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Unit 5 Languages around the world
Video-watching
1. How many different languages are mentioned in the song?
2. What are the languages?
Video-watching
1. How many different languages are mentioned in the song?
Nine
2. What are the languages?
Chinese Spanish English French
Korean Japanese Russian German Italian
Q: How many languages/dialects can you speak?
What are they?
Unit 5 Languages aroud the world
Listening and Speaking
Explore languages around the world
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Listening for main ideas
Focus on the text as a whole to catch the main ideas. Don’t try to remember and translate each word you hear.
Listening skills
Listening skills
Listening for details
Do not try to catch every word. Instead, listen for key words and phrases: numbers, people, places, reasons, languages, etc.
How many listening skills do you still remember?
A
Reviewing listening skills
Listening for main ideas
Listening for details
Words and Phrases
foreign languages
native language speakers
learn a foreign language
the UN
better job chances
official languages
the native language
the second language
billion
English
Chinese
Russian
Arabic
French
Spanish
Danish
Afracian countries
2. Listen to a speech and tick the two languages with the most native speakers. Circle the official languages of the United Nations.
Russian
Chinese
Korean
Japanese
Spanish
Arabic
English
French
script: After Chinese, the language with the most native speakers isn’t English- it’s Spanish.
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Activity 1 listening for main ideas
Listen to the speech again and answer the questions.
1. What is the main topic of this speech?
A. Learning English.
B. Learning a foreign language.
C. Official languages of the United Nations
2. How many languages are there in the world?
3. How many billion people speak the UN's official languages
as their native or second language?
9
A
Activity 2 listening for specific information
Listen to the speech again and answer the questions.
2. How many languages are there in the world?
3. How many billion people speak the UN's official languages
as their native or second language?
Nearly 7,000.
Around 2.8 billion.
汉字是一种有趣的文字
10
A
Activity 3 listening for details
Listen to the speech again and fill in the table below.
Who Language(s) Why
Many students One of the UN's official languages It means ________________
An American girl ________ Her grandparents were from
Denmark.
Another young lady
________ She had several________ from African countries where ________ is spoken.
better job chances.
Danish
French
friends
French
Why is French spoken in African countries?
汉字是一种有趣的文字
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Q: Besides English, which foreign language would you choose to study and why?
Different people have different reasons about learning a foreign language. Look! Some students are talking about it. Let’s join them together!
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学
科
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Activity 4 Speaking
She can help her father do business with Russians in the future.
She likes watching Japanese cartoons.
He thinks French sounds beautiful and is useful .
What language(s) do you choose to learn and why?
Example ( You can make a dialogue like this)
A:What language do you want to study?
B: I really want to study ... I think that...
Besides,… What about you?
A: I choose to study… In my opinion…Also,…
B: I agree with you. I hope you will make it.
A: Thank you!
In the past Japan also wanted to make Japanese one of the official UN languages. They submitted the application (递交申请), but the United Nations refused Japan’s request. In your opinion, what may be the reasons?
In 1999 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (联合国教科文组织 )decided to set February 21st as International Mother Language Day. What’s the importance of setting such a day?
Now more and more people in different countries are learning and speaking Chinese. Maybe someday Chinese will become the next international language like English. What can we do to make Chinese an international language?
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Activity 5 Discussing and sharing
Discuss the following questions in groups and share your ideas.
Japanese
▲ International influence
▲ A small population
▲ Spelling
▲ ...
Mother languages
▲ Disappearing
▲ Culture relics
▲ Using and preserving
▲ Root
▲ …
Chinese
▲ Learning
▲ Developing
▲ Fighting
▲ …
Language is like a bridge that connects all the corners of the world.
Homework
1. Write a short passage about what language you want to learn and why.
2. Surf the Internet and find more information about the development of the six official UN languages.
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听力材料:
Exploring languages around the world
To some students, it seems that the only foreign language to learn is English. There are, however, nearly 7,000 languages in the world. After Chinese, the language with the most native language speakers isn't English — it's Spanish! Learning English is very useful, but it is wise to learn at least one other foreign language, if possible.
There are many reasons why people learn a foreign language. Many students choose to study one of the languages that are spoken at the UN. As they think it means better job chances in the future. The UN has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. They are spoken by around 2.8 billion people as their native or second languages.
Some students, though, choose to study a language because of family or friends. One American girl chose to learn Danish because her grandparents were from Denmark. When she was little, her grandpa used to read letters to her in Danish from their relatives in Denmark. Another young lady started learning French because she had several friends from African countries where French is spoken.
What do you think? Which other language would you choose to study and why?
Listening Tips
1.注意细节
Before listening to the text, look through the exercises quickly and find out the key points according to the exercises.
2.巧判人物关系,身份与职业
人物关系、职业、身份等相关方面的听力试题要求在某一特定环境下,对说话人的身份进行推理与判断。该项内容的考查多是以who或what开头的特殊疑问句,其常问方式有:
What is the man (woman)?
What's the man's (woman's) occupation (职业)?
Who is the man speaker?
What's the probable relationship between the two speakers?
另外,我们可根据以上内容所提供的称呼语并结合生活常识进行判断。同时,熟悉特定的场景用语和关键词,便于我们更好地解答有关人物关系、对话发生地点的题目。
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