四、教学难点和重点

　　( 1) To be able to get the main idea from the text.

　　(2.) To be able to solve the problem by analyzing.

　　(3) To be able to use the different learning strategies for different reading purposes.

　　五、教学方法：

　　1、任务型语言教学法。

　　在本课教学中，我将依据课程的总体目标并结合教学内容，创造性地设计贴近学生实际的任务活动，吸引和组织他们积极参与，使学生通过思考、讨论、交流和合作等方式，在一种自然、真实或模拟真实的情境中体会语言、掌握语言的应用。

　　2、启发式教学法。创设情景，引入主题，配合小组讨论交流，采用启发式教学启发学生主动学习。

　　六、教学过程

　　Step 1 Greeting

　　Greet the students as usual.

　　Step 2 Revision and lead-in

　　(show the pictures ：a football, an eraser, a flat and a lift on the screen.)

　　T: What’s this? ( Point to the football.)

　　S: It’s a football.

　　T: Yes. An Englishman usually calls it a football. But what do Americans usually call it?

　　S: a soccer.

　　T: What about this one? ( Point to the eraser.)…

　　T: Well, as we know, there is more than one kind of English in the word. They are different from one another in some ways. Why has English changed over time? What will world English be in the future? Do you know? Well, today, the passage “The Road To Modern English” will tell us. Now please open your books and turn to page 9.

　　Step 3 Careful reading

　　1. Let the students read the passage carefully and then make a time line of the development of English.

　　2. Let the students read the passage again and fill in the blanks with the words from the text.

　　It is not easy for a Chinese person to speak English as ___ as a ___ English speaker. One reason is that English has a large ___. It also has different usage in different English speaking countries. If you use “flat” instead of “___”, people in America will know you have learned British English. If you use the word “___”instead of “lift” in Britain, people will know you have studied American English.

　　Step 4 Practice

　　Retell the history of English and tell the differences of ancient English and modern English, British English and American English.

　　Step 5 Group work

　　Ask and answer the questions like these:

　　When did five to seven million people speak English?

　　Why did English begin to be spoken in many other countries?

　　Which country may have the largest number of English learners?

　　Step 6 Summary

　　Answer questions: Tell us what did you learn from this lesson?

　　Why do you think people all over the world want to learn English？

　　Step 7 Homework

　　1. Go over the text and try to learn all the useful words and expressions in this part by heart.

　　2. Write a passage about your English learning.