Teaching plan of Unit 2 English around the world(新

Teaching aims and demands: 1. Topic:

English language and its development; different kinds of English 2. Vocabulary:

include, role, international, native, elevator, flat, apartment, rubber, petrol, gad, modern, however, culture, actually, present(adj.), rule(v.), vocabulary, usage, government, rapidly, candy, lorry, command, polite, request, boss, standard, Midwestern, southern, eastern, southeastern, northwestern, Spanish, recognize, accent, lightning, direction, ma’ma, block

3. Useful expressions:

play a role in, because of, come up, such as, give a command, play a part

4. Function: language difficulties in communication Pardon?

I beg your pardon? I don’t understand. Could you say that again, please? Sorry, I can’t follow you. Could you repeat that, please? Can you speak more slowly, please?

5. Grammar: imperative sentences and its indirect speech Open the door. Please open the door.

Would you please open the door? He told me to open the door. Warming up

Aim: to make Ss to get to know some differences between British English and American English.

Activity 1. Ss discuss how many countries use English as their native language and which countries.

Activity 2. Ss discuss in groups about the differences between British English and American English, and give some examples.

Activity 3. Ss guess which of the following words is British English and which is American English:

apartment/flat bathroom/toilet can/tin candy/sweet

check/banknote (cheque) elevator/lift fall/autumn game/match line/queue penal /pen friend mad/angry mail/ post

mom/mum movie(film)/film pants /trousers repair/mend

sick/ill cookie/biscuit crazy/mad drugstore/chemist’s gas/petrol Pre-reading

Aim: arouse Ss’ interest and make them be active in the class activities.

Ask Ss to answer the following questions:

1. How many people speak English in the world today? 2. Why do so many people speak English? Reading:

Aim: to let Ss know how to get the key sentence of a paragraph. Tasks:

1. Read the text quickly and answer questions

2. Ss read the passage and guess the meaning of the new words. 3. Ss read and find out the key sentence of each paragraph. 4. Ss finish comprehending 1.

5. Ss try to understand the meaning of the sentence: “Only time will tell.”

It means that something can only be known in the future. This sentence indicate that it remains to be seen just how much Chinese culture will influence the English language in the present century.

6. Discussion: Ss in groups discuss how their generation could influence English.

Learning about language:

1. Discovering useful words and expressions. Answer key for Exercise 1: 1 C 2D 3E 4F 5A 6B 7J 8G 9 I 10 H 2. Ss finish Ex 2,3 and 4. 3. Discovering useful structures.

a. Let Ss see how to retell the following sentences into indirect speech: “Open your books.” the teacher said to us. --The teacher told us to open our books. “Would you please close the window?” she said. -- She asked me to close the window. b. practice:

S1: What do you think about the play. S2: I think it is wonderful. S3: What did he say?

S1: He said that he thinks it’s wonderful. c. Tell Ss how to give commands and make requests. d. Pairs work: Ss in pairs make some dialogues using the commands/requests that they have learned.