1、必修一 Unit2 English around the world Using languageTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target language目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语 standard, mid western, Spanish, eastern, southestern, northwestern, recognize, play a part (in)b. 重点句型Believe it or not, there is no such a thing. P13The US is a large country in which. P13Geography
2、also plays a part in. P512. Ability goals能力目标Enable the students to gain the knowledge about dialects and how the editors of The Oxford English Dictionary work on it.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标Help the Ss learn to make notes about Murrays life.Teaching important points教学重点Make notes about Murrays
3、 life.Talk about dialects in China after reading.Teaching difficult points教学难点After reading the text, summarize the good qualities needed for success.Teaching methods教学方法Listening and fast reading.Discussion and cooperative learning.Teaching aids教具准备A recorder and a projector.Teaching procedures & w
4、ays教学过程与方法Step I Greeting and Revision Check the Ss homework by asking some of the students to retell the text.T: Good morning/afternoon, boys and girls. Who can retell the text?S: Let me have a try. At first, only people in England spoke English. Later, people from England moved to other parts, so
5、English began to be spoken in many countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second, or foreign language. Native English speakers can understand each other but not everything. All languages change when cultures communicate with one another. So there are British English, American En
6、glish, Australian English and so on. They all have their own identity. English is also spoken as a foreign or second language in many other countries. Maybe one day Chinese English will become one of the world English.Task Listen and find the British and American words which are different but have t
7、he same meaning. Work in pairs.T: Turn to P12.part5. Listen to the dialogues one by one. Then tell your partner which words are different but have the same meaning. Lets listen to the first one.After listening, the Ss give their answer: sweet-candy, lorry-truck, autumn-fall.Step II Pre-readingTask I
8、ntroduce their dictionaries.T: If we meet a new word, we will turn to our dictionaries. Who would like to introduce dictionary to us?S1: My dictionary is the Oxford English dictionary. It can help me find new words, phrases, examples and so on.S2: This is my dictionary. With its help, I can tell the
9、 difference between similar words. Whats more, pictures in it make it easy for me to understand and master new words.Step III ReadingTask1 Listen and answer questions.T: The Oxford English dictionary is the largest dictionary. Who is the editor? How many years did it take to complete the dictionary?
10、 Now please listen to the tape and answer questions.Ss listen to the tape carefully and answer questions.T: Who is the editor?S: James Murray and some others.T: Excellent! Next question?Ss: Forty-four years.Task2 Read the passage and fill in the table. Work in pairs.T: Please turn to page 52 .Read t
11、he table first.Make sure the Ss know what they are expected to do.T: When you fill in “its difficulties” and “Qualities needed”, please discuss with your partner.Ss read the passage and fill in the table.DiscussionS: Its the biggest dictionary so it is very difficult to complete.S: And there was no
12、computer at that time, so he had to write with pen and paper.T: OK, Ill ask some groups to report their opinions.Ss show their answers.CountryScotlandEducationVillage school then taught himself.JobWork in a bank, teacher.Most important taskIts difficulties: the biggest dictionary, work in a place wh
13、ere it is too hot or to cold, work alone at first, only used pen and paper. Qualities needed: hard work, interest in the job, patience.Who worked on itMurray, his two daughters and other editors.Date of completion1928Other informationIdeas for this dictionary from a meeting inBritainin 1857.Begin to
14、 do it in 1895.Hoped to finish it in ten years.Step IV Reading and talking (Page 13)Task1 Read and answer questions.Write “dialects” on the Bb.T: Please explain it in English.Ss: Look it up in the dictionary.Ss: Dialect means a form of a language that people speak in a particular part of a contry.T:
15、 You are quite right. There are many dialects in American English. Do you know why? Please turn to Page 13 and find the answer in the text.One minute later.T: Who would tell me why?S3: Let me try. That is because people come from all over the world. And geography plays a part in making dialects.Task
16、 2 New words.T: Very good. Now, look at the screen and try to guess the meaning of these words and put them in the right places in the map.Bb: southeast, northeast, southwest, northwest, south, west, eastAsk one student fill in the map. Show more words on the screen.T: Whats the difference between t
17、hese two groups?Bb: southeastern, northeastern, southwestern, northwetern, southern, western, eastern, northernSs watch and look up their dictionary.Ss: The first group in Noun. The second is adjective.T: Please try to memory these words.Task3 Games. Work in groups of four.The teacher plays the reco
18、rder. Ss listen and recognize different dialects inChina.T: Which dialect is it?Ss: Dongbei.T: Who will tell an interesting story that shows great difference between dialects inChina?Ss tell their partner an interesting story.Discussion “Why do we learn putonghua?”T: Please discuss with your partner “Why do we learn putonghua?”Ss: Dialects are so different that people from different places cannot understand each other, while Putonghua is the very way to solve the problem.HomeworkPreview Listening and writing on Page 14. Describe the picture and the three boys and answer first four questions.
