1st Teaching Period

1st Teaching Period

    I  Warming up
    1.   Friendship is very important in our life, do you agree?
    Do you often get in touch with your friend?
    How do you keep in touch with them? ( short messages, cards, qq, )
    Don’t you think writing is a good way? (people nowadays like something quick)
    2   Are you good to you friend? Make the following survey. Add up your score and see how many points you can get?  (students make the survey, add up the score according to page 8)
    (The teacher ask some students how many points they get for the survey and assess their values of friendship):
    ★ 4~7 points: You are not a good friend. You either neglect your friend’s needs or just do what he/she wants you to do. You should think more about what a good friend needs to do.
    ★ 8~12 points: You are a good friend but you sometimes let your friendship become too important, or you fail to show enough concern for your friend’s needs and feelings. Try to strike a balance between your friend’s needs and your own responsibilities.
    ★ 13+ points: You are an excellent friend who recognizes that to be a good friend you need balance your needs and your friend’s. Well done.
    (You may also show your students the results above and let themselves self-reflect upon their own values of friendship)
    3  Group Discussion:
    What should a good friend be like?
    A good friend should: (possible answers)
    ? tell me the truth (honest)
    ? be good to me (friendly)
    ? be willing to consider or accept others’ ideas or opinions (open-minded)
    ? be willing to help others (generous or helpful)
    ? be good-tempered
    ? think about what others need and try to help them (caring)
    ? be loyal to their responsibility (responsible)
    ? not easily upset (easy-going)
    ? be out-going (like to meet and talk to new people)
    ? be tolerant (allow other people to have different opinions or do something in a different way)
    ? be selfless (to name but few)
    II  Pre-reading
    Group work:
    List the reasons why friends are important to us. (possible answers)
    ? to cope with stressful situations in life
    ? to share my worries and secrets in my inner world
    ? to show my concern for other people
    ? to let other people share my happiness
    ? to unfold to other people the secrets in my heart (to name but few.)
    Does a friend always have to be a person? What else can be our friend? How about a diary?
    III Reading
    1. Skimming and note making:
    When?
    Where?
    Characters?
    Main idea?
    The time of the story World War II
    The place of the story The Netherlands
    The girl in the story Anne
    The girl’s best friend Her diary
    How long did they hide away Nearly 25 months
    When did the girl write the diary beside? Over 1 year after they hid away,
    or Thursday 15, June, 1944
    2.  Listening and reading comprehending
    exercise 1 and 2 on page 3             (check the answers and explain)
    3 Discussing difficult and long sentences
    (group working first with students finding out the sentences and helping each other, and then teachers explaining)
    eg.
    Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts? ( to whom?  what is like your deepest…)
    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.
    (meaning? )
    I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky….
    That dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power.
    It was the first time in a year and a half that I’d see the night face to face….
    4 Finding the sentences and phrases you like most and learning them by heart.
    eg.
    I can well remember…
    …in order to have a good look at
    the dark raining evening…..
    IV  post-reading
    Pair work:  Retell Anne’s story in your own words. Help each other to improve your story.
    V  Assignment
    1. exercises on page 4: learning about language
    2. reading task on page 44 and exercises on page 45
    3. Introduce one of your best friends and explain why he/she/it is important to you. Give examples. (Group work)