Period 2 Extensive Reading
整体设计
从容说课
This is the second teaching period of this unit. As usual, the teacher should check the students’ homework and offer chances for the students to go over what they learned in the last period at the beginning of the class.
In this period, the teaching emphasis will be put on developing the students’ reading ability by reading extensively and getting them learning to use some reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, and so on. As to new words and phrases, the teacher can first find those the students feel most difficult and help them to understand. That’s enough here.
We will deal with two passages:Standard English and Dialects on Page 13 and The Oxford English Dictionary on Page 51. In order to lead in the topic of the first passage, the teacher can first introduce something about Chinese putonghua and dialects and let the students make a role-play about it. The purpose of this activity is to begin to focus the students’ attention on the main topic of the reading passage. Then ask the students to find the
