Period 3 Reading
Learning Aims:
1. To get students to know the historical development of English over the past fifty years, developing from a widely spoken national language to a universally spoken world language.
2. To get students to realize the importance of English and to do more practice.
Learning Procedures:
Step I Revision
1. Act out the dialogue
2. Check the exercises on p7 and p9
Step II Pre-reading
There are about 200 countries and regions in the world? But do you know , “How many languages are there in the world? “( More than 5000.) What kinds of languages do you know? Where are they spoken?
English (England, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa)
Chinese (China) Japanese (Japan) French (France)
German (Germany) Italian (Italy) Russian (Russia)
Spanish (Spain).
China has an area of 9,600,000 square kilometers with a population of 1.2 billion. Of all the languages, which language has the largest number of native speakers? (Chinese) .Do you think which language is the most widely used all over the world? (English)
Ok, let’s turn to our reading text: English around the world. Open your books at P10
Step III Reading
Listen to the tape and try to find out:
1. How many people speak English as a mother tongue?
(More than 375 million people)
2. How many people speak English as a second language?
(More than 375 million people)
3. In which countries can we find native speakers of English?
The United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand
4. From the text we know, in countries such as India, Pakistan, Nigeria, and the Philippines, English is used in a different way. How is English is used there? Please describe the situations in such countries.
1. How many people use English as a foreign language? Can you give me an example country.
2. But in Hong Kong, the situation there is quite different . How is English used in Hong Kong?
7. Why is it becoming more and more important to have a good knowledge of English?
(English has developed into the language most widely spoken and used in the world . With more and more people using English around the world in trade/ business, travel/ tourism or international organisations, we need to be able to communicate using the English language.)
8. From what we have learned, we know English is a kind of language spoken all over the world.
Bb design:
Number of speakers Example countries
The native language More than 375 million The United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand
The second language More than 375 million India, Pakistan, Nigeria, the Philippines
Theforeign language More than 750 million China….
The working language of international organization, international trade and tourism.
Step IV Post reading
1. We live in China and Chinese is our mother tongue. But we have studied English for more than three years and we can use English every day in different situations. So in what situations do you use(read, listen, write, speak) the languages in your daily life?
Listening to and singing pop songs,
Playing computer games,
Reading web pages,
Watching foreign films, VCD/ DVDs and TV programmes,
Talking to travelers coming to China,
Using the Internet,
Reading advertisements
2. If you are allowed to choose to learn or not to learn English, what is your choice? And why? Discuss with your partner, give as many reasons as possible. Then invite one of your members to state your views.
Step V Language points.
1. English is really a language spoken all around the world./ all over the world
E-mail sent by the company arrived just now.
The questions asked by him are difficult to answer.
He stayed on a deserted island where there were no people at all.
人教版高一Unit 2 English around the world