Unit 2 Language Word Power

Formal English and informal English & Countries and languages

Teaching Aims:

* To learn formal and informal English

* To complete the relevant exercises to consolidate it

Teaching procedure:

Step One: Brainstorming

Show students an informal letter and ask them to find out too formal expressions.

Look at the following expressions and tell us which one you think is better. Then read the introduction to formal and informal English on Page 26.

Step Two: informal expressions

Ask students to judge which expression is better and which is informal.

Show students some formal and informal English.

Step Three: languages in different countries

Show a form and let students know one or two languages are spoken in a country. And the country and its people.

Step Four: listening

Ask students to do the listening exercise and check answers together.

Step Five: Work in group

Look at the map of the world. Write down as many names of countries and their of About 6, 000 languages are spoken in the world today. The 10 most widely spoken languages are Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and German.

Look at the following pictures, tell us which country it is and what its official language is.

Step Five: Homework

1. Review what we learned in this period.

2. Preview the next lesson.