Module 1 British and American English
Period Four：Cultural Corner
（1）三维目标
A．Knowledge and skills
1) Get the students to learn and grasp the following important useful new words and expressions in the part:
represent; thanks to; fight against; distinctive; simplify; extremely; adopt; be known for; appear; criticise
2) Learn the language in this part and get the students to learn about “The Man Who Made Spelling Simple”
B．Process and methods
1) Encourage the Ss to check what they have learned often.
2) Explanation to make Ss master the language points in the letter.
3) Comparative method to help Ss find similarities between Webster’s work and attempts to simplify Chinese.
4) Skim the general idea of the passage.
C. Emotion, attitude and values
Find out the similarities between Webster’s work and attempts to simplify Chinese.
（2）教学重点
