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Unit 2 Exploring English
Understanding ideas
新标准《英语》高中必修第一册
Today Exploring
Welcome to Today Exploring. I’m Cindy. Today’s topic is exploring the secrets of English.
I’m Sam. Cindy, do you know there are many interesting phenomenon in language?
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老婆饼
松鼠桂鱼
狮子头
夫妻肺片
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Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple
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Understanding ideas
Activity 1
Look at the title of the passage and the pictures. Tick what you think the passage is about.
Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple 菠萝≠松树+苹果
Have you ever asked yourself why people often have trouble learning English?
你有没有问过自己,为什么人们常常在学习英语方面有困难?
I hadn’t, until one day my five-year-old son asked me
我从未想过这个问题,直到有一天,我五岁的儿子问我
whether there was ham in a hamburger. There isn’t.
是否汉堡里有火腿。 答案是没有。
This made me realize that there’s no egg in eggplant either.
这让我意识到eggplant(茄子)里也没有egg(鸡蛋)。
Neither is there pine nor apple in pineapple.
pineapple(菠萝)里既没有pine(松树),也没有apple(苹果)。
This got me thinking how English can be a crazy language to learn.
这让我陷入思考:对于学习者而言,英语到底可以有多疯狂呢?
For example, in our free time we can sculpt a sculpture and paint a painting,
例如,我们可以在闲暇时雕刻一座雕像(sculpt a sculpture)、画一幅画(paint a painting),
but we take a photo.
但我们只能take(拍)一张照片。
And when we are traveling we say that we are in the car or the taxi,
旅行时,我们坐汽车或出租车时是说坐在里面(in),
but on the train or bus!
但是坐火车或公共汽车时却要说坐在上面(on)!
While we’re doing all this traveling,
而当我们旅行时,
we can get seasick at sea, airsick in the air and carsick in a car,
同样,我们会在海上晕船、在飞机晕机、在车里晕车,
but we don’t get homesick when we get back home.
但回到家里我们却不会“晕家”(homesick,实际意为“想家的,思乡的”)。
And speaking of home, why aren’t homework and housework the same thing?
说到家,为什么homework和housework不是一回事呢?
For example, in our free time we can sculpt a sculpture and paint a painting,
例如,我们可以在闲暇时雕刻一座雕像(sculpt a sculpture)、画一幅画(paint a painting),
but we take a photo.
但我们只能take(拍)一张照片。
And when we are traveling we say that we are in the car or the taxi,