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　　unit 2 English around the world—Warming Up,Pre-reading and Reading
　　Teaching aim:
　　a) Ss will be able to know the development of English and feel the role that culture plays in the change of language.
　　b) prehend the whole passage
　　c) Ss will be able to know how to get the key sentence of a paragraph.
　　Teaching procedures:
　　Step 1 lead in
　　Asdents several questions in the form of brain storming.
　　1.Do you know the countries where people speak English? List them on a piece of paper.
　　2.What are the two main groups of English?
　　3.Do you know the differences between British English and American English?
　　4．Do you know the history of English?
　　Step 2 fast reading
　　English is not only different from country to country, but also different from what it was before. Read the title “the road to modern English”and predict (预测) what the passage is mainly about?
　　T: Scan the text to find or mat a key sentence for each paragraph.
　　Let the students find out key sentence of each paragraph or ask them to summarize the main point for each paragraph in their own words.
　　Paragraph 1: The spread of the English language in the world
　　Paragraph 2: Native speaker can understand each other but they may not be able to understand everything.
　　Paragraph 3-4: All languages change when cultures municate with one another.
　　Paragraph 5: English is spoken as a foreign language or second language in Africa and Asia.
　　Step 3. Intensive reading
　　T: Let’s enjoy the whole passage paragraph by paragraph again. Pay special attention to the following Qs:
　　How did old English develop into modern English?