高中英语必修一unit2reading说课稿

Unit2 English around the world

一、Analyzing of teaching material

1. Analysis of the status and function of the lesson

The topic of this unit is “English around the world”. This unit seeks to give students a better understanding of how English developed and how it is spoken in the world. Through learning this lesson, the students would be clear that English is spoken in many countries throughout the world and many of them have different forms of expression. This lesson aims to open a window for students to learn English and to understand the developing trend of language.

2. Teaching aims

(1)Knowledge aims:

a. To enable the students to remember the new words & phrases;

b. Students will learn the difference between American& British English ；

c. Students will learn about the history and development of English.

(2)Ability aims:

a. To develop the students’ reading ability, learn to use some strategies such as scanning，summarizing and prediction;

b. T o develop the students’ listening and speaking ability, encourage students to speak English more.

(3)Emotional aims:

a. To let students have a better understanding of the importance of learning English and inspire them to study hard;

b. To broaden student s’ international mind and understand the cultural diversity, increase students’ consciousness of cross culture communication;

c. To cultivate students’ ability to cooperate with each other.

3. Teaching key points and difficult points

Key points：

（1）Let students master the new words and phrases in the passage;（2）Develop students’ reading ability, especially summarizing and scanning ability.

Difficult points:

（1）Through cooperation, cultivate students’ communication ability;（2）To express one’s idea on which kind of English one should learn and guess the name of the speaker’s country by listening.

二． Analysis of the students

My students are first-grade students of senior high school. They have been learning English in junior high school and have accumulated a certain number of vocabularies. They have mastered some simple learning

strategies and skills with preliminary ability of speaking and writing. However, the differences in students’ personality and English proficiency are very large and they may be not adapt to the change of study method because of more strict requirement.

三．Analyzing of teaching method

1. Multi-media teaching:Use a projector and a multi-media computer system to show students some pictures, some audio files, some topics or reading tasks.

2. Task-based learning: Let students accomplish some tasks in the class. It can effectively stimulate students’ initiative in learning and develop their ability in language application.

3. Activity-based teaching: Let students work individually, in pair and in groups. It can encourage students to think more, cooperate with partners and express their ideas more readily.

四．Analyzing of study methods:

1. Use some reading skill—scan, predicting & summarizing.

2. Cooperative learning: Students join in group discussion and exchange ideas, which provides more chances for them to speak English, communicate with each other and learn to cooperate with others to solve problems.

五、Analyzing of teaching procedures

I. Lead-in (5 minutes)

After greeting, I will ask the students three questions:

Q1:What language has the largest number of speakers in the world

Q2: What language is the most widely spoken and used in the world

Q3: How many countries do you know use English as their mother tongue This questions aim to draw the topic of this lesson—English around the world, increase students’ interest to know more about English around the world.

Then I will give a brief introduction of difference between American& British English to the students.

II .Pre-reading activities (5 minutes)

First, I would ask the students to discuss and answer the first two questions in the book Page9:

Q1: With your partner, list the countries that use English as an official language.

Q2: Which country do you think has the most English learners

Then, after they express their ideas to me, I will ask them to make a prediction of the text according to the title.

This activity will encourage students to think more, collect more information about English so that they are more accessible to the lesson. Also, they begin to learn how to predict before reading a text.