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Unit 2 English around the world
Teaching Aims And Demands:
1. Learn and master the words and expressions in the Unit.
2. Review direct speech and indirect speech
3. Train the students’ ability of speaking.
4. Train the students’ ability of reading comprehension.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Everyday English:
1) Talk about the differences between American English and British English.
2) Practice talking about requests and demands.
3) Learn some useful phrases.
2. The correct understanding of the passage
3. Grammar: direct speech and indirect speech
Teaching Difficult Points:
Train the students’ ability of reading comprehension
Teaching Methods:
1. Explanation to make the Ss understand the difficult languages in the passage.
2. Fast reading to find out the general information in the text.
3. Questions and answers to help the students go through with the whole passage.
Teaching Aids:
1. tape recorder
2. multimedia
Teaching Procedures:
Section 1
Teaching aims:
1) Listen to a dialogue about American English and British English.
2) Do some exercise about sentence transformation
3) Enable the students to express their own ideas freely
Step1. Lead-in
Step2. Warming up
Although English is spoken on both sides of the Atlantic, slight misunderstanding sometimes may happen between natives speakers from Britain and America. Here is an example. Listen to the tape carefully to find out what their misunderstanding is about.
1. Listen to the tape.
2. Questions:
1) What is it that Joe can’t find in the bathroom?
A toilet.
2) Why can’t he find it?
In American English, the word “bathroom” means a place where there is a toilet and sometimes a bath or a shower; In British English, the word means a place where there is a bath and sometimes a toilet. Joe wants to go to the toilet, but Nancy thinks he wants to takes a shower.
Step 3. Notes to the dialogue
1) Joe is an American who has come to Britain for the first time.
(1) for the first time
(2) the first time
(3) It’s the first time…
e.g. The two students met for the first time at the beginning of term.
He loved the girl the first time he met her.
It is the first time I have been to Paris.
2) What is it that Joe can’t find in the bathroom?
It is / was … that …
Xiaoming broke the window yesterday.
It was Xiaoming that / who broke the window yesterday.
It was the window that Xiaoming broke yesterday.
It was yesterday that Xiaoming broke the window.
→ Who was it that…
What was it that…
When was it that…
Where was it that…
Why was it that…
e.g. Where was it that you met the girl with long hair?
Why was it that he told a lie to us all?
3) You must be very tired.
Present: must be / be doing / do
Past: must have done
e.g. He must be watching TV now. → isn’t he?
He must have seen the movie yesterday.. → didn’t he?
He must have told lies before. → hasn’t he?
Negative: can’t/couldn’t be / be doing / do
e.g. He can’t be at home today, because he went to London yesterday.
She can’t have taken the monkey, for she was with me the whole night.
4) I mean, I found the bathroom.
mean
(1) 意思是；指……而言（后接名詞，代詞或從句）
I mean this one, not that one.
I mean that he is being unfair.
(2) 打算做（后接不定式）
I meant to give you this book today, but I forgot.
(3) 意味著（后接動(dòng)名詞）
Missing the train means waiting for another hour.
The dark clouds mean rain.
5) There you are.
e.g. There goes the bell.
Here comes the bus.
Here you are. Here it is.
Step4. Listening
1. Listen to the tape
2. Finish the exercises
Step5. Speaking
1. Listen to the tape
2. Finish the exercises
Step4. Homework
1) Make up new dialogues.
2) Translation
1. 我第一次見(jiàn)到她時(shí)，他正在幫助學(xué)生呢．
2. 這是他有生以來(lái)第一次英語(yǔ)考試沒(méi)及格．
3. ――邁克一定在讀什么有趣的東西．
――不，不可能，他明天要考試
4．你是在哪兒遇到那個(gè)自稱(chēng)小王的人的？（用強(qiáng)調(diào)句式）
5．昨晚，他直到她媽媽下班回來(lái)才上床睡覺(jué)的（用強(qiáng)調(diào)句式）