内容正文:
Languages Around the World
Listening & Speaking
Listening & Talking
Warming-up
——Let’s enjoy a video
Who?
Where?
What?
Yiyang Qianxi
was delivering a speech
in the United Nations(U.N)
What other languages do you think are officially used there?
What countries do the photos stand for? Which languages are spoken in these countries?
The CN Tower
Brandenburg Gate
Red Square
Taj Mahal
Louvre Museum
Palace of Madrid
Canada
English, French
Germany
German
France
French
Russia
Russian
India
Hindi,English
Spain
Spanish
Lead-in
——Let’s know about languages
Lead-in
——Let’s know more & try
Japanese
Korean
Thai
Italian
Arabic
Which language will you choose to speak?
If there is a chance,I will choose to speak _______ as my second language.
Which languages did the UN choose?
Listening
——Listen for the gist
1. What is the main topic of this speech?
The official languages of the UN.
Learning a foreign language.
The number of languages around the world.
2. Tick the two languages with the most native speakers. Circle the official languages of the United Nations(UN).
pay attention to the names of the languages mentioned in the passage.
Russian Chinese Korean Japanese
Spanish Arabic English French
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Pay attention to the first sentence
Listening
——Listen for details
1. How many languages are there in the world?
2. How many billion people speak the UN’s official languages as their
native or second language?
3. What is the attitude of the speaker towards foreign language learning?
Nearly 7000
Around 2.8 billion
It's _______ to learn at least one other foreign languages, if possible.
useful
What’s others’ attitude?
Why do they learn languages?
Listening
——Listen for details
For the general reason:
refer to Who?
Listening
——Listen for details
For various reasons:
Who Language Reason
Some students one of … Because of ________________
An American girl Because her _______