外研版高中英语选修七教案：Module 6 教案 The Fourth Period Integrating skills （I）.doc

the fourth period integrating skills (i)teaching goals教学目标itarget language 目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语amazing, astronomer, bury, site, steep, weigh, wonderful, not to worry, as long as, no wonder, no one know for certain, had betterb. 重点句子not to worry.as long as youve got a raincoat, youll be ok.no matter what happens, youll have a great time.youll have a day to remember.no one knows for certain.wed better get back into the bus now. 2. ability goals能力目标enable students to listen and talk about the world cultural heritage.3. learning ability goals 学能目标help the students learn how to listen and talk about the world cultural heritage. teaching important points教学重点listen and talk about the world cultural heritage.teaching important points教学难点 how to talk about the intangible human heritage, especially endangered languages. teaching methods教学方法listening and speaking.teaching aids教具准备a tape recorder, a projector and a computer. teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式step i revision check the homework by asking some students to read the completed passage on page 77. then ask them to explain the meaning of the expressions in everyday english and make sentences with them. sample answers:1. not to worry （there is nothing to worry about; there is no need to be concerned 没什么可担心的；没必要着急的） but not to worry: it all falls into place in the books second half, where the language is plainer. 但别担心：它全都在书的后半部分，那儿的语言浅显一些。2. as long as (since; on the condition that既然；只要) as long as youve offered, i accept. i will cooperate as long as i am notified on time.3. no matte what (regardless of不论) yet there isnt a train i wouldnt take, no matter where its going. no matter what happens, well meet here tonight.4. a day to remember (a day you wont forget不能忘却的日子) today is the first day you enter the college. youll have a day to remember. 5. no one knows for certain (no one is sure about that没有人确信) no one knows for certain whether there would be a war. 6. wed better get back into the bus now. since it is raining so hard, wed better get back into the bus now. step ii listeningask the students to do activity 1 on page 76.t: stonehenge is probably the most important prehistoric monument in the whole of britain and has attracted visitors from earliest times. it stands as a timeless monument to the people who built it. now please complete the passage with the correct form of the given words. after a few minutes, ask the students to read the completed passage. then ask the students to listen to the recording and answer the questions in activities 2 and 3. ask the students to answer the questions orally. step iii groupworkask the students to work in groups and make a dialogue between a tourist guide and tourists. a sample dialogue:(t=tourists; g=guide)t: stonehenge is surely britains greatest national icon. when was it built?g: it was built 4,000 years ago. t: who built it?g: i can only tell you that it was the people in the neolithic period built it. t: why was it built?g: its original purpose is unclear to us, but some have thought that it was a temple made for the worship of ancient gods. it has been called an astronomical observatory for marking significant events on the prehistoric calendar. others claim that it was a sacred site for the burial of high-ranking citizens from the societies of long ago.t: what did the astronomers do?g: they clocked the time and predicted the seasons. t: where did all these stones come from?g: some of the stones were brought from a long way away. the stones used in that first circle are believed to be from the prescelly mountains, located roughly 240 miles away, at the southwestern tip of wales. the bluestones weigh up to 4 tons each and about 80 stones were used in all. t: what about those stones over there?g: many of the original stones have fallen or been removed by previous generations for home construction or road repair. there has been serious damage to some of the smaller bluestones resulting from close visitor contact (prohibited since 1978) and the prehistoric carvings on the larger sarsen stones show signs of significant wear. t: the construction of stonehenge was really amazing!step iv speakingask the students to read the words for hello and guess which languages they are. sample answers:hello englishbonjour frenchbuenos dias spanishguten tag germanbuon giorno italian aloha hawaiiangod dag danishmerhaba ethopia bom dia guinea-bissaubuon giorno italian salamat pagi indonesiabore da welshszia ask the students to read the information and discuss the questions in activities 2 and 3 in pairs. t: an endangered language is a language headed for extinction. it is a language without monolingual speakers, people who speak only that language. it is a language spoken by a minority of people in the nation and for that reason is held in low esteem, causing its speakers to avoid using it or passing it on to their children. many languages today have only one remaining speaker, an older person who will take that language with him or her to the grave. the situation is serious. now read the information about disappearing languages and discuss the questions in activities 2 and 3 in pairs. sample answers to the questions in activity 2:1. languages are disappearing at a fast rate because there is one in every two weeks disappearing permanently. 2. 6,00 languages appear on the internet.3. not all languages are written down.4. papua new guinea has the most languages. sample answers to the questions in activity 3:1. because most of the languages can not be used widely. 2. yes. because language is the most efficient means of transmitting a culture, and it is the owners of that culture that lose the most when a language dies. while a community may not lose its sense of identity when it loses its language, identity is closely associated with language. all peoples identify their culture as closely with their languages as with their religion. what we talk about, think, and believe is closely bound up with the words we have, so the history of a culture can be mapped in its language. 3. it can be done by supporting the use of endangered languages in all contexts: at home, in education, in the media, and in social, cultural and economic life; by raising awareness of endangered languages through all channels and media, etc. 4. yes. if parents are no longer teaching the language to their children and are not using it actively in everyday matters, it will soon disappear. 5. yes. besides doing something to prevent the language from dying, to learn a language which is spoken by very few people can also help recognize peoples identity and culture and help research how the human mind works. step v speaking and writingask the students to discuss the statements and the questions on page 126. t: no one knows exactly how many languages exist in the world today but best estimates place the figure around 6800. roughly 1,000 are spoken in the americas (15%), 2,400 in africa (35%), 200 in europe (3%), 2,000 in asia (28%) and, perhaps, 1,200 in the pacific (19%). keep in mind that only about a quarter of the languages and few dialects have writing systems and not all languages have even been “discovered” by western linguistics. most linguists, however, agree that half of the worlds languages are endangered; many fear that 90% will disappear by the end of this century. the important points to keep in mind are these: (1) large numbers of languages, probably the majority, are in danger of extinction and (2) many more have not yet been described in grammars and dictionaries. now work in pairs and discuss the statements and the questions that follow. a sample dialogue:s1: there are about 6,000 or more languages in the world, but about half of them are disappearing or has disappeared. just as the statement goes “there are 51 endangered languages today, with only one speaker.” why do you think some languages die out?s2: i think its because they are not useful in the society, an endangered language is not passed on by parents to their children. speaking the majority language better equips children for success in the majority culture than speaking a less prestigious language. some governments actively discourage minority language use. for example, it was illegal to speak macedonian or sing macedonian songs in greece. s1: one of the reasons is wars. some of the minorities and their languages could be both killed in the war. s2: do you agree with the statement “we need to try to keep dying languages alive” or disagree? why or why not?s1: language is the most efficient means of transmitting a culture, and it is the owners of that culture that lose the most when a language dies. every culture has adapted to unique environment, and the language expresses that environment. and identity is closely related to language. all peoples identify their culture as closely with their languages as with their religion. what we talk about, think, and believe is closely bound up with the words we have, so the history of a culture can be mapped in its language. so i agree with the statement. s1: you are right. the loss of languages that we face today will greatly restrict how much we can learn about human cognition, language, and language acquisition at a time when the achievements in these areas have been greater than ever before.ask the students to read the information and the notes in the table and compare their ideas and then write a report about minority languages. a sample report:a minority language is a language that considering the world at large (1) spoken by a relatively small number of people, and (2) not the main or official language of a nation state. it is estimated that every week, the last speaker of some small language in the world dies. the language, of course, with its culture and history dies with the speaker. historically, languages have died out due to invasion and conquest and, more recently, extreme social and economic pressure from larger, overbearing languages and cultures.in order to survive, these languages need to (1) find new words to describe new technology and keep changing; (2) be used by younger people and the government; (3) appear in the media, music, computer games and on tv; (4) be written down. as we know, language is the most efficient means of transmittin