Reading(2)：Cultural differences第二课时教案

江苏省常熟中学 校风：明理实学

M6U3 Reading 高二英语组

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Teaching Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to

(1) get the general idea of the passage and some detailed information. (2) master the uses of examples (3) attain the skills of summarizing (4) take the right attitude towards cultural differences and Chinese culture

Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Lead-in Guessing: where do they come from?

Step 2 Fast Reading 1.

Interviewer: _________ from China Interviewee: _________from__________

_________from___________ Topic: ______________________________ 2.

How the passage is mainly organized? 3.

Pick out the examples and put them in a correct order.

Step 3 Reading Strategy Examples are often used to_____________________________________________

to_____________________________________________

as______________________________________________

Step 4 Detailed Reading 1. Topic 1 Receiving presents Topic 2 Wedding Topic 3 Pointing gesture Topic 4 Taking off shoes Topic 5 Bonfire Night 2. What does Ma Li think about learning about cultural differences? (Within 9 words) _____________________________________________________________________ 3. To sum up the main idea of the passage. (About 30 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Step 5 Further reading (Read, Analyze, Summarize) Reading material: British and American English are different in many ways. The first and most obvious way is in the vocabulary. There are hundreds of different words which are not 1 学风：自学

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used on the other side of the Atlantic, or which are used with a different meaning. Some of these words are well known---Americans drive automobiles down freeways and fill up with gas; the British drive cars along motorways and fill up with petrol. As a tourist, you will need to use the underground in London or the subway in New York, or maybe you will prefer to get around the town by taxi (British) or cab (American).

But other words and expressions are not so well known. Americans use a flashlight, while for the British, it's a torch. The British queue up; Americans stand in line. Sometimes the same word has a slightly different meaning, which can be confusing. Chips, for example, are pieces of hot fried potato in Britain; in the States chips are very thin and are sold in packets. The British call these crisps. The chips the British know and love are French fries on the other side of the Atlantic.

There are a few differences in grammar, too. The British say: “Have you got...? while Americans prefer Do you have ...? An American might say. My friend just arrived, but a British person would say My friend has just arrived. Prepositions, too, can be different: compare on the team, on the weekend (American) with in the team, at the weekend (British). The British use prepositions where Americans sometimes omit them. (I'll see you Monday. Write me soon!).

The other two areas in which the two varieties differ are spelling and pronunciation. American spelling seems simpler: center, color and program instead of centre, colour and programme. Many factors have influenced American pronunciation since the first settlers arrived four hundred years ago. The accent, which is most similar to British English, can be heard on the East Coast of the US. When the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw made the famous remark that the British and the Americans are two nations divided by a common language, he was obviously thinking about the differences. But are they really so important? After all, there is probably as much variation of pronunciation within the two countries as between them. A Londoner has more difficulty understanding a Scotsman from Glasgow than understanding a New Yorker.

Some experts believe that the two varieties are moving closer together. For more than a century, communications across the Atlantic have developed steadily. Since 1980s, with satellite TV and the Internet, it has been possible to listen to British and American English at the Hick of a switch. This non-stop communication, the experts think, has made it easier for British people and Americans to understand each other. But it has also led to lots of American words and structures passing into British English, so that some people now believe that British English will disappear.

However, if you turn on CNN, the American TV network, you find newsreaders and weather forecasters all speaking with different accents—American, British, Australian, and even Spanish. One of the best-known faces, Monita Rajpal, was born in Hong Kong. China, and grew up, speaking Chinese and Punjabi, as well as English. This international dimension suggests that in the future, there are going to be many “Englishes”, not just two main varieties. But the message is “Don’t worry.”

Users of English will all be able to understand each other---wherever they are.

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Differences in (para1-4)___________ __________ ___________ _____________ 2.

British English vs American English (how many examples can you find?) _________________

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__________________ 3. What’s the purpose of these examples? _____________________________________________________________________ 4. What people think of the phenomenon? (Para.5-7) _____________________________________________________________________ 5. To sum up the main idea of this passage. (Within 30 words) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Step 6 Sublimation What attitude should we take towards cultural differences? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Step 7 Homework: Suppose you were Ma Li, finish the homework according to what you have learnt today. 3 学风：自学

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