The Third Period
Teaching goals
1. Target language
Words and expressions: majority, native, total, in total, tongue, mother tongue,
equal, government, situation, except for, international…
Communication: English is a language spoken all around the world.
With so many people communicating…
2. Abilities: Enable Ss to learn about the historical development of English.
Teaching key points: Realize the importance of learning English and loving our country.
Teaching methods: Discussing or cooperative learning.
Teaching Aids : a multi-media room
Teaching Procedures:

Step Ⅰ. Lead-in
Step Ⅱ. Warming-up (多媒体展示multi-media slides show)
Step Ⅲ. Pre-reading Team work /group work.
StepⅣ Reading (Language points)
a number of / a lot of / a world of / a sea of / a good deal of / a good many,
except / except for / except + 从句 / but / besides,
widely /wide , wide / broad , close / closely , high / highly , deep / deeply ,
in communication / in trade , trade in / with , answer key + to ,
answer to / for , stay up / sit up / stay away from,
end up as / in / with / adj. , have diffuculty with sth / in doing sth ,
Step Ⅴ. Homework / Classwork
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1．The English is the mother tongue of  375 million people in English speaking countries such as the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland among others.
2．The number of people who learn English as foreign language is more than 750 million. Most people learn English for five or six years at high school.
3．English is the working language of most international organizations, international trade and tourism. English is also the language of global culture, such as popular music and the Internet.
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