Unit 2 English around the world
I Teaching Aims:
1.To develop Ss’ basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.Reading is the focus in this leon.Reading skills for Ss include (predicting, skimming, scanning and digesting.)
2.To encourage Ss to practice, participate, and co-operate in the claroom activities.
3.To get Ss to know something about English varieties, and have a better understanding of the importance of how to use a particular type of English variety.As for teaching approaches, I think the best choice would be task-based one.
II Teaching Approaches
Communicative approach and Computer-Aisted Instruction are to be used in the course of this leon.And I will try my best to limit TTT, that is, limit Teacher Talking Time and increase STT (Student Talking Time).
So during this leon, emphases are to be laid on:
1.Student-centered teaching
2.Task-based learning
3.Activity-based teaching (individual work; pair work; group work; cla work)III Teaching Aids:
1.a projector
2.a multi-media computer system
They are for showing Ss some pictures, some audio files, some visual files, some topics or reading tasks.
IV Teaching Procedure
Step 1 Warming-up & lead-in
Activity 1 Free talks (cla work)
I will invite Ss to answer the following Qs.
Q1: Do you know there is more than one kind of English?
Q2: Can you understand the different kinds of English that people are using?
Q3: If so, why? If not, why?
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Activity 2 Picture-talking (individual work)
I will show some pictures (a football, an eraser, a flat and a lift on the screen.) on the screen.Guiding Qs may be:
T: What’s this? ( Point to the football.)
S: It’s a football.
T: Yes.An Englishman usually calls it a football.But what do Americans usually call it? S: a soccer.
T: What about this one? ( Point to the eraser.)…
T: Well, as we know, there is more than one kind of English in the word.They are different from one another in some ways.Why has English changed over time? What will world English be in
the future? Do you know? Well, today, the paage “The Road To Modern English” will tell us.Now please open your books and turn to page 9.
Goal: To lead up to the topic, get Ss to warm up and arouse their interest in the topic.
Step 2 Pre-reading
Activity1 Look and gue (cla work)
In this activity, Ss are required to look at the title/subtitle and gue what they will read.Activity2 Brain-storming (cla work)
In this activity, Ss are encouraged to think of as many words as poible to describe the phenomenon of English varieties.
Goal: To develop Ss’ reading skill---predicting and present some new words in the paage such as subway, elevator, petrol, gas, official, voyage, conquer, native, come up, apartment, actually, base, at present, gradually,vocabulary, make use of, latter, identity， fluently, frequently, usage, command …
Step 3 Reading Activity 1 Skimming (cla work)
Ss are required to go through the whole paage quickly to get the general idea and pay special attention to the first or last Para of the article (or the first sentence or the last sentence of each Para.)
Goal: To develop Ss’ reading skill --- skimming, that is, how can we get the general idea of a paage as quickly as poible.
Activity 2 Scanning (group work)
Encourage Ss to read the paage again, exchange their understanding of the paage with their group members and work together to fill in the following form:
Title
Part/Para.
Main idea
Detailed information
1 a.topic sentences/introduction
b.examples/supporting ideas
c.conclusion
Goal: To develop Ss’ reading skill---scanning, that is, how to find out the clue of a story and motivate Ss to cooperate with each other.
Activity 3 Report (cla work)
Invite some group members to report their work to the whole cla.Goal: To overcome Ss’ shyne and stimulate Ss to speak in public.
Activity 4 Further understanding and word study (pair work)
Encourage Ss to discu the following Qs in pairs (A PowerPoint will be used here to present some blank-filling exercises and multiple choices.)
It is not easy for a Chinese person to speak English as ___ as a ___ English speaker.One reason is that English has a large ___.It also has different usage in different English speaking countries.If you use “flat” instead of “___”, people in America will know you have learned British English.If you use the word “___”instead of “lift” in Britain, people will know you have studied American English.
Q1: Which of the following statements is true or not true?
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Goal: To help Ss to gue the meaning of certain unknown words and understand the paage exactly.
Step 4 Post-reading
Activity1 Role-play(pair work)
Suppose one student is a British and the other is an American.Ss are encouraged to put themselves in the situation and make a face-to-face dialogue.
Activity2 Discuion (Group work)
Topics may be : Q1: When did five to seven million people speak English? Q2: Why did English begin to be spoken in many other countries?
Q3: Which country may have the largest number of English learners?
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Activity3 Retelling the story (group work)
Retell the history of English and tell the differences of ancient English and modern English, British English and American English.
Goal: These post-reading activities are intended to develop Ss’ speaking and logical thinking.Step 5 Homework
Task 1 Write a summary of the paage (about 100 words) (Individual work)
Goal: To spur Ss to consolidate what they have learned.
Task 2 Look up some more information about … (Individual work)
Encourage Ss to go to the school library or get on the Internet if poible to consult related English websites on the topic.
Goal: To encourage Ss to study English spontaneously and independently after cla, arouse Ss’ interest in traditional Chinese culture and develop Ss’ culture awarene and cro-culture communicative skills.
That’s all for my presentation.Thank you very much.Bye-bye.
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