【精品】高中英语（人教大纲）第三册：Unit8 Learning a foreign language(第二课时)

The Second PeriodTeaching Aims:1.Get the students to learn the usages of useful words and expressions:acquire,make sense of,in other words,instruct,secure,take risks/a risk,ect.2.Get the students to learn the characteristics of the successful students so as to improve the students English study.Teaching Important Points:1.The usages of the useful words and expressions above.2.How to get the students to summarize the general idea of a paragraph.3.How to get the students to master the way to improve their English,and put what theyve learned from the text into reality.Teaching Difficult Point:How to get the students to bring the useful experience into their English study so as to raise their English level.Teaching Methods:1.Fast reading to improve the students reading ability.2.Discussion to make every student understand the text better.3.Pair work or group work to get the students active in class.Teaching Aids:1.a computer2.a courseware3.a tape recorderTeaching Procedures:Step Greetings and RevisionGreet the whole class as usual.Teacher checks the students homework.Step Pre-readingT:Today we are going to learn a new textLearning a foreign language:Twice as hard?Youll learn much about the topic after you have learned the text.Since all of you have already learned English for almost five years,you must have something to say about it.(Teaching shows the following on the screen.)Look at the screen.Before you read the text,use what you know about learning a language to answer the questions on the screen.Pair work or group work.Later,well ask some of you to answer the questions.1.What are some of the difficulties we must face when we try to learn a foreign language?2.How do we learn our mother tongue?3.How is learning a foreign language different from learning our mother tongue?4.What are the characteristics of successful language learners?5.How do these characteristics and skills help us learn?6.How can we develop our confidence?7.What can we do to learn better and faster?(After a few minutes discussion.)T:Are you ready?Ss:Yes,we are.T:Please give us the answers.One by one.S1:Ill answer the first question.When I learn a foreign language,I find that it is hard to remember English words.Besides,I dont know how to express myself when we talk about a topic.S2:I find it hard to write in English.When a topic is given to us,I often get the lower marks though I try my best to do it.Listening English is also difficult for me.When I see an interesting English film,I hardly understand its dialogues and have to see the Chinese subtitles.S3:I answer the second question.When we began to learn our mother tongue,we just communicated with others.Later we went to school and began to learn to write or express ourselves with some complex sentences.We seldom find difficulty in speaking it.S4:I answer Question Three.We learn our mother tongue in all kinds of situations,that is to say,we learn it by using it.But for learning a foreign language,things are different.I began to learn English when I attended junior middle school.We learn English mainly in the classroom.S5:They like the language they are learning and are always enjoying it.When the teacher asks questions,they answer them actively.S6:As to the fifth question,I think,confidence is very important.Whatever we do,we must do it with confidence,patience and perseverance.However difficult it is,we should try our best to overcome it.S7:We should relax and enjoy learning a foreign language.We should keep on finding a better way to do it.As long as we stick to it,we can enjoy every success we have made.S8:Id like to answer Question Six.I think to develop our confidence,we must believe in ourselves.Madame Curie one said,“Life is not easy for any of us.We must work,and above all,we must believe in ourselves.We must believe that each one of us is able to do something well,and that,when we discover what this something is,we must work hard at it until we succeed.”S9:Let me try the seventh questions.There is a lot of good advice and measures we can take and put to use in the discussion of the last period and this period.There are a lot of good books and dictionaries,TV programmes and VCDs.If we have difficulty,we can go to our teachers for help.All my classmates are friendly and they are all willing to help me.Thus,we are sure of learning it well.Step Fast readingT:(Show the following on the screen.)Please open your books on Page 66.Lets read the text.Read it fast and try to grasp as much information as you can.Then decide which language(mother tongue or foreign language)each of the sentences on the screen describes.Write the answers on a piece of paper,and Ill collect the first five pieces.Decide which language(mother tongue or foreign language)each of the sentences describes.A.We learn quite fast.B.We are not taught but learn anyway.C.Some people think that we are born with an ability to learn this.D.We can learn faster if we develop study skills.E.Most people have mastered this by the age of five.F.We learn this in a special place where we can get help.G.It takes longer to learn this.H.We learn this by communicating with others.(A few minutes later,the teacher collects the students first five pieces of answers,checks them and gives them back to the students,then checks the answers with the whole class.)Suggested answers:(“F” for foreign language,“M” for mother tongue)AF,BM,CM,DF,EM,FF,GM,HMStep Reading and ExplanationT:Now read the text again and answer the questions on Page 68,Post-reading,1.Have a discussion with your partner.(A few minutes later.)T:Now answer my questions,please.Who will answer the first question?S10:The first answer is:Most children have mastered their mother tongue by the age of five.T:What about the second question?S11:Some believe that we are born language learners.They believe that we are equipped with a special ability to learn language and that our brain adjusts itself to the language of the culture we are born in.Others think that we learn language in the same way we learn other things,such as walking or solving problems,and that what are born with is a general ability to learn and adapt,not a language-specific part of the brain.S12:The answer to the third question:We learn our mother tongue by communicating with the people around us.Learning a foreign language is different from learning ones mother tongue.The learning usually takes place in school and there are often few opportunities to communicate with other speakers of the language.We also learn a foreign language much faster than we do our mother tongue.T:You have done well.(Teacher shows the following on the screen.)Now Ill explain some useful words and expressions to you.Look at the screen.Useful words and expressions in the text:1.acquire:to get for oneself by ones own work,skill,action,etc.He has acquired an extraordinary command of the English language.Paul acquired hundreds of books.2.make sense ofCan you make sense of what he says?3.in other wordsI soon find the work I was doing hadalready been done by someone elsein other words,I was wasting my time.4.instruct:give knowledge or information to His father instructed him(in)how to do it.5.secure:sure to be won or not to be lostHis election is secure.6.take risks/take a riskYou have to take a lot of risks in my job.7.experiment withIn order to discover the crops most suited to the soil,they are experimenting with various kinds of grain.8.adopt:to take and use as ones ownI adopted their method of making the machine.Step Listening and Reading aloudT:Now Ill play the tape.When I play it for the first time,please listen to it carefully.The second time I play it,you can read after it in a low voice.Do you understand?Ss:Yes.T:(After playing the tape.)Please read the text aloud,and then see if there is anything you dont understand.If any,lets have a discussion.(Teacher goes among the students and corrects the students mistakes in pronunciation and intonation.Then teacher answers the students questions when there is any.)Step ConsolidationT:Now lets do Exercise 4 and Exercise 5.Post-reading.You can do it in pairs or groups.Later,well check the answers.Suggested answers:4.The characteristics of successful language learners:(1)They plan and evaluate their learning so they gain confidence and are able to relax and enjoy the learning.(2)With greater control and a stronger sense of achievement,active learners are able to acquire new skills faster and put what they know to better use.(3)They do better in areas such as reading comprehension,vocabulary learning,writing and speaking.(4)They are more willing to take risks and to place themselves in new learning situations.5.Main idea:Paragraph 1:Different answers to how we can learn language.Paragraph 2:Learning a foreign language is different from learning ones mother tongue.Paragraph 3:Why some people are better at learning a foreign language than others.Paragraph 4:The characteristics of successful learners.Paragraph 5:Every one of us can learn a foreign language well.The purpose of writing this passage:The purpose of writing this passage is to introduce to the students some good ways to learn a foreign language and tell us the fact that every one can become a successful language learner if he tries to adopt some of the study habits and characteristics described in the passage.Step Summary and HomeworkT:In this class,weve talked about a topic:How to study a foreign language.Weve l