Step 4 Study-reading

　　1. Deal with Task 4 in Before class

　　2. Read the text again, find out the sentences and analyse them.

　　1) Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and because of that, English began to be spoken in many other counties.

　　譯：__________________________________________________________________________

　　從結構上看，這是一個由連詞_______連接的____________句。在第一個簡單句中，時間狀語為____________________________, 主語為________________________, 謂語為__________賓語為___________________________, 其中__________________________為后罝定語，修飾voyages.

　　2) At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today.

　　譯：____________________________________________________________________________

　　該句中spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150作________語，修飾中心詞___________, 另一處做該成分的短語是_______________.be different from 意思是_______.

　　3) Then gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoke first Danish and later French.

　　譯： _______________________________________________________________________

　　從結構上看，該句是_________ 句，含有________個從句，分別是由because 引導的________從句和由who 引導的_________. less like German意思是________________________.

　　4）Find out a sentence in the text which has a similar meaning with the following one.

　　In fact all languages change and develop when cultures mix with each other.

　　_________________________________________________________________________

　　5) Translate the sentence:

　　Today, more people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language than ever before.

　　___________________________________________________________________________

　　【設計意圖】通過研讀，讓學生學會分析相關的長難句，徹底掃清所有的語言障礙，完成相關的知識目標，同時也是為下一步的讀后任務做好必要的語言知識積累和語言障礙清除。

　　Step 5 Post-reading

　　1. Retell: Fill in the blanks according to the text.

　　At first, nearly all the people speaking English lived in England. Later in the 17th century, people form England made ________ to conquer other parts of the world and _____ and that, more people began to speak English.

　　English has changed much over time. Old English was _______ more on German. Then English was changed _______. The people who ruled English enriched the _______ . Later some British__________ moved to America. By the 19th century, two English dictionaries were written by Samuel Johnson and Nash Webster. The dictionary written by the _______ gave a separate __________ to American English spelling. Now English is spoken in many countries as a foreign or second language, ________ Singapore and India. And many people in India can speak ________English.

　　2. Discussion:

　　Divide the students into two big groups. Complete the following task.

　　Group 1-6  Why do you think people all over the world want to learn English?

　　Group 7-12 Why do you think more people in the world now want to learn Chinese?

　　【設計意圖】根據文章填空旨在讓學生熟悉文章，加深對故事內容的理解，練習口頭表達能力；在學生理解了文章的主旨大意，把握了文章的相關細節信息，并進行了深入理解后，再對信息進行再整合，根據自己對文章的理解概括全文的主要內容。而通過discussion給學生提出了兩個開放性的問題，給學生提供了一個開放討論的空間，更是進一步加深了學生對文章主旨的深入體會，既實現了有語言輸入到語言輸出的跨越，又讓學生在角色扮演中深刻了解學好英語的重要性；從而實現了本節課的情感態度目標。