高中英语公开课Module One Unit Two Period6优秀设计

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教案资料 Module One Unit Two　Period6
广东省梅州市蕉岭中学　胡美娜
  

Period 6
Teaching Goals:

To improve reading skills and abilities

Teaching procedure:

Step1: Check the translation on Page 50

Step2: Check the answers on Reading Task on Page 51:

Notes on Murray’s life

1.         Country: born in Scotland

2.         Education: no formal education; taught himself while working

3.         Job: worked in a bank before beginning to compile the OED

4.         Most important task: compiling the first edition of the OED

5.         Its difficulties:1) worked in a shed in his garden & behind his house

6.         very cold as it was one metre underground

7.         Who worked on it: at first just Murray; later his 2 daughters; finished by other editors after his death

8.         Date of completion:1928

9.         Other information: first edition took 44 years to compile

Step3: Read the text again and answer the following questions:

1．Why was it written?  (to encourage everybody to spell the same.)

2. When did it to be written?

(The idea was raised in 1857.And 22 years later, it began to be written.)

3. Who is the writer?

(Three men worked together on the dictionary: Samuel Johnson, Noah Webter & James Murray.)

4. How it was written?

(It took the three men nearly all of their lives to try to collect words)

Step4: Read again and discuss whether it worth so these people’s spending so much time on? Why?

We think that it worth their job. If there were no dictionaries, people would have no rule to guide them while using the language, which will lead to a mess in English because different people would use it. Then there will be more difficultly in understanding one another. With the dictionary, people have a set rule to judge whether their way of using the language is right.