Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教案3

教学设计

扶风高中英语组

王青

人教版必修1 课题：unit 2 English around the world 课时

Reading

The road to modern English Goals and demands Knowledge aims

1.To help students get to know about English development 2.To help students better understand “learning English”

Ability aims Develop the students reading ability and let them learn to use some reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on.

Emotional aims Enable the students to learn about English language and know different kinds of English so as to communicate with people from different countries.

Focus Get the students to learn different reading skills. Get the students to learn about the English language. Teaching procedures Step1 Lead-in

To arouse the students’ interest and lead in the topic, the teacher can organize some activities.

Step 2. Pre-reading We are learning English here. But why are we learning it? Could you suggest to the class as many reasons as you can think of, why people in the world learn English?

1.How many people speak English in the world today? 2. Do you like English? Step 3 Reading 1. Skimming Now we go to page 9 to skim the text for the main idea of each paragraph. Paragraph 1: The spread of the English language in the world Paragraph 2: Native speaker can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. Paragraph 3: English changes and develops when cultures meet and communicate with each other. Paragraph 4: By the 19th century English is settled. Paragraph 5: English is spoken as a foreign language or second language in South Asia. 2.Scanning Read the text to complete the chart below.

Time

AD English is influenced by…

German

800-1150 1150-1500 French

In the 1600’s

Shakespeare, who make use of a wider vocabulary than ever before By the 19th Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster century Now Languages in South Asia, in Singapore, in Malaysia, in Africa and in China 3. Reading and copying Next we shall go over the text once more. This time try find and copy all the useful expressions down in your notebook.

4. Learning about language points even if=even though: in spite of the fact; no matter whether: He likes to help us even if he is very busy. communicate with: exchange information or conversation with other people: He learnt to use body language to communicate with deaf customers. actually =in fact: used when you are adding new information to what you have just said: We’ve known for years. Actually, since we were babies. Step4 Post-reading Fill in the blanks to complete the summary of the text. British English, 1_____ as Standard English or Oxford English,

underwent 2 _____ as the colonization 3 _____ North American and the creation 4 _____ the United States occurred. British English words changed 5 _____ American English words, such 6 _____ centre to center, metre to meter, theatre to theater, favour 7 _____ favor, honour to honor, labour to labor, neighbour 8 _____ neighbor, cheque to check, connexion 9 _____ connection, gaol to jail, the storey of a house 10 _____ story, and tyre for tire. Since 1900, words 11 _____ consistent spelling but different meanings 12 _____ British English to American English include: 13 _____ let for to rent, dual carriageway 14 _____ divided highway, lift for elevator, amber for yellow, 15 _____ ring for to telephone, zebra crossing for pedestrian crossing, and pavement for sidewalk.

Step5 Discussion Get the students in groups to discuss how their generation could influence English. Step 6 Homework Learn the new words and expressions in this part by heart. Read the text again and again. Try to retell it.