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Period 1 Listening and Speaking & Listening and Talking [听力集训]
一、《知识必备手册》 P57 Section 1 听说指导
二、听前清障
写出下列话题词汇
1.native language speakers母语人士
2.learn a foreign language学一门外语
3.choose to do sth.选择做某事
4.better job chances更好的工作机会
5.six official languages六门官方语言
6.cause confusion导致困惑
7.non-native English speakers非英语为母语的人
8.British English英式英语
9.be familiar with对……熟悉
10.meet at a coffee shop在咖啡店见面
11.by subway乘坐地铁
Step 2 课堂精彩PPT,高效集训教材听力
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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(2022·湖北公安县车胤中学高一上期中)
Learning other languages,you discover how to say the same thing in many different ways.In English we say “goodnight”.In Vietnamese,people say “Chúc ngǔ ngon”,which means “have a delicious sleep”.When I think about the word “delicious”,I think of pizza,chocolate and ice cream.I don’t think about going to sleep.So depending on the language,different phrases will improve your creativity and force you to think about how to say things in a different way.
Studying a new language,you will notice that you have to learn a new sense of humour that comes along with the culture of that language.Sometimes,jokes that work in English won’t work in French or Japanese.But sometimes things that nobody would laugh in English work in Vietnamese.I learned this when I performed stand-up comedy in Vietnam.A lot of my non-Vietnamese speaking friends would ask me to translate the jokes for them,but when I translated back to English,no one laughed.
When you learn a new language,you have to learn a lot of vocabulary,new grammar structures,idioms,and much more besides.Doing this,you have to learn memorization strategies.These could be flashcards,using recall methods,or building a memory palace.Whatever strategy you use,it will strengthen your creativity.
Next time you meet someone who speaks several languages,before you think that they have something special going on in their brain,take a step back and think.Maybe they do.But maybe they’ve got that special thing because they’ve made the effort to learn several languages.And effort is