Unit 2 Exploring English Starting out & Words 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 2 Exploring English 课时1 Starting out 1 This is the first period. In this period,we are going to talk about a new topic. And we are also going to study the new words and expressions in this unit. Let's look at the title, exploring English. First, it has alliteration here. 押头韵 These two words both begin with the letter s so that we can read it more fluently. secondly, why is the verb the progressive form? when we use -ing form of a word,that means sth is still moving or developing. English is a lively language, it is changing all the time, so we should keep exploring it. When we talk about exploring English, what do we explore? SHall we only explore the language, or its culture, so the society who uses this language? In the unit, I am going to take you to explore the ENgish and know more background stories of it. 1 TOPIC HEADER HERE Learning Objectives. 1. Know the current situation of English learning around the world through the charts. . 2. Know the history and development of English. . 3. Introduce the special of English. 1 After the lesson, you are able to ...... and you can also learn some new words and expression. Here we go. 2 Brainstorming How many languages can you speak? Which language do you think has the most speakers? Chinese Cantonese English Japanese 1 First, I want ask you a question how many languages can you speak? I believe all of us can speak Chinese since we are Chinese people. Perhaps some of you can speak Cantonese because we are in Guangdong Province. And now we are learning English. And I guess some of you may also know some less popular languages like Japanese Think about this question: Which language....speakers? I bet many of you may guess English must have the most speakers.Here is a chart for you. 3 Observe and answer According to Chart 1, which language has the largest number of native speakers? Chinese has the largest number of native speakers in the world. Accordign to chart 1, which language has the largest number of