unit 1 friendship
period 1 a sample lesson plan for reading
(anne’s best friend)
introduction
in this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to answer questions about “friends” and “friendship”. then they will be helped to read a narration （记叙文）entitled anne’s best friend. it’s a story about a jewish girl named anne, who made her diary her best friend. examples of “warming up” designs are presented in this book for teachers’ reference. computer and overhead projector may be used to aid the teaching and learning.
objectives
一、to help students learn to express attitudes, agreement & disagreement and certainty
二、to help students learn to read the text and learn to write diaries in english
三、to help students better understand “friendship”
四、to help students learn to understand and use some important words and expressions
五、to help students identify examples of direct speech & indirect speech (i): statements and questions in the text
focus
wordsupset, ignore, calm, concern, settle, suffer, recover, pack
expressions add up, calm down, have got to, be concerned about, go through, set down, a series of, on purpose, in order to, at dusk, face to facer, no longer/ not …any longer, suffer from, get/ be tired of, pack (sth.) up, get along with, fall in love, join in
patterns “i don’t want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do,” said anne. →anne said that she didn’t want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do.
i stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven…
…it was the first time in a year and a half that i’d seen the night face to face…
