高二文科英语(上学期)开学第一课

高二文科英语(上学期)开学第一课高二文科英语(上学期)开学第一课

课题： Module 1 Introduction

日期：September2 2021

教学目标：

1 Revise what the students learn in Senior 1

2. to make sure students know what’s American English and British English and deal with the questions on page 1

3. to lead students to tell some differences between American and British English 教学重点：to understand the meanings of the famous sayings

教学难点：how to lead students to find the differences between American English and

British English

教学过程：

Step 1 Lead-in

Warm up by watching a video about different varieties of Chinese. Ask answer the following questions (with some important words and phrases in them):

1. Which countries do you think are the speakers from?

2. Do they speak the same kind/variety of Chinese or English?

(similar Chinese and English though different accent)

3. Do you have any difficulty in understanding the first three speakers? Why? (It doesn’t matter whether they speak standard Chinese)

4. Do the two presidents differ from each other in speaking? Try to compare them. Introduction

1. Ask four students to read out the quotations, sharing the understanding of the four sentences and then answer the questions in the textbook.

2. Help the students to guess the meaning of two phrases “have…in common” and “make much difference” according to the context.

3. Ask the students to read the emails in Activity 2 as carefully as they can and try to find out the similarities and the differences between them, deciding which writer is American.

4. Ask the students to give answers to Activity 1 in Reading and speaking. Reading and Speaking

Lead-in

T: English is a language spoken all around the world. It plays a more and

more important role in international affairs. There are some slight differences between American English and British

English. Sometimes, slight misunderstandings may occur between native speakers from Great Britain and the United States. Therefore, it is necessary to know about the differences between American English and British English in order to use English appropriately.

Pre-reading

1. Ask the students to read the first sentence of the passage and guess the main idea of the whole passage and the following content. Any related words, phrases and sentences are ok. (To review some words and phrases and learn to predict.t )

2. Tell the students the main idea sentence of a paragraph, commonly known as a “topic sentence” or “topic statement”, most frequently appears at the beginning of a paragraph.

Skimming

Step 2 Discussion

1. Ask students to turn to page1 and look at part 1 .let them read together . Then ask them to tell the meanings. Make sure they know the meanings.

2. Give them about 5 minutes to discuss the answers of the questions. Then show theirs answers to the whole class.

3. check the answers together and ask students to read again.

Step 3 Speaking