PERIOD ONE

1 LEAD IN

1) The names of English speaking countries

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The United States of America

Canada (except Quebec)

The commonwealth of Australia

New Zealand

The Republic of India

The Republic of Singapore

The Federal Republic of Nigeria

The Islamic

Republic of Pakistan

Republic of the Philippines

Of course, English in these countries cannot be the same. There are always differences. Such differences make the study of English even harder. The most frequently mentioned one is the difference between British English and American English.

Now open your book and turn to page 8. Let’s have at look at the picture.

2) WARMING UP

“In the picture, there’s a gentleman looking at the towel in his hand. It seems that he is very confused. Cannot understand what is happening.

Now get into pairs and read the dialogue next to the picture together. And try to find out what happened to this gentleman.

Later I’ll ask some of you to explain it to the class.”

Check the answer together.

Joe-American-bathroom-a toilet and sometimes a bath or shower

Nancy-Englishman-bathroom-bath or shower and sometimes also a toilet

“Besides this, I’d like to introduce some more differences between British English and American English.

First of all, a same meaning is sometimes expressed by different words. Let’s look at the screen.

Then, some of the words have different spellings. Let’s look at the chart.

What’s more, the pronunciation is different for some words. Let’s read these words one by one.”

2 LISTENING Page 91

1) Lead in

What we’ve just discussed about is the differences between British English and American English. What about British people and American people? Do they behave in the same manner in daily life?

Can anyone of you tell us some differences you know?

For example, Englishman are said to be conservative and American people are more open.

In order to know more about their differences, we’re going to listen to a dialogue. It’s between David and Terry. David is an Englishman and Terry is a visitor to England from the USA. I’ll play the tape once and you finish exercise one. To tick the things that Terry talks about.

2) Play the tape and check the answer together.

3) Play the tape again and ask the students to do exercise 2.

4) Check the answer together.

3 SPEAKING

1) Lead in

Let’s have a quick review now. What we’ve talked about? (Countries speaking English, differences between British English and American English, different manners) All of them may lead to misunderstanding. And eastern culture and western culture are even farther from each other. If you don’t understand what a foreigner is saying, what would you do. How would you ask questions?

2) Present

Let’s have look at the useful expressions on page 10. Read through and explain one by one.

3) Production

Show the sample dialogue first.

Get the students into groups of 4 or 5. Pick a member from each group and give him or her a piece of paper with a sentence on it, like “Tina says she is a cat/dog person” as well as some necessary explanation of the sentence. Ask this student to read the sentence to his group members. And answer the other members’ questions.

Push the students to use the expressions we’ve just learnt so as to comprehend the new knowledge in the sentence.

Find some groups to explain the meaning of the sentence to the whole class.

4 HOMEWORK

1) Preview READING and think about one question: when do we use English out of school.

2) Page 91 TALKING do the match

3) Page 92, Practicing (vocabulary)

4)

PERIOD TWO

1 CHECK HOMEWORK

1) Page 91

Check the answer together.

Ask the students to make mini dialogues. Only start a conversation and end it. They don’t need to add any content into the dialogue. Only include greeting and goodbye in their small talks.

2) Page 92 Vocabulary exercise 2

Check the answer together.

2 PRE-READING

1) How many languages do you speak?

2) When do you use English?

Include: listening to pop songs, accessing software and web sites, chat rooms, reading packages of products.

3 READING

1) Introduction: this text is about the development of English over the past fifty years.

Let me show you some information about English as a language first. You’ve been learning English for 5 or 6 years, but you may not know how universal the usage of English is.

2) Skimming

Look at the screen. These three sentences are the main idea of the three paragraphs respectively. Read through the text quickly and tell me which paragraph each of them belongs to.

OR: find the key sentences of each paragraph.

Para 1: English is a language spoken all around the world

Para 2: the number of people who learn English as a foreign language is more than 750 million.

Para 3: English is the working language of most international organizations, trade and tourism.

3) Look for details: Read the text again and fill in the chart.

4) Language points

Majority

There are more than 42 countries where the majority of the people speak English.

–The majority of children in our class have brown eyes; only three have blue eyes.

–The nation wants peace; only a minority want(s) the war to continue.

Major (adj./n. /v.)

--These are the major causes of traffic jam.

--My major is English. = I am majoring in English.

Equal

In total, for more than 375 million people English is their mother tongue. An equal number of people learn English as a second language.

–It is equal to me whether he comes or not. (The same in size, value, amount etc as something else)

–He is equal to this task; He is equal to doing this task. (Have the ability to deal with a problem)

–Eight times eight equals sixty-four.

-- Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

However

However, the number of people who learn English as a foreign language is more than 750 million.

–However sly a fox may be, it is no match for a good hunter.

–The book is expensive; however, it's worth it.

Except for (apart from)

China students learn English at school as a foreign language, except for those in Hong Kong, where many people speak English as a first or second language.

--Tom does everything around the house except cook. (Apart from doing something)

–No one except me knew it. (Not including)

–Besides milk and cheese, we need vegetables. (In addition to)

I don’t want to go to the cinema; besides I’m feeling too tired. 我不想去看電影，再說我也太累了。

Besides going to French evening classes she does yoga on Wednesdays. 她除了學法語外星期三還練瑜伽。

5) Some important phrases

Stay up

All the way

Make oneself at home

All around the world

On the radio

A good knowledge of

Leave the door open

In the same way

End up with

At all

In total

On the phone

More or less

Turn down

4 POST-READING

Page 11 POST-READING “2 complete the following summary”

5 HOMEWORK

Page 11, LANGUAGE STUDY word study

Page 93, PRACTISING exercise 3

Group work: presentation about general information of the UK and the USA

PERIOD THREE

1 REVIEW

1) Page 11 word study

2) Page 93 exercise 3

2 LISTENING

1) Lead in

Open your book and turn to page 9. We’re going to hear a monologue of Mr. Brown. His landlady has many house rules. And Mr. Brown is complaining about that. While listening, try to put down 5 of his landlady’s requests. Here an example has been given.

2) Play the tape twice and check the answer together.

3) Further explanation

What Mr. Brown said is direct speech, while what we wrote down are indirect or reported speech. Requests are softer than commands. Do you remember what we’ve just heard? Like “could you please put your coat on a peg?” The tone is pretty gentle.

3 GRAMMAR

1) Page 12, Grammar ex. 1

2) Presentation

In direct speech, requests and commands are always imperative sentences. When we change them into indirect speech, we should use tell or ask somebody to do something. Just like the sentences we wrote down in listening part.

3) Page 93, grammar ex. 1

4) Role play with role card

4 INTEGRATING SKILLS

1) Introduce the text

It’s an article about the differences between British English and American English.

2) Read through the text quickly and find the topic sentence of each paragraph.

Para1: how did these differences come about? Reason 1: changes along with time passes by

Para 2: reason 2: borrow words from other languages.

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Para 3: written English is more or less the same in both British and American English.

Para 4: the differences are greater in spoken English.

5 HOMEWORK

1) Page 13, reading and writing ex. 1 and ex. 2

2) Page 12, grammar ex. 3

Example:

Direct command: Buy some bread for her. / Don’t make too much noise.

Reported command: He told me to buy some bread for her. / He told me not to make too much noise.

Direct request: Could you buy some bread for her, please? / Don’t make too much noise, please.

Reported requests: He asked me if I could buy some bread for her. / He asked me not to make too much noise.

3) Page 93, grammar ex. 2

PERIOD FOUR

1 REVIEW

1) Homework: Page 13, reading and writing ex. 1 and ex. 2

2) Page 12, grammar ex. 3

2 INTEGRATING SKILLS

1) Reading

Here are 2 articles. The first one is about Gerald and his family. The second one is about Xiaohua and her foreign teacher.

Read through them quickly. Then tell me how many ways of communication are mentioned in it and what they are?

Answer: 7: face-to-face talk, call, letter, postcard, e-mail, chat online, and card.

2) Page 95, ex. 1

Some information about stamps

3 DICTATION

4 HOMEWORK

1) Page 14, checkpoint 2

2) Writing:

Option A: Page 14, ex. 3 A comparative article

A comparison between British English and American English

Option B: Page 15 WARMING UP ex. 3 An argumentative article

A comparison between two kinds of transportations, and then make a decision