Period 1
I. Teaching aims:
1. Train the Ssˇ ability of speaking and listening
2. Learn about the differences American English and British English
3. Learn how to make an order or a request
II. Important points:
1. How to help the studentsˇ listening ability.
2. Lear about sentence transformation.
III. Difficult point:
How to use different sentence patterns to express oneˇs idea.
IV. Teaching methods:
1. Listening practice to improve the studentsˇ listening ability.
2. Discussion method to give them more chances to express their own ideas.
V. Teaching procedures:
Step l presentation
Ask the Ss some questions about English and let them have a general idea about the question:
1. Is English very popular?
2. In which country do people speak English as their mother language?
3. In which country do people speak English as their second language?
4. Ate the American English and the British English the same?
5. What are the differences between them?
Step 2 Warming up
1. Look at the picture and ask the question:
What does bathroom mean in American English and British English?
2. Read the dialogue in the and text and answer the question: in American English, it means ¨toilet〃 and in British English it means ¨a place for some people to take a shower〃
3. Ask more questions about the dialogue:
冘 Where did Joe come from?
冘 How did he reach London?
冘 Did he have a good sleep?
冘 Why did Nancy give Joe a new towel?
冘 Where is the bathroom?
冘 What did Joe actually want?
Step 3 Practice
Read and act out the dialogue then introduce some more words that have different meaning in the two languages.
billion=one million millions (BE) one thousand million (AE)
public school=private school (BE)local state school providing free education (AE)
Step 4 Listening
Let the Ss listen to two different passages which are read in BE and AE and tell them the two languages are quite different in pronunciation Then practice the dialogue ¨kilometer〃 and tell them this word has two different spelling and also two different pronunciations.
Step 5 Listening
Listen carefully to the tape. Mr Brownˇs landlady has many house rules. Write down five of them..
Step 6 Grammar
Direct and indirect speeches
Sb. asked / told sb. (not) to do sth.
Change the following sentences into indirect speech:
1. ¨Get up early Tony. Youˇll be late for class.〃 His mother said to him.
2. ¨Donˇ t disturb the sleeping baby.〃 Mary said.
3. ¨Put away all the unnecessary articles,〃 the housekeeper said rudely.
4. ¨Donˇ t cross the road without looking around.〃 The policeman said kindly to the boy.
Step 7 Speaking
1. Practise the dialogue one in the text and ask the Ss to finish the exercise.
2. Questions for dialogue two.
(1) What did Ms Smith ask Harry to do?
(2) What did Harry ask Mw Smith to do?
(3) And what did Harry ask Ms smith to do again?
(4) What did Ms Smith tell Harry not to do?
3. Ask the Ss to read aloud the dialogue and then ask them to repeat the dialogue.
Rewrite the following sentences:
1. My mother told me not to believe a stranger easily.(direct speech)
2. The principle asked the Ss to wash their clothes by themselves.(direct speech)
3.¨Donˇt throw away the leftovers. Itˇs too a waste of food.〃 The owner said to his customers.(indirect speech)
4.¨I am going to Japan tomorrow. I have asked for a leave of six months.〃 Jerky said to her colleagues.(indirect speech)
Period 2
I. Teaching aims:
1. Train the Ssˇ ability of reading.
2. Learn about English around the world.
3. Listen and repeat the text.
II. Important point:
How to get the students to master the useful words and expressions:
majority, native, equal, except, , in total, situation, organization, international, etc.
III. Difficult point:
Get full understanding of the whole as well as the details.
IV. Teaching methods:
1. Fast-reading to train the studentsˇ reading ability.
2. Reading comprehension to help the students to grasp the main idea of the text.
3. Practise getting the students to master what they have learned.
V. Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
Go over the dialogue by asking the Ss to read aloud their composition and ask them to rewrite more sentences.
Step 2 Pre-discussion
Discuss the following pre-reading questions:
1. If you speak more than one language, in what situations do you use the language?
2. Why do we have to learn English?
Step 3 Fast reading
Read the text fast and answer :
Why will it be more and more important to have a good knowledge of English? (Because many people communicate in English every day.)
Step 4 Careful reading
Ask the students to read more carefully and answer the post-reading questions 2-3.
Step 5 Summary
Summarize main ideas of each paragraph of the text.
Paragraph 1 English is spoken as mother tongue and as a second language.
Paragraph 2 Many people learn English as a foreign language.
Paragraph 3 Many people communicate in English every day.
Step 6 Listening
Listen to the tape of the text and do the post-reading exercise 2, filling the blanks.
Step 7 Discussion
Discuss the following topics in groups of four for about 4 minutes, then ask the representative of each group to present their reasons in the front.
1. Why do so many people speak English?
2. Will Chinese mandarin be popular one day?
3. Why Cantonese is so popular in China?
Homework
Go over what we have learned in this reading text.
Period 3
I. Teaching aims:
1. Learn the useful words and phrases in the text.
2. Learn the difficult sentences.
3. Learn the grammar: direct and indirect speeches.
II. Important points:
the direct and indirect speeches
III. Difficult points:
How to use ask/tell/ order sb. to do sth. to report an order or request.
IV. Teaching methods:
1. Inductive method to get the students to think more by themselves.
2. deductive method when teaching the Indirect Speech.
V. Teaching process:
Step 1 Revision
Listen and read the text.
Step 2 Word study
The teacher can read the explanation for the Ss and ask them to guess the new words.
Step 3 Language points
Pick out some difficult sentences for the students to analyze and explain new words and expressions to the students if they have difficulty in understanding them.
Phrases: all around the world, in total, at high school, except for/except, on the radio/ on the phone, through the Internet, a good knowledge of , majority, leave the door open, mother tongue
useful sentences:
1. There are more than 42 countries where the majority of the people speak English.
2. In total, for more than 375 million people English is their mother tongue.
3. In China students learn English at schools as a foreign language, except for those in Hong Kong.
4. Chinese businessmen, taxi drivers and students talk with them using English.
5. With so many people communication in English every day, we can see that it will be more important to have a good knowledge of English.
Step 4 Grammar
Learn which is an order and which is a request:
Sentences for a request may begin with: could I/Will you/May I. Sentences for an order may be without subjects. If the sentences are changed into indirect speech, ¨asked〃 means a request, ¨told〃 means an order. Show them some examples to make them clear about how to change an order or request into indirect speech. The following are some examples for the students to practice:
1. Change the following sentences into indirect speech:
(1) Could I use your bathroom for a moment? (he, his friend)
(2) Put your coat in the closet. (they, the little boy)
(3) Speak quietly on the closet. (the teacher, his colleague)
(4) Will you help me with my homework this afternoon? (John , me)
(5) Could you meet me at four? (Mary, her husband)
2. Change the following sentences into direct speech:
(1) The landlady asked him to put his coat in the closet.
(2) The landlady asked him not to put it on the peg.
(3) The commander ordered the soldiers to stand still.
(4) The commander ordered the soldiers not to move.
(5) Mother told me to lock the door after not to move.
3. Work in pairs. First report the orders, using ¨she told us (not)-〃 Then report the requests, using ¨he asked us (not)-〃
(1) She told us to buy some bread for her.
(2) She told us not make too much noise.
(3) She told us to help her tidy the room.
(4) She told us not to forget to put your umbrella in the stand.
(5) He asked us to speak quietly on the phone.
4. Group work
The teacher read some more sentences for the Ss to change into an order (she told us)or a request (she asked us):
(1) go to bed immediately (an order)
(2) not to throw away the used paper(a request)
(3) lend him several books (a request)
(4) redo his homework (an order)
(5) not to disturb his father(an order)
Step 6 Practice
Make more sentences using ¨with + n. +doing / done / to do / prep.〃 after the model.
Model:
With so many people communication in English every day , we can see that it will be more and more important to have a good knowledge of English.
1. This room is extremely cold the window .
2. so much work , he may not be here.
3. so many trees and flowers , the classroom looks wonderful.
is getting on well with his work his mother him.
Homework:
Go over what we have learned about direct and indirect speech.
Period 4
I. Teaching aims:
1. Learn the reading text to know the differences between American English and British English.
2. Teach the students some useful words and expressions of the text.
II. Important points:
1. Improve the studentsˇ reading ability by reading the text.
2. Improve their writing skills.
3. Know more about American and British English.
III. Difficult points:
Practise writing and improve writing skills.
IV. Teaching methods:
1. Practise makes better skills.
2. Fast reading and pair work or group work to get students active in class.
V. Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision
Talk about their compositions and revise the direct and indirect speeches for and order or for a request.
Ask the Ss to translate some Chinese sentences into English to go over the phrases and some useful words:
(1) all over the world
(2) on the radio
(3) in total
(4) except for
(5) have a good knowledge
Step 2 Presentation
We have learned the word ¨bathroom〃 has different meaning in BE and AE. Now tell me the different meaning(toilet or a place for a shower)
Today weˇll learn something more about their differences. Read quickly and try to tell me , from which year did AE and BE become different?(1776)
Step 3 Fast reading
Read carefully and answer the following questions.
1. Was the language in Britain and America the same at first?
2. When did America become an independent country?
3. Where did the language stay the same, in Britain or in America?
4. Why do Americans talk ¨autumn〃 for ¨fall〃?
5. Where is the English word ¨typhoon〃 form? And how about the American word ¨tornado〃?
6. Who wrote the first American dictionary? And when? Why did he change the spelling?
7. Which is greater, the difference in the spoken English or in the written English?
8. Do people from the two countries have any difficulties in understanding each other?
Step 5 Listening
Listen to the tape and finish the exercise in the text.
Step 6 Reading and Speaking
Ask the Ss to read the text and talk about the differences in their own words and get them to tell the reasons for differences.
Step 7 Practice
Read the passage again and complete the chart:
Words Borrowed from
Cent
Florida
Howl
cookbook
Suggested answers
cent-old French Florida-Spanish howl-American Indian cookbook-German
Homework
The Ss are required to read the tips and write a short passage to compare dialects in Chinese.