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.

七、教学反思：

通过学习课文学生对英语的现状已有一定的了解，但是对其起源和发展变化了解得不多，因此在讲授这一部分内容的时候，除了在课堂上给时间让学生进行讨论，课后查找相关的资料外，可更多地把重点放在输入性的听、读方面，向学生补充了大量的有关英语发展的背景知识，让学生更加地全面而深刻地了解和体会语言，特别是英语这种语言的发展及其在不同的地区所产生的差异，让学生感受英语语言的多文化，多层次和多元性。

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