Learning about Language公开课教学设计模版

Learning about language ●课时安排

本单元教学可分为6个课时。第一课时vocabulary;第二课时为reading；第三课时为language points；第四课时为grammar；第五课时为using language；第六课时为writing and speaking；第七课时为revision

The Second Period

The Road to Modern English Teaching aims : 1. Warming-up: Enable students to know the differences between British English and American English. 2. Reading:

(1)Develop students’ reading abilities and get them to know the development of English language. (2)Talk about difficulties in language communication. Teaching important points : 1. To carry out the four reading tasks and get most students understand the passage. 2. To give a summary of whole passage. 3.

To be able to use the different learning strategies for different reading purposes. Teaching methods: Brainstorming, cooperative-learning Teaching procedures : Step 1、Self-directed learning Task：

(1) Get the students to discuss in groups about the differences between British English and American English, and give some examples. Method: 小组竞赛，写的最快最多的小组获胜。

（2）Ask students to read passage in warming up and then write the following words

词汇

美式

英式

电梯

秋天

比赛

电影

糖果

Step 2、精讲互动

Task 1:

Fast reading.

Let the students read the text as quickly as they can, then decide whether the statements are true or false:

（1）There is no difference between American English and British English.

（2）Written English is the same in both American English and British English.

（3）Sometimes people from the two countries do have difficulty in understanding each other.

（4）The English language in the world always stay the same as the language used in Britain.

Task 2 : Careful reading.

1. Let the students read the passage carefully and then make a time line of the development of English. 2. Let the students read the passage again and fill in the blanks with the words from the text. It is not easy for a Chinese person to speak English as ___ as a ___ English speaker. One reason is that English has a large ___. It also has different usage in different English speaking countries. If you use “flat”

instead of “___”, people in America will know you have learned British English. If you use the word “___”instead of “lift” in Britain, people will know you have studied American English.

3. Let the students listen to the text carefully and repeat the sentences. Step 3、Practice

Learning methods:

第一步：个人独立完成。

第二步：小组合作核对答案并讨论。

第三步：老师重点讲解。

________All languages change when cultures communicate with one another. The English spoken between AD

and 1150 was quite

from the English spoken today .It’s based more on

than the English we speak at present. Later, it became less like German. One big change in English

happened when the American Dictionary of the English Language, which gave American English a separate

, came

. Now India has a large number of English speakers. This is because English became the language for

and education during 1765 to 1947 , when Britain ruled India . English is also spoken in many other countries in Africa and Asia, such

South Africa, Singapore and Malaysia. The number of people learning English in China is also increasing

Step 4

Group work

Ask and answer the questions like these: When did five to seven million people speak English? Why did English begin to be spoken in many other countries? Which country may have the largest number of English learners?

Step 5 Summary and homework Today we’ve learned an article on “the road to modern English”. After class，you should read it again and again to get the idea of the text further. That’s all for today.

Class is over.