Learning about Language全国优秀课堂实录

Unit 2 English around the World Period 4

Using language

Teaching Aim: Ss will be able to know that there are a lot of different dialects in the same language. Teaching procedures Step 1 Warming up Enjoy a clip of film. T: What do you think of the film? When watching the film, can you understand it well? _________________________________________________________ T: What made it difficult for you to fully understand the film? _________________________________________________________ T: How many local languages did you hear in this film? _________________________________________________________ T: In China, different areas have their different dialects. Can you tell me some of them? T: And people in different cities speak different dialects. Can people from different cities recognize each other’s dialects?

_________________________________________________________ T: How to solve this problem? Is there standard Chinese in China? What is it? Putonghua is regarded as standard Chinese. Although in daily life, local people speak their own dialects, in some occasions, they will have to use Putonghua to communicate with people from other areas.

(Give more hints to help the students.) T: What kind of language is used in our class now? _________________________________________________________ T: English is another kind of language.

What you said is of course right, while what I said is also not wrong. Why? Because what you said is British English while what I said is American English. Are British English and American English the same?

No, there are some differences between British English and American English. Then what are the differences? Do you know? Now I’ll tell you. British English and American English are different in pronunciation, in spelling and in words and expressions. In fact, in each English-speaking country, English has its own identity. Even in the same country, people in different areas speak a little different dialects. Then for people who learn English as a second language, what kind of English should they learn? American English, British English, Australian English or Canadian English? Is there standard English? Today, we’re going to learn a passage about standard English and dialects. Step 2 Skimming

T: Read the passage quickly and find out the topic sentence for each paragraph. Para.1: _________________________________________________________

Para.2: _________________________________________________________

Para.3: _________________________________________________________

Step 3 Scanning T: Read the text again to locate particular information. 1. Do you know what standard English is from the text? _________________________________________________________ But believe it or not, in fact there is no standard English. 

believe it or not

信不信由你

e.g Believe it or not, John cheated in the exams.

Believe it or not, the examination tomorrow is cancelled. 2. What is a dialect? _________________________________________________________ 3. Why does American English have so many dialects? _________________________________________________________ 

Play a part/ a role (in) 在……中担任角色；

在……中起作用

e.g He will play the part of the doctor in my latest film.

The UN plays an important part in international relations.

Step 4 Post-reading T: From the passage, we know the US is a large country in which many different dialects are spoken. Then do you think people from different areas can understand each other? Why? _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Step 5 Summary T: Language is rich and changing. As a learner, we should know about it as much as possible, keep up with its development and enjoy its beauty. Step 6 Homework 1.

Do the exercises in ENGLISH WEEKLY 2.

Keep an eye on dialects in our life.