Unit-2-English-around-the-World教案(2).doc

教 案
Unit 2 English around the World
The first period
I. Teaching Aims
1. Ability Aims
(1) Enable students to learn about the historical development of English.
(2)Enable students to learn about the differences between American English and British English.
(3)Improve students’ communication ability.
(4)Improve students’ listening ability.
2. Language Aims
Important words and phrases
Bring in, a great many.
II. Teaching Content
Integrating skills
III. Teaching important points
1. Talk about the differences between American English and British English.
2. Enable students to improve their listening and communication ability.
IV. Teaching Methods
1. Asking-and-Answering activity between the teacher and the students.
2. Interaction among individuals, pair-work and group-work
V. Teaching Aids
A recorder
VI. Teaching Procedure
Step1. Warming-Up (10 minutes)
1. Leading in the topic by Ask-and-answer activity between the teacher and the students the following questions:
T: Every class, do you know what the differences between American English and British English are?
Ss: ……
T: How did these differences come about?
Ss: ……
T: Now, I will give you five minutes to discuss these questions with your partner, and then I will get the answers from you. Ok, let’s start.
2. Brainstorming
T: Be quiet, time’s up. Now, who will be the first one to tell me the answer? Any volunteer? Good …
Ss: ……
T: Another group?
Ss: ……
T: Well done.
Step2. Reading (20 minutes)
Ask students to open the book on page12, and then give students 15 minutes to read the text and finish the following exercises1, 2.
T: (after 15 minutes) ok, now lets’ look at the exercises. (Then ask someone to give the answer, and give the right answers to students)
The keys:
1. (1)America stopped being a part of English in ___C__.
A. 1707 B. 1828 C. 1776 D. 1911
(2)Which of the following statements is true? D
A. After 1828 American English and British English stayed the same.
B. After 1828 American English changed but British English stayed the same
C. After 1828 British English changed but American English stayed the same.
D. After 1828 both British English and American English changed.
(3)British English is different from American English because ___C___.
A. Britain decided to change the spelling of many American words.
B. American English changed but British English stayed the same.
C. the Americans and British took different words from other languages.
D. America is a bigger country.
(4)Noah Webster was ____D___.
A. an American president B. a Spanish farmer
C. a British teacher D. an American writer
(5)Which of the following statements is true? D
A. In the future both American English and British English will stay the same.
B. In the future American English will change but British English will not.
C. In the future British English will change but American English will not.
D. In the future both British English and American English will change.

2.
word
Borrowed from
Cent
Old French
Florida
Spanish
Howl
Indian
Cookbook
German

Step3. Listening (15 minutes)
Let students to close the book and carefully listen to the tap about the text on page12 sentence by sentence for two times. At the same time, ask someone to repeat the sentence in order to improve their listening ability.
Step4. Homework
Writing a phrase in English, according to the following outline, and compare the differences between American English and British English. (About 80 words)

1. 拼写方面不同. 例如英国人把 “颜色”一词拼为 “colour”, 美国人拼为 “color”.
2. 发音方面不同. 例如英国人把 “dance”读作/da:ns/, 美国人读作/dæns/.
3. 词汇方面不同. 例如 “秋天”一词, 英国人说 “autumn”, 美国人说 “fall”.
4. 语法方面虽有不同,但区别不大.
One possible version:
There are three main differences between American English and British English. They’re different in spelling. For example, the British people spell “颜色” “colour”, but Americans spell it “color”. They’re different in pronunciation. For example, “dance” is pronounced [da:ns] in English, but [dæns] in American. They’re also different in words. “秋天”, for example, the British people say “autumn”, but Americans say “fall”. Though they are different in grammar too, there are not so many differences between them.

The second period
I. Teaching Aims
1. Ability Aims
(1)Enable students to learn about the differences between American English and British English.
(2)Enable students to master the important words, phrases and sentences.
2. Language Aims
(1)Important words and phrases
Stay, while, know about, come about, in the same way, just as, end up with, except for, more or less, have difficulty in.
(2)Important sentences
① For a long time the language in American stayed the same, while the language in England changed.
② However, most of the time people from the two countries do not have any difficulty in understanding each other.
II. Teaching Content
Text: American English and British English
III. Teaching Important Points
Enable students to learn and master the important words, phrases and sentences.
IV. Teaching Methods
1. Asking-and-answering activity between the teacher and the students
2. scanning
V. Teaching Aids
A recorder
VI. Teaching Procedure
Step1. Warming Up (5 minutes)
T: last class, we have discussed the differences between American English and British English. Do you still remember it? Who can tell me?
Ss: ……
T: Excellent, there are three main differences between American English and British English. They are different in spelling, pronunciation and words. Today, we’ll learn the important words, phrases and sentences in this text. Now, please open your book on page12, let’s read this text carefully.
Step2. Careful Reading (35 minutes)
In this part, read the text sentence by sentence, and explain the important words, phrases and sentences to students.
1. make a distinction between: “know about” and “know of”
(1) know about: have knowledge of sth/ be aware of sth (对…略有所知)
E.g. not much is know about his background. 他的背景所知不多.
(2) know of: have information about or experience of sb/sth (强调间接知道)
E.g. I don’t know him personally, though I know of him. 我并不认识他,但我听说过他.
2. Come about: happen (it’s used in negative sentence or interrogative sentence)
Pay attention this sentence pattern: “it comes about that…… ”
“it”在这里指代”that”后面发生的事件.
E.g.① How does it come about that he is so hardly off when he earns quite a good salary?
他挣那么多钱,却那样贫穷,怎么会这样呢?
②How did it come about that he know where we were?
他是怎么知道我们在什么地方的呢?
*Distinction: come about, happen, take place and break out
(1) come about: 不及物动词短语,相当于happen, take place.
(2) happen: 强调偶然意外性.
(3) take place: 强调必然性或按事先的安排计划而发生.
(4) break out: (指战争,火灾,疾病等)突然发生,爆发.
Exercises: ① whatever __ happens________, we must keep calm.
② The war ___broke out__ between the two countries.
③ Great changes have ___taken place __ in our school in the past few years.
④ He failed in the exam. How did it _come about_?
3. Pay attention to this sentence: “For a long time the language in America stayed the same, while the language in England changed.”
“stay”: keep or remain, 后面接形容词作表语.
E.g.① the windows stayed open all night long.窗户整夜开着.
② I stayed awake because of missing home last night.我昨晚上想家没睡着觉.
“While”: 在句中用作并列连词,意为 “却,而”,表示前后意义的对比和转折.
E.g. some people are rich while others are poor有的人富, 而有的人穷.
4. In the same way: 同样, 用同样的方式.
In different ways: 不同 In this way: 这样 In no way:决不
In the way:挡道,妨碍 In a way:在某种程度上,在某一点上
Out of the way:不挡道 On the way:在路上, 即将发生
By the way:顺便说一下 By way of:经由,经过
5. “Just as” : 在句中意为 “正如;恰似”, “as”是连词,引导方式状语从句.
E.g. Just as you find it difficult to like Mr. Green, I find it easy to like his son.
如同你觉得格林先生难以讨人喜欢一样,我觉得他的儿子容易讨人喜欢.
6. “end up with”: 以…结束
E.g. without your help, the experiment will end up with failure,
没有你的帮助,这实验将以失败告终.
Antonym: begin(start) with: 以…为开始
E.g. His speech usually begins (starts) with a question.他的演讲通常以一个问题开始。
* to begin(start) with: 首先， 第一点，起初
E.g. To begin with, we don’t have enough time and secondly we are lack of money.
首先，我们没有足够的时间，其次我们缺乏资金。
7．Distinction: except, except for, except that and besides
(1)except:主要用来谈论同类的东西.
(2)except for: 如果谈论不同类的东西，在细节上加以纠正，有时含有惋惜之意时，就只能用它，意思是 “除了有…之外”.
(3)except that从句用来表示理由或细节，修正前面所说的情况，可换成 “except for+短语”.
(4)besides: 除…之外,尚有…
Exercises: ① He is a good man _except for_ hot temper.
② Besides_ his wife, his daughter also went to see him.
③ All went to Beijing except Xiao Cheng.
④ Your article is quite good except that there are several spelling mistakes.
=>Your article is quite good except for several spelling mistakes.
8. more or less: 或多或少， 在一定程度上，大约（修饰动词，形容词，数词< 放在数词后>）
E.g. ① His condition has more or less improved.他的情况在一定程度上好点了。
② The repairs to the building will cost $500 more or less.修这幢楼将花费约500美元。
9. have difficulty in doing sth: 在做某事方面有困难
其中 difficulty= trouble, 可被some, any, no, much, little, a lot of 修饰, in可省略.
E.g. He has great difficulty (in) supporting his big family.他很难养活他那一大家子人.
Pay attention: 当不强调谁有困难时，可用 “there is/was some difficulty in doing sth”.
E.g. There’s some difficulty in teaching such little children.教这样小的孩子有些困难.
10. Distinction: have difficulty in, have difficulty/difficulties with
(1) have difficulty in+动名词，意为 “在做某事时有困难”, in可省略.
(2) have difficulty/difficulties with+名词，则意为 “在…方面有困难”.
E.g.① I have great difficulty (in) learning English.
② I have no difficulty with the work.
Step3. Homework (5 minutes)
1. We thought there were 35 students in the dining hall, ________, in face, there were 40.
A. while B. whether C. what D. which
2. It was not until she got home ________ Jennifer realized she had lost her keys.
A. when B. that C. where D. before
3. It’s already 10 o’clock, I wonder how it ________ that she was two hours late on such a short trip.
A. came over B. came out C. came about D. came up
4. There’s no light on-they_________ be at home.
A. can’t B. mustn’t C. needn’t D. shouldn’t
5. He tried his best to solve the problem, _________ difficulty it was.
A. however B. no matter C. whatever D. although
6. His company has ________ more dollars this year than last year.
A. brought B. brought in C. brought up D. brought out

Keys: A, B, C, A, A, B.