Period 1 Warming-up and Listening

1. Teaching objectives: 1) Target language

I (don’t) think…… I (don’t) think so. I (don’t) agree. I believe…… That’s correct. In my opinion, …… 2) Ability goals

a. Describe your friends in English

b. Figure out the problems between friends and then find different ways to solve the problems.

3) Learning ability goals

a. To encourage students to think and talk about friends and friendship by using some phrases and structures. b. To learn to solve problems that may occur between friends.

c. To cultivate the students to form the good habit of learning English in Senior Middle School.

2. Teaching important points:

a. Use the given adjectives and sentence structures to describe one of your friends. b. Learn to evaluate friends and friendship.

3. Teaching difficult points:

a. Work together with partners and describe one of your good friends. b. Discuss with partners and find out ways to solve the problems.

4. Teaching methods

a. Task-based teaching and learning b. Cooperative learning c. Discussion

5. Teaching aids:

CAI

6. Teaching procedures and ways: Step 1 Greetings

Greet to the whole class in English. At the beginning of the first class, we can get the students to talk about their summer holidays and their relationship with their friends in their summer holidays.

Step 2 Lead-in

Before the lesson, the teacher can arouse the students’ interests by showing a video of A Forever Friend.

Step 3 Warming-up

Are you good to your friends? Do the survey at P1. Add up your score and see how many points you get. Grade I 4-7 points

You are always thinking about yourself. You should care more about your friends. If you continue to be self-concerned and don’t consider others’ feelings, you won’t make more friends and keep friendship for long. Grade II 8-12 points

You take things smoothly. You seldom hurt your friends with your benefit considered. You are a good friend, but You’d better try to strike a balance between your friend's needs and your own responsibilities． Grade III 13-18 points

Wow! How faithful and generous you are! Congratulations! You are always ready to help your friends. Whenever they have any difficulty, you’ll try your best to help them. You are an excellent friend Step 4 Presentation

Learning new words in warming-up 1. calm

? adj. 平静的，镇静的

E.g. The high wind passed and the sea was calm again.

? vi. 平静，镇静

E.g. The situation calmed down slowly.

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? vt. 使…平静，使…镇静 E.g. At last we calmed him down. 2. upset

(upset, upset, upsetting)

? vt. 使心烦，使不安 E.g. Don’t upset yourself.

? adj. 心烦意乱的，心情不舒适的 E.g. She was upset at not being invited. 3. be concerned about / for 关心，挂念

? E.g. ① Every teacher is concerned about his students’ study.

② If you don’t go home on time, your parents will be concerned about your safety. 4. share

? Vt. 分享，分担 share sth. with sb.

E.g. She always shares happiness and worries with me. Step 5 Group discussion

1. Do you need friends? Why? (by using the new words in warming-up)

2. What do you think a good friend should be like? (using some adjectives)

Step 6 Listening and speaking

1) Read the text at P6 and find out the answer to the following question. What was upsetting Lisa?

2) Listen to the tape and answer the following question.

Does Miss Wang advise Lisa to end the friendship with the boy?

3) Listen to the tape and find out the information to fill in the blank.

4) Group discussion. You may use the expressions in P6

Do you agree with Miss Wang?

What do you think of the friendship between boys and girls? Step7 homework

1. Preview reading “ Anne’s Best Friend”

2. Making sentenses with the new words learned in warming-up

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Period 2 Reading I

ANNE`S BEST FRIEND ------杏南中学 黄素莉老师

Teaching objectives:

1. Develop the students’ reading ability.

2. Learn to use some reading strategies such as guessing, note-taking, skimming, scanning and so on. 3. Enable the students to value the friendship between friends by learning and reading the text. 4. Keep a clear view of the war. Teaching Important Points

1. How to improve the students` ability of skimming, scanning and guessing when reading the text. 2. Understand the contents of the diary by Anne and know the importance of having friends. Teaching Difficult Points

1. How to make the students understand the reading passage better. 2. Use the adjectives to describe one of your friends. 3. Learn to evaluate friends and friendship. Teaching Aids: CAI Teaching methods:

Task-based teaching and learning Cooperative learning

Fast reading and Careful reading Discussion

Teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead-in (3m) Questions :

1. Do you have any good friends? What qualities should a good friend have? Brainstorm some adjectives to describe your good friends.

2. Does a friend always have to be a person? What else can be your friend? What about a diary? Step 2 Pre-reading (4m)

1. Do you know about Anne and Anne`s diary? 2. Background Information

? Born on June 12,1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during

the Holocaust（大屠杀）.

? This diary was written during the time when Anne and her family moved to escape from being killed by

Nazis. She died just before her 16th birthday and less than a month before the surviving Jews were liberated. ? On August 4, 1944, they were arrested and sent to the concentration camp.

? Today Anne`s diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the

world.

3.Reading methods

when

who

why

where what

how

Step 3 Skimming (3m) Fill in the form below. The time of the story:

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The place of the story: The heroine of the story: Anne’s best friend : The length of time they hid away: The date of the diary: Step 4 scanning (5m) 1.Answer the questions quickly. Para.1 (3m) ? Why did they have to hide?

Because her family was Jewish and they were afraid of being caught by the German Nazis. ? How did she enjoy herself at that time? She kept a diary.

2.Matching. (2m) Join the correct parts of the sentences.

1) Anne kept a diary because She couldn’t meet her friends.

2) She felt very lonely because Jews were caught by Nazis and killed. 3) They had to hide because She could tell everything to it.

4) Anne named her diary Kitty because She wanted it to be her best friend. Step 5 Intensive reading(13m)

1.Read the passage again and fill the following forms:(5m) Time Nature Feeling Before hiding After hiding 2.Students work in pairs to discuss the following open questions. (5m) ① Why did the windows stay closed? ② How did Anne feel? ③What do you think after reading Anne’s diary? hate ________________ long for ________________ Keys: ①They shut the windows in order not to be found and caught by the Nazis. ②She was afraid of being found and at the same time was eager to touch the outside world. ③hate wars and terrors

long for peace and freedom 3.Guessing in groups (3m)

Read the dairy again . Then discuss in groups and find the words which describe Anne’s feelings and thoughts from the passage to fill in the blanks. free (Para.1) ______

interested (Para.1) __________

helpless, depressed, lonely (Para.2 three words) _________ _________ _______ Keys: outdoors; spellbound; thundering power entirely Step 6 Discussion(15m)

Four students a group to discuss the situation:

Suppose your four have to hide yourselves for 3 months. During the three months, you will be offered the basic food, water and clothes. You have no telephone, computer, or TV at home.Your group can take 5 things with you.

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