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.

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.

1. grow crazy about sth.对…狂热,痴迷be crazy about …

eg. My cousin grows crazy about computer 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.discover   Columbus discovered America in 1492.

7.  set down: to write down something so that you have a record of it:

 I want to set down my feelings on paper.

Other verbal phrases of “set”

set aside: to keep some money or time for a special purpose

set off: to start to go somewhere/ to cause a explosion

set out: to start a journey/ to talk about something in an organized way

set up: to start an organization/ to build something

8.  ourdoors / indoors  Don’t stay indoors since the weather is so fine.

9.  well     They speak well of him.    Well done.

10  on purpose   I came here on purpose to see you.

11  in order to   In order to catch the train , she hurried through her work.

12  too much/ much too   

13  entirely   For him, this will be an entirely new hobby.

14 in one’s power / out of one’s powers

15 it was the first/second time that …

     It is the first time that he has been in this city.

     It was the second time that he had made the same mistakes

16 face to face 

     I rushed out of the office and found myself face to face with the boss.

17.far  adv. “过于；…得多” ,表示程度，经常与too或形容词、副词的比较级连用。

eg. She speaks English far better than I.

   This room is far too warm.

cf. very, much, far

18.dare 1) modal. v. 多用于否定句、疑问句、条件状语从句、whether (if)等名词性从句或有否定意义的句中，后接动词原形。没有人称和数的变化,其时态只有现在时和过去时。否定式在其后加not.

eg. How dare he say such a word!

  If you dare do that again, you’ll be punished.

2) vt. 敢，胆敢。有人称、数和时态的变化。在否定句和疑问句中，dare后的to可保留也可省略。

eg. I wonder how he dare to day such words.

19．happen to do sth.

It so (just) happened that…不能用于进行时态。

eg. I happened to be out when he came. = It so happened that I was out when he came.