高中英语必修一unit2-reading-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. To 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 students’ international mind and understand the cultural diversity, increase students’ consciousness of cross culture communication;
c. To cultivate st udents’ 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.
III. While-reading activities(25 minutes)
Activity 1: listening (5 minutes)
Ask the students to listen to the tape and get the main points of the text. Then, ask students what information they have got through listening.
This activity will improve students’ listening skill and have a general knowledge about the text.
Activity 2: scanning (5 minutes)
Ask the students to scan the text and conclude the main idea of each paragraph. Then, let them discuss in pairs and ask several students to express what they conclude.
By this activity students will grasp the reading skill—scanning and reading with a goal in mind. Also, they will say more target words and sentences.
Activity 3: major details (8minutes)
Get the students to find some important major details and then finishes the 6 questions about “true or false” in Page10 through reading the passage. After they finish the questions, I will give them two minutes to discuss the answers with their partners.
This activity aims to checkout whether the students comprehend the main idea of the text and whether they can master some details of the lesson.
Activity 4: Comprehending (10 minutes)
Ask the students to finish 5 reading comprehension multiple- choice questions in my PPT. After they finish the questions, give them two minutes to discuss the answers with their partners.
IV. Post-reading activities (5minutes)
Activity: Group discussion
Ask students to discuss three questions in group and then ask representatives of each group to express their ideas.
1.Why is it becoming more and more important to have a good knowledge of English
2. In which countries do we find most native speakers of English?
Give the names of three counties.
3. Living in China you can use English every day in different situations. Give two
examples.
By this activity students will gain more chances to express their opinion in English. Also, they will learn to cooperate and communicate with each other, which will improve their language competence and innovation.
VI. Homework (2minutes)
1. To write a summary passage in at least 100 words about the text .
2. Reading the passage after class.
Thank you！。