I. Teaching ContentThe topic of this unit is friends and friendship. In these reading from The Diary of Anne Frank, students will see how a lonely and frightened teenager copes with a very unusually stressful situation. She dose this by confiding in Kitty, the name of her diary. Anne didnt want to set a series of facts in diary as most people do, but she want her diary to be her friend. So Anne called her diary Kitty. She examines her problems and tries to find a way to deal with them. II. Teaching important and difficult pointsTeaching important points:1. Talk about friends and friendship and get the students to learn different reading skills.Teaching difficult points:1. Understand the real meaning of friends and friendship.2. Discuss the questions.What would you miss most if you went into hiding like Anne and her family? Explain why.How would you describe Annes feelings as she was looking out into the night sky?III. Teaching aims1. Get the students to learn about the following words and expressions:go through; hide away; set down; a series of; outdoors; crazy; spellbound; on purpose; dare; happen to do sth.; Its the first time that2 to promote the Students abilities of reading comprehension3. Help the students to find the words and phrases that they find most difficult and help them to understand.Ability aims:Help the students develop their reading ability and learn to use some reading strategies such as guessing, key sentences, skimming, scanning and so on.Emotional aims:Enable the students to realize the importance of friends and friendship, value the friendship between friends by learning the reading text and tell true friends from false friends in their lives.IV. Teaching MethodsTask-based teaching and leaning 2. Cooperative learning 3. Discussion V. Teaching AidsMultimedia devices and PPT documentVI. Teaching procedures:Step 1: Lead-in1.Play two songs on friendship, then ask the students what they are about. 2. Have a discussion about friendship with the students. Get the students to make a list of three qualities a good friend should have. （honest , helpful , trustworthy, tolerant, easygoing, responsible）Step 2: Pre-readingActivity 1: Ask students some questions 1. Why do we need friends?( Friends are very important to everyone. When you are happy, you can share your happiness with your friends; when you are not happy, your friends will also can to help you) 2. Does a friend always to be a person? why?(No, may be is a book or a dog) 3. What is Annes best friend? (her diary)Activity 2: predicting. Students are asked to predict what happened to Annes family by looking at the picture and the title of the passage. Write down students responses on the blackboard in order that they can confirm their predictions later while reading the text. Thus, students learning strategy of predicting is improved and their curiosity is aroused.Activity 3: based on Leading-in questions ask students to guess what the reading text is aboutStep 3: While-reading Activity 1: Skimming Questions Designed for Skimming. It involves students reading a text in order to locate specific information quickly. Get the Students to skim the passage silently and quickly and ask them to try to guess answers 1) what Anne s friend was ?.what the passage is about by reading the title and having a quick look at the pictures in this passage without reading it.2)Get the students to skim the first two paragraphs to confirm their guessing.3)Ask students to scan the passage and complete the exercise 1Anne kept a diary because(C) A. she couldnt meet her friends.She felt very lonely because(A ) B. Jews are caught by Nazis and put away.They have to hide because (B) C. she could tell everything to it.Anne named her diary Kitty because(D) D. she wanted it to be her best friend.2. Scanning the passage and get the each paragraphs main idea. ParagraphsMain IdeasParagraph 1Anne made her diary her best friend whom she could tell everything.Paragraph 2Annes diary acted as her true friend during the time she and her family had to hide away for a long time.Annes diaryHaving been kept indoors for so long, Anne grew so crazy about everything to do with nature. .Activity 2: careful reading. Questions Designed for careful reading 1. Ask student to read passage carefully and answer following questions 1) Why did Anne make friends with her diary? Anne made her diary her best friend, to whom she could tell her deepest thoughts and feelings. 2)Did she have any other true friends then? Why?3) What is the difference between Annes diary and those of most people? Anne doesnt want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do. she want this diary to be her best friend.4)Do you keep a diary? What do you think most people set down in their diaries?2. Ask students to read pas