1、Unit 2 Exploring English Starting out&Understanding ideas Activity 1 1. According to Chart 1, which language has the largest number of native speakers? 2. According to Chart 2, which language has the largest number of learners? 3. What can you learn from Chart 3? Why do you think many people in Chin
2、a learn English? Activity 2 1.Which countries mentioned in the video have English as their first language? 2.Where do a third of English words 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 Fr
3、ench. For example, “ fruit”, “table”, “crocodile” and “invasion”. What reasons can make languages change and develop? cultural collision(cultures meet) and communication colonization 殖民殖民 (rule)/ invasion immigrant 移民移民 (settler 联想联想) Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple Understanding ideas Activity
4、1 Look at the title of the passage and the pictures. Tick what you think the passage is about? English can be a crazy language to learn. Activity 2 Read the passage quickly and silently and then match the main idea with each part. Part1.(Para1) A. Examples of some confusing expressions. Part2.(Para2
5、-6) B. The reason why English is so crazy. Part3.(Para7) C. English is a crazy language to learn. Tips for reading: Pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph. Activity 3 In order to support his idea, the author uses many examples that show the 1_ madness of English. unique Activity 3 no
6、egg in eggplant no ham in 2_ neither pine nor apple in 3_ sculpt a sculpture paint a(n) 4_ BUT take a photo hamburger pineapple painting Activity 3 seasick - sick at sea 5_- sick in the air 6 _- sick in a car BUT 7_- sick at home airsick carsick homesick Activity 3 A certain number of people tend to
7、 be _ while travelling in a car and _ while at sea. To make matters worse, some even get _ on a plane. Therefore it is advised that they had better take some pills for _,_,_ while travelling. However, it is funny that you get _ when you are away from home for a certain period of time, and _ is alway
8、s with you, particularly during the time of some Chinese traditional festivals. carsick seasick airsick carsicknessseasickness airsickness homesick homesickness Activity 3 “Hard” is the opposite of “soft” “ Hardly” and “softly are not a(n) 8_ pair. “Harmless” is the opposite of “ harmful”. Shameful
9、and shameless 9_ are the same. burn up- burn down fill in a form-10_ a form Stars are out.-They are visible. Lights are out.- They are 11_. opposing behaviors fill out invisible Activity 3 I wind up my watch.-It starts. I wind up the passage-It 12_ The reason is that English was invented by people,
10、and it 13_ the creativity of the human race. ends reflects Summarize Activity 4 Page16 Choose the authors 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 h
11、ow English was created. Activity 5 Read the following information and answer the questions. 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. The origin of “hamburger” was a hard beef steak ca
12、lled “ Hamburg steak” , eaten without bread. Later, people reinvented it and called it “hamburger”. Eggplants used to be smaller and yellow or white. They looked a bit like eggs, which led to the name “eggplant”. How did pineapples, hamburgers and eggplants get their names? Think and share What do y
13、ou find most challenging about learning English? How do you deal with this? Review Nowadays , English is widely spoken all over the world. Actually, English has changed and developed 1_ time. At first, the English 2_(speak) in England between CE 450 and 1150 was quite different from the English spok
14、en today, which was based more 3_ German than English we speak now. Then gradually between about CE 800 and 1150 , English became less like German because those 4_ ruled England spoke first Danish and later French. over spoken on who 链接高考链接高考 These new 5_(settle) enriched English and especially its
15、vocabulary. So by the 1600s Shakespeare used a 6_(wide) vocabulary than ever before. In 1620, some British settlers moved to America, later they moved to Australia. English began 7_(speak) in both countries. Finally, the language was settled by the 19th century. English now is spoken 8_ a foreign or second language in India , Singapore, Malaysia and so on .Today the number of people learning English in China 9_(be) increasing rapidly. Will Chinese English develop 10_(it) own identity? Only time will tell. 链接高考链接高考 settlers wider to be spoken as is its Homework Thank you!
