Unit 2 Exploring English Starting out & Understanding ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 2 Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas 新 课 导 入 In our daily life, we have many ways to learn English or get information in English. Can you list some? watch English movies watch English TV plays read English magazines /newspapers listen to English programs/songs 课 堂 学 习 1.According to Chart 1, which language has the largest number of native speakers? Chinese has the largest number of native speakers. Starting out According to Chart 2, which language has the largest number of learners? English has the largest number of learners. 2.What can you learn from Chart 3? Why do you think many people in China learn English? It tells us the number of English learners in China is increasing. How to read a chart? The title of a chart will tell you what the chart is about. Know clearly about what different color blocks represent (代表). Compare the figures. Watch the video and answer the questions. 1.Which countries mentioned in the video have English as their first language? 2. Where do a third of English words come from? What examples are given in the video? More than a third of English words come from French, such as fruit, table, crocodile, invasion. The UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Understanding ideas 1 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 2 Read the passage and check your answer to Activity 1. 1 Have you ever asked yourself why people often have trouble learning English?I hadn't, until one day my five-year-old son asked me whether there was ham in a hamburger. There isn't. This made me realize that there's no egg in eggplant either. Neither is there pine nor apple in pineapple. This got me thinking how English can be a crazy language to learn. 2 For example, in our free time we can sculpt a sculpture and paint a painting, but we take a photo. And when we are traveling we say that we are in the car o