Period 3 reading <2> & writing

Teaching objectives:

To improve students’ reading & writing ability

To learn about the British Isles and UK

To master some useful words and phrases such as threaten, disappear…

Teaching methods:

Task based teaching

Teaching difficult points:

To understand some difficult sentences and to describe a place

Teaching procedure:

Step I Lead in (2 minutes)

T: good morning, everybody!

Ss: good morning, teacher!

T: it is a fine day, isn’t it?

Ss: yes

T: do you know what the weather like in the British Isles?

Ss: no

T: maybe it rains, right? Ok, yesterday, we learned something about the British Isles, its geography, its climate etc. Do you still remember the fact about Great Britain that is still unknown to many?

Ss: the Great Britain is made up of 3 countries.

T: yes, very good. We also learned other parts that make up the British Isles, such as Isle of Man, Irish Sea, and English Channel. Today, we are going to learn the reading text, the British Isles. As we know, the hometown of English is the United Kingdom. Nowadays, many people around the world study English. But few people know the basis for English? And the fact that English was once influenced by other languages such as French. Do you know?

Ss: no

Step II reading(30 minutes)

T: ok, now, please read paragraph 4 and 5 by yourselves and find out the answers to these two questions.

What is the basis for English?

What is the result of the French influence?

Ss:

T: If you have found the answers, please raise your hands!

Ok, who’d like to answer the first question?

Ss:

T: Yes, good. The languages from Northern Europe form the basis for English. Now, let’s see Paragraph 4 together. We know that the British Isles lies off the west coast of Europe, so, the culture was influenced by the culture of European mainland, do you think so?

Ss:..

T: (explain some words such as influence, settle, native, mountainous and so on ) ok, this paragraph talks about the influence from the Northern Europe, right? We know that one of the European countries is France. In 1066, England was conquered by the French. Conquer: 征服 now. Please tell me the answer to the second question

Ss: the result of this French influence was that the English language ended up with many French words.

T: yes, good, please pay attention to the sentence pattern. It is a noun clause. We call it predicative clause“表語從句”. we will learn the detail in grammar period. Are you clear?

(Explain some words such as upper class and so on), paragraph 5 talks about the French influence in language, right? We have learned that UK is made up of four countries, do you know how can this four countries combined together? Now, I will read paragraph 6 for you, and you do the true or false statements on the slide. Are you clear?

Ss:

T: have you found out whether these three sentences are true or false? Ok, who can tell me your opinions?

S1:

T: now, let’s check it together. The first one is false. It should be in 1536. Wales was conquered by England in 1283.pay attention to the sentence: it is ………that….. “強調句”

What about the second one? (Check the answers, explain some language points and translate some sentences if necessary)

This paragraph talks about the history of the United Kingdom. Have you any questions? Ok, do you think there is only one language spoken in the British Isles? Of course no! There are other languages. What are they? Now, please read the last paragraph together and find out the answers to the last 2 questions. Are you clear? Ok, here we go!

T: Have you found the answers? How many languages are native to the Britain isles?

Ss: 6

T: very good, what happens to these languages?

Ss: they are threatened and may disappear.

T: yes, good. threaten: 受威脅的，disappear ：消失 pay attention to this sentence pattern. They realize that it is of great value to record and teach them to the younger generation. This kind of sentence pattern we call it object clause; we will deal with it in grammar period, are you clear? Here, it is of great value means it is valuable. (Give examples to students. Be of importance =be important) ok, this paragraph talks about language of the British Isles, are you all clear about that?

Step III Writing(1o minutes)

T: these days, we learned a lot about the British Isles and the United Kingdom. We have known its history, languages and we also have learned that UK has a long history, right? What about china? China has a longer history, right? Our motherland-china also has a lot of famous cities such as Shanghai, Beijing and some famous people such as Gongli etc. In recent years, china has been developing at a full speed. For example, in sports, we got 32 gold medals in Olympic Games. Do you feel proud of being a Chinese? I’m proud of being a Chinese. What about being a Wenzhounese?

Step IV Assignment(5 minutes)

Here comes your homework, Write an article to describe your hometown, favorite city of a country that you are familiar with, according to these questions. Where is my hometown (favorite city, country)? Is there any famous architecture, typical features or famous people, what (who) are they? How do the people live and work there? You can have a look at the sample on the slide. Ok, so much for today, see you !

Slide

What is the basis for English?

What is the result of the French influence?

How many languages are native to the Britain isles?

What happens to these languages?

True or false statements

1. England and Wales first formed the union in 1283.

2. The republic of Ireland was part of the UK for some time.

3. The smaller islands, such as the Isle of Man are ruled by the king of the United Kingdom.

Write an article to describe your hometown, favorite city of a country that you are familiar with, according to these questions.

1. Where is my hometown (favorite city, country)?

2. Is there any famous architecture, typical features or famous people, what (who) are they?

3. How do the people live and work there?

Blackboard work

1 influence 影響，對….起作用

2 settle 定居

3 basis 基礎 bases（復數形式）

4 mountainous 有山的

5 conquer 征服

6 upper class 上層階級

7 union 聯邦

8 it is …. that…. 強調句型

9 threat 威脅

10 disappear 消失

11 be of great value=be valuable

be + of+ n. =be + adj.