Learning about language
Teaching aims:
1. To discover and learn to use some words and expressions.
2. To enable students to rewrite sentences using direct or indirect speech
3. To learn more information about Anne.
4. To cultivate the spirit of cooperation, self-teaching and self-exploring.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
1. Review something about “Anne’s best friend” by using some True-or-False sentences
1) A friend would laugh at you. F
2) Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War II. T
3) She and her family hid away for one year before they were discovered. F
4) She kept a diary as others did.F
5) She was fond of nature. T
6) She stayed awake in the night because she couldn’t sleep well.F
7) She couldn’t go out as she liked.T
2. Collect the sentences students think wonderful or difficult to understand. Sample sentences
1) She and her family hid away for nearly twenty-five months before they were discovered.
2) 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.
3) There was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound.
4) The dark, rainy evening ,the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power.
5) It was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face. Step 2 Language points
1. grow crazy about sth.对…狂热,痴迷be crazy about …
eg. My cousin grows crazy about puter games.
2. go through
1). To examine carefully 仔细阅读或研究
I went through the students’ papers last night.
2). To experience 经历，遭受或忍受
You really don’t know what we went through while working on this project.
3.stay v. to continue to be in a particular state or situatioin
系动词，表是状态。后跟名词或形容词，不能用于被动语态和进行时态。 eg. He stayed single all his life.
4.make/call + O +Noun (as O.C.)
5.hide away
6.discoverColumbus discovered America in 1492.
7. set down: to write down something so that you have a record of it:
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