内容正文:
Understanding ideas P14-15
新外研必修Book 1
Unit 2 Exploring English
Writing
English is widely learned
as a second language around the world , because it's an interesting and
creative language.
Pre-reading
Look at the title of the passage and the pictures.
Tick what you think the passage is about:
food
cooking
words
plants
fruit
Neither Pine
nor Apple in Pineapple
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While-reading
Read the passage and check your answer
to Act. 1.
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Choose the author's 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 how English was created.
Locate and complete.
In order to support his idea, the author uses many examples that show the _______ madness of English.
no egg in _________
no ham in ___________
neither pine nor apple in __________
hamburger
pineapple
eggplant
sculpt a sculpture no paint a(n) ________
BUT take a photo
seasick→sick at sea ______→sick in the air
______→sick in a car
BUT _________→sick at home
“Hard” is the opposite of “soft”.
“Hardly” and “softly” are not a(n) ______ pair.
painting
unique
airsick
homesick
carsick
opposing
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 2
Para. 3
Locate and complete.
The reason is that English was invited by people, and it ______ the creativity of the human race.
“Harmless” is the opposite of “harmful”.
Shameful and shameless
________ are the same.
behaviors
burn up→burn down
fill in a form→_______ a form
Stars are out.→They are visible.
Lights are out.→They are ________.
I wind up my watch.→ It starts.
I wind up the passage.→ It _______.
fill out
invisible
ends
Para. 3
Para. 6
Para. 7
Para. 7
reflects
Read and complete to retell.
Have you ever asked yourself why people often have
trouble ________(learn) English? I hadn't, until one day
my five-year-old son asked me ____