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• Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who wrote while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II
• Anne's family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank’s office building
• After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and transported to the concentration camp system where Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen within days of her sister, Margot Frank
• Otto Frank, Anne's father, was the only survivor of the group and returned to Amsterdam after the war ended
• Anne's diary, titled "The Diary of a Young Girl," chronicles the events of her life from 12 June 1942 until its final entry of 1 August 1944
• The diary was eventually translated from its original Dutch into many languages and became one of the world’s most widely read books
• Anne Frank's diary provides an intimate examination of daily life under Nazi occupation
• Anne started the diary to enhance the image of a long-awaited friend in her imagination, calling this friend 'Kitty'
• Anne's diary was originally written in Dutch
• Anne provides a brief sketch of her life to give background information about her family and experiences
• Anne treats 'Kitty' as an insider, as she confides in the diary as if it were a friend
• Anne loved her grandmother, and her family life is described as loving and close-knit
• Mr. Keesing, Anne's teacher, was annoyed with her for talking too much and assigned her extra homework as punishment
• Anne justified her chatterbox behavior in her essay by arguing that talking is a student's trait and an inherited trait that cannot be corrected
• Mr. Keesing allowed Anne to talk in class after she wrote a humorous poem about chatterboxes
• Anne's diary entries are personal and introspective, reflecting her thoughts and experiences as a young girl during a tumultuous time
• Compound words and their meanings:

  • Heartbreaking: producing great sadness
  • Homesick: missing home and family very much
  • Blockhead: an informal word which means a very stupid person
  • Law-abiding: obeying and respecting the law
  • Overdo: do something to an excessive degree
  • Daydream: think about pleasant things, forgetting about the present
  • Breakdown: an occasion when vehicles/machines stop working
  • Output: something produced by a person, machine or organisation
• Phrasal Verbs:

  • Get on: She’s eager to get on in life (succeed)
  • Run away: The visitors ran away with the match (won easily)
  • Run out of: Our car ran out of petrol just outside the city limits
  • Reach out to: The government wants to reach out to the people with this new campaign
• Idioms:

  • Quaking in its boots: Our entire class is quaking in its boots (very scared)
  • Not to lose heart: Until then, we keep telling each other not to lose heart (not to lose hope)
• Expressions with 'eye':

  • Caught my eye: The painting caught my eye as soon as I entered the gallery
  • Laugh ourselves silly: The comedy show made us laugh ourselves silly
  • He’d had enough: After waiting for hours, he’d had enough and decided to leave
  • Can’t bring myself to: I can't bring myself to tell her the truth
• Expressions with 'heart':

  • Break somebody’s heart: Breaking up with him will break somebody's heart
  • Close/dear to heart: Her childhood memories are close to her heart
  • From the (bottom of your) heart: She thanked him from the bottom of her heart
  • Have a heart: Have a heart and help him out
  • Have a heart of stone: Despite his situation, he has a heart of stone
  • Your heart goes out to somebody: Your heart goes out to somebody when you see them in pain
• Contracted forms:

  • Can’t = cannot
  • I’d = I would or I had
  • She’s = she is
  • Didn’t = did not
  • Won’t = will not