WhyDoWeNeedDictionaries教案

详细内容

munication strategy（交际策略）、resource strategy （资源策略）等等。
文化意识：多方面，多渠道地了解各种词典，学习词典文化，增强保护和发扬人类词典文明的意识。我们指导学生了解词典文化，努力做到真爱是世界文化。
课时：5课时
Period One
Content: 1. new words and expressions
2. introduction (Reading and speaking )
Aim: 通过词汇的学习进一步扩大学生的词汇量，要求学生能读会写新的词汇，能够在听力材料中识别新的词汇。在introduction中,在熟悉词典所包含的基本内容的同时,进一步对词汇学习掌握。
Step1: 领同学们集体朗读新词汇,并给同学们5-8分钟的时间熟悉生词,重点是71页的生词。
Step 2 : Brainstorm 看图说话
根据课本上的插图要求学生回答问题:
1.what can you see in the picture?
2. does everybody have a dictionary?
3. how often do you use your dictionary?
4. when do you usually refer to your dictionary?
通过简单的几个问题，让同学们熟悉本堂课所要学习的内容。然后让学生们开动脑筋，尽量多的想出与词典有关的词和短语。例如：refer to … look up…. consult… hard paper…
Step 3 两个同学活动,分别完成Activity 1和Activity 2 的填空。两人先校对答案，然后老师集体校对。并给出学生们时间朗读这些句子，达到对生词的掌握。
Step 4 language points
derive from: 起源于….
plural ? singular: adj.复数的/单数的
Homework: 完成课后练习P115第3题及P116 vocabulary的第4\5\6三题。
Period Two
Content: 1. reading and vocabulary(1)
2. language points
Aim: 通过阅读Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary 和 The Oxford English Dictionary 两篇文章，对这两本词典有着清楚的认识，然后完成相应的练习。在听力训练中释义有关单词在词典中的意义，通过听的活动来复习相关的词汇。
Step 1: 通过课本塞缪尔• 约翰逊的肖像来引导学生.
Have you heard of his name?
How do you know about Samuel Johnson?
What do you think he is?
Discuss with your desk mate and say as much as you know about him.
Step 2: Before ing to the text, lets deal with the new words
astonish bow control embarrass improve spell worry omit rehearse polish
1. It’s ordered that everyone passing by the general bow to him.
2. If you want to improve your English, you’d better take every chance to practice using it.
3. Your shoes need polishing badly.
4. It’s not astonishing that many people remended that the temple be restored as soon as possible.
5. The second letter in this word can be omitted.
6. His worried look on his face suggested that he hadn’t found his missing child.
7. It happened when we went to watch the musician’s rehearsal the other day.
8. The little girl stood beside her father watching him correcting her spelling.
9. Last week the young teacher failed to control the class.
10. I managed to spoil some wine on the hostess--- I was so embarrassed.
Step 3 read passage 1 and find words which mean:
1. the way a word is written
2. a group of people who are born at about the same time
3. someone who writes about the life of someone else
4. to change something after it has been written
5. a written agreement between people
7. a writer of rhyming verse, for example
Step 4 read the text carefully and find key words of each paragraph and write a brief introduction of Samuel Johnson
Para 1 : 1709-1784, British, critic, poet, biographer, lexicographer.
Para 2: the best dictionary…France and Italy, 55years, 1964, 18
Para 3: When…. Agree to do it in three years…sign a contract…1746…1755…some definitions were embarrassingly simple…
Step 5 Before ing to the passage 2, deal with the words
obsolete based on publication filing system prehensive
1. A filing system is a way of keeping pieces of information in the correct order so that you can find them easily.
2. If something is based on a particular idea, that idea is used to start the new thing.
3. If something is prehensive, it includes all or nearly all the information possible.
4. Something that is obsolete is no longer used or produced.
5. A publication is a book, magazine, etc. that has been published.
Step 6 read passage 2 in a loud voice and answer the following questions
1. Who were originally responsible for the concept of the OED?
2. How did the editor James Murray improve the production of the dictionary?
3. How long did it take before the first part was published?
4. Why does the writer say that the project was clearly too big for one person to take on?
5. How have things advanced since the publication of first dictionary?
二、language points
1. of all time:有史以来
2. at the time: 当时
3. sign a contract: 签合同
4. rather than: 而不是 other than: 除了
5. from…. to….:从….到…. E.g. from door to door
from generation to generation
from shoulder to shoulder
6. at the touch of :一接触到….
e.g. at the flick of…. at the mention of…. at the news of….at the click of
7. as…..as:和…一样
8. during (over, in) the last (past) several years: 在最近几年(与现在完成时连用)
9. prehensive ---prehension
Homework: remember the new words and read the text fluently
Period Three
Content: language in use (1) & (2)
Aim:引导学生掌握by, do/does/, if, or, want, why的用法.
1. by
Prep.(1) 用于表示动作由执行者发出,注意与with的比较,后者着重指利用的根据和材料等,例如:
He was hit by a falling stone.
He was hit with a stick.
(2) 表示靠近:
Do you know the girl standing by the window?
e and sit by me.
(3)表示方式:
We are traveling to Paris by plane.
She made a living by selling newspaper.
(4)表示经过:
She walked by me without noticing me.
Every day I pass by the post office on my way to school.
(5) 表示身体或物体的部分:
The policeman seized him by the wraist.
The farmer took the cow by the nose.
(6)表示按照、论：
We are paid by the month.
Books came in the hundreds.
(7)表示截止到, 在…之前:
By the end of last year we had seen a dozen foreign films.
They have finished all the work by noe.
(8) 表示由于:
The other day I saw Linda by aident in the park.
By mistake I took his raincoat.
Adv. 表示经过,度过:
Ten years have gone by since we last met.
Tom walked by without even looking in our direction.
2. do / does
aux. v. (1) 用来构成疑问句或否定句
Do you like swimming? She doesn’t live near here.
(2) 用来放置在动词前加强语气,表示强调:
Do be careful! He did turn up late.
(3)用来代替前面用到的动词:
Tod speaks English better than he did.
She studies English as hard as I do Chinese.
v.(1)表示做,从事:
I’m busy doing my homework.
It’s a great pleasure to do business with you.
(2)表示进行:
Hoiw are you doing in your new job?
The students are doing well at school.
(3)表示足够
A dozen bottles of wine should do for the party.
---- I have got a plate.
---- That will do.
3. if
Conj. (1) 用来引导宾语从句, 表示是否:
I asked him if he knew her.
I don’t care if she is my classmate.
(2) 用来引导真实条件句,表示假如:
If you don’t leave right away I’m calling the phone.
If you see her tomorrow, tell her my new number.
(3)用来引导虚拟条件句,表示假如:
If I were you, I would stay at home.
If you had listened carefully last class, you could answer the question now.
4. or
(1) 表示或,或者
Was it Beijing or Shanghai where you first me her?
Would you like tea or coffee?
(2) 表示否则
Put on your coat, or you may catch a cold.
(3) 表示要么:
Either he or you were there.
Either you or your wife is to attend the meeting.
(4) 表示换种说法:
It’s going to rain, or that’s what the forecast says on TV.
(5) 用于固定短语:
or else:否则,要不然:
You have up very early or else you can’t catch the train.
5. want
v. (1) 表示想,要
I don’t want your father to hear about it.
He is wanted in connection with the murder of a girl.
(2) 表示需要
The table really wants cleaning.
The flowers want to be watered.
(3)表示需要，后面接名词及其过去分词作并与不足语:
If you want a thing done, do it yourself.
I want this paper printed.
6. why
Conj. (1) 用于疑问句，表示原因：
Why do you say so?
Why not stay longer?
(2) 用于名词性从句,注意后面一句中不用why:
I wonder why he keeps silent.
That’s why she left.
The reason is that he dislikes hot dogs.
(3) 用于定语从句中作关系副词:
The reason why he didn’t aept the invitation is still unknown.
Is that the reason why she kept silent at the meeting.
Homework: 完成教材 P121 language in use 的练习1&2
Period Four
Content: (1) Reading and vocabulary (2)
(2) Presentation skills
一、Reading and vocabulary (2)
Lead-in: passage 1
Do you remember James Murray? Here is what happened to him when he was working on the OED. What do you think the astonishing discovery might be?
Step 1: Read the passage One by yourselves and find the answer the questions above. 调动学生想象,尽量多的给出答案.
Step 2 : Word practice. Before ing to the passage 2,let’s deal with some difficult words.
astonish bow control embarrass improve spell worry omit rehearse polish
1. It’s ordered that everyone passing by the general bow to him.
2. If you want to improve your English, you’d better take every chance to practice using it.
3. Your shoes need polishing badly.
4. It’s not astonishing that many people remended that the temple be restored as soon as possible.
5. The second letter in this word can be omitted.
6. His worried look on his face suggested that he hadn’t found his missing child.
7. It happened when we went to watch the musicians’ rehearsal the other day.
8. The little girl stood beside her father watching him correcting her spelling.
9. Last week the young teacher failed to control the class.
10. I managed to spoil some wine on the hostess--- I was so embarrassed.
Step 3 Match the words in the box with their meanings.
prolific asylum muffled insane solemn forbidding
1. sounding quieter than normal muffled
2. mentally ill insane
3. unfriendly or frightening forbidding
4. very sad and serious solemn
5. producing a lot of work prolific
6. an old-fashioned word for a hospital for mentally ill people asylum
Step 4 Read the passage 2 carefully and answer the following questions
1. Why did James Murray want to visit Dr W. C. Minor?
2. What kind of man do you think he imagined Dr W. C. Minor to be?
3. Why did he think the man behind the desk was the man he had e to visit?
4. Was the man behind the desk someone important after all?
5. It is not at all as you suppose. What did the speaker mean when he said this?
Step 5 Discussion
Work in pairs. Four students a group. Discuss your answers to the questions.
How does the writer imply that the house James Murray was visiting impressed him greatly? List the words and phrases he uses.
二、Presentation skills
Step 1 :read the notice by yourselves and answer the questions
1. Do you think this is an announcement to read or to hear? Why?
2. Who wrote it, and for whom?
3. What kind of style is used―informal or formal/ How can you tell?
4. What differences are there between written and spoken announcements?
Sep2 Class activity
分小组准备一个通知,可以先让部分同学展示写出的文章,然后互相修改。Use he following words and phrases to make your announcement to the class.
Ask for attention: Hey! Listen up!
Can I have everyone’s attention, please?
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?
Say what your I have a short/ long announcement to make
announcement is about: I have a announcements.
Give details: The… will take place in….
That’s all, folks!
Show you have finished: Thanks for listening
Thank you for your attention.
Homework: remember the new words and phrases
Period Five
Content: (1) Reading practice
(2) Cultural Corner
Aim: 泛读文章
Step 1 Work in pairs. Can you remember:
1. how many words there are in the Oxford English Dictionary?
2. who James Murray was?
3. when it was first prepared?
4. how many volumes it has today?
Step 2 skimming and scanning
Look at the title of the passage. Choose the most likely main idea.
A. Past, present and future of the OED
B. New developments in writing dictionaries.
C. The future of the OED online.
D. A history of dictionaries.
Step 3 read the text in a loud voice and finish the table aording to the text.
pastpresentfuture
Sorting quotation slips-----
Explanation of words and how used---------------
Electronic dictionary----------
Available on the ----------
60 million words-----
Structure and anization---------------
Aurate display of words----------
Unlimited space-----
Biographical and geographical entries-----
Multimedia-----
Step 4 Discussion
How often do you use a Chinese dictionary? What kind of information are you usually looking for?
Step 5
Read the passage and answer the questions.
1. Would you prefer to use Roget’s Thesaurus or an A-Z Thesaurus?
2. What Chinese language reference books do you know?