1、The Second Period ReadingTeaching goals教学目标1. Target language目标语言:a. 重点词汇和短语of all time, compile, revise, contract, quotation, publication, comprehensive, slip, obsolete, enlarge, basis, critic, illustrate, obscure, omit, simplified, based on, filing systemb. 重点句子 1. Samuel Johnson was one of Britai
2、ns greatest literary figures of all time. 2. He signed a contract in June 1746 but the dictionary did not appear until 1755. 3. they were all unhappy with existing dictionaries, including Samuel Johnsons. 2. Ability goals能力目标Enable the students to talk about the first English dictionaries.3. Learnin
3、g ability goals 学能目标Help the students to talk about the first English dictionaries.Teaching important points 教学重点 Learn about English dictionaries and how to use a dictionary.Teaching difficult point 教学难点Learn to think in English. Teaching methods 教学方法Task-based activities. Teaching aid 教具准备A record
4、er, a projector and some slides.Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式Step I Revision and Lead-in Greet the students and check their homework. T: Now Ill check your homework this way: write the ticked words or phrases with the meanings and examples on the Bb, making necessary explanations. Whod like to s
5、how your work to the class?Possible answers: 1. Of all time: always, beyond the memory of menExample: Tom is a top student in our class of all time during the three years.2. compile: to gather into a single book Example: Our teachers are compiling learning resources for us to prepare for the entranc
6、e examination. 3. revise: to prepare a newly edited version of a bookExample: The Oxford English Dictionary has been revised many times.4. contract: an agreement between two or more parties Example: It is necessary to sign a contract before you rent a house. 5. quotation: a passage quoted Example: I
7、n his speech, he used many quotations from Shakespeare.6. publication: an issue of printed material offered for sale or distribution Example: The publication of the encyclopedia is a great success.7. comprehensive: so large in scope or content as to include much Example: We love our English teacher
8、because he has a comprehensive knowledge.8. slip: a small piece of paper Example: They didnt listen to the teacher carefully in class and handed slips around for fun.9. obsolete: no longer in use Example: He has an obsolete car and now hes fattened for it. 10. enlarge: to make larger or add to Examp
9、le: Our school will be enlarged in three years.T: Wonderful job! Now please look at these photos of the two men on P72 and 73, When do you think they lived? (Come to Reading, Activity1 naturally)S: From the hair and the trappings they should be in the 18 or 19 centuries. T: Thats reasonable. What na
10、tionality do you think they were?Ss: Maybe Britain.T: En. What do you think their occupations were?S: They were working with a lot of books, so they must be litterateurs or scientists.T: Yes, I think what you said makes sense. If you want to get the right information about them, please read the firs
11、t passage fast and get the general idea about itStep II Reading (1)Careful-reading T: Are you Ok? What do you know in the passage?S: It tells us the story about Samuel Johnson, who compiled the first English dictionary, making usknow how the dictionary came out and what the first dictionary was like
12、.T: Very good! Now, lets read the text again carefully to learn more about the passage. Ill give you some questions on the screen, read the passage with them. When you finish your reading, you can have a short dissection about them. After that, I will check your answers. Show the following. 1. Who i
13、s Samuel Johnson?2. What did he do from 1746 to 1755?3. What were conditions about the dictionaries in England at the time?4. How many words were contained in Johnsons dictionary and how many did he omit? 5. Does Johnsons dictionary have any faults and does it a good one at that time?After a few min
14、utes. T: Do you have any ideas about the questions?S: To the first questions: Samuel Johnson was one of Britains greatest literary figures of all time. He was critic, poet, biographer and lexicographer. S: The second: From 1746-1755, Samuel Johnson compiled the first real dictionary of the English l
15、anguage published in Britain.S: The third: At the time in England, dictionaries were usually written by one person, usually a writer, and were often just lists of difficult or obscure words. Some definitions were embarrassingly.S: To the fourth one: Johnsons dictionary contained 40,000 words and he
16、omitted 8,000 words because he thought there were too many foreign words.S: To the last one: Yes, Johnsons dictionary had many faults. For example, it was old-fashioned, had on help with pronunciation and was used older spellings. But his dictionary was the best one at that time and was available fo
17、r nearly 150 years.T: Very good! Ok, after answering these questions, I think you have known clearly about the text, so now lets go through the words meanings given in Activity 2, read the passage again and find these words. Three or four minutes later, Ill check your work.Possible answers: 1. spell
18、 2.generation 3.biographer 4.revise 5.contract 6.poetStep III Reading (2)T: Do you know how the Oxford English Dictionary came out? Well now, please read the next passage. Before reading, go through the questions.After a few minutes. T: Who were originally responsible for the concept of the OED?S: R
19、ichard Chenevix Trench, Herbert Coleridge and Frederick Furnivall, all of whom were numbers of the London Philological Society.T: How did the editor James Murray improve the production of the dictionary?S: He asked the readers to report as many quotations as they can for ordinary words as well as wo
20、rds that seemed rare, obsolete, old fashioned, new, strange or used in a strange way.T: How long did it take before the first part was published?S: 27 years after the original conversation between the three men, in 1884 the first part of the dictionary was published.T: Why does the writer say that t
21、he project was clearly too big for one person to take on?S: Murray received 1,000 quotation slips a day and by 1882, there were three and a half million of them. The first part of the dictionary was 352 pages long but only covered words from A to Ant.T: How have things advanced since the publication
22、 of the first dictionary?S: Now, over 120 years after the publication of the first dictionary, the OED is available at the touch of a computer key.T: Great job! It seems that youve read the passage very carefully and clearly. Can you think it over and get the main idea of the passage?S: Certainly. T
23、he passage tells us a 150-year history of the OEDs compiling and development from the originally idea in1857 to using it at the touch of a computer key now. T: A wonderful summary! Now youve read both of the passages, lets turn to P74. There are two parts of exercises waiting us to do. Complete the
24、sentences with words in the boxes in activities 4 & 5. Do it quickly and then Ill check your job in the class.Check the answers with the class. Step IV Reading and VocabularyAsk the students to read the parts about Dr W. C. Minor. T: Lets come to P78. Read the two parts of the short passage, you can
25、 make an astonishing discovery. Read quickly and tell me what discover you make.A short time later.T: What did you find?S: Dr Minor, the most prolific volunteer contributors to the OED turned out to be an insane patient. Its amazing!T: You know in the world, things being sure often become impossible
26、, while those impossible often happen. This is society and this is life. Now, read the questions in activity 2 and make answers. The first one, why did James Murray want to visit Dr W.C. Minor?S: Because Dr W.C. Minor sent thousands of quotation slips to Murray and Murray was extremely grateful for
27、the work he did.T: What kind of man do you think he imagined Dr W.C. Minor to be?S: He must think Dr W.C. Minor was a profound gentleman or litterateur with very good manners.T: Why did he think the man behind the desk was the man he had come to visit?S: Because he came into a book-lined study with
28、the large desk and the man behind the desk looked very important. The condition, the atmosphere and the man, all are the same as he imagined.T: Was the man behind the desk someone important after all?S: I think he was important in this Asylum but to Murray, the editor of the OED, he wasnt important
29、at all.T: But the speaker said, “It is not at all as you suppose.” What did he mean?S: He suggested that Dr W.C. Minor was not the kind of man he thought.Then ask the students to deal with the exercises as follows:P78 Activity3: Ask the students to match the words in the box with their meanings. Aft
30、er they have done it, ask them to read aloud one by one in class.P79 Activity 4: Ask the students to choose the right meanings according to the bold words and check them.P79 Activity 5: Ask the Ss to read the passage again and find some words according to the request. The teacher can make a form and
31、 let the Ss fill in the words found and also can ask them to add some more words in it with the help of dictionaries. For example:Request In the passageSome more wordsthree words about soundsclip-clop, tick, clanksnap, boom, crack, claptwo words as enormous huge, immensegigantic, tremendous, bigthre
32、e words to a person in an asylumforbidding, insane, patientbabbling, horselaugh, mad, crazy,noisy, troubledThen ask the students to read the passage again and discuss the questions in activity 6. T: OK, all of you have done well. Lets work in pairs and answer the questions in activity 6. You cando y
33、our job according to the text. Four or five minutes later, Ill check the result. After four or five minutes.T: Are you ready? The first question.Sa: I think before James Murray arrived at the house, the writer had implied the place that James was going to visit would make him impressed. Look at this
34、 part in the passage: “a long drive lined with tall poplars, drawing up eventually outside a huge and rather forbidding red-brick mansion.” “A long drive, drawing up eventually” mean the place was far away from people; “lined with tall poplars” implies the place was very covert and stood outside of
35、the world, adding the words “huge, rather forbidding, mansion”, this place was sure to impress people greatly.Sb: Yes. After he arrived at the house, “solemn servant, an immense desk, a man of undoubted importance” and after his brief speech, “a brief pause, an air of momentary mutual embarrassment,
36、 a clock ticked loudly, muffled footsteps, clank of keys” and so on, all of these imply that the house James Murray was visiting impressed him greatly. Here we have a list of these words and phrases.Show the slip of paper to the teacher:OutsideInside a long drive lined with tall poplarsdrawing up ev
37、entuallyhugerather forbiddingmansionsolemn servantan immense deska man of undoubted importancea brief pausean air of momentary mutual embarrassmenta clock ticked loudlymuffled footstepsclank of keysT: How well and carefully youve done! What about the second topic?Sc: I find it shocking that the cont
38、ributor of so many quotations slips was criminally insane. How it is possible that a kind of man like that had so comprehensive English knowledge! I cannot believe!Sd: I dont think it is so surprise. As far as I know, if one gets deep into some field, he may become almost crazy and in the eyes of co
39、mmon people, they are really mad. You see, Vincent van Gogh, one of the greatest artists, was an insane patient.T: Very good! Your discussion is very interesting and reasonable. Ok, so much for this period.Step V HomeworkT: Weve done much reading in this period but have no time to deal with the lang
40、uage points. I think you can do that by yourself because youve learned how to use your dictionaries. Homework for today: please turn to P72 & 73. Draw out these language points: at the time, signed a contract, too many, be unhappy with, consist of. Then turn to P78. Draw out: be grateful to sb for s
41、th, or so, draw up, launch into, at long last, make ones acquaintance. Learn them by yourselves, using your dictionaries. You can explain the usage, give examples, and find out the similar forms, and so on. Write them in your homework books and tomorrow, I will ask some of you to teach them to the class. Thats all for today. Good-bye everyone!Ss: Good-bye, Sir/ Madam!
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