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人教版普通高中课程标准实验教科书英语必修（1）

Unit 2 English around the world The First Period

Reading 黄彦江

Teaching goals

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Target language (1)Key words and phrases

-----include, play a role, because of, international, native, come up, culture, actually, present, vocabulary, usage, identity, such as, rapidly (2)Important sentences -----World Englishes come from those countries... P9 Native English speakers can understand each other... P9 It became less like German, and more like French... P10 2.

Ability goals Enable the students to describe the history of English and know of the differences between American English and Britain English. 3.

Learning ability goals Help the students learn how to analyze the way the author describes the history of English. Teaching important points

Retell the history of English according to the chart. Teaching difficult point

Work together with partners and express one’s opinion on which kind of English one should learn. Teaching methods Discussion. Reading,Listening,Cooperative learning. Teaching aids A recorder, a projector and some slides. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Greeting

Step 2 Warming up Arouse the Students’ interests in reading. Let the students know of world English.

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T: Can you name some countries in which English is spoken? Ss: Of course. America, Britain, Canada, Australia... (Teacher writes American, British, Canadian, and Australian on the Bb.)

T: Are these Englishes the same? S: I think they are the same. They are all called English. S: I don’t think so. As I know BE and AE are different in spelling, pronunciation and so on. T: Well, turn to page 9. Read the warming up. Please answer the questions below. Step 3 Pre-reading (Activate the students’ background knowledge of English.) T: From Warming up we know many people speak English in the world. How many people speak English and why do so many people speak English? Please discuss with your partners and answer the questions. (A few minutes later.) S: Maybe 1000 million people speak English today. Because many countries were colonies of England so English is spoken as a first or second language in many countries.

S: We can’t get the exact number. More and more people begin to learn English because English is the working language in the United Nations. Everywhere children go to school to learn English. T: Excellent! About 1500 million people speak English as their first, second or foreign language. But they don’t speak the same kind of English. Step 4

Reading

1.(Get the students to know the history of English and help the students to form a good habit of reading.) T: How did different kinds of English come about? Please read the text “The Road to Modern English” quickly and pick out the answer.

Task1: Read and choose correct answers.

Task2: Read and summarize the main idea of each paragraph. Work in groups of four. Task3: Analyze the text. T: Please read the text again to tell the main idea of each part and the function of each paragraph. After reading please fill in the chart below. 2.(Students have a discussion with their group members.) S1: The first part describes the history of English in chronological order: 16th century-the next

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century —today. S2: It describes the development of English from the angle of its extension in region. Look, England — many other countries — more people than before (China). S3: I agree with S2.

S4: In part two, the author first raises the fact: English has changed over time. Then analyze how English has changed into world English. 3.(Presentation) (1)Get students to read the passage again for some specific information. (2)Get students to fill in the following chart to finish the timeline and get to know the history and development of English. 4.Language practice(Consolidation&Extension) Help the students deal with new language points

Step 5

Post-reading Check the students’ understanding of the text,

Task: Express one’s own opinion. Work in groups of four. Show questions on the screen and ask a student to read them. Step6 Homework

Retell the text according to the chart. Finish exercises1, 2, 3 (Using words and expressions) P49-50.

The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard Time 5th century AD Between AD800 and1150 By the 1600’s In 1620 Later in the 18th century By the 19th century now

Development

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