二零二三年 优质公开课Unit2LanguageReading教学.ppt

Unit 2　 Language Brainstorming: How much do you know about English?1.What’s the English for “生病的“？2.What’re the plural（复数的） forms of these words? book bus child3.Do you sometimes find the English rules confusing?4. Has English borrowed words from other languages，such as Chinese?busesbooks children 1. Notice ______ and _______2. Make a _________, listing______________datesyearsReading strategy (P23)time chartimportant informationa ______ articlehistory3: Help you understand the ________of events and how pieces of information ____________ the rest of the text. orderrelate to Prevision checking 1 What is the article about?2 What are the three kinds of English discussed in the article?3 In what ways is English still changing?English and its history.Old English, Middle English and Modern English.English is still changing in many ways, suchas in vocabulary and pronunciation. Match the times with the events.1.Before the middle of the 5th century,2.Old English had become the official language of England3.Modern English appeared 4.In 1399,5.The Normans took control of the countryin the 16th centuryin 1066 Henry IV became King of Englandpeople in Britain spoke Celtic.by the 10th centuryPair work Modern English(L51-L58)Task 1: Read together and answer the following questions 1. Why does the English language have so many rules that confuse people? 2.Where did the word English come from? Because it is made up of the grammar and vocabularythat people from different countries and cultures brought with them to Britain.It came from the word Engle ,as it was spelt in Old English. Old English(L5-L22)Task 1: Find and say something about the words.Celtic:the Angles and the Saxons:the Vikings:Careful readingL14: people from Northern European countriesL8 :a language spoken by people in Britain before the middle of the 5th centuryL9 :two Germanic groups from the European mainland 3.Why can words with similar meanings be found in the English langua