Unit 3 American English

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教学设计方案 Lesson 9

Teaching Aims:

Learn and master the following words and phrases:

difficulty , pronounce , fall (n.), ask --- for , medicine

2) Oral English:

Would you please say that again more slowly ? Pardon ?

I' m sorry I know only a little English . / I don' t quite follow you .

How do you pronounce / spell --- ? I have some difficulty in doing --- What does --- mean ?

Teaching Important Points :

1. Master the use of the words of four skills and some phrases and idioms .

2. How to express one' s opinions and what one feels . and how to make requests.

Teaching Difficult Points :

1. the use of " ask for " and " have difficulty in doing sth ".

2. how to ask for advice by using " Would you please ---?"

Teaching Procedures:

Step I . Revision

T: Good morning , everyone ! S: Good morning , teacher .

T: Sit down , please .Now let’s welcome Helen to give us a free talk. Come to the Bb ,please.

Step II. Introduction :

T: As we know , sometimes people can not understand each other well because they speak in different accents . Do you know accent ? It means a special way of speaking . As you know , in our country, persons from Shandong Province and Zhejiang Province speak Chinese with a different accent ,. So does English . There are mainly two important kinds of English in the world : American English and British English. What’s the differences between them ? People from Britain and America can understand each other well ? Let' s listen to a dialogue . OK . Listen to the tape and then answer my questions .

Step III . Dialogue

Listen for the first time and answer: Listen to Lesson 9 and choose the right answer:
1) Yang Mei has a plan to _____________
　　A. work next fall. B. study medicine and to become a doctor.
　　C. have difficulty in learning English.
Listen for the second time and answer the following questions :

1. Who is Yang Mei ? What does she do ?

2. Who is Sara ?

3. What difficulty does Yang Mei have in learning English ?

4. What is Sara' s opinion about Yang Mei ' s pronunciation ?

5. What does " fall " mean in the dialogue ?

6. Do you think Yang Mei understands the meaning of '' fall " ?

7. What ' s Yang Mei ' s plan ?

( Ask the students to answer the questions above . )

Suggested answers :

1.Yang Mei is a Chinese girl who is now studying in the States .

2.Sara is an American . She is Yang Mei ' s teacher.

3.She has some difficulty in pronouncing some English words .

4.She thinks Yang Mei' s pronunciation is very good .

5.It means " autumn " ,

6.No , she didn' t .She does not understand its meaning until Sara say " next September " .

7.She wants to study medicine .

T:Please open your books . Turn to Page 9 . Let' s go through the dialogue and deal with some language points . Please look at the screen .

1.difficulty .

(1).the quality of being difficult; trouble phrases: do sth , with difficulty , without (much , any ) difficulty have difficulty ( trouble , a good time , a hard time fun ---) ( in ) doing sth . have difficulty with sth .

e.g. Tod had some difficulty in understanding me .

I don' t have much . difficulty with English grammar.

(2).often pl. something difficult , a trouble.

e.g. James keeps raising difficulties over my new plan.

2.pronounce v.------- to say the sounds of a language. ( n , pronunciation )

3.And when do you take your next exams ?

Present Simple for future use , the speaker is talking about a school programme which is fixed .

e.g. When does the winter holidays begin ?

give the students an exam ( 老师) 考学生。 hold an exam 举行考试

pass an exam 考试合格 fail in an exam 考试不及格

4. fall n . = autumn in American English

5. plan n. ---- a ( carefully considered ) arrangement for carrying out some future activity .

e.g. The police worked out a plan to catch the thief.

6. medicine n. ----- the science of treating and understanding disease.

7. wheel n . ----- a round object which turns on an axle

e.g. Carts , cars and trains run on wheels.

8. ask --- for

e.g. Everybody was now asking him for advice . She asked him for his address .

Ask him for anything you want . He asked for time to think it over.

Step IV. Oral practice

T: Now let' s make a dialogue according to the text . Suppose Tom is an American boy and Charles is English . One day Tom invites Charles to see a film . I give you three minutes to prepare in pairs , Then I'll ask some of you to act it out .

One possible answer : ( T: Tom C: Charles)

T: Hello , Charles !

C: Hello , Tom !

T: Are you free tonight ? If so , would you like to go to the movies tonight ?

C: I' m sorry I don' t quite follow you . Would you please say that again more slowly ?

T: Would you like to go to the movies ?

C: Pardon ?

T: Let' s go to see a film , shall we meet ?

C: That' s great ! When shall we meet ?

T: At seven . I'll call you. See you .

C: See you .

Step V . Practice

T: Now let' s deal with Part Two ----- Practice . Please complete it by yourself.In a few minutes,I'll check the answers . OK ?

( A few minutes later .) Now Zhang Ying . please do the first one ---

Answers : 1 -- b ; 2 -- f ; 3 -- d ; 4 -- a ; 5 -- c ; 6 -- e

Step VI . Workbook

T: Now turn to Page 67 . Let' s do the exercises . Part 1. Li Ling , please read the words in the first column ------

( Then do Ex.3 and Ex . 4 . When the students do Ex. 4. teacher can say the following .)

T: Please pay attention : English speaker usually say " Thank you ." when they are praised . So the correct response to Sentence 2 and 3 should be " Thank you " rather than " No " ,

Suggested answers :

Ex. 3. : Chinese , States , On , for , difficulty . good . understand , example , fall , September . medicine.

Ex. 4. : 1. How do you do ?

4. You are welcome . / Not at all . / don' t mention it . / That' s all right ./ My pleasure . / It' s nothing . / A pleasure.

5. Yes . please , Thank you . / No , thank you .

6. The same to you .

Step VII . Sum up

T: In this lesson we've learned a dialogue , Please remember this : When you talk to someone you likely meet with some difficulty .If so , you may say " Would you please say that again more slowly ? / Pardon ? / I' m sorry I know only a little English . / I don' t quite follow you . / How do you pronounce ---? What does --- mean ?" ( Write them on the blackboard . ) Besides , there are two useful expressions : " I have some difficulty in doing --- " and " ask --- for " ( Write them on the blackboard .) Please use them as much as possible in and after class.

Step VIII . Homework :

1. Do Ex . 2. on Page 67 except 1. 2. and 5

2. Retell the dialogue of lesson 9 in the third person form .

Suggested answers :

1. 3). I think she is in the first grade .

4). I think they are talking at the gate of a university .

6). She will take her next exams in June .

7). " Medicine " means the science of treating and understanding disease .

8). In my opinion , Yang Mei' s English is not good enough . She still has difficulty in listening and pronouncing some of the words in English .

2. Yang Mei is a Chinese girl , She is now Studying in the States . On the first day of school , she met her new teacher Sara for the first time . They talked for a while . Yang Mei said that she had difficulty in pronouncing some English words . But Sara thought that the girl' s pronunciation as very good , Sometimes Yang Mei could not understand Sara during the talk . For example , Sara used " fall " instead of " autumn " . She said the word again clearly and slowly . Yang Mei didn't understand until Sara said " next September " . Yang Mei told the teacher that she wanted to study medicine next year and become a doctor.

How do you spell/ pronounce --- ? ask ( sb. ) for sth.

What does --- mean ?

教学设计方案Lesson 10

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn and master the following words and phrases:

however , a great many ,store , and so on , the same as , more or less

2. Train students ' ability of reading comprehension

Teaching Important Points : After learning the text " American English " , let the students know something about the differences between British English and American English and the development of English .

Difficult Points :

how to use " however " and " but "

Teaching Procedures :

Step1. Revision

T: Good morning , class. S: Good morning , teacher .

T: Sit down , please , In the last period , we' ve learned a dialogue between Yang Mei and her teacher Sara . Who can tell me the meaning of “fall”? Peter,please. Step2.Preparation for reading T: Today we are going to learn sth , more about English . English is a young language .It grew from other languages , such as German an French . People began to write it down only about six hundred years ago . It is the international business language , However , English is not exactly the same in different countries . American people speak English , but it is a little different from British English . In this period , we are going to read about those differences . Please close your books and listen to the tape carefully . Then think over the questions on the screen .

Step3 .Listen and answer: (Teacher plays the tape and then shows some questions on the screen ) T: Now please look at some questions on the screen .

1. Do you think that people from Britain and American can understand each other ? Why do you think so ?

2. Is there any difference in written English in the two countries ?

3. Can you give some examples to show the differences in spelling English ?

4. What differences are there in spoken English in the two countries ?

5. How did the differences between British and American English come about ?

( After that , teacher may ask Ss to answer. )

Step4. Reading comprehension:

T: Now please read the text again and finish the exercises within 8 minutes.

1.The passage doesn’'t tell the difference between AmE. and BrE. in _____.

A.spelling B.pronunciation C.grammar D.vocabulary

2.The differences between BrE. and AmE. came about in the following ways except _____.

A.people from England took English to different parts of the world and it began to change

B.some British English changed while English in other parts of the world remained the same

C.some other words came into the English language from other countries

D.many words and expressions came into the English language from American English

3.The main idea of Paragraph 6 is _____.

A.many words from other languages have come into the English language

B.there are several reasons for American English changes

C.American English brought in some words from the European countries

D.some British English were brought into American English

4.From the passage we can see that _____.

A.American English is quite different from British English

B.it is difficult to tell the differences between American English and British English

C.American English is really a“mixture”of different languages

D.people from other countries have changed the English language

5.From the text we know that Americans are _____.

A.people from European countries

B.people from France

C.people from all parts of the world

D.people from Spain

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Step 5 Fill in blanks.

T: Read the text again in details and fill in the blanks without looking at it.

1.Many students want to know about the differences between American English and British English.

2.How did these differences come about?

3.Sometimes the language spoken in these places stayed the same, while the language in England changed.

4.There are a great many American Indian words.

Step6 Language points:

1. more or less ------ about , not exactly , almost , nearly

It' s more or less an hour' s walk from here . more or less.

The work is more or less finished .

2. however adv. -----in spite of this , nevertheless

It' s raining hard , However . I think we should go out .

He hasn't arrived . He may , however , come later.

The students thought they had done everything as the teacher did.

They were mistaken , however.

3. come about ------ happen , take place

Sometimes it is hard to tell how a quarrel comes about .

When John woke up , he was in the hospital , but he didn't know how that had come about .

4.At first , the language stayed the same as the language used in Britain , but slowly thelanguage began to change from one part of the world to another.

1) stay vi ------ keep , remain e.g. The door stayed open all the day ;

The temperature has stayed hot this week.

2) the same as --- e.g. My dictionary is the same as yours .

We will do the same experiment as they did yesterday.

5. the language began to change from one part of the world to another : The form of English spoken in one area of the world becomes different from the forms of English spoken in other areas .

6. a great / a good many ------- a very large number of

e.g. Tom has a great many friends at school . A great many of them like American English better than British English.

Step 7 Sum up :

Today , we' ve learned Lesson Ten . American English (1) , We' ve learned the differences between America English and British English . Their differences Lie in three : one is in written English .e.g. Br.E colour, centre, travelled while AmE, color , center , traveled ; one is in spoken English , e.g. Br.E. dance [da:ns] ,not [nt], Ame dance, not; the third is in words and expressions. Br. E, movie , gas , store , mail , right away,I guess while Am. E , film , petrol , shop , post , at once . I think . The cause of making these differences is that people travelled from one part to another. ( Write parts of them on the Bb.)

Step VIII . Homework .

1.Revise the text of this lesson. 2. Make sentences with the words and expressions of Lesson10.

教学设计方案Lesson 12

Teaching Aims :1.Checkpoint 3 2. Direct Speech and Indirect Speech

Teaching Difficult Points :

the use of the Indirect Speech

Teaching Methods :

Inductive method , deductive method and observating method .

Teaching Aids :1. a recorder ; 2. a slide projector

Teaching Procedures :

Step I .Revision

T: Good morning everyone . Ss: Good morning , teacher.

T: Sit down , please , Now I'll check the homework . Ren Ping , please do Ex.1on Page 69 ---

Step II . Listening .

T: In the last two periods , we've learned something about the differences between American English and English spoken in England .Today,we are going to listen to a dialogue , An American woman . Terry is talking to her friend David . Let' s listen to what they are talking about .Please listen carefully , then we'll do exercises on Page 129.

Listening to the Text :

David : What' s it like living in England , Terry ?

Terry : Well,I'mhavingagreat time , But I guess I sometimes have a little difficulty understanding what people are saying .

David : Can you explain a bit more ? Do you have some trouble with our pronunciation ?

Terry : No,but you use a lot of different words over here that I don' t understand.

David : Can you give an example ?

Terry : A woman said she would ring me the next day .

David : What' s strange about that ?

Terry : Well , we say , I' ll call you tomorrow ,

David : Now that sounds very funny to me !

Terry : There' s another thing . In the States people stand closer to each other than English people . For example , if I' m talking to English people at a party . I find that they stand quite a long way away from me .

David : Anything else ?

Terry : Well , yes , It' s clear to me that English people don' t like touching somebody or being touched , Now in the States touch is important,Friends touch each other on the arm ,for example . And we often put an arm round a friend when we say " Hello " or " Goodbye ".So I have to remember not to touch people when I' m in England.

David : What else ?

Terry : You drive on the left and we drive on the right . I almost got killed on the street , the other day . I looked to the left and started to cross, There was a car coming from my right ! Luckily it stopped and didn't hit me .

( Play the cassette twice , Let the Ss check their answers in pairs , then with the whole class. Play the tape to check the answers . )

Suggested answers :

Ex.1.English language , words , parties , touching , saying " Hello " and " Goodbye " , driving ,

Ex. 2. True : 2. 4.

Ex. 3. 1. What' s it like living in England , Terry ?

2. A woman said she would ring me the next day . 3. What' s strange about that ?

4. Well , we say " I'll call you tomorrow . " 5. Now that sounds funny to me !

6. So I have to remember not to touch people when I' m in England.

Step III .Checkpoint

T: Please turn to Page 12. Look at checkpoint 3. Make sentences with the useful expressions , Wang Ping .you try , please , Say as many as possible .

Step IV. Word Study

T: Now look at Lesson 12. Part 2. Word study . Please fill in the blanks with a suitable word according to the words given.Pay special attention to the words "pronunciation" and "pronounce”

Answers :

　　Noun 　　　　　　Verb 　　　　　　Adjective
　　difference 　　　　& 　　　　　　different
　　speech 　　　　　speak　　　　　　spoken
　　difficulty 　　　　& 　　　　　　difficult
　　pronunciation 　pronounce 　　　　　&
　　mixture 　　　　　mix 　　　　　　　&
　　Europe 　　　　　　& 　　　　　　European

Step V .Writing

T: Now let' s look at Lesson 12, Pant 3. Writing . First , look at the checkpoint 3. Grammar

(Ask one student to read.If the verb " say / tell " is in the Past Tense.you usually change the verb tenses into Indirect Speech.) While doing this texercise,you should pay attention to the verb tenses.First write them in your exercise books, then check them in pair .

(After the students have done ,Show the answers on the screen .Let one student to read it aloud . The others check their answers.)

Answers :

1.She said that in china about seven people in ten spoke / speak ( as it is always true ) Putonghua.

2. She said her elder brother had taught her some of the Chinese Characters .

3. She said there were / are over 50.000 different characters in Chinese.

4. She said she had learnt about 5.000 characters at school.

5. She said she had practised writing them for homework .( " practise " must be followed by a gerund.)

6. She said she hadn't found it easy at first .

Step VI . Workbook.

T: Let' s do exercises . Please turn to Page 70. Ex.1. Li Ming , Read the first three groups of words , tell their parts of speech , and then put them into Chinese. ---

Suggested answers :

　　mix 　　　　v. 混合　　　invent 　　v. 发明
　　mixture 　　n. 混合物　　invention 　n. 发明
　　operate 　　v. 实施　　　instruct 　v, 教育
　　operation 　n. 实施　　　instruction　 n. 教育
　　cross 　　　v. 越过　　　build 　v. 建筑
　　crossing 　n. 交叉点　　　building 　n. 楼房
　　luck 　　　　n. 运气　　　danger 　n. 危险
　　lucky 　　　adj. 幸运的　　dangerous 　adj. 危险的
　　interest 　　n. 兴趣　　　difference 　n . 不同
　　interesting adj . 有趣的　different 　adj . 不同的
　　cloud 　　　　n. 云　　　　difficulty 　n. 困难
　　cloudy 　　　adj. 多云的　 difficult 　adj . 困难的

T: Now Let' s do Ex . 2. Write the answers in your exercise book , then check them in pairs , at last check them with the sentences on the screen .

Suggested answers :

True : 1, B 2, A 3, B 4, B

1. A should be : I don' t know what the word means .

2. B should be : What is this word " address " pronounced

3. A should be : He said that he had never been to the States .

4. A should be : She may have some difficulty in pronouncing English words .

T: Now let' s do Ex . 4. Put the following into English , using the phrases given . First write them in your exercise - books , then check them in pairs . At last I' ll give you correct answers

( Show the answers on the screen.)

Unit 3 American English

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