British and American English教學案

• getting on with people
• food
• different school subjects and timetable
• local customs
• climate
step 2. presentation
listen to the target language:
• vocabulary and listening –2.listening to the 1st part(5m)     listen and complete the passage.
•      hello, and welcome to today’s edition of in the air. as you know, every week on this programme we discuss an aspect of the way we _  _1____ now, and today’s topic is the language we ____2____-english. so that’s something which affects us all. the question is,what’s going to _  _3 ___ to the way we speak english in the future? are we all going to speak like americans? or will british english continue to _  4___? later on we’re going to _   5___ you to phone in and _  _6___ your views on the subject, but first we’re going to _  _7___ to two young people, one american, and one british, who have spent time on an educational exchange in the other’s country. we _  _8___ they will have some interesting ideas on the subject.
• play again to answer the quesrions. make notes if necessary .( activity 4)
• have the students compare the answer in pairs.
• play the tape a third time for a final check.
• check notes with the teacher.
step 3. speaking and writing
• 1. review the content of the text by asking some questions.
•  in how many ways are american english and british english different?
•  which is the first and most obvious way?
• ......
2. the great debate
work in groups. read the notes and decide which is the best variety of language in the future.
give your reasons.
british english, american english, world english & chinese
3. writing
write a passage about your favourite choice and the reasons in the discussion above or write three more paragraghs about the chinese language(activity 4 on p8).
step 4. homework
   get more information about the language through the internet or other method to support your composition.

period four

step 1. cultural corner
1. read the text quickly and match each paragragh with the correct main idea.
2. appreciate and analyze 2 or 3 long sentences.
step 2. module file
1. review: go over the vocabulary and grammar focus in the module file.
2. put“?” next to the things you are not sure of .then solve the problems in groups or raise your questions.
3. do some exercises to consolidate what we learned in this module.