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必修一 Unit2 English around the world
Reading
Teaching aims:
Knowledge aims:
1.Get the students to learn following new words and expressions: voyages, native, apartment, actually, base, gradually, Danish, vocabulary, spelling, latter, identity, fluent, Singapore, Malaysia, come up, at present, because of, make use of, such as
2.Get the students to learn about The English language
Ability aims:
Develop the students’ reading ability and let them learn to use some reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on
Emotional aims:
Enable the students to learn about the English language and know different kinds of English so as to communicate with people from different countries
Key points of teaching:
1. Get students to learn different reading skills
2. Get the students to learn about the English language
Difficult points of teaching:
Develop the students’ reading ability
Teaching methods:
1. Task-based teaching and learning
2. Cooperative learning
3. Discussion
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
Last period, we have talked about the differences in English in differences places. Today, let ’s learn more about
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the development of the English language.
Step 2 New words in the passage
Step 3 Reading
Task 1 skimming
Ask the students to read the text quickly to get the main idea of each paragraph.
Para.1 Many people all over the world speak English.
Para.2 Native speakers can understand each other even if they don't speak the same kind of English.
Para.3 Why has English c hanged over time ?
Para.4 Finally by the 19th century the language was settled.
Pa ra.5 English is now spoken wide in south Asia.
Task 2 Scanning
Read the text quickly and try to get some details from the text. Work in pairs and try to ask and answer questions from the text
Q1. How many people spoke English at the end of the 16th century? Where di d they live?
Q2. Why is English to be spoken in many other countries in the next century?
Q3. Which country has the largest number of English speakers?
Q4. Why has English changed over time?
Q5. Why does India have a very large number of English speakers?
Suggested answers:
A1. At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke English.
A2. In the next century, people from England started moving to other parts of the world, so English began to be spoken in many other countries.
A3. China may have the largest number of English speakers.
A4.Because all languages change when cultures communicate with one another.
A5.India has a very large number of English speakers. This is because Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947.
Task 3 Careful-reading
Comprehending exercise 2
Task 4 comprehending Read the passage and finish comprehending exercise 1
(Go through the comprehending exercise and make sue the students know what to do)
Step 4 Discussion
Comprehending exercise 3
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Homework
Exercise 1 and 2 in Discovering useful words and expressions
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