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Section Ⅰ Starting out & Understanding ideas — Comprehending
学习任务目标
1. 识记本课时的重要语言点;
2. 能够通过标题、图片等元素推测和略读,获取课文大意,根据课文内容准确理解课文标题和作者的写作意图;
3. 能够通过精读获取重要信息,正确梳理信息之间的关系;
4. 了解英语发展与演变的历史以及英语在世界范围内的使用情况、学习情况和中国人英语学习的现状;
5. 能基于教材内容和自身实际,简要介绍英语的历史,初步分析中国英语学习者的数量持续增长的原因。
词汇互译
1. title n. 题目,标题
2. opposing adj. (观点、意见等)相反的,相对立的
3. behavior n. 举止,行为
4. confusing adj. 令人困惑的
5. unique adj. 独一无二的,独特的
6. alarm n. 警报器;闹钟
7. reflect v. 显示,反映
8. creativity n. 创造性,创造力
9. creative adj. 创造(性)的
10. 火腿 n. ham
11. 茄子 n. eggplant
12. 松树 n. pine
13. 菠萝 n. pineapple
14. 雕刻,雕塑 v. sculpt
15. 雕像,雕刻品,雕塑作品 n. sculpture
16. 晕船的 adj. seasick
17. 晕机的 adj. airsick
18. 晕车的 adj. carsick
19. 想家的 adj. homesick
20. 大写的 adj. capitalized
21. 看得见的,可见的 adj. visible
22. 烧毁,烧尽 burn up
23. 烧毁 burn down
24. 给(机械)上发条;使(活动、会议等)结束 wind up
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Main ideas
Details
Questions
·why people often have trouble 1. learning English
·how English can be a crazy language 2. to learn
Examples
·there's no 3. ham in a hamburger
·there's no 4. egg in eggplant
·there's no pine or apple in pineapple
·when the stars are out, they are 5. visible
·when the lights are out, they are 6. invisible
·when I wind up my watch, it 7. starts
·when I wind up this passage, it 8. ends
Reasons
·English was invented by 9. people, not computers, and it reflects the 10. creativity of the human race.
Ⅰ. 根据课文内容选择正确答案
1. Which of the following words does not have the same meaning as the others?
A. Seasick. B. Homesick.
C. Carsick. D. Airsick.
2. The author wrote the passage by .
A. giving examples
B. asking questions
C. analysing
D. exaggerating (夸大) the truth
3. What does English reflect about the human race?
A. Craziness. B. Instinct (本能).
C. Wisdom. D. Creativity.
答案:1~3 BAD
Ⅱ. 课文语法填空
Have you ever asked 1. yourself (you) why people often have trouble 2. studying (study) English? I hadn't, until one day my fiveyearold son 3. asked (ask) me whether there was ham in a hamburger. This got me thinking how English can be a crazy language