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Unit 2
Exploring English
Period1
Starting out
▲Learning objectives
To analyze data in charts about worldwide use and learning of English;
To get useful information from a video about the development and evolution history of English;
To present the information from charts and videos.
Lead-in
1. Do you know the total number of different languages in the world?
2. What kind of languages do you know?
Over 5000 kinds
Chinese, Japanese, Tai language, French, German...
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.
charts/graphs
1 million
乌尔都语
阿拉伯语
西班牙语
Pakistan, India
Spain...
Saudi Arabia...
Chinese has the largest number of native speakers.
= 1,000,000
Starting out
English has the largest number of learners.
The number of English learners in Chinia is increasing.
Business trade
Travelling
Cultural exchange
...
Read the new words
The UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
More than a third of English words come from French.
For example “fruit”, “table”, “crocodile” and “invasion”.
入侵,侵略
鳄鱼
hus -- _____
scip -- ____
cu -- ______
cild -- ____
knifr -- _____
ægg -- ____
kaka -- ____
Celtic
north
west
three tribes
Germany
Vikings
1066
French
Germany
many other places
house
ship
cow
child
knife
egg
cake
fruit
table
crocodile
invasion
The History of English
Listen again and fill in the blanks
Futher thinking
1. Why do more and more Chinese learn English?
2. Why has English, instead of other languages, become the global language nowadays?
Thank You!
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