Period 2  Reading

period 2  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) comprehend 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
ask students 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 (預測) what the passage is mainly about?
t:  scan the text to find or make out 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 communicate 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?
why does english change all the way?
what other englishes developed from the old english?
  (1). give the three major periods of the development of english.
     the end of the 16th century-------- the next century ------------ today
      who promoted the spread of english?
     people. when they moved, they carried english to different places.
  (2) t: although they speak english, yet sometimes they can not understand each other well, why?
--------- because there exist differences between different englishes, not only in vocabulary, but also in pronunciation and spelling. (hot/mum/honour/ honor/neighbour/neighor…..)
  (3) t: how do these differences come about? (why does english change over time?)
--------- because of cultural communication.
ask ss to find out the characteristics of each time according to the time axis.
ad450-1150: german
1150-1500: less like german; more like french