Teaching Aims:

1 Learn the text “The road to modern English”.

2 Make students understand that there are many kinds of English around the world.

3 Get the students to master the useful words in the teat.

Teaching Important Points:

1 How to improve the students’ ability to read an article.

2 How to summarize the difference between British English and American English.

Teaching Difficult Point:

Help students master the article well

Teaching Methods:

1 Fast-reading to train the students’ reading speed.

2 Reading comprehension to help the students grasp the main idea of the text.

3 Discussion method.

Teaching Aids:

1 a recorder

2 a projector and some slides

Teaching Procedures:

Step I. Greet the whole class as usual.

Step II. Warming Up

1 Show some pictures and talk about the wide use of English around the world

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2. In many countries people speak English

In many countries people speak English as their mother language, second language or foreign

language. (Show a world map)

3 T: Are their English all the same? Take British English and American English for example

Different use of words

British English American English

Life elevator

Flat apartment

Then make students guess which the words is British English and which the words is American English

Mum/mom; in a team/on a team; rubber/eraser; petrol/gas

T: From that we know when we hear two native speakers of English, they may still not speak the same kind of English. And English in the same country may be different from before. Now let’s read an article about the changes of English. “The road to modern English”

Step III reading

1 Read the text quickly and find out key sentences in each paragraph.

1) English is a language spoken all around the world.

2) The example of the difference between different native English speakers.

3) Why English has changed over time.

4) Wildly use of English.

2. Listen to the tape and then complete the Comprehending(p10).

Answers: 1 A , 2 D,3C,4D,5B

3. Discussion

1 Do you think it matters what kind of English you learn? Why?

2 Why do you think people all over the world want to learn English?

Step IV. Practice

Finish the practice of Learning about Language ( 1,3)

Step V. Homework

Learning about Language(2,4)