The Fourth PeriodI. Teaching Aims:1. Learn the text to get the students know about the differences between American English and British English.2. Get the students to master the useful words and expressions of the text.II. Teaching Important Points:1. Improve the students reading ability by reading the material.2. Improve the students writing ability.3. Get the students to know about American English and British English.III. Teaching Difficult Points:How to improve the students writing ability.IV. Teaching Methods:1. Fast-reading and reading to improve the students reading ability.2. Practice and pair work or group work to have every student master what theyve learned.V. Teaching Aids:1. a tape recorder 2. a projector and some slidesVI. Teaching Procedures:Step 1 Greetings and Revision Greet the whole class as usual. Im going to check the your homework first. Then well learn a text: American English and British English. Well do some exercises about it as well. At last, well go over Checkpoint of this unit. Then the teacher and the students go over the new words and expressions of this period. The teacher gives explanations when necessary.Step II Fast Reading T: English is a young language. It grew from other languages, such as German and French. People began to write it down only six hundred years ago. Now it is spoken by people all over the world. From the last period we know there are 42 countries where the majority of people speak English. However English is not exactly the same in different countries , American people speak English , but it is a bit different from British English. Today , we are going to read about these differences. Please turn to Page 12. Read the text fast and find the answers to the questions . Do it as fast as possible and write your answers on a piece of paper. Ill collect the first five pieces.1. What is American English for “I think”?(I guess)2. Why did Noah Webster do in order to make American English different from British English?(He changed the spelling of many words.)Then the teacher checks the answers with the students.Step III Reading T: Now read the text again. Read it carefully and discuss the following questions with your partner. Write your answers on a piece of paper. 1. When did America become an independent country?2. Where did the word “fall” first come from?3. Can you give some examples to show spelling differences between American and British English?4. Is there any difference in written English in the two countries?5. What differences are there in spoken English in the two countries?6. Do you think that people from British and America can understand each other? Why do you think so?7. How did the differences between British and American English come about?8. Which do you prefer , American English or British English? Why? T: Have you finished? Give u your answers. One student, one question. Volunteers?S1: In 1776.S2: From England.S3: Yes. For example, the words “colour, center and travelled” in British Engish are spelt “color, center and traveled” in American English.S4: Yes, in written English there are some spelling differences between British English and American English. And in some cases, different words are used for the same thing.S5: Some words are pronounced differently in the two countries. For example, Americans say danced ns, and in southern England they say da:ns . In America they pronounce not nat, in southern England they sayn t, and so on.S6: Yes. Though there are many spelling differences, people from the two countries dont have much difficulty in understanding each other because written English is more or less the same in both Britain and America.S7: There is no quick answer to this question. When people from England traveled to other countries, they took the English language with them. At first, the language stayed the same as the language began to change from one part of the world to another. At last the English language became two variants- British English and American English.S8: I prefer American English to British English because American English is easier to understand./ I prefer British English to American English because British English sound more beautiful.The teacher explains some words and expressions:1. come about- happen, take place e.g. When John woke up , he was in the hospital, but he didnt know how that had come about.2.the language in America stayed the samestay (vi.)-keep, remaine.g. The door stayed open all the day.3. end up with-finish withe.g. The party ended up with the singing of Liu Huan.4. different from- different thane.g. Mary is different from/than/ to Jane.5. more or less-about, not exactly, almost, nearlye.g. He must have given Tom two hundred yuan more or less.The work is more or less finished.T: Do you have anything else you dont understand? If you have, please tell me. Ill be glad to have a discussion with you. T: Turn to Page 13. Look at the exercises behind the text. Choose the correct answers to the following questions, according to the text. Step IV Listening and Reading AloudT: Lets listen to the tape. Ill play the tape twice. When I first play it, just listen. When I play it for the secondtime, listen and repeat it. After that, read the text aloud. Step V Reading and WritingT: Now look at Part 2 on Page 13. Read the paragraph about American English and fill in the chart. First read the passage, please. Then do it in groups. Write your answers on a piece of paper. Later, well check the answers.Step VI CheckpointT: Please turn to Page 14. Look at Checkpoint2. The first part should be done like this: For each pair of sentences, complete one of them according to the other. Then find useful expressions from the text and make sentences with them. Group work. Later well check the answers. (Make sentences with: come about, in the same way, end up with, different from, more or less, have difficulty in doing , a great many)Step VII Summary and Homework Homework: Write a short passage , comparing American and British English or dialects in Chinese. Besides, read the tips on Page 14 carefully and use them when possible.Step VIII Record after Teaching單位：湖北省荊門姓名：李國E_mail：liguo619