Unit 19 Period Ⅰ 美文阅读课件.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 【美文阅读】　 你会“口语”的同时你懂“手语”吗？请读下面这篇文章吧。 Sign has become a scientific hot button.Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are unique－a speech of the hand.They offer a new way to explore how the brain generates(产生)and understands language，and throw new light on an old scientific debate：whether language，complete with grammar，is something that we are born with，or whether it is a learned behavior.The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington，D.C.，worlds only liberal arts university for deaf people. When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English，he was given a course in signing.But Stokoe noticed something strange：among themselves，students signed differently from his classroom teacher. Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code，each movement of the hands representing a word in English.At the time，American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin (混杂语言) English.But Stokoe believed the“hand talk”his students used looked richer.He wondered：might deaf people actually have a genuine language？And could that language be unlike any other on earth？It was 1955.Stokoes idea was academic heresy(异端邪说)． It is 53 years later.For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English，French and Japanese.They assumed (假想) language must be based on speech，the modulation (调节) of sound.But sign language is based on the movement of hands，the modulation of space.“What I said”，Stokoe explains，“is that language is not related to mouth but brain.” 教师用书独具演示 ●教学目标 本课时主要是通过学生对学案所给出的内容的学习，了解本课文中所出现的词汇，初步了解课文以及相关的背景知识，对下一堂课就课文的全面理解起到一个铺垫作用。 ●教学地位 本单元是让学生通过探讨身体语言和英语的种类，了解如何看待并学习英语和身体语言如何传情达意。通过本节的学习，增强学生的对英语语言的认识和学习。此外，上好本堂课会增进学生学英语的兴趣。 ●新课导入建议 用多媒体向学生展示一段有关讲述英语语言发展史的英语视频，老师简述英语语言发展的几个阶段，并重点谈谈现代英语的发展及使用的广泛性、重要性，从而告诉学生一些学好英语的方法。 Ⅰ.篇章结构 The reason why w