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Unit 2 English around the world Warming up & Reading (教学设计）

Teaching goals 1. Help the students get to know about the history and development of English. 2. Strengthen the students’ reading skills of how to catch the detailed information. 3. Let students know more about English and inspire students to study English hard. Teaching important points The understanding and comprehension of the passage. Teaching difficult points How to improve students’ ability to read an article. Teaching methods Reading, listening, discussion and cooperative learning. Teaching procedures &ways StepⅠ Warming Up Lead the students to the topic by asking them to present an English joke. In order to let the students have a better understanding about the differences between American English and British English, the teacher will show them two passages about normal Chinese and Chinese dialect. Step Ⅱ Reading 1.

Pre-reading Discussion. “Why do people all over the world want to learn English?”

Ask the students to discuss freely and list the reasons, such as to use for business, to use for exam, to read English books, to study in western universities and so on.

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While-reading Skimming Ask the students to listen to the tape carefully. Give them one minute to think about the main idea of the whole passage according to the options on the screen. Scanning www.ks5u.com 版权所有@高考资源网

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In this part, the students will read the text quickly and accurately to find out the topic sentence of each paragraph and get the general idea of each parts. Detailed reading For this part, students could search and catch the detailed information of each part through finishing some tasks about the text. 3.

Post-reading After grasping the details of the parts, ask students to accomplish another task, then retell the text by filling the blanks.

Step Ⅲ Discussion Topic: As we all know, more and more people all over the world now want to learn Chinese. Do you think Chinese will become an international language in the near future? Why or why not? Please list some reasons. Step Ⅳ Homework 1. Read the text once again, discover some useful words and phrases, and underline them. 2. Finish the Ex. on P11.

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