高中英语Unit 2 Exploring English教学设计

Book1 Unit 2 Exploring English

Understanding ideas--Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple

Activity1. Look at the pictures and predict what the reading material is about.

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Activity2. Read the passage and choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage.

1. To tell us that English is very difficult to learn.
2. To give advice on how to learn English.
3. To show that English is interesting and creative.
4. To explain how English was created.

Activity3. Read the passage again and complete the table with words from the passage.

Activity4. Complete the table below according to your understanding.

Conclusions:

1. Two separate words combining together can form a new word having _________ to do with the original ones.

2. The same root word combining with different words can form new words with very _____________ meanings.

Activity5. Self-reflection

From this class, I learned that if I want to enlarge my English vocabulary I can

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Activity6. Read the following information of how pineapples, hamburgers and eggplants got their names and answer the question:

What contributes to the various formation of English vocabulary?

1  The word “pineapple” developed from the Spanish word “pina”, which means pine cone. When it came to England, “apple” was added to show it is a kind of fruit.

2  The origin of “hamburger” was a hard beef steak called “Hamburg steak”, eaten without bread. Later, people reinvented it and called it “hamburger”.

3  Eggplants used to be smaller and yellow or white. They looked a bit like eggs, which led to the name “eggplant”.

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Activity7. Think about any Chinese with similar formation as “pineapple” , “hamburger” and “eggplant”.

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Do you know how they got their names?

Activity8. Assignment