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Unit 2 Exploring English
Understanding ideas
新标准《英语》高中必修第一册
Activity 1
Look at the title of the passage and the pictures. Tick what you think the passage is about.
Activity 2
Read the passage and check your answers to Activity 1.
Activity 2
What is the passage about
Activity 3
1 To tell us that English is very difficult to learn.
2 To give advice on how to learn English.
3 To show that English is interesting and creative.
4 To explain how English was created.
Activity 4
1 unique
2 hamburger
3 pineapple
4 painting
5 airsick
6 carsick
7 homesick
8 opposing
9 behaviors
10 fill out
11 invisible
12 ends
13 reflects
Activity 5
How did pineapples, hamburgers and eggplants get their names
Does the information above give you a better understanding of the passage Give your reasons.
Think & Share
Do you agree with the author’s opinion about the English language Give your reasons.
What do you find most challenging about learning English How do you deal with this
Using language
Review: word formation
Activity 1
a Neither is there pine nor apple in pineapple.
b … sculpt a sculpture…
c When we… see rain…, we can say “it’s raining”…
d WHO
d
c
b
a
Activity 1
Can you find more examples of each type in the reading passage
1 abbreviating: IT, US
2 changing the part of speech: When we… see… snow, we can say… “it’s snowing”.
3 adding a prefix or suffix: paint–painting, hard–hardly, soft–softly,
harm–harmless / harmful, shame–shameless / shameful, visible–invisible
4 combining two or more words: hamburger, eggplant, seasick, airsick, carsick, homesick, homework, housework
Activity 2
1 penfriend
2 well-known
3 incorrect
4 unhappy
5 improvement
6 calm
7 presenting
8 WTO
9 ASAP
Activity 3
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Group A
Group B
American and British English
Activity 4
Activity 4
1 theatre
2 theater
3 gas
4 highway
5 petrol
6 motorway
7 elevator
8 lift
9 subway
10 underground
11 apartment
12 flat
Activity 5
Work in pairs. Find more examples of differences between American and British English. Use a dictionary or search on the Internet.
Unfamiliar English expressions
Activity 6
a–Conversation 3 b–Conversation 1 c–Conversation 2
a
b
c
Activity 7
1 Chinese food
2 the Guangdong dialect
3 cellfish
4 cellphone
5 selfish
6 LOL
7 “laugh out loud”
Activity 8
Work in pairs. Act out the conversation to ask for and explain the meanings of the expressions.
Student A: Turn to Page 105.
Student B: Turn to Page 108.
Activity 9
Work in pairs. Find new words and their meanings on the Internet, and have a similar conversation.
THANK YOU