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《English around the world :reading》

I. The analysis of the teaching material:

Reading部分通过对英语语言的发展历史这一话题的探讨，加强学生对英语语言的了解，特别是对英语发展趋势的了解。通过本课的学习要让学生了解英国英语、美国英语等都有自己的惯用法和不同的发音规律。在完成本节课的学习后，学生能感受到英语语言的多层次和多元化，有助于培养学生的跨文化意识。

II. The analysis of the students:

我所带的学生，英语基础好的不多。大多数学生没有兴趣也没有耐心阅读完整篇文章更不要说掌握文意了。所以往往出现老师自问自答唱独角戏的情况。为了照顾所有学生，让每位学生都参与教学活动。在开展教研活动时，我们提出了因材施教的任务教学方法。效果颇好。在这一过程中，即使有些学生在前面的fast-reading中对课文认识不够，但经过后面的这一活动，绝大多数学生都能很好的理解课文。

III. Three dimensional teaching goals:

1. Knowledge and skills.

a. The students learn some new words, phrases and expressions through guessing.

b. The students can finish all the reading tasks through varieties of reading activities.

c. The students can find, analyze and solve the problems individually .

2. Process and methods.

a. The students predict the content of the reading passage by reading the titles.

b. The students skim the passage to get the general idea.

c. The students comprehend each paragraph better by reading intensively.

3. Emotion-attitude and value

a. To help students to learn more about English and train the interest to English.

b. To develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.  

IV. Teaching important and difficult points:

1.      How to arouse the Ss’ interest in learning English . How to help the Ss complete the reading tasks smoothly. To make the Ss know the situation of English around the world clearly. How to tell the differences between a command and a request; how to change the pronoun when turning the direct speech into indirect speech.

V. Teaching methods:

1. Communicative teaching method.

2. Situational teaching method.

3. Task-based teaching method.

4. Demonstration teaching method.

VI. Learning strategies:

1. Independent learning

2. Cooperative learning.

3. Exploring learning.

VII. Teaching aids:

A multimedia computer, a projector, a tape recorder

VIII. Teaching procedures:

Step1 Warming up

    Let the students look at the following picture, then ask them some questions like these: Which words in the picture are British English or American English?

Which country do you think has the most English learners？

[设计说明]

       通过看一个幽默的图片，用学生平时比较熟悉的词汇，引出英国英语和美国英语的区别，再用贴近学生的话题以及学生很想了解的英语常识激发学生的兴趣，活跃课堂气氛

Step2 Lead in

       I play a short video about people from England making voyages to conquer other parts of the world, then ask the students:

Why is English the most widely used in so many countries? Why has English changed over time？

[设计说明]

       兴趣是第一老师，有了对知识的探求兴趣，理解文章只是时间问题了。本环节通过看视频短片，让学生了解古代英国在海外的殖民拓展以及英语语言随之传播的历史，激发学生思考并了解为什么世界上说英语的国家最多，导入本节课的话题。

Step2 Pre-reading

Arouse the students’ interest by a questionnaire:

1.      What are we doing here today?

2.      Why do we learn English as a foreign language?

3.      Besides English, what other languages can you speak?

4.      In what situations do you speak English/ Chinese/ Qionglai dialect/ other languages?

Step3 While-reading  

1. Choose the best answers.

1) The text mainly tells us ________.

1. that old      English is different from modern English

2. how Middle      English formed

3. English      and its history

4. that      English will keep changing

2) At the end of the ______ century, about five to seven million people spoke English.

A. 14th            B. 15th          C. 16th

3) When did English begin to be spoken in many other countries?

1. At the end of      the 16th century

2. In the 17th      century

3. In the 18th      century

4. In the 19th      century

4) Why was Shakespeare able to make use of a wider vocabulary by the 1600s?

1. Because new      settlers enriched English and especially its vocabulary.

2. Because      Shakespeare made up many new words.

3. British settlers      moved to different countries

4. A new dictionary      was written

5) What happened to American English in the 19th century?

1. It became more      like British English.

2. It became more      like German.

3. English began to      be spoken in America.

4. Its spelling was      given a separate identity.

6) Who gave American English its own identity?

1. Shakespeare               B. George Washington

C. Noah Webster         D. Newton

7) Which of the following statements is not true?
A. English is one of the official languages in India.
B. English developed when new settlers and rulers came to Britain.
C. China has the largest number of English speakers.
D. Now more people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language.

2. True or False

1. English had the most speakers in the 17th century.

2. English developed when new settlers and rulers came to Britain.

3. Languages frequently change.

4. The languages of the government is always the language of the country.

5. English is one of the official languages used in India.

6. This reading describes the development of the English language.

3. Match the period with the important event.

4. Find the key sentence and summarize the main idea for each paragraph.

Para 1.

Para 2.

Para 3

Para 4

Para 5

Step 4 Post-reading

Group work

Ask and answer the questions like these:

When did five to seven million people speak English?

Why did English begin to be spoken in many other countries? Which country may have the largest number of English learners?

Answer questions:

Tell us what you learned from this lesson?

Why do you think people all over the world want to learn English？

Step5 Summary

Fill in the blanks to finish the Summary of the text and then retell it.

English is a language _______ (speak) all over the world. But at first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very ____________ the English spoken today. It __________ more ____ German ______ the English language we speak now. Later English became ___________ German because new settlers __________ the English language and its vocabulary. So by the 1600's Shakespeare was able to ____________ a wider vocabulary than ever before. Finally by the 19th century the language was _______ because dictionaries were written.

X. Teaching reflection:

通过学习课文学生对英语的现状已有一定的了解，但是对其起源和发展变化了解得不多，因此在讲授这一部分内容的时候，除了在课堂上给时间让学生进行讨论，课后查找相关的资料外，可更多地把重点放在输入性的听、读方面，向学生补充了大量的有关英语发展的背景知识，让学生更加地全面而深刻地了解和体会语言，特别是英语这种语言的发展及其在不同的地区所产生的差异，让学生感受英语语言的多文化，多层次和多元性。