人教修订版英语高一上Unit 2 English around the world
单元教案2

Function Goals
1.Learn about differences between American and British English
2.Learn about communication skills
3.Use reported requests : He asked me to Use reported commands: She told me to
4.Writing a passage comparing American and British English
language Goals
1 words and expressions :
stay up end up with come about all the way make oneself at home at high school all around the world on the radio a good knowledge of leave the door open turn down except for
through the Internet on the phone more or less in the same way over the centuries
bring in a great many have difficulty in doing sth.
2 sentences:
1) With so many people communicating in English every day, we can see that
2) There is no quick answer to this questions.
3) For a long time the language stayed the same, while the language in England changed.
4) Written English is more both or less the same in both British and American English.
5) However, most of the time people from the two countries do not have any difficlty in understanding each other.
3 Grammar:
Go on to learn Direct Speech and Indirect Speech
Periods 8

Period one
Teaching Aims
1.Learn a dialogue about American and British English
2.Learn the text “English around the world”
Teaching Important Points:
1.Improve the Ss’ ability of reading an article.
2.Ss get a general idea of the history of English
3.Let Ss learn how to summarize the outline of the text by looking through it .
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to train Ss’ ability of reading and ability of summarizing an article.
Teaching Methods:
Discussion, fast reading, careful reading
Teaching Procedures:
1 Lead-in
Questions about English: Do you like English? Why? How long have you been studying English? In which country do people speak English as their mother language? In which country do people speak English as their second language? Are the American English and the British English the same?
2 Warming-up
1) Yes, the American English and the British English are much the same, but there are some differences in fact. Joe , an American comes to Britain for the first time and is puzzled. Why ?
2) Talk about the picture: Look, where is he? What does he look for in fact?
3) Read out the dialogue and ask more questions: How did Joe get to London? Did he have a good sleep? Why did Nancy give him a new towel? What did he actually want?
4) language points:
have a good flight, make yourself at home,
3 pre- reading
T: What language has the largest number of speakers? What language is most widely used and spoken? How many languages can you speak? In what situation do you speak Chinese? What about English?
T: What does the sentence” The world is a village” mean?
Is it necessary for us to learn the reason why English id used so widely all over the world.? Maybe you want to know more .Let’s read the passage English around the world
4.Fast reading
1) ( Skimming) Look through the text and then answer: Why will it be more and more important to have a good knowledge of English? ( Because many people communicate in English every day )
2) Reading comprehension exercises ( show on the screen)
5 Careful reading
( Scanning ) read it more carefully and answer:
1.How many people use English as their mother tongue?
2.How many people learn English as a second language ?
3.How is English used in countries such as India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Philippines?
4.How may people learn English as a foreign language?
6 Read out the passage and write the outline of each part .
Part 1 More than 750 million people speak English as their native language or a second language.
Part 2 More than 750 million people learn
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