1. A book that will steal your heart and soul
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大连开发区一中　王丽

2. Curriculum focus Cultural awareness: Reading Skills:
Help the students get a general idea of The Book Thief and the author.
Reading Skills:
Help the students improve reading abilities.

3. If you like reading books, have you read The Book Thief?
going shopping
watching TV or seeing films
playing some sports
What do you like doing
in your spare time?
playing computer games
enjoying music
reading books
If you like reading books, have you read The Book Thief?

4. Skimming
Read the passage quickly to get some basic information about the book.
Name
Genre
Author
Setting
(time)
( Place )
Characters .
The Book Thief
Novel
Markus Zusak, an Australian
World War Ⅱ
Himmel street in Molching, Germany
A young girl named Liesel Meminger; her foster parents– Hans and Rosa Hubermann

5. Background Knowledge
Australian author Markus Zusak was born in Sydney in He is the son of an Austrian father and German mother and he is the youngest of four children. At the age of 30, Zusak is considered as one of today's most innovative and poetic novelists. With the publication of The Book Thief, he is now being dubbed a 'literary phenomenon'  by Australian and U.S. critics. Zusak is the award-winning author of four previous books for young adults: The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe recipient of a 2006 Printz Honor for excellence in young adult literature, Getting the Girl, and I Am the Messenger. He lives in Sydney, with his wife and daughter.

6. Scanning
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions about the story.
1. What happens to Liesel’s brother?
Her brother is sick and dies on the way.
2. How does Liesel’s brother’s death influence her?
She gets nightmares that jerk her awake at night at the house of her foster parents.

7. 3. What shows that “human kindness and love for one’s fellow man can exist and thrive”?
Hans and Rosa take in and raise Liesel. Hans paints over Nazi graffiti on a shop owner’s door. They hide a Jew in their basement.
4. What helps ease Liesel’s pain of loss for her brother and mother?
A book and her foster parents’ love for her.

8. Vocabulary heartbreaking hook foster nightmare take in raise
Pay attention to the following words. Match them with their meanings according to the context.
allow sb to stay in one's home
bring up (a child, etc)
happening unexpectedly or by chance
relieve (the body or mind) from pain, anxiety, discomfort, etc
take care of and bring up (a child that is not legally one's own)
making a person feel great sadness
become addicted to sth
frightening dream
heartbreaking
hook
foster
nightmare
take in
raise
accidentally
ease

9. Consolidation Try to fill in the blanks according to your memory.
heartbreaking
hooks
Book Thief is a ____________ novel that _____ you from the very first page. During ____________, Liesel and her brother are on their way to a ______ family located in _________. But her brother ______, which gives Liesel _________. Life on Himmel Street is ______ and far from “_______”, but her foster parents _______, ______ and love her very much. And Liesel loves them too. When the girl ___________ picks up a _____, she keeps it. Her foster father teaches her how to read. The book and her foster parents’ love help ______ the pain of losing her mother and brother. Both her foster parents are examples that human ______ and _____ for one’s fellow man can exist and thrive.
World War Ⅱ
foster
Germany
dies
nightmares
poor
heaven
take in
raise
accidentally
book
ease
kindness
love

10. Bye Bye