UNITExploringEnglishStartingoutUnderstandingideasamanLHKQTBapazQLead-in1.Doyouknowthetotalnumberofdifferentlanguagesintheworld?Over5000kinds2.Whatkindoflanguagesdoyouknow?Chinese,Japanese,Tailanguage,French,German...Howtoreadachart?Thetitleofachartwilltellyouwhatthechartisabout.Knowclearlyaboutwhatdifferentcolorblocksreferto(指的是).Comparethefigures.Activity11million烏爾都語阿拉伯語西班牙語Pakistan,IndiaSpain...SaudiArabia...Chinesehasthelargestnumberofnativespeakers.=1,000,000

Startingout1

AccordingtoChat2,whichlanguagehasthelargestnumberoflearners?_______hasthelargestnumberoflearnersaroundtheworld.Ithas

learnersaroundtheworld.English1500millionThenumberofEnglishlearnersinChinais___________.increasingWhatcanyoulearnfromChart3?ThenumberofEnglishlearnersinChiniaisincreasing.BusinesstradeTravellingCulturalexchangelearnnewtechnologyspreadChineseculture...

Watchthevideoandanswerquestions.1WhichcountriesmentionedinthevideohaveEnglishastheirfirstlanguage?2WheredoathirdofEnglishwordscomefrom?Whatexamplesaregiveninthevideo?2Activity2ReadthenewwordsWatchthevideoandanswerthequestions.Activity2TheUK,Ireland,theUSA,Canada,NewZealandandAustralia.MorethanathirdofEnglishwordscomefromFrench.Forexample“fruit”,“table”,“crocodile”and“invasion”.入侵，侵略鱷魚

UNITExploringEnglishUnderstandingideasamanLHKQTBapazQeggplanteggIsthereeggineggplant?pineappleIsthere

pineorappleinpineapple?pineappleUnderstandingideas

Lookatthetitleofthepassageandthepictures.Tickwhatyouthinkthepassageisabout.foodcookingwordsplantsfruitNeitherPinenorAppleinPineapple1WhatdoyouthinkofEnglish?ReadandfindoutwhatdoestheauthorthinkofEnglish?Introduceatopic

GiveexamplesConclusionPara____Para____Para____Englishcanbea.languagetolearn.

ofsomeconfusingexpressionsinEnglish.the

whyEnglishissocrazyBasicstructureActivity1:

ReadforStructureActivity2:ReadforStructureReadparagraph1andunderlinethetopicsentence.

Isthisanopinionorafact?Anopinion.Introduction：Englishisacrazylanguagetolearn.HaveyoueveraskedyourselfwhypeopleoftenhavetroublelearningEnglish?I

hadn’t,untilonedaymyfive-year-oldsonaskedmewhethertherewashaminahamburger.Thereisn’t.Thismademerealizethatthere’snoeggineggplanteither.Neitheristherepinenorappleinpineapple.ThisgotmethinkinghowEnglishcanbeacrazylanguagetolearn.Forexample,inourfreetimewecansculptasculptureandpaintapainting,butwetakeaphoto.Andwhenwearetravelingwesaythatweareinthecarorthetaxi,butonthetrainorbus!Whilewe’redoingallthistraveling,wecangetseasickatsea,airsickintheairandcarsickinacar,butwedon’tgethomesickwhenwegetbackhome.Andspeakingofhome,whyaren’thomeworkandhouseworkthesamething?If“hard”istheoppositeof“soft”,whyare“hardly”and“softly”notanopposingpair?Ifharmlessactionsaretheoppositeofharmfulactions,whyareshamelessandshamefulbehaviorsthesame?Whenwelookoutofthewindowandseerainorsnow,wecansay“it’sraining”or“it’ssnowing”.Butwhenweseesunshine,wecan’tsay“it’ssunshining”.Eventhesmallestwordscanbeconfusing.Whenyouseethecapitalized“WHO”inamedicalreport,doyoureaditasthe“who”in“Who’sthat?”Whatabout“IT”and“US”?Youalsohavetowonderattheuniquemadnessofalanguageinwhichahousecanburnupasitburnsdown,inwhichyoufillinaformbyfillingitout,andinwhichanalarmisonlyheardonceitgoesoff!Englishwasinventedbypeople,notcomputers,anditreflectsthecreativityofthehumanrace.Thatiswhywhenthestarsareout,theyarevisible,butwhenthelightsareout,theyareinvisible.AndthatiswhywhenIwindupmywatch,itstarts,butwhenIwindupthispassage,itends.introducethetopicdrawaconclusionWhatisthestyleofthispassage?argumentationtopicsentence?tosuppportthetopiclistsomeexamplesIntroduceatopic

GiveexamplesConclusionPara____Para____Para____12-67Englishcanbea.languagetolearn.

ofsomeconfusingexpressionsinEnglish.the

whyEnglishissocrazyBasicstructurereasonexamplescrazyⅠ.Read

Para.1

carefully

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do

the

following

exercises.1.WhatmadetheauthorthinkmoreaboutEnglish?_________________________________2.WhatdidtheauthorthinkaboutEnglish?_____________________________________Thequestionraised/askedbyhisson.

Englishcanbeacrazylanguagetolearn.

Activity3:CarefulreadingPara.1no

ineggplantnohamin____________Neitherpinenorapplein____________老婆餅魚香肉絲egghamburgerpineapplecreativeinterestingInordertosupporthisidea,theauthorusesmanyexamplesthatshowthe___________madnessofEnglish.uniqueActivity3:CarefulreadingActivity4--Completethenoteswithwordsfromthepassage.hamburgeruniquepineapplepaintingairsickcarsickhomesickopposingbehaviorsfilloutinvisibleendsreflectsActivity4--Completethenoteswithwordsfromthepassage.Ⅱ.Read

Part

2(Paras.2—6)carefully

and

do

the

following

exercises.1.Howisthepassagedeveloped?A.Bygivingexamples.B.Bymakingpredictions.C.Bypresentingdata.D.Bygivingreasons.答案:A2.Whichgroupofthefollowingwordshasthesamemeaning?A.helpful;helpless

B.careful;carelessC.harmful;harmless D.shameful;shameless答案:D3.MakeasummaryofthecrazinessinEnglishandfindexamplesinthetext.①Wecan’talwaysunderstandthemeaningofcompoundsbyaddingthemeaningsofeachpartinit._____________________________hamburger,eggplant,pineapple

②Wecan’tapplyoneruletoeverythingsimilar.Weneedtobreakourconventional(傳統(tǒng)的)thinking.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________③Differentwordsmayhavethesamemeaning.________________________________________________________________________________Paintapainting,sculptasculpture,butnotphotoaphoto;airsickmeanssickintheair,buthomesickdoesn’tmeansickathome;hardlyisnottheoppositeofsoftly.

Shamefulbehaviorandshamelessbehaviorarethesamethoughtheyusedifferentwords.

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carefully

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following

exercises.1.Whydoestheauthorsay“Englishwasinventedbypeople”?A.TheEnglishwordsshoweverythingaroundus.B.Thelanguageproveshowcreativeahumanbeingis.C.Thelanguagehelp