Unit 2 Exploring English Starting out 精听课件 2025-2026学年外研版高中英语必修第一册

BOOK 1 Unit 2 Exploring English starting out How many languages do you speak? Which language has the largest number of speaker? Free talk off the charts? The idiom "off the charts" means exceeding standard norms or expectations to a very high degree, often in a remarkably positive manner. His excitement was off the charts when he received the acceptance letter from his dream university. The sales of the new product were off the charts. The energy at the concert was off the charts. Activity 1 Q1 Chinese has the largerst number of native speaker. English has the largest number of learners. (number of learners= number of total speakers-number of native speakers) Activity 1 Q2 The number of English learners keeps increasing for years. Chinese people learn English for Gaokao (College Entrance Exam), travelling or studying abroad, international collaboration on business, diplomacy, education, environment... Globalization Please summarize the main idea in one sentence. Watch again and complete the table in the handout 1. the most common 2. the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, New Zeland, and Australia 3. second language 4. over one billion 5. arrive at 7. European; forced into; northern and western 6. 5th; invasion; tribes 8. invaders; English words/words in English house ship cow child 9. 8th and 9th; Vikings; knife egg cake 10. 1066; French fruit table crocodile invasion 11. 1/3 (one third) 12. is growing 13. official language; air traffic control; Internet; Chinese The Origin of English Language The Worldwide Use of English The Popularity of English How many parts could this video be divided into? The Chinese language has historically been highly resistant to outside influence and therefore has fewer loanwords compared to some other languages. The unyielding(刚直的；不变的) nature of Chinese characters is the main reason for this. When you have an alphabet to work with, a foreign loanword can simply be transliterated(音译；转写) to sound as close as possible to the original language. A Chinese character, on the other hand, can’t be changed in meaning, pronunciation, or form to make it look or sound more ‘foreign’. It is already set in stone, and to use it, you have to take it as it is. Foreign transliterated words often sound very cumbersome(繁琐的，复杂的) in Chinese. For this reason, foreign concepts have usually, but not always, been translated into the closest Chinese equivalent. For example, The Chinese word for ‘mosque’ is 清真寺 qīngzhēn sì, which literally means ‘temple of purity and truth’. The English word is transliterated from the Arabic (via French). Whereas the majority of the foreign words in Chinese are related to food or places, (take ‘pudding’ 布丁 bùdīng or ‘pizza’ 披萨 pīsà) in which the characters only imitate the foreign word in sound but make no sense, there are multiple examples where this rigidity in Chinese has led to much more creative translations. Because the character already has a set meaning (or many), it is possible for the Chinese version to almost be a pun(双关) of itself – it both sounds like and conveys the meaning of the original words. Foreign Loanwords in Chinese #1 Myth 迷思 The word 迷 means ‘to confuse’ or ‘lost’. 思 means ‘thought’. So, 迷思 means ‘confused thought’. In English, the ‘th’ sound usually changes to an ‘s’ sound in Chinese. #2 Talk Show 脱口秀 In 脱口秀, 脱口 means ‘to blurt out’ and 秀 sounds like 'show'. So, it means ‘blurt out show’, a good name for a talk show! #3 Bullying 霸凌 The character 霸 means ‘tyrant’ or ‘to bully’, and 凌 means ‘to insult’ or ‘to bully’. Together, they describe ‘bullying’ and sound like the English word. #4 Hacker 黑客 The word 黑客 means ‘black guest’. The word 黑 stands for illegal activity. So, it can mean ‘illegal guest’, which fits a hacker who steals information online. Lavf56.40.101 Tencent APD MTS $