一、教學內容分析：
在本單元的warming-up學習中學生學習了世界英語的分支，已經在不同國家應用時候的差異。Reading部分"The Road to Modern English"通過對英語語言的發展歷史這一話題的探討，加強學生對英語語言的瞭解，特別是對英語發展趨勢的瞭解。通過本課的學習要讓學生了解英國英語、美國英語、澳大利亞英語、印度英語、新加坡英語等都有自己的慣用法和不同的`發音規律。在完成本節課的學習後，學生能感受到英語語言的多層次和多元化，有助於培養學生的跨文化意識。
二、學情分析
我所帶的學生，英語基礎好的不多。大多數學生沒有興趣也沒有耐心閱讀完整篇文章更不要說掌握文意了。所以往往出現老師自問自答唱獨角戲的情況。為了照顧所有學生，讓每位學生都參與教學活動。在開展教研活動時，我們教學經驗豐富的教研組長提出了這個因材施教的任務教學方法。效果頗好。在這一過程中，即使有些學生在前面的fast-reading中對課文認識不夠，但經過後面的這一活動，絕大多數學生都能很好的理解課文。
三、教學目標
1. Language goals
（1）To learn the importance of English.
（2）Ss will be able to know the development of English and feel the role that culture plays in thechange of language.
（3）To know the difference between British English and American English.
（4）Ss will be able to know how to get the key sentence of a paragraph.
2. Language points
（1）Key words and phrases
subway, elevator, petrol, gas, official, voyage, conquer, native, come up, apartment, actually, base, at present, gradually, vocabulary, make use of, latter, identity， fluently, frequently, usage, command
（2）Difficult sentences
①English is a language spoken all around the world.
②There are more than 42 countries where the majority of the people speak English.
③The number of people who learn English as a foreign language is more than 750 million.
④In China students learn English at school as a foreign language, except for those in Hong Kong, where many people speak English as a first or a second language.
3. Emotion goals
To help students to learn more about English and train the interest to English
四、教學難點和重點
( 1) To be able to get the main idea from the text.
(2.) To be able to solve the problem by analyzing.
(3) To be able to use the different learning strategies for different reading purposes.
五、教學方法：
1、任務型語言教學法。
在本課教學中，我將依據課程的總體目標並結合教學內容，創造性地設計貼近學生實際的任務活動，吸引和組織他們積極參與，使學生通過思考、討論、交流和合作等方式，在一種自然、真實或模擬真實的情境中體會語言、掌握語言的應用。
2、啟發式教學法。創設情景，引入主題，配合小組討論交流，採用啟發式教學啟發學生主動學習。
六、教學過程
Step 1 Greeting
Greet the students as usual.
Step 2 Revision and lead-in
(show the pictures ：a football, an eraser, a flat and a lift on the screen.)
T: What’s this? ( Point to the football.)
S: It’s a football.
T: Yes. An Englishman usually calls it a football. But what do Americans usually call it?
S: a soccer.
T: What about this one? ( Point to the eraser.)…
T: Well, as we know, there is more than one kind of English in the word. They are different from one another in some ways. Why has English changed over time? What will world English be in the future? Do you know? Well, today, the passage “The Road To Modern English” will tell us. Now please open your books and turn to page 9.
Step 3 Careful reading
1. Let the students read the passage carefully and then make a time line of the development of English.
2. Let the students read the passage again and fill in the blanks with the words from the text.
It is not easy for a Chinese person to speak English as ___ as a ___ English speaker. One reason is that English has a large ___. It also has different usage in different English speaking countries. If you use “flat” instead of “___”, people in America will know you have learned British English. If you use the word “___”instead of “lift” in Britain, people will know you have studied American English.
Step 4 Practice
Retell the history of English and tell the differences of ancient English and modern English, British English and American English.
Step 5 Group work
Ask and answer the questions like these:
When did five to seven million people speak English?
Why did English begin to be spoken in many other countries?
Which country may have the largest number of English learners?
Step 6 Summary
Answer questions: Tell us what did you learn from this lesson?
Why do you think people all over the world want to learn English？
Step 7 Homework
1. Go over the text and try to learn all the useful words and expressions in this part by heart.
2. Write a passage about your English learning.
