English around the world 3rd Teaching Period

English around the world 3rd Teaching Period

    Unit 2  English around the world  3rd Teaching Period
    Reading, listening & speaking            第七备课合作组
    Aims:  1.to further understand the related knowledge of the language of English, esp.the differences between Am.E and Br.E and some English dialects
    2.to integrate reading,listening and speaking
    Steps:
    Lead in
    1.Play a guessing game: T says “同学们好” in one Chinese dialect. Get the Ss to guess the meaning and say it in other Chinese dialects. Ss are encouraged to say some daily Chinese in different dialects.
    2.Have a brief introduction to the dialect family in China
    3.Questions: Is it easy to communicate with each other if people speak different Chinese dialects? What is Standard Chinese? Why is Putonghua used in China? Is there any standard English and dialects ?
    Reading
    1. pre-reading questions
    What is standard English?  Are there many English dialects?
    2.Fast reading
    Ss are required to answer the questions above
    3.Careful reading
    a.Let the Ss identify the words: standard, dialect, Spanish, recognize, play a part;
    midwestern, southeastern, northwestern, eastern…
    b.Questions: 1)How many dialects of American English have been listed in the text?
    2)Why do people from both northeastern and southeastern of U.S. speak with almost the same dialect?
    3)Why does American English have so many dialects? Can Americans recognize each other’s dialects?
    4.  Get the main idea of the passage.
    (It tells us that there is no such thing as standard English, and American English has many dialects because people come from all over the world and geography plays a part in it but Americans can recognize each other’s dialects.)
    Listening
    1.Give the students a brief introduction about the listening material (tell the Ss that the first speaker speaks with one kind of southern dialect and accent).
    2.Prediting:
    .Get the Ss to observe the picture and answer the questions:
    What are the boys doing? What does the fish look like?
    How do you think the little boy feels? What about the other two boys?
    3..Play the first part for the Ss to listen and try to answer the first four questions on Page 14
    4.Play the second part and answer questions 5&6
    5.Check the answers
    1) Work in pairs to explain the following sentences in “standard English”
    a. Now, y’all need to understand that we ain’t really a state , but a whole’nother country. Now let me tell ya a story’bout when I was just a pup.
    b. We was jumpin’in the water and feelin’good.Then along comes this catfish’bout the size of a house.
    c. Little Lester starts to thinkin’it’s goin’to eat him sure’nough. Man, you shoulda seen him. He got outta the water fast as lightning and climbed up a tree.
    (y’all- everyone ; ya-you; ain’t-aren’t; nother-northern; ‘bout-about; pup-small boy; swimmin’-swimming; jumpin’-jumping; feelin’-feeling; sure’nough-sure enough; shoulda- should have; outta-out of)
    2) Discuss the answers in pairs and then check the answers with the whole class
    Speaking
    1.Ask the students to read the dialogue in roles and list the different words between Am.E and Br.E.
    Amy(American)                              Lady(British)
    subway                                      underground left                                         left-hand side
    keep going straight                             go straight on
    two blocks                                   two streets
    right                                        right-hand side
    2.Comparision. Match the American expressions and British expressions to learn more about the differences between American English and British English(T may  play games or have a competition among the Ss.Ss are encouraged to say more differences between Am.E and Br.E.)
    American English                           British English
    fall                                       autumn
    eraser                                     rubber
    truck                                      lorry
    subway                                    underground

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