1. Welcome to my class 主讲老师：张瑞民

2. Unit 2. English around the world

3.  1. Get the students to learn about English spoken around the world  2. Improve the reading ability of the students, especially the skills of summarizing, would guessing and scanning  3. Encourage the students to think and talk in English through c ommunicative tasks and provide the students with chances of c ooperation  4. Get the students to realize the importance of learning English and of love of our county  Interactive Patterns Individual work group work class work  Teaching aims:

4. I.Revision Differences between Britain English and American English Flat----apartment Mum----mom Autumn-----fall Post-----mail Colour-----color … II. Reading 1.Skimming Par. 1 English is spoken as a native language or a second language in some countries. Par. 2 English is learned as a foreign language in some countries. Par. 3The importance of learning English nowadays.

5. II. Careful reading: Words and phrases: majority equal mother tongue trade tourism communicate knowledge

6. III. Passage Study: ★ English is a language spoken all around the world --All around = all over 各处 到处 在整个 … eg: Soon the news is all around America. --“Spoken all around the world “ 是过去分词 (past participate phrase) 作定语 (Attribute) 表 示被动 (passive), 其完整句子是 :Which is spoken all around the world. “ which “ 省 略.eg I still remembered the news broadcast yesterday.

7. ★ There are more than 42 countries where the majority of the people speak English. --more than (1) 后跟数词表示 ” 超过, 多于 ” over Eg : By then he was more than 50 years old. (2) 后跟名词 (noun), 形容词 (adj.), 副词 (adv) ，动词 (verb) 表示 “ 不止是， 非常，岂之 ” 等. Very,very much Eg: Peace is much more than the absence of war.( 和平不仅意味着没 有战争） She speaks English more than fluently. （她的英语何止流利那简直是 相当地道） Some other phrases connected with “ than “ More …than （比 … 更） no less than （不少于，至少） less than （比 … 更） no more than （至多，不少于）

8. ★ In total, for more than 375 millon people English is their mother tongue. ---total (1) adj. complete, whole 总计，全部的，完全的 Eg: His total debats are 300 dollars. (2) n. total number or amount 总计，合计 Eg: What does the total come to? In total: altogether 总计，总共 Eg: The dictionary cost me 80 yuan in total.

9. ★ An equal number of people learn English as a second language. --- equal (1) adj. the same (in quality, size, degree, grade, level, etc. )( 质量，大小，程度，等 级，水平等）相等的． Eg: Women and men should get equal pay for equal work. (2) V. (of size or numbers ) to be the same as 等于，比得上 Eg: Two plus two equals four. --- a number of : some many 一些，若干 （后跟复数名词 plural noun 或代词 pronoun ） Eg: A small of friends went to see him when he was ill. 他生病期间为数不多的朋友去看望过他

10. IV. Discussion After reading the passage, we have learnt so much about English around the world. Do you think it is necessary to have a good knowledge of English? Why do you think so? Dose it mean English learning should be paid more attention to than Chinese study? Please discuss these questions in groups! V. Summary the class This class, learnt something about the passage, please pay attention to those phrases and sentences.

11. Homework Do the exercises and prepare the next part of the text, at the same time, remember the new mords and phrases