Period 2 ReadingTeaching aim:a) Ss will be able to know the development of English and feel the role that culture plays in the change oflanguage.b) Comprehend the whole passagec) Ss will be able to know how to get the key sentence of a paragraph.Teaching procedures:Step 1 lead in Ask students several questions in the form of brain storming.1.Do you know the countries where people speak English? List them on a piece of paper.2.What are the two main groups of English?3.Do you know the differences between British English and American English? 4．Do you know the history of English?Step 2 fast readingEnglish is not only different from country to country, but also different from what it was before. Read the title“the road to modern English” and predict (预测) what the passage is mainly about?T: Scan the text to find or make out a key sentence for each paragraph.Let the students find out key sentence of each paragraph or ask them to summarize the main point for eachparagraph in their own words.Paragraph 1: The spread of the English language in the worldParagraph 2: Native speaker can understand each other but they may not be able to understandeverything.Paragraph 3-4: All languages change when cultures communicate with one another.Paragraph 5: English is spoken as a foreign language or second language in Africa and Asia.Step 3. Intensive reading T: Let’s enjoy the whole passage paragraph by paragraph again. Pay special attention to the following Qs:How did old English develop into modern English?Why does English change all the way?What other Englishes developed from the old English? (1). Give the three major periods of the development of English. the end of the 16th century-------- the next century ------------ today Who promoted the spread of English? People. When they moved, they carried English to different places. (2) T: Although they speak English, yet sometimes they can not understand each other well, why?--------- Because there exist differences between different Englishes, not only in vocabulary, but also inpronunciation and spelling. (hot/mum/honour/ honor/neighbour/neighor…..) (3) T: How do these differences come about? (Why does English change over time?)--------- Because of cultural communication.Ask ss to find out the characteristics of each time according to the time axis.AD450-1150: German1150-1500: less like German; more like FrenchIn the 1600’s: Shakespeare’s EnglishThe time ADEL was written: American English第 1 页


Later: Australian English (4) T: Besides the countries where English is used as a native language, where else is English used as a foreignlanguage?---------- South Asia, India, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia and China.Activity 1. fill in the chartAD450--1150English was based on ___________________English was more like French.At the end of the 16th century How many people speak English? _____________________Shakespeare made use of a wider vocabulary.___________American English gained its own identity.Later__________ English had its identity.Activity 2. Answer the following questions(1)What is the clue of the passage?(2) Why does India have a very number of English speakers?(3) When did people from England begin to move to other parts of the world?Activity 3: Choose the correct answers.Step 4 Post-Reading T: From the passage we can see English is widely accepted as a native, second or third language. No wonderthe number of people learning English in China is increasing rapidly. Will Chinese English become one of theworld Englishes? ---------- “ Only time will tell”. T: How do you understand this sentence? ---------- It means that something can only be known in the future. T: What can you infer from this sentence about the development of English in China? --------- It indicates that it remains to be seen just how much the Chinese culture will influence the Englishlanguage in the present country.Step 5. Language focus:1)even if=even though: in spite of the fact; no matter whether: He likes to help us even if heis very busy.2)communicate with: exchange information or conversation with other people: He learnt touse body language to communicate with deaf customers.3)actually=in fact: used when you are adding new information to what you have just said:We’ve known for years. Actually, since we were babies.4)be based on…:5)make use of: use sth. available 6)Only time will tell: to say that something can only be known in the future: Will China’snational football team enter for the next finals of the World Cup? Only time will tell.Step 6 Discussion第 2 页


Work in groups. Discuss the question and then ask two groups to report their answers to the class. 1.Why do you think people all over the world want to learn English?Possible answer:The reasons why people all over the world want to learn English:★ With economy globalization, English has become the best bridge to serve the purpose of peopleall over the world communicating with one another.★ However, like all major languages in the world, English is always changing. In order to adjustto native speakers from different parts of the world, it is a must for people all over the world to learnEnglish, whether in English speaking countries or in non-English speaking countries.★ Also, people from different parts of the world speak English with various accent and dialects,and people have to learn about the difference between different kinds of English in order to avoidmisunderstanding while communicating.(All persuasive reasons can be accepted.)Step 7 Homework1. Read the passage as fluently as you can.2. Find out some words and sentences you think are beautiful and recite them.3. p11.ex2.3.4第 3 页