Learning about Language教学设计(第一课时)

Unit 2 English around the world Ｉ．Teaching Goals 1.

Target language a. 重点词汇和短语

include, play a role, because of, international, native, come up, culture, actually, present, vocabulary, usage, identity, such as, rapidly b. 重点句子

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 Ss 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 & ways

Step I Greeting T: Good morning / afternoon, boys and girls! Step II Warming up Arouse the Ss’

interests in reading. Let the students look at the pictures on the screen.(football,eraser,lift,flat) T: What are these in English? S: football ,soccer,eraser,rubber,lift,elevator,lift,apartment T: They call be called football,and also can be called soccer. Different name refers to the same thing. People in England call it football while people in America call it soccer. So we can know there is not only one kind of English in the world. S: 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. Ss: (scanning) There is more than one kind of English. T: Please go on reading and try to tell AE words from BE words below.

After reading the students give their answers.

T: Who will show your answer? S: I think “mum, in a team, rubber, petrol” are BE words. And “mom, on a team, eraser, gas” are AE words. T: Can you give them a name? Ss: World English.

T: Very good. Step III Pre-reading Activate the Ss’ 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 IV Reading

Get the students to know the history of English and help the Ss to form a good habit of reading. Point to the Bb. T: Please read the title “The Road to Modern English” and try to guess what the passage is about. Ss read quickly to find the answer. T: Any volunteer to answer the question? S: I will. English has changed over time. All languages change when cultures communicated with one another. T:The text mainly tells us the development of the English language. Task 1: Find out the topic sentences or the main idea of each paragraph. Careful reading: Read Paragraph 1 and find out the answer: Why did more people all over the world speak English? Read Paragraph 2 and choose the best answer. If an American is talking to an Englishman,_______. A. They will have almost no difficulty in understanding B. They will have a lot of misunderstandings between each other C. The American finds it difficult to understand the Englishman D. The English man finds it difficult to follow the American Read Para 3-5 and answer the question:

Why has English changed over time?\Because of cultural communication. How has English changed over time? First,find the time ,and then find what happens during the time. Step V Retell the text.(Fill in the blanks.)

At first, only people in ________ spoke English. Later,

people from England moved to other

parts, so English began to be spoken in ______ _____ _________.

Today, _______ people

speak English as their _____, second or foreign language. _______ English speakers can understand each other but ____

___________. All languages change when ________

communicate with one another. So there are British English, American English,

Australian English and so on. They all have their own ________. English is also spoken as a foreign or second language in _____ ____ _______.

Maybe one day Chinese English will become one of the world English. Step VI Presentation Ask students try to retell the text with the help of words on the screen. Step VII Discussion Why do so many people want to learn English ? Homework

Retell the text according to the chart.