M1Unit 2 English around the World(learning about language)

1 Unit 2 English around the world: Learning about language (Discovering useful words and expressions)词汇运用和巩固课 一、教学内容：

对前两个课时warming up and reading中的所有语言知识点进行巩固和运用。 二、教学目标： I. 能力目标： 1） 学生能够运用学过的话题词汇简单描述英式英语和美式英语的不同。 2） 学生能使用一些词汇学习策略比如语境法和联系法等完成一些词汇的练习。 3） 学生能够利用学到的核心词汇进行造句并能进行拓展使用---- 编写小故事。 II.词汇目标： elevator, petrol, gas, official, , native, apartment, actually, gradually, vocabulary, spelling, fluent, fluently, frequent, frequently, usage, recognize, accent Danish, Singapore, Malaysia, African, Spanish, because of, be based on, at present, make use of, such as, play a part, 三、教学步骤： Lead in : invite two students to show the dialogue. Ss may know that native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. British Betty: Would you like to see my flat? American Amy: Yes. I’d like to come up to your apartment.

阅读British English and American English AMERICAN ENGLISH AND BRITISH ENGLISH Many students want to know about the differences between American English and British English. How did these differences come about? There is no quick answer to this question. At first the language in Britain and America was the same. In 1776 American became an independent country. After that, the language slowly began to change. For a long time the language in America stayed the same, while the language in England changed. For example, 300 years ago the English talked about "fall" . Today, most British people talk about "autumn", but Americans still talk about "fall". In the same way Americans still use the expression "I guess" (meaning " I think"), just as the British did 300 years ago. At the same time, British English and American English started borrowing words from other languages, ending up with different words. For example, the British took "typhoon" from Chinese, while the Americans took "tornado" from Spanish. In 1828 Noah Webster published the first American dictionary. He wanted to make American English different from British English, so he changed the spelling of many words. That's why the words" colour", "centre" and "traveller" are spelt "color", "center" and "traveler" in American English. Except for these differences in spelling, written English is more or less the same in both British and American English. The differences are greater in the spoken language.For example, Americans say dance /dæns /, 2

and in southern England they say / dɑ:ns /. In America they pronounce not / nɑt / ; in southern England they say / nɔt / . However, most of the time people from the two countries do not have any difficulty in understanding each other.

Step I 话题复习和运用 1．Read the short passage and discuss the questions in group of two. （Discussion in pairs） (1) Can you recognize the differences between AE and BE in vocabulary spelling? Make a list. (2) Can you recognize the differences between AE and BE in vocabulary usage? Make a list. (3) Can you recognize which accent is AE and which is BE? Give an example. (4) Do you think it is important whether you learn AE or BE? Why?

2．To add more examples: B.E A.E

go to the pictures go to the movies underground subway lift elevator

in a team on a team rubber eraser flat apartment

lorry truck toilet bathroom biscuit cookie petrol gas Have a look at more examples P11 Ex 4 3.让学生分组观察一个语言学家关于说英语人群发展的图示，并让他们猜测这个语言学家用三个圆环分别代表什么含义。 4．提问每个小组猜测的情况，然后教师提供参考性答案。此图因为在国际上有争议，所以代表的只是个人的观点，鼓励学生大胆猜测，大胆运用语言，并对这种分法发表自己的观点。 1). Inner circle means USA and UK make use of English as their native language. 2). Outer circle means countries such as India, once ruled by the British and use English as their own language. 3). The expanding circle means that in some countries, such as China, Russia, English is used as a foreign language. 设计意图：本部分总的指导思想是把warming up话题中词汇的词义和具体场景联系起来。用一个任务链使几个活动成为一个连续的整体，通过学生在小组活动中反复使用在他们大脑中建立起相关词汇的语义图，标红的单词均为本单元要掌握的词汇。 B.E A.E theatre, centre theater, center colour, honour color, honor traveller traveler realise, analyse, apologise realize, analyze, apologize defence defense programme program 3

StepII. 普通核心词汇的呈现和学习 1． 给学生提供两段文字，两段文字中运用到了本单元所学习的一些单词，这些单词均用红字体注出。（read loudly and understand） 1）. Because of the influence of strong American economics, a number of people prefer to make use of American English instead of British English. Actually, American English comes from the British English. Internet also mainly use American English because America plays an important part in the world. 2）China is a country with the largest population in the world. At present, many young people choose to learn English.Many of them can speak English fluently and have become fluent English speakers. Now the number of English speakers in China is so large that some Chinese words are used in the world, such as Toufu, Kongfu..