高三英语教案 Unit 8 Learning a foreign language, twice as hard?

Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语
acquisition, correction, data, patience, stick, acquire, instruct, adopt, face, awful, academic, anxious, appropriate, make sense of, distinguish … from ,be equipped with, adjust itself to, be born with, regardless of, consider… put… to use, take risks/a risk, contribute to, take patience
b. 重点句型
Learning a language is obviously more than just memorizing words, phrases and structures.
If we develop our study skills, … but can in fact be twice as easy and a lot of fun.
2. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Help the Ss learn how to talk about the different methods of learning a foreign language and the characteristics of the successful language learners.
Teaching important points 教学重点
Analyse the organization of the text.
The understanding of the reading text about the problems and factors related to learning a foreign language.
Teaching methods 教学方法
Listening and intensive reading with the aid of the computer courseware.
Teaching aids 教具
A computer, a projector and Internet.
Teaching procedure & ways 教学过程与方法
Step1: Lead-in
1. What’s our mother tongue?
2. What’s our foreign language?
3. Which do you think is harder ?
Step 2: Skimming
1. If we develop our study skills and way of Learning, is learning foreign language twice as hard or as easy?
Twice as easy.
2. Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Main idea
Para. 1 Learning a language is obviously more than just memorizing words, phrases and structures. It is puzzling how we are able to learn or acquire our mother tongue.
Para. 2 Language experts have different answers to the question.
Para. 3 Learning a foreign language is different from learning one’s mother tongue
Para. 4 Successful language learners share a number of characteristics
Para. 5 By planning and evaluating their learning, successful language learners gain confidence which in turn allows them to enjoy the learning process and learn better and faster.
Para. 6 If we adopt some of the study skills and characteristics described in the text, we will become more successful.

3、What’s the purpose of writing this article?　　　　
A. Learning a foreign language is twice as hard as learning our mother tongue.
B. Learning a foreign language is more important than learning our mother tongue.
C. Learning a foreign language is twice as easy if we develop our study skills.
D. In fact, the number of people learning a foreign language has increased with years.
4、Match the part with the main idea.
Part1(Para 1~2) differences
Part2(Para 3) successful language learners
Part3(Para 4~6) learning of the mother tongue
Step3: Scanning
Part1.
1. Answer the questions or do multiple choice.
①What is the most puzzling question in learning our mother tongue?
How were we able to make sense of what we heard and distinguish the mistakes and errors from "good" language?
②How do different people explain our ability to learn our mother tongue?
Some experts explain that we are equipped with a special ability to learn language and our brain adjusts itself to the language, Others think that we learn language in the same way we learn other things and that what we are born with is a general ability to learn and adapt ,not a language –specific part of the brain.
③The sentence “Life is a very successful language school” means .
A. we are equipped with a special ability to learn language
B. the key to learning the language well is to communicate with the people around us
C. parents can give children language lessons
D. people can learn the language by themselves
Language points:
1. make sense of 理解 make sense有意义
make no sense in a sense在某种意义上
Can you __make sense of ___ what I said?
Talking after the accident __makes no sense___.
what he said is reasonable__in a sense_.
2. adjust 调整 adjust / adapt… to适应
1) You shouldn’t adjust your computer without any instruction.
2) He adjusted his errors and continued his research work.
3) When you go to a new country, you must adapt /adjust yourself to new　circumstances
3. regardless of : 不管，不顾
The coal boss risked making money regardless of workers’ safety.
They decorated the house regardless of cost.
Part2.
In fact, we learn English much faster than we may have thought because ________.
A. A lot of people are born with a special ability to learn a foreign language.
B. English learning always takes place in class.
C. Communicating with people often takes too much time.
D. We can get a lot of help and the learning is more efficient.
Language points:
1. in other words 　　　　　　　　　　　换句话说
in a word 总而言之
in word 口头上
with the words　　　　　　　　　　　　　说完就......
have a word with sb. 和某人说句话
have words with sb = quarrel with sb 与…争吵
keep one’s word = keep one’s promise 遵守诺言
Word came that… 有消息传来……
1) With the words, he walked away with a smile.
2) It’s no use promising in word, but in deed.

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