[高一]Unit 3 American English Lesson 9(人教版)

Teaching Aims:

Learn and master the following words and phrases:

difficulty , pronounce , fall (n.), ask --- for , medicine

2) Oral English:

Would you please say that again more slowly ?  Pardon ?

I' m sorry I know only a little English . / I don' t quite follow you .

How do you pronounce / spell --- ?  I have some difficulty in doing ---  What does --- mean ?

Teaching Important Points :

1. Master the use of the words of four skills and some phrases and idioms .

2. How to express one' s opinions and what one feels . and how to make requests.

Teaching Difficult Points :

1. the use of " ask for " and " have difficulty in doing sth ".

2. how to ask for advice by using " Would you please ---?"

Teaching Procedures:

Step I . Revision

T: Good morning , everyone !   S: Good morning , teacher .

T: Sit down , please .Now let’s welcome Helen to give us a free talk. Come to the Bb ,please.

Step II. Introduction :

T: As we know , sometimes people can not understand each other well because they speak in different accents . Do you know accent ? It means a special way of speaking . As you know , in our country, persons from Shandong Province and Zhejiang Province speak Chinese with a different accent ,. So does English . There are mainly two important kinds of English in the world : American English and British English. What’s the differences between them ? People from Britain and America can understand each other well ? Let' s listen to a dialogue . OK . Listen to the tape and then answer my questions .

Step III . Dialogue

Listen for the first time and answer: Listen to Lesson 9 and choose the right answer:
1) Yang Mei has a plan to _____________
　　A. work next fall.    B. study medicine and to become a doctor.
　　C. have difficulty in learning English.
Listen for the second time and answer the following questions :

1. Who is Yang Mei ? What does she do ?

2. Who is Sara ?

3. What difficulty does Yang Mei have in learning English ?

4. What is Sara' s opinion about Yang Mei ' s pronunciation ?

5. What does " fall " mean in the dialogue ?

6. Do you think Yang Mei understands the meaning of '' fall " ?

7. What ' s Yang Mei ' s plan ?

( Ask the students to answer the questions above . )

Suggested answers :

1.Yang Mei is a Chinese girl who is now studying in the States .

2.Sara is an American . She is Yang Mei ' s teacher.

3.She has some difficulty in pronouncing some English words .

4.She thinks Yang Mei' s pronunciation is very good .

5.It means " autumn " ,

6.No , she didn' t .She does not understand its meaning until Sara say " next September " .

7.She wants to study medicine .

T:Please open your books . Turn to Page 9 . Let' s go through the dialogue and deal with some language points . Please look at the screen .

1.difficulty .

(1).the quality of being difficult; trouble phrases: do sth , with difficulty , without (much , any ) difficulty have difficulty ( trouble , a good time , a hard time fun ---) ( in ) doing sth . have difficulty with sth .

e.g. Tod had some difficulty in understanding me .

I don' t have much . difficulty with English grammar.

(2).often pl. something difficult , a trouble.

e.g. James keeps raising difficulties over my new plan.

2.pronounce v.------- to say the sounds of a language. ( n , pronunciation )

3.And when do you take your next exams ?

Present Simple for future use , the speaker is talking about a school programme which is fixed .

e.g. When does the winter holidays begin ?

give the students an exam ( 老师) 考学生。    hold an exam 举行考试

pass an exam 考试合格       fail in an exam 考试不及格

4. fall n . = autumn in American English

5. plan n. ---- a ( carefully considered ) arrangement for carrying out some future activity .

e.g. The police worked out a plan to catch the thief.

6. medicine n. ----- the science of treating and understanding disease.

7. wheel n . ----- a round object which turns on an axle

e.g. Carts , cars and trains run on wheels.

8. ask --- for

e.g. Everybody was now asking him for advice .   She asked him for his address .

Ask him for anything you want .   He asked for time to think it over.

Step IV. Oral practice

T: Now let' s make a dialogue according to the text . Suppose Tom is an American boy and Charles is English . One day Tom invites Charles to see a film . I give you three minutes to prepare in pairs , Then I'll ask some of you to act it out .

One possible answer : ( T: Tom C: Charles)

T: Hello , Charles !

C: Hello , Tom !

T: Are you free tonight ? If so , would you like to go to the movies tonight ?

C: I' m sorry I don' t quite follow you . Would you please say that again more slowly ?

T: Would you like to go to the movies ?

C: Pardon ?

T: Let' s go to see a film , shall we meet ?

C: That' s great ! When shall we meet ?

T: At seven . I'll call you. See you .

C: See you .

Step V . Practice

T: Now let' s deal with Part Two ----- Practice . Please complete it by yourself.In a few minutes,I'll check the answers . OK ?

( A few minutes later .) Now Zhang Ying . please do the first one ---

Answers : 1 -- b  2 -- f  3 -- d  4 -- a  5 -- c  6 -- e

Step VI . Workbook

T: Now turn to Page 67 . Let' s do the exercises . Part 1. Li Ling , please read the words in the first column ------

( Then do Ex.3 and Ex . 4 . When the students do Ex. 4. teacher can say the following .)

T: Please pay attention : English speaker usually say " Thank you ." when they are praised . So the correct response to Sentence 2 and 3 should be " Thank you " rather than " No " ,

Suggested answers :

Ex. 3. : Chinese , States , On , for , difficulty . good . understand , example , fall , September . medicine.

Ex. 4. : 1. How do you do ?

4. You are welcome . / Not at all . / don' t mention it . / That' s all right ./ My pleasure . / It' s nothing . / A pleasure.

5. Yes . please , Thank you . / No , thank you .

6. The same to you .

Step VII . Sum up

T: In this lesson we've learned a dialogue , Please remember this : When you talk to someone you likely meet with some difficulty .If so , you may say " Would you please say that again more slowly ? / Pardon ? / I' m sorry I know only a little English . / I don' t quite follow you . / How do you pronounce ---? What does --- mean ?" ( Write them on the blackboard . ) Besides , there are two useful expressions : " I have some difficulty in doing --- " and " ask --- for " ( Write them on the blackboard .) Please use them as much as possible in and after class.

Step VIII . Homework :

1. Do Ex . 2. on Page 67 except 1. 2. and 5

2. Retell the dialogue of lesson 9 in the third person form .

Suggested answers :

1. 3). I think she is in the first grade .

4). I think they are talking at the gate of a university .

6). She will take her next exams in June .

7). " Medicine " means the science of treating and understanding disease .

8). In my opinion , Yang Mei' s English is not good enough . She still has difficulty in listening and pronouncing some of the words in English .

2. Yang Mei is a Chinese girl , She is now Studying in the States . On the first day of school , she met her new teacher Sara for the first time . They talked for a while . Yang Mei said that she had difficulty in pronouncing some English words . But Sara thought that the girl' s pronunciation as very good , Sometimes Yang Mei could not understand Sara during the talk . For example , Sara used " fall " instead of " autumn " . She said the word again clearly and slowly . Yang Mei didn't understand until Sara said " next September " . Yang Mei told the teacher that she wanted to study medicine next year and become a doctor.

How do you spell/ pronounce --- ? ask ( sb. ) for sth.

What does --- mean ?