Period 1

The general idea of this period

This article deals with how English developed and why it has many confusing rules. All the activities involved aim at checking and enhancing students’ reading abilities.

Teaching Aims:

1. Check and enhance students’ reading abilities.

2. Train ss to gain an overall understanding of the article and learn to adopt different reading strategies.

Teaching important points:

1. Help Ss know some knowledge about English language and its history.

2. Help them learn some language items.

Teaching difficult points:

1. how to read a history article

2. how to grasp the new words.

Teaching methods:

1. Talking to improve the students’ speaking ability.

2. Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt.

3. Discussion to make every student work in class.

Teaching aids:

1. the multi-media

2. the blackboard.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1.. Revision and lead in

1. Revision about languages.

2. Talk about English.

Step 2. Reading

1. Ask Ss to skim the article and answer the three questions on P22.

2. Ask Ss to reread the passage and do C1 on P24 individually.

3. Get Ss to scan the article again and do C2.

4. Help Ss to get the idea of the reading strategies.

5. Help Ss to finish the time table on the PPT.

6. Ask Ss to finish T/ F on PPT.

Step 3. Language items.

1. Do D1, D2 in class.

2. Do E in class.

Step 4. Discussion

Hold discussion in class.

1. Languages borrow words from each other. List some. e.g.Chinese words from English:

English words from Chinese:

2．Do you think it possible for Chinese to be the most widely used language some day? Why or why not?

Step 4. Homework.

1． Do Part E.

2． Read the article in Part B on P97, WB.

3． Prepare for the language items.

4． Learn more about English and its history on this website. http://www.nhyz.org/student/2003/030490/eh.htm

Period 2 Language Focus

Teaching aims:

1. To understand new words, phrases and sentence patterns in the reading passage;

2. To learn how to use them.

Teaching Important Points:

1. To help the students to understand the text better.

2. To help the students master the use of some important language points.

Teaching Difficult Points:

1. The usage of some words, phrases and sentence patterns.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Revision and lead-in

Do part E on P25.

Step 2 Words to be learned

Do part D1.

Step 3 Phrases to be learned

Ask students to find the following phrases in the passage.

Express the langue items.

Step 4 Practice

Fill in the blanks with the new words learned.

Step 5 Assignments:

1. Keep in mind the useful words, phrases and sentence patterns and know how to use them.

2. Finish A1,A2,