(共36张PPT)
Unit 2 Exploring English
Understanding ideas
【版本:新外研 册别:必修一】
contents
Pre-reading
Ⅰ
Language points
Ⅳ
Fast reading
Ⅱ
Homework
Ⅴ
Intensive reading
Ⅲ
Ⅵ
Post-reading
Learning Objectives
Get the main idea of the passage;
Find out the supportive examples;
Retell the passage using the information map;
Share your understanding of English and English study.
Ⅰ
Pre-reading
Look at the charts and answer the questions.
According to Chart 1, which language has the largest number of native speakers
Chinese has the largest number of native speakers.
Look at the charts and answer the questions.
According to Chart 2, which language has the largest number of learners
English has the largest number of learners.
Look at the charts and answer the questions.
What can you learn from Chart 3
The number of English learners in China is increasing.
Why do you think many people in China learn English
Watch a video and answer the questions.
Which countries mentioned in the video have English as their first language
Where do a third of English words come from What examples are given in the video
Which countries mentioned in the video have English as their first language
Where do a third of English words come from What examples are given in the video
The UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
More than a third of English words come from French. For example, “fruit”, “table”, “crocodile” and “invasion”.
Look at the title of the passage and the pictures. Guess what the passage is about. (P19-20)
food
cooking
words
plants
fruit
Ⅱ
Fast reading
Read the passage quickly and answer the questions.
What is the passage about
What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage
Tips for getting the main idea of a passage quickly
Analyze the title and the pictures carefully and predict.
Read for the topic sentence, which is usually in the first or last paragraph.
Read the first sentence of each paragraph.
Pay attention to the structure of the passage.
Read the passage quickly and answer the questions.
What is the passage about
food
cooking
words
plants
fruit
Read the passage quickly and answer the questions.
What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage
A. To tell us that English is difficult to learn.
B. To give advice on how to learn English.
C. To show that English is interesting and creative.
D. To explain how English was created.
III
Intensive reading
Read the passage carefully and complete the notes with words from the passage. (P21)
Have you ever asked yourself why people often have trouble learning English I hadn't, until one day my five-year-old son asked me whether there was ham in a hamburger. There isn't. This made me realize that there's no egg in eggplant either. Neither is there pine nor apple in pincapple. This got me thinking how English can be a crazy language to learn.
For example, in our free time we can sculpt a sculpture and paint a painting, but we take a photo. And when we are traveling we say that we are in the car or the taxi, but on the train or bus! While we're doing all this traveling, we can get seasick at sea, airsick in the air and carsick in a car, but we don't get homesick when we get back home. And speaking of home, why aren't homework and housework the same thing
In order to support his idea, the author uses many examples that show the 1__________ madness of English. no egg in eggplant no ham in 2.__________ neither pine nor apple in 3. ____________ sculpt a sculpture
paint a(n) 4.__________
BUT take a photo
unique
hamburger
pineapple
painting
We can’t always understand a compound word by adding the meanings of the words it is made up of!
The same rule doesn’t always apply to everything!
seasick → sick at sea 5__________→ sick in the air 6________ → sick in a car BUT 7 ________ → sick at home “Hard” is the opposite of “soft”.
“Hardly”and “softly” are not a(n) 8___________ pair.
airsick
carsick
homesick
opposing
If "hard" is the opposite of “soft”, why are "hardly" and "softly" not an opposing pair If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions, why are shameless and shameful behaviors the same?
When we look out of the window and see rain or snow, we can say "it's raining" or "it's snowing". But when we see sunshine, we can't say "it's sunshining".
Even the smallest words can be confusing. When you see the capitalized "WHO" in a medical report do you read it as the "who" in "Wh 's that " What about “IT” and "US"
You also have to wonder at the unique madness of a language in which a house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm is only heard once it goes off!
“Harmless” is the opposite of “harmful”. Shameful and shameless 9_________ are the same. burn up → burn down
fill in a form→ 10 _____ a form
behaviors
fill out
Different words or phrases may have
the same meaning!
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race. That is why when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And that is why when I wind up my watch, it starts, but when I wind up this passage, it ends.
Stars are out. → They are visible. Lights are out. → They are 11 __________. I wind up my watch. →It starts.
I wind up the passage. →
It 12________.
The reason is that English was invented by people, and it 13 __________ the creativity of the human race. invisible
ends
reflects
The same words and phrases may have
different meanings in different contexts.
Can you think of similar examples in Chinese
There isn’t fish in “Yu-Shiang Shredded Pork”.
There isn’t a wife in a “Laopobing”.
V
Post-reading
1. What is the opposite of white ( )
2. The post office is opposite the station. ( )
3. “True” and “false” have opposite meanings. ( )
1. opposite
Important words
① adj. 对面的;相反的
② n. 对立的人或物;对立面;反义词
③ prep. 与……相对;在……对面
①
②
③
Important lexical chunks
1 have trouble (in) doing...
2 get sb doing
3 sculpt a sculpture
4 paint a painting
5 take a photo
6 speak of
have difficulty (in) doing
to make someone do something
雕刻雕塑
画油画
照相
提及
Important lexical chunks
7 burn up / burn down
8 fill in / out a form
9 go off
10 wind up the watch
11 wind up the passage
to be completely destroyed by fire
填表
离开;(闹铃)响;爆炸
to make the watch work
to bring the passage to an end
Nobody knows whether Tom can complete the project.
Could you please tell me how to use the new cellphone
I wonder why he hasn’t come.
Exercise
1.没有人知道汤姆能否完成这个项目。
Translate the following sentences.
2. 我想知道他为什么还没来。
3. 你能告诉我如何使用这部新手机吗?
VI
Homework
Homework
Work in groups, find similar examples in English language and design a poster .
THANK YOU