Module4LanguagesoftheWorldPartOne:TeachingDesign第一部分教学设计Goals●Toimprovefastandcarefulreadingskills●Towidenvocabulary●Toimprovespeakingskills●Toimprovewritingability●TolearnsomethingaboutlanguagesoftheworldPeriod1:Introductionandreading(TheWorld’sTopTenLanguages)ProceduresStepⅠ:Warmingup1.WarmingupbyintroducingHelloboysandgirls.TodaywearegoingtolearnalessonLanguagesoftheWorld.AndI’llfirstintroducesomethingaboutlanguagesofChina.Thereare236languagesinChina,235arelivinglanguagesand1isextinct.WeoftenhearofsuchdialectsasChineseMinBei,ChineseMinNan,ChineseMinDong,ChineseMinZhongandChineseYue.ButthemostspokenlanguageisChineseMandarin.About837,014,298peoplespeakChineseMandarinandtheyarefromthefollowingdistricts:northoftheChangjiangRiver,abeltsouthoftheChangjiangfromQiujiang(Jiangxi)toZhenjiang(Jiangsu),HubeiexceptthesouthwesterncornerofHunan,Sishuan,Yunnan,Guizhou,thenorthwesternpartofGuangxiandthenorthwesterncornerofHunan.ItisalsospokeninBrunei,Cambodia,Indonesia,Laos,Malaysia,Mauritius,Mongolia,Philippines,Russia,Singapore,Taiwan,Thailand,UnitedKingdom,USAandVietNam.It’salternatenamesare:Guanhua,BeifangFangyan,NorthernChinese,Guoyu,StandardChinese,PutonghuaandHanyu.2.WarmingupbydiscussingWell,asweallknow,inspiteofsomanydialects,nowmoreandmorepeopleonlyspeakChineseMandarin.Do用心爱心专心116号编辑youthinkMandarinismoreimportantthandialects?Doyouthinkdialectsshouldbepreservedandusedtothemaxiumbylocalpeople?Tosomedegree,yes.Ofcourse,ifyoutalkwithnon-localpeople,speakingMandarincanshowyourrespecttothem.Butweknowthereareparticularculturesindifferentlocalcommunities.Dialectsareusedtopasstheculturesfromgenerationtogeneration.Ifadialectislost,thenaculturewillalsobedamagedbeyondrepair.DoyouthinkMandarinshouldbelearnedandusedinmostcases?Thatdepends.Ifyouareinyourowncommunitycommunicatingwithalocalperson,youcanuseyourdialectcompletely.Butifyouareoutofyourcommunityinaworkingenvironmentandyouneedtotalkwithpeoplefromdifferentplaces,youshouldspeakMandarinaspossibleasyoucantoshowyourrespecttoothersandtomakethetalkeasy.ShouldregulationsbepassedtoforcepeopletospeakMandarin?BothdialectsandMandarinarepartofourChineseculture.It’shardtodefinitelyvalueonemuchhigherthantheother.Theyareequal.Peoplewhoarespeakingwillsurelymakeaproperchoice.Lawsandregulationscannotreversethetrendofculture.Soit’sunnecessary.3.WarmingupbylearningvocabularyTurntothevocabularylistforModule4andgooverthewords.Findtherelationshipbetweenthespellingandthepronunciation.Step2:Pre-reading1.Discussthefollowingquestions.1)What’syourmothertongue?2)Inyouropinion,whicharethemostimportantworldlanguagesandwhy?3)What’sthepointoflearningforeignlanguages?2.FinishPart3.(Page43)3.Introducesomekeynewwords.Makesureofthemeaningandspellingofthefollowingwordsandfillinthegaps.Changetheformwherenecessary.ethnicminorityestimateincludestatuspredictovertakefurthermoreexpandestablishborderromantic1)Thisisanerestaurant,somanypeopleprefereatingthere.2)Iwasmovedtotearsbytherlovingstory.3)Manyyoungpeopledesiresandsecurity.用心爱心专心116号编辑4)Iehisincomeat￡5000.5)Itispthattherewillbeanearthquake.6)Theweatherwasterribleandfeverythingwasbeyondexpectation.7)Heisanexcellentdriver,sohecanalwaysoothercarsontheroad.8)Thesmallpocketdictionarywaseintoalargervolume.9)Ecustomsaredifficulttochange.10)I’minamofone,somyproposalwasturneddown.11)Ifab...
