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全新版大学英语综合教程第二册

主讲教师：李筱洁

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UNIT 7 LEARNING ABOUT ENGLISH

UNIT 7 LEARNING ABOUT ENGLISH

BEFORE READING ACTIVITIESBEFORE READING ACTIVITIES

WARM-UPSWARM-UPS

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WARM-UPSWARM-UPS

• How long have you been studying English?

• How much do you know about English?

• Why do you think English becomes the most popular language in the world now?

“ENGLISH” WORDS

“ENGLISH” WORDS

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“ENGLISH” WORDS“ENGLISH” WORDS

marryblue

flowerriver

autumn

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wallpear

street

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karaoke


guitar

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typhoon

Confucious

Taiji kungfu

tofu mahjong

ENGLISH – A CRAZY LANGUAGE?

ENGLISH – A CRAZY LANGUAGE?

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English – A Crazy Language?English – A Crazy Language?

egg plant eggplant+ =

+ =

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pine apple pineapple+ =

+ =

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hamhamburger

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English muffins French fries

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sweetmeats sweetbread

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noses that run / feet that smells:

The first expression refers to “have a running nose”, and the second refers to “have smelly feet”.

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a wise guy / a wise man:

a wise guy: (derogatory) a person who pretends to be much wiser than he/she really is

a wise man: (commendatory) a really wise person

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when lights are out / when stars are out :


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Listen to the following passage and find out all the pairs of words and expressions you think are puzzling or interesting.

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QUESTION FOR HOME THINKING

QUESTION FOR HOME THINKING

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Question for Home ThinkingQuestion for Home Thinking

Think about our mother tongue – Chinese. Is it a great as well as a crazy lan

gauge? Explain.

TEXT READINGTEXT READING

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The Glorious Messiness of EnglishThe Glorious Messiness of English

oxymoron


commendatory derogatory

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oxymoron

great failure

sweet bitterness

An oxymoron puts two contradictory words together to puzzle the reader, attracting him/her to think and explore.

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Part I: para. 1-3

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Let’s Compare!Let’s Compare!

English French

How many words does it have?one million 75,000

Why does it have such an amount of words?

massive stealing from other languages

not like borrowing foreign words

What is its attitude toward the word “Walkman”?

That doesn’t bother English people.

It is not desirable; invent a new word.

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The Glorious Messiness of EnglishThe Glorious Messiness of EnglishThe Glorious Messiness of EnglishThe Glorious Messiness of English

That happy tolerance, that willingness to accept words from anywhere, explains the richness of English and why it has become, to a very real extent, the first truly global language.

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Words & ExpressionsWords & Expressions

corrupt: vt.1) cause errors to appear in

Do you think Chinese has been corrputed by the net language?

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corrupt: vt.2) cause to act dishonestly in return for personal gains

To gain more profits, the businessman tried to corrupt the officials in the local government.

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ban:1. vt. forbid (sth.) officially

The government will ban smoking in public.

Tom was banned from driving by the police.

{ ban sth./doing }

{ ban sb. from sth./doing sth. }

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ban:2. n. a prohibition imposed by law or official decree

a total ban on smoking in public

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Part II: para. 4-16

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para. 4-9

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Questions for Para. 4Questions for Para. 4

1.What makes up the core of the English language?

2.List some words which belong to Old English.

3.What are the features of these words?

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Questions for Para. 5 & 6Questions for Para. 5 & 6

1.Who is Winston Churchill?

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one of Britain’s greatest statesmen

Churchill became Prime Minister and Minister of Defence in 1940.


His radio speeches … gave the British people a strong determination to win the war.

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”.

“This was their finest hour”.

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“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”.


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2. Find Churchill’s speech quoted by the author in para. 5.

“ We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”

parallelism

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3. Why did Churchill use “surrender” instead of “give in” according to the author?


it is one of the lovely -- and powerful -- opportunities of English that a writer can mix, for effect, different words from different backgrounds.

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Questions for Para. 7 - 9Questions for Para. 7 - 9

Indo-European parent language

(3500 ~2000 B.C.)

When was Indo-European parent language spoken?

the languages of Europe

the languages

of India and Pakistan

Which modern languages are decended from it?

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drift:1) vi. move or go somewhere in a slow casual way

Jimmy spent a year drifting around Europe.

2) n. the movement or course of sth. drifting

The conversation drifted from one topic to another.

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Let’s Draw!Let’s Draw!

Anglo-Saxon English

Let’s draw a picture together to illustrate the

history of English~!

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Let’s Compare!Let’s Compare!

British English American English

prononciationsdance, butter, factory

spellingsmetre, colour, realise meter, color, realize

wordsappartment, lovely, a

ngry flat, cute, mad

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Anglo-Saxon English





United States – American English

---English---

the tongue of the common man

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