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Unit 2

(一）Teaching aims:

1.Get the students to master some important words, phrases and sentence patterns.

2.Enable the students to use the language points by themselves.

(二）Teaching important points:

Master the usages of words and expressions More than, come up, over, be based on, present, a/the number of, present,base, command, request, recognize, because of, come up, at present, make use of, such as, play a part (in)

Patterns

because of that, English began to b spoken in many other countries.

Actually all languages change and develop…

The latter gave a separate identity to American English spelling.

(三）Teaching difficult points:

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

3.To help students understand and use some important words and expressions

4.To help students identify examples of Indirect Speech (II): request & commands in the text

(四）Teaching techniques:

PPT

(五）Teaching process:

1.Warming up

(1)Good morning, class. We have been learning English for several years. But how many English-speaking countries are there in the world? Now let’s make a list of them on the blackboard.

English Countries Explanation

Mother tongue the United Kingdom

the United States of America

Canada

Australia

South Africa

Ireland

The people in these countries are native speakers of English. In total, for more than 375 million people English is their mother tongue.

Second language India

Pakistan

Nigeria

the Philippines These people speak the language of their own country at home but the language of the government, schools, newspapers, and TV is English.

etc. The number of people who learn English as a foreign language is

more than 750 million.

⑵ Warming up by answering questions about English

Good morning, class. Today we shall start learning Unit 2 English around the world. But how much do you know about English?

●What is Standard English?

Standard English is the form of English that most people in Britain use, and that is not limited to one area or group of people.

●What is a dialect?

A dialect is a variety of a language spoken only in one area, in which words, or grammar are slightly different from other forms of the same language.

●Do we have standard Chinese? What is it?

In China there are so many dialects that the government encourages the whole nation to speak Putonghua, which is regarded as standard Chinese.

⑶Warming up by giving reasons

Unit 2 English around the world is what we are going to learn today. We are all learning English now because English is so popular in the world. But do you know why it is so? How many reasons could you giving for the spread of English around the world?

* English is one of the official languages of the Olympic Games and the United Nations.

* English dominates international websites and provides nearly all of the new computer terminology.

* Tourism and trade from Western Europe and North America has contributed to the spread of English.

* Satellite TV, radio programs like Joy FM, CDs and, of course, Hollywood films all broadcast English into China. Also, a number of Chinese films include English subtitles.

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?

for work, as a hobby, to learn about other people, to travel, to read literature in the original, to read research papers, to meet foreigners, to surf the Internet, to pass exams, etc.

Go on with your reasons. I shall write your suggestions on the board as you make them.

3. Skimming the text for general ideas

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.

4. Reading and filling

Read the text to complete the chart below.

Time English is influenced by…

AD 450-1150 German

1150-1500 French

In the 1600’s Shakespeare, who make use of a wider vocabulary than ever before

By the 19th century Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster

Now Languages in South Asia, in Singapore, in Malaysia, in Africa and in China

5.Reading and copying

6.Next we shall go over the text once more. This time try find and copy all the useful expressions down in your notebook.

Useful expressions

at the end of…, make voyages, speak English as…,

in the next century, change over time, communicate with…, be based on…, at present, become less like…, rule England, enrich the English language,

make use of…, move to…, later in the 18th century, give a separate identity to…, have a very large number of…, fluent English speakers, become the language for…, develop one’s own identity, increase, rapidly