Unit 1 Anne’s best friendLook at the pictures and the title of the reading passage. Guess what it might be about.Anne’s best friendNow observe the text carefully to find out:• how many parts it contains• what these parts are aboutIt contains two parts. One part is the background knowledge about Anne and her diary and the other is one page of Anne’s diary.Pre-readingPre-readingIn Nazi Germany, Jews were required to wear a yellow star of David on their clothing.Jews being rounded up by Nazi soldiers and forced to leave home.Polish Jews on their way to a Nazi death campJews in a concentration camp （集中营）A mass graveThe remains of Jews （幸存者）The Holocaust（大屠杀）Victims of the gaschambers（毒气室）• In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Many European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence. By 1945, nearly two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the "Final Solution," which was the Nazi policy to murder all the Jews of Europe.• Recent research, by Professor Yisrael Gutman and Dr. Robert Rozett in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, estimates the Jewish deaths at 5.59–5.86 million, and a study headed by Dr. Wolfgang Benz presents a range from 5.29–6 million.• “A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.” – Oct 16, 1946 Hans Frank (Governor of occupied Poland, convicted as a major Nazi war criminal in 1945)II Fast reading1. Read the first part of the reading section and answer these questions:• Who was Anne’s best friend?• When did the story happen?• Where did the story happen?Her diary---Kitty.During World War II.SkimmingAmsterdam in the Netherlands1)_______2)______...
