne’s best friend?
(Anne’s best friend is her diary.)
When did the story happen?
(The story happened during the Second World War.)
2. Scanning: scan the text and find the answers to the following questions:
What did she do?
(She hid away in order not to be caught by the Nazis and at the same time she kept a diary. )
Why did she have to hide away together with her family?
(Because she was a Jewish and was hated by the Nazis.)
How did she enjoy herself?
(She kept a diary and looked upon her diary as her best friend. She told/ wrote down all about her deep feelings to it. )
Intensive reading
Students work in pairs and discuss the following open questions:
1. Why did the windows stay closed?
They shut the windows in order not to be found and caught by the Nazis.
2. How did Anne feel?
She was afraid of being found and at the same time was eager to touch the outside world.
3.What do you think of Anne?
There is no ready answer to this question.
4.What does the phrase “ hold me entirely in their power” from the context?
Be controlled completely. Or be moved deeply.
Post-reading
Listen to the tape and discuss the following question in groups
Suppose you four have to hide yourselves away 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.
1)What will you take? Why?
2)How will you spend the 3 months?
3)How will you treat each other and make friends ?
Sum up the students’ answers and help the Ss to learn how to survive in hard situation and how to enjoy and relax ourselves in hard conditions.
Homework
1) Read text again and again and try to find as many useful new phrases as you can in the text and try to paraphrase them in your own words in English.
2) Surf the Internet to find more information about Anne and to read more about Anne’s diary.
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