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Unit 2
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Warming up
Is there a foreign teacher at your school?
Have you ever gone to an English corner
at school?
1.Work in pairs.Talk about the photos
on the right and on the next page.Say:
·where they are
what languages you can see
a
b
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Reading
2.Read the passage and answer the questions.
1.How many people in the world use English?
About 400 million people.
2.How did English become an international
language?
In the nineteenth century,English became the
language of world trade.And in the twentieth
century,the US spread English to the world
through newspaper,television and films.
3.When do you think Chinese will become
an international language?
By the middle of the twenty-first century.
4.Who owns English?
Everyone who speaks it.
3.Match the ideas with the paragraphs.
a)Chinese may be the next world language
in the future,
b)English is the most important
international language today.1
c)English spread through trade and the
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media.
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d)We all own English.
e)English has borrowed many words from
other languages.
anguage Points
1.English is now used by nearly a quarter
of the world's population.
quarter
四分之一
a quarter of....的四分之一
e.g.A quarter of the students are
playing football on the playground.