Step1.Warming up
Activity1:Suppose you have to stay indoors to hide yourself for a whole year. You can never go outdoors, otherwise you will be killed. You have no telephone, computer, or TV at home.
How would you feel?
What would you do?
Four students a group discuss with each other for 2 minutes.
Activity2: Play a short part of the movies Schindler's List
Step2. Predicting
Students read the title of the passage and observe the pictures and the outline of it to guess:
Who is Anne's best friend?
What will happen in the passage?
Step3. Skimming
Students skim the passage in 2 minutes to get the main idea :
Who is Anne's best friend?
When did the story happen?
Step4. Scanning
Students work in pairs to find the information required below:
Step5. Intensive reading
Students work in group of four to discuss the following open questions:
1.Why did the windows stay closed?
2.How did Anne feel?
3.What do you think of Anne?
4.Guess the meanings of "spellbound", " hold me entirely in their power" from the discourse(语篇,上下文).
5.Which sentences attract you in the passage?
Step6. Activity
Four students a group to discuss the situation:
Suppose you four 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 andmake friends ?
Step7.Assignment
Task1.Surf the internet to find Anne's Diary and read some of it. Print out a piece of the diary and write down your feelings after reading it on the page. We will share the pieces and your feelings with the whole class.
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