Unit 2 The road to modern English-Reading part

　　李敏

　　Good morning, my dear teachers. I am No.3. It is my great honor to share my teaching idea with you. My topic is “The road to modern English”. I will show my lesson from the following 6 parts.

　　Part 1. The analysis of teaching material.

　　This lesson is a reading passage which is from unit 2, book 2 published by PEP for senior high ss. The content of this lesson is about the varieties and development of English. By learning this lesson, students will know more about how English developed.

　　According to the teaching material. I set up the following teaching objectives:

　　Knowledge objectives:

　　By reading the text, students get to know the learning and usage of key words such as;Voyage, apartment and so on.

　　Get the skill about how to write the development of a language.

　　Ability objectives:

　　Make use of some reading strategies, such as skimming, scanning and information gathering, summarizing and guessing meaning of the new words from the text.

　　Emotional objectives:

　　To cultivate students’ cooperative spirit.

　　Know the importance of learning English and realize that eglish is the bridge to understand foreign language.

　　Then I will talk about the teaching key points and difficult points. The key points are that how to improve students’ reading skills and help students to understand the text. How to understand the text deeply is the difficult points.

　　Part 2. The analysis of students

　　Students of senior 1 have grasped a certain amount of English language development and some skills of English reading So this passage will attach their attention, interest and deepen their understanding of this topic.

　　Part 3 teaching method

　　To achieve the teaching objectives, I will mainly adopt CAI, CLT and TBLT method.

　　Part 4. Learning methods

　　In order to understand the passage deeply. I will lead ss to combine autonomous learning and cooperative learning together.

　　Part 5. Teaching procedures

　　I will show the most important part teaching procedure in the following four parts.

　　Step 1. Lead in and pre-reading

　　I will show ss the picture of TF boys and have a free talk:

　　Do you know that Wang Yuan gave an English speech in the United Nations?

　　Do you think English is important?

　　Can you tell us sth about the development of English?

　　To arouse ss’ attention and curiosity about the text and make preparation for the reading.

　　Step 2. while-reading

　　In this part, there are 3 activities

　　Activity 1: skimming

　　Students skim the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph：

　　Para 1: English is spoken all over the world.

　　Para 2: understand each other→without the same kind.

　　Para 3: English→why changed

　　Para 4: settled→19thcentury

　　Para 5: English→foreign or second

　　Activity 2: scanning

　　Scan the passage and do exercise T or F on Page 10. And make a timeline of the development of English.

　　By doing this, students can get a further understanding of the passage.

Time	Events
AD4500-1150
AD 800-1150
By the 1600’s
In 1620
Later in the 18thcentury
1765-1947
By the 19thcentury
Now

　　By these activities, ss will get a further understanding of the text.

　　Activity 3: intensive learning

　　According to the context, students read the passage carefully and guess the meaning of the new words. Then have a group discussion: why do you think people all over the world want to learn English?

　　It is beneficial for the students to master the new words and improve their reading strategies such as information gathering and summarizing and cultivate their cooperative spirit.

　　Step 3.Post-reading

　　Activity 1. Retell the passage

　　According to the blackboard， ask some students to retell the passage to check whether they have got the main idea and specific information of the passage.

　　Activity 2. Group discussion

　　Ask students to discuss why do you think more people all over the world want to learn Chinese? In this way, students can realize that learning language is a good way to broaden their horizon.

　　Step 4. Homework

　　Write an article about why more and more people want to learn Chinese.

　　Surf the internet find the development of Chinese.

　　Part 6. Blackboard design

　　Here is my blackboard design. It is easy and clear. It includes the title, the main idea and the key questions about the passage which show the key and difficult point clearly.