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Unit 5 languages around the world
Listening and Speaking(Learning Plan)
Step Ⅰ Pre-listening
1. Write each official language of the following countries.
China _______ Korea _________ Japan ________ Egypt _________
Denmark__________ Thailand_______ Italy_________
Sentence pattern:I will choose to speak ________ as my second language.
Step Ⅱ While listening
1、 Listen for the main idea—Listen the speech and answer the question.
1. What is the main topic of this speech?
A. The official languages of the UN.
B. Learning a foreign language.
C. The number of languages around the world.
二、Listen for the details—listen the different parts of the speech and finish the following tasks.
Part 1: (1) How many languages are there in the world?
(2) Tick the two languages with the most native speakers.
○ Russian ○ Chinese ○ Korean ○ Japanese
○ Spanish ○ Arabic ○ English ○ French
(3)What is the attitude of the speaker towards foreign language learning?
A.positive B.negative C.indifferent(不关心的)
Part 2: (4) Circle the official languages of the UN.
Russian Chinese Korean Japanese
Spanish Arabic English French
(5) How many billion people speak the UN’s official languages as their native or second language?
Part 3:(6) Why do people learn a foreign language?
For the general reasons:
Many students choose to study one of the languages that are spoken at the UN.As they think it means ________ ______ ________ in the future.
For various reasons:
Who
Language
Reasons
Some students
One of...
Because of
An American girl
Because her are from .
Another young lady
She had several from
Speaking countries.
Sentence pattern:The reason why I choose to study ______ is that _____.
Step Ⅲ After listening
1、 Finish the following report to tell what other language you want to learn and why, and collect the information of your partner. At last, show them to the class.
Name
Language
Reasons
1.
2.
3.
1.
2.
3.
...
...
...
Requirements:
1. Try to collect at least two classmates’ information.
2. Try to list at least 2 reasons.
3. Try to use different sentence patterns to express your ideas.
Useful expressions
Choose languages:
1. I’d like to learn...
2. I will choose to speak ___ as my second language.
3. Personally, I am extremely interested in ...
4. I am fond of learning...
5. I prefer to learn ...
Reasons:
1.I’d like to learn _____ beacuse of/because/for the reason that ...
2.I think _____ is beautiful/interesting/ amazing... and I want to have a better understanding of__________.
3. The reason why I choose to study ______ is that _____.
Homework: composition
If you were Li Hua,your friend John wrote you a letter to ask for suggestions of learning a new language. Please suggest him learning Chinese and give the reasons.
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