八年级新教材 Unit 2 教案-八年级英语教案-英语教案,试题,论文,听力
教学设计
Unit 2 English Around the World
The first period: The road to modern English (Reading)
教学内容分析
本单元以“世界英语”为中心话题，旨在通过本单元的学习让学生粗略了
解世界英语的发展状况，认识各种各样具有民族、地域特色的英语以及它
们的出现原因和不同之处。同时让学生能够区分、转述带“命令”或“请
求”语气的祈使句，并让学生能用所学构思方法写一篇关于学习经验的作
文。本节课为阅读课，包括Warming-up, Pre-reading, Reading和Comprehending
四个部分。Warming up介绍世界英语，要求学生区分英美语单词。此部分的
目的是丰富学生有关世界英语的知识，激发学生对英语发展历史的兴趣。
Pre－reading 部分设置了两个与主题有关世界英语的问题。在激活学生已有的
知识的同时引导学生为下一步阅读做好准备。Reading部分简单地说明英语语
言的起源、发展变化、行成原因，以及它的发展趋势。Comprehending 部分旨
在检测学生对课文基本内容的理解程度。具体操作时根据学生的实际情况对
教材有所调整。
Teaching goals
1. Target language
a.Useful words and expressions
include, play a role, because of, international, native, come up, culture, actually, present,
vocabulary, usage, identity, such as, rapidly
b. Important sentences
World Englishes come from those countries…(P9)
Native English speakers can understand each other…(P9)
It became less like German, and more like French…(P10)
2. Ability goals
Enable the students to describe the history of English and know of the differences between
American English and Britain English.
3. Learning ability goals
Help the students learn how to analyze the way author describe the history of English.
Teaching important points
Divide the text into two parts and find the main idea of each paragraph.
Teaching difficult points
Work together with the partners and express one’s opinion on why people all over the world want to
learn English.
Teaching methods
Discussion, reading, listening, cooperative learning, asking-and-answering.
Teaching aids
A computer, a recorder and a screen.
Teaching procedures and ways
Step I. Greeting
Step II. Lead-in and discussion
Arouse the students’ interest and let the students know of world English.
1. How many languages can you speak?
Standard Chinese, Cantonese, English, Japanese…
2. Which language is used most widely? English
And which language has the largest number of speaker? Chinese
3. English is spoken in many countries, can you list some?
Britain, American, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India …
4. Why English is spoken in other countries, like American, India…?
1). Englishmen once ruled American, India…
2). Many people moved to America.
……
5. Do you think the kinds of English spoken in these countries are the same?
6. Guess which of the following words are British English and which are American English.
mum/mom in a term/on a term rubber/eraser
gas / petrol centre / center
British English: mum, in a term, rubber, petrol, center.
7. Do you think old English and modern English are the same?
Listen to an English song ---- Auld Lang Syne<友谊天长地久>,pay attention to the
lyrics (歌词)in red. And what conclusion can you get from this song?
Auld Lang Syne (Old Long Since)
Should auld (old) acquaintance be forgotten.
and never brought to mind?
Should auld (old)acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne (为了过去的好时光?)
For auld lang syne my dear, for auld lang syne
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne.
(让我们干一杯友谊的酒)
And here’s a hand my trusty friend
and gie’s a hand of thine.(give us a hand of yours)
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne.
Step III. Reading
Get the students to know the history of English and help the students to form a good habit of reading.
Get the students to know the history of English and help the student to form a good habit of reading.
A. Fast-readingRead the text quickly and answer two questions:
1. How did different kinds of English come about?
All languages change when cultures communicated with one another.
2. When was India ruled by Britain?
From 1765 to 1947
B. Careful-reading
Read the text again carefully and finish three tasks:
1. Do Ex.1 of Comprehending on page 10.
Keys: 1.A 2.D 3.C 4.D 5.B
2. How do you understand the title? (The history and development of English)
3. How many parts can the text be divided into?
and find the main idea of each paragraph. (You can discuss in groups.)