[¸ßÒ»]Unit 3 American English Lesson10(È˽̰æ)

Teaching Aims: 

1. Learn and master the following words and phrases:

 however , a great many ,store , and so on , the same as , more or less

2. Train students ¡¯ ability of reading comprehension

Teaching Important Points :  After learning the text " American English " , let the students know something about the differences between British English and American English and the development of English .

Difficult Points : 

how to use " however " and " but " 

Teaching Procedures : 

Step1. Revision    

T: Good morning , class.     S: Good morning , teacher . 

T: Sit down , please , In the last period , we¡¯ ve learned a dialogue between Yang Mei and her teacher Sara . Who can tell me the meaning of ¡°fall¡±? Peter,please.            Step2.Preparation for reading  T: Today we are going to learn sth , more about English . English is a young language .It grew from other languages , such as German an French . People began to write it down only about six hundred years ago . It is the international business language , However , English is not exactly the same in different countries . American people speak English , but it is a little different from British English . In this period , we are going to read about those differences . Please close your books and listen to the tape carefully . Then think over the questions on the screen .

Step3 .Listen and answer: (Teacher plays the tape and then shows some questions on the screen ) T: Now please look at some questions on the screen .

1. Do you think that people from Britain and American can understand each other ? Why do you think so ?

2. Is there any difference in written English in the two countries ? 

3. Can you give some examples to show the differences in spelling English ?

4. What differences are there in spoken English in the two countries ?

5. How did the differences between British and American English come about ?

( After that , teacher may ask Ss to answer. )

Step4. Reading comprehension:

T: Now please read the text again and finish the exercises within 8 minutes.  

1.The passage doesn¡¯¡¯t tell the difference between AmE. and BrE. in _____.ª¥

A.spelling    B.pronunciation   C.grammar    D.vocabulary

2.The differences between BrE. and AmE. came about in the following ways except _____.

A.people from England took English to different parts of the world and it began to changeª¥

B.some British English changed while English in other parts of the world remained the same

C.some other words came into the English language from other countriesª¥

D.many words and expressions came into the English language from American English

3.The main idea of Paragraph 6 is _____.ª¥

A.many words from other languages have come into the English languageª¥

B.there are several reasons for American English changesª¥

C.American English brought in some words from the European countriesª¥

D.some British English were brought into American Englishª¤

4.From the passage we can see that _____.ª¥

A.American English is quite different from British Englishª¥

B.it is difficult to tell the differences between American English and British English

C.American English is really a¡°mixture¡±of different languagesª¥

D.people from other countries have changed the English language

5.From the text we know that Americans are _____.ª¥

A.people from European countriesª¥

B.people from Franceª¥

C.people from all parts of the worldª¥

D.people from Spainª¤

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Step 5 Fill in blanks.

T: Read the text again in details and fill in the blanks without looking at it.

1.Many students want to know about the differences between American English and British English.

2.How did these differences come about?

3.Sometimes the language spoken in these places stayed the same, while the language in England changed.

4.There are a great many American Indian words.

Step6 Language points:

1.       more or less ------ about , not exactly , almost , nearly 

 It¡¯ s more or less an hour¡¯ s walk from here . more or less.

 The work is more or less finished . 

2. however adv. -----in spite of this , nevertheless

It¡¯ s raining hard , However . I think we should go out .

He hasn¡¯t arrived . He may , however , come later.

The students thought they had done everything as the teacher did.

They were mistaken , however.

3. come about ------ happen , take place 

Sometimes it is hard to tell how a quarrel comes about .

When John woke up , he was in the hospital , but he didn¡¯t know how that had come about . 

4.At first , the language stayed the same as the language used in Britain , but slowly thelanguage began to change from one part of the world to another.

1) stay vi ------ keep , remain     e.g. The door stayed open all the day 

 The temperature has stayed hot this week.

2) the same as ---                       e.g. My dictionary is the same as yours . 

 We will do the same experiment as they did yesterday.

5. the language began to change from one part of the world to another : The form of English spoken in one area of the world becomes different from the forms of English spoken in other areas .

6. a great / a good many ------- a very large number of 

e.g. Tom has a great many friends at school . A great many of them like American English better than British English.

Step 7 Sum up : 

     Today , we¡¯ ve learned Lesson Ten . American English (1) , We¡¯ ve learned the differences between America English and British English . Their differences Lie in three : one is in written English .e.g. Br.E colour, centre, travelled while AmE, color , center , traveled   one is in spoken English , e.g. Br.E. dance [da:ns] ,not [nt], Ame dance, not;  the third is in words and expressions. Br. E, movie , gas , store , mail , right away,I guess while Am. E , film , petrol , shop , post , at once . I think . The cause of making these differences is that people travelled from one part to another.  ( Write parts of them on the Bb.)

 Step VIII . Homework .

 1.Revise the text of this lesson. 2. Make sentences with the words and expressions of Lesson10.