1、Starting out P13 Unit 2 Exploring English Pre-viewing Look and answer: 1. According to Chart 1, which language has the largest number of native speakers? Chinese has the largest number of native speakers. Because China has the largest population in the world. What information can you read from Chart
2、 1? Pre-viewing Look and answer: 2. According to Chart 2, which language has the largest number of learners? What information can you read from Chart 2? English has the largest number of learners. Pre-viewing Look and answer: What information can you read from Chart 3? 50 million 200 million 300 mil
3、lion From the chart 3 and the figures we can easily find that the number of English learners in China is increasing. More and more people in China learn English. While-viewing Watch and answer: Which countries mentioned in the video have English as their first language? Where do a third of English w
4、ords come from? What examples are given in the video? The UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. More than a third of English words come from French. For example, “fruit”, “table”, “crocodile” and “invasion”. hus - _ scip - _ cu - _ cild - _ knifr - _ gg - _ kaka - _ Celtic north w
5、est three tribes Germany Vikings 1066 French Germany many other places house ship cow child knife egg cake fruit table crocodile invasion The History of English Watch and complete: After-viewing Discuss and research: How many languages are spoken in the world? What languages do you know? Chinese are spoken by so large number of people in the world, can it be the universal language instead of English in the future? Thank you!
