Introduction：
English around the world is about the historical development of English over the past fifty years, developing from a widely spoken national language to a Universally spoken world language.
Teaching Aims：
1. Train the students’reading ability
2. Let the students learn something about English around the world
Teaching Important Points：
1.Improve the students’reading ability
2.Learn about English around the world’s countries and population and the historical development of English over the past fifty years
Teaching Difficult Points：
How to help the students understand the text better
Teaching Methods：
1. Fast reading to find out the general idea of the text
2. Question-and –answer activity to help the student to understand the detailed information in the text
3. Individual or pair work to make every student work in class
Teaching Aids：
1. a tape recorder
2. a map of the world
3. the blackboard
Teaching Procedure：
Step I Greetings and Revision
Greet the students as usual , and then review the following useful expressions
1. for the first time
e.g He went to Beijing for the first time.
2.now then
e.g Now then ,don’t use such terrible words.
3.There are
e.g There you are; Then let’s have some coffee.
Step II .Pre-reading
Asking the students to discuss the following questions：
1. In which countries can we find most native speakers of English？
2. In which countries do people speak English as a second language?
3. Why is it more and more important to have a good knowledge of English ?
Step III.Reading
1.Fast reading
First ask the students to find out the main idea of each paragraph, and then make them do some exercises.
True or False
1. English is widely used in the world .
2. In India most people speak English as their mother tongue.
3. Nowadays , businessmen and tourists to China can communicate people in English .
4. To have a good knowledge of English today is more and more important.
2. Careful reading
Play the tape and ask the students to listen to it ,and then ask the following questions and make the students answer them：
1. What dose the writer mainly want to tell us in the passage?
2. What will happen in another fifty years according to the text ?
3. Which countries take English as their native language ?
Step IV Post –reading
1. Explanation
Teacher explains the following language points ,and use them to make some sentences:
1. all around the world :all over the world
2. majority :the largest number/biggest part of something
3. in total :when all have been added up
4. mother tongue :native language
5. trade :business
6. have a good knowledge of :information and understanding about a subject
2.Retelling the text.
Ask the students to retParagraph and some key words.
Step V Summary and Homework.
Summarize what they have learned and ask them to review the text and preview the next period.
ell the text according to the main idea of each