Unit 1 FriendshipPeriod 2

Reading

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

passage. Guess what it might be about.

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）

In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Many European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence. By 1945, nearly two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the "Final Solution," which was the Nazi policy to murder all the Jews of Europe.

Recent research, by Professor Yisrael Gutman and Dr. Robert Rozett in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, estimates the Jewish deaths at 5.59–5.86 million, and a study headed by Dr. Wolfgang Benz presents a range from 5.29–6 million.

“A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.” – Oct 16, 1946

Hans Frank (Governor of occupied Poland, convicted as a major Nazi war criminal in 1945)

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 storyThe heroine’s （女主人公） full nameHer best friend

The length of time her family hid awayThe time they started to hide

2. Fill in the form below:

Netherlands

Anne Frank

her diary--Kitty

over two years

Fast reading

Scanning

July 1942

Fast reading

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.

•Anne 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.

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.

3. It was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face…

4. I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows.

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

V Summary

1. According to the information in the table below try to use the first person to retell the story:

What her diary

What kind told everything to

When World War II

Where Amsterdam, Netherlands

What hid away so as not to be caught

Anne’s best friend

Time Nature Feeling

Before hiding

blue sky, songs of birds, moonlight, flowers

never felt spellbound

After hiding

darkness, rain, wind, thundering clouds

felt crazy, held in their power

Anne’s feeling

Summary

Retelling

I lived in ___________in the ______________ during _____________. My family were ______, so we had to ___________ for a year and a half in order ________________ by the German 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 awayJewish

not to be caught

outdoors grown so crazy

do withat midnight

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 toface 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