地质中学高中英语黄利华M3-U2reading教案.docVIP

Module 3 Unit 2 Language Period 2 Reading Dizhi Middle School Huang Lihua 地质中学高中英语 黄利华 Teaching Aims: 1. Have Ss enhance their reading abilities. 2. Get Ss to know more about the language English and its history. 3. Have Ss gain an overall understanding of the article and learn to adopt different reading strategies. Teaching Focus: Help Ss know some knowledge about English language and its history with the help of time chart or timeline. Help Ss learn some language items. Teaching Procedures： Step 1 Lead-in 1.Ask students to look at the map and national flag of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland then introduce the language “English”. 2. Ask students the following questions. ①As we all know, we Chinese students learn English as our foreign language. What do you think is the most difficult part of studying English—pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary or anything else? ② Do you think English has always stayed the same? Step 2 Skimming and reading strategy The students may be very eager to know what the text is about. Thus I ask Ss to observe the title, subtitle quickly and try to find answers to the three questions in Part A. Check the answers with the class and tell them the strategy of reading is to observe the title, subtitle, the first paragraph and the last paragraph so that they can find the answers to the questions easily. T: Now we know that English does not always stay the same. I think everything develops in the history. So English has a developing history. In our text book there is a history passage about it. But how shall we read a history article? Let’s go through the Reading strategy and find it out. Answer: 1. Notice the dates and years 2. Make a time chart, listing relevant information such as times, places and events, etc. period Time Events Old English Before the middle of the 5th century People in Britain all speak a language called Celtic. At the end of the 9th century The Vikings invaded Britain and broug