外研版选修八-Module 4 Which English- 教案

Module 4 Which English?

【Teaching aims】
1. Target language
a. 重点词汇和短语
Instantly, accent, variety, individual, ancestor, bilingual, trace, feature, tell…apart, in this sense, that count, lie in, in particular
b. 重点句子
How long does it tale you to know who it is?
This is not the case.
But when he asked how to spell the name, in case the customer wanted him to write her name in the book (To Emma Chissit, with best wishes), he realized that the customer had been asking the question: How much is it?
2. Ability goals
Enable the students to grasp the skills of reading and guessing unknown words.
3. Learning ability goals
Help the students learn how to understand an article and catch the useful information quickly, and how to guess the unknown words.
【Important and difficult points】
Get the students to grasp the skills of reading and guessing unknown words.
【Teaching methods】
Listening, reading and practicing
【Teaching aids】
A computer and a projector
【Teaching procedures】
Step I Greeting and Introduction
T: Let’s welcome English teachers attending to our class (clap). Ok, class begins. Good morning!
Ss: Good morning!
Go through the teaching procedures.
1. Performance (Check homework and lead to new lesson.)
2. Reading (Practice reading skills and get some useful information.)
3. Vocabulary (Learn some new words and phrases, and practice the skill of guessing unknown words.)
Step II Performance
T: Before this lesson, I have asked you, study group, to find out or make a joke with misunderstand different varies of English. And you should perform the joke in front of you classmates. Now, who volunteer?
Ss: Performance
T: Well-done! What can we learn from the joke?
Ss: We should know the characters of different varieties of English.
T: You are right! Now, let’s get the characters of some varieties of English
Step III. Reading
Tip for reading: pay attention to the title, including the sub-title.
1. Scanning
Listen the tape of the first three paragraphs and sum up the main idea of each paragraph
2.2 Which statement expresses the general idea of each paragraph at the beginning of the text?
1). Para. One:
A. Everybody is unique.
B. One can be recognized by his use of English.
C. English varies from speaker to speaker.
D. Every language has different speaker.
2). Para. Two:
A. English is officially spoken.
B. English varies from place to place.
C. English accent reveals one’s identity.
D. Different countries speak different Englishes.
3). Para. Three:
A. Standard English varies with speakers.
B. Everyone’ English is correct.
C. The English-speaking situation is confusing.
D. In English, correctness gives way to communication.
3. Skimming
3.1 Listen the tape of the parts Australia and Jamaica and Singapore. And try you best to get the useful information.
3.2 Answer the questions
1). Which of the following did NOT con-tribute to Australian English?
A. The Irish accent.
B. Cockney.
C. The Aboriginal English.
D. American English.
2). Which is an example showing the Australian way of word choice?
A. G’day! D’ya speak Strine?
B. Emma Chissit.
C. To Emma Chissit, with best wishes.
D. How much is it?
4. Intensive reading
4.1 Check the answers of Activity 3
4.2 Get students to finish the exercises in Activity 1& 2. Then check the answers.
Step IV. Vocabulary
1. Fill in the blanks with the words and phrases coming from the text.
When we _____________ (接到一个电话), we can recognize a person from
_______________________(音质和他的用词). ________ (在这个意义上)，we say everyone’s use of language is different. There are _________________ (多种英语) or any other for that matter, as there are speakers of it. English is spoken as an ____________ (官方语言) in more than 60 countries, and it can _________________________ (因地方的不同听起来非常不同). It is easy for us to ________________________ (区分英国英语与美国英语).
There is not really a __________ (标准形式) that everyone can ______ (同意), and English is __________ (广泛地使用), so it is hard to tell which English is correct and which is incorrect. ________(只要) speakers can understand each other, correctness __________ (无关紧要). Australian English has traces of both Irish and cockney speech patterns, because the first speakers were prisoners who __________________ (来自不列颠各地). Many of the Aboriginal words _________ (成为…的一部分) the language. But the main differences ____ (在于) individual sounds and intonation patterns. In Jamaica, _____________ (情况不同). The variety of English has some of the _______________ (语法特征) of the African language. In Singapore, English is spoken by about ______________ (半数人口). Sentences often _______ (以…结束)the word lash. Singlish has been influenced ________ (尤其)by Malay and the Chinese dialect Hokkien.
2. Guess the black words in the sentences by the recognizable clues in the context.
1). (A few seconds, perhaps.) The quality of someone’s voice and their choice of words make a person instantly recognizable, even though you can’t see him or her.
2). You can say that there are as many varieties of English, or any other language for that matter, as there are speakers of it.
3). (English can sound very different from one area to another…) within London the most famous dialect is cockney. (It is only usually spoken by people from the east of that city…)
4). (within London the most famous dialect is cockney.) there are some very recognizable accent all over Britain.
5). Professors of linguistics, writers and teachers all worry about providing a perfect model (English) to follow.
Step V. Revision
T: What have we learnt in this lesson?
Ss: We have gotten some useful information, learnt some new words, practiced reading skill and practiced the skill of guessing unknown words.
Step VI. Homework
1. Read the passage again and practice the skill of guessing unknown words.
2. Finish the exercises of reading comprehension in the English Weekly.
3. Group works: Make a dialogue according to Activity 4.
Step VII. After teaching
This lesson can show my teaching’s progress in this team. I divided the whole class into several study groups. I have required them to help each other to learn English well. And they should report what they have learnt in each module by performance. It can help them to revise each module and practice oral English. During the lesson, I still teach the students how to grasp the learning skills by guiding and practicing. However, there are some students can’t follow the course because of their bad traces. They fell afraid and tired of learning English, though I always courage them. I should try to think a good way to help them.