【正文】 eaker 1) How much have you _________ this year in English? Have you made much _________? 2) How can you get more practice with English _________ from the UK and the US? 3) What does it ________ to learn English well? Read the questions carefully. 2. Now ask and answer in pairs. 1) How much have you achieved this year in English? Have you made much progress? 2) How can you get more practice with English speakers from the UK and the US? 3) What does it require to learn English well? Step 7 Pronunciation and speaking 1. Read and predict which words the speaker is likely to stress. English is difficult to learn at the beginning. But if you keep trying, you can make progress quickly and find a lot of fun in learning it. I hope I can continue to make progress next year. 2. Now listen again and repeat. 3. Read the paragraph in Activity 6 aloud. English is difficult to learn at the beginning. But if you keep trying, you can make progress quickly and find a lot of fun in learning it. I hope I can continue to make progress next year. 4. Read the paragraph aloud to make sure you stress the important words. Well, I went to an English corner once, and there were some people who didn’t speak English very well. But they were happy to try, and other people, including some English speakers from the UK and the US, were happy to talk to them. 5. Now listen and check. Step 8 Talking Talk about your progress in English in pairs. Use your answers in Activity 5 to help you. — Do you think you’ve made any progress in English this year? — Yes, I do. I’ve learnt a lot of new words, although… Step 9 Exercises Let students do more exercises to master the language points. 1. I have _____ a lot in science this month. A. achieved B. required C. spoken D. said 2. He gave some important advice, _____ how to municate with others. A. and B. or C. including D. but 3. It’s useful to talk with foreign _____ when you are learning English. A. speak B. speaker C. speakor D. spoke 4. —How is your maths? —I’ve made much ______ this year. A. progress B. progresses C. a progress Step 10 Homework How do you learn English? Write a passage to tell us. Unit 2 We all own English. 【 教學(xué)目標(biāo)】 Knowledge objective Key vocabulary—boss, secretary, industry, zero, Indian, type Key structures—a quarter of, together with, at least, even though Ability objective To get information about English introduction. To master the infinitives. Moral objective To be glad to learn about others’ happiness or sadness in learning English. To be glad to help others when they are in trouble in learning. 【教學(xué)重點(diǎn)】 1. To learn some expressions in the passage. 2. To learn the infinitives. 【教學(xué)難點(diǎn)】 1. To get information from the article. 2. The use of “the reason why … is that …”. 【教學(xué)方法】 PWP method, taskbased method 【教學(xué)手段】 A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures 【教學(xué)過程】 Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Warming up Look at the pictures and answer the questions. Is there a foreign teacher at your school? Have you ever gone to an English corner at school? Did you meet foreigners when you went to places of interest? Is English spoken by most people in the world? Step 2 New words Look and say. The teacher shows the pictures of new words and let the students to say as quickly as possible. Step 3 Prereading Work in pairs. Talk about the photos on the right and on the next page to say where they are or what language you can see. Step 4 Listening Listen to Part 2 and answer the questions. 1. Is English used as a working language? 2. Where does English borrow “tofu” from? Step 5 Reading 1. Read the passage and answer the questions. 1) How many people in the world use English? 2) How did English bee an international language? 3) When do you think Chinese will bee an international language? 4) Who owns English? Keys: 1) About 400 million people. 2) In the nieenth century, English became the language of world trade. And in the twentieth century, the US spread English to the world through newspaper, television and films. 3) By the middle of the twentyfirst century. 4) Everyone who speaks it. 2. Match the ideas with the paragraphs. a) Chinese may be the next world language in the future. b) English is the most important international language today. c) English spread through trade and the media. d) We all own English. e) English has borrowed many words from other languages. Keys: 4, 1, 2, 5, 3 Step 6 Complete the questions with the words in the box. Read the questions from the beginning to the end carefully. boss India quarter secretary zero Choose the right words to fill in the blanks. 1. Does a private ________ work for a manager or a teacher? 2. Does a(n) ______ look after office workers or work alone? 3. What are the people who live in _____ called? 4. How many ti