高中英语 Unit2reading公开课教案 新人教版必修1

English around the World

Period 2 Pre-reading and Reading

Teaching Goals:

1. Get Ss to learn about English spoken around the world

2. Improve Ss’ reading ability, especially the skills of summarizing, word guessing and scanning.

3. Get Ss to realize the importance of learning English and of love of our own country.

4. Encourage Ss to think and talk in English through communicative tasks and provide Ss with chances of cooperation. Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Leading-in

1. Present Ss the video of Li Yang who speaks different kinds of English in seven countries. Then talk about their feelings. (eg. There are different kinds of Englishes in the world)

2. Act-out. Ask the Ss to act the prim minister of the UK and the president of the USA to review the different ways of speaking English. Step 2. Reading 1. Skimming:

Get Ss to read through the passage and find the topic sentence of each paragraph.

Para 1 Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever before.

Para 2 Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English.

Para 3 All languages change when cultures communicate with one another.

Para 4 English is also spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia. 2. Scanning

Purpose: To get Ss to have some details in the text.

Read the text quickly and try to get some details from the text. Work in pairs and try to ask and answer questions from the text. Questions can be like these.

Q1. How many people spoke English at the end of the 16th century? Where did they live?

Q2. Why is English to be spoken in many other countries in the next century? Q3. Which country has the largest number of English speakers? Q4. Why has English changed over time?

Q5. Why does India have a very large number of English speakers? Suggested answers:

A1. At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke English.

A2. In the next century, people from England started moving to other parts of the world, so English began to be spoken in many other countries. A3. China may have the largest number of English speakers.

A4.Because all languages change when cultures communicate with one another.

A5.India has a very large number of English speakers. This is because Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947. 3. careful reading:

Take the project sheet out and work in pairs to correct the answers and then fill in the chart on the screen.

Step 3 Discussion

Show the picture while I was in America.

Guess: What am I doing? -- I think_____________. Group work:

1. Why do you think people all over the world want to learn English? 2. why do you think people in the world now want to learn Chinese? Step 5. End

1. Summarize what has been learned during this course. 2. Homework:

Required: choose one of the topics to write “ English in China”/ “ Chinese in the world.”

Optional: find more information on the net.