全新版大学英语综合教程 第二册 主讲教师：李筱洁 © TAMMY LI

Li Xiaojie UNIT 7 LEARNING ABOUT ENGLISH

BEFORE READING ACTIVITIES

WARM-UPS WARM-UPS

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie WARM-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

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie “ENGLISH” WORDS marry blue flower river autumn

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie “ENGLISH” WORDS wall pear street

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie karaoke “ENGLISH” WORDS guitar

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie “ENGLISH” WORDS typhoonConfucious Taiji kungfu tofumahjong

ENGLISH – A CRAZY LANGUAGE? ENGLISH – A CRAZY LANGUAGE?

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie English – A Crazy Language? egg plant eggplant += + =

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie English – A Crazy Language? pine apple pineapple += + =

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie English – A Crazy Language? ham hamburger

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie English – A Crazy Language? English muffins French fries

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie English – A Crazy Language? sweetmeats sweetbread

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie English – A Crazy Language? noses that run / feet that smells: The first expression refers to “have a running nose”, and the second refers to “have smelly feet”.

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie English – A Crazy Language? 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

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie when lights are out / when stars are out : English – A Crazy Language?

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie English – A Crazy Language? Listen to the following passage and find out all the pairs of words and expressions you think are puzzling or interesting.

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie English – A Crazy Language?

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie English – A Crazy Language?

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie QUESTION FOR HOME THINKING QUESTION FOR HOME THINKING

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Question for Home Thinking Think about our mother tongue – Chinese. Is it a great as well as a crazy langauge? Explain.

TEXT READING

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie The Glorious Messiness of English oxymoron commendatoryderogatory

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie The Glorious Messiness of English oxymoron great failure sweet bitterness An oxymoron puts two contradictory words together to puzzle the reader, attracting him/her to think and explore.

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie The Glorious Messiness of English Part I: para. 1-3

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Let’s Compare! EnglishFrench How many words does it have?one million75,000 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.

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie The 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.

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Words & Expressions corrupt: vt. 1) cause errors to appear in Do you think Chinese has been corrputed by the net language?

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Words & Expressions 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.

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Words & Expressions 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. }

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Words & Expressions ban: 2. n. a prohibition imposed by law or official decree a total ban on smoking in public

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie The Glorious Messiness of English Part II: para. 4-16

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie The Glorious Messiness of English para. 4-9

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Questions 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?

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Questions for Para. 5 & 6 1.Who is Winston Churchill?

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie one of Britain’s greatest statesmen Churchill became Prime Minister and Minister of Defence in Questions for Para. 5 & 6 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”.

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”. Questions for Para. 5 & 6

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Questions for Para. 5 & 6 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

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie 3. Why did Churchill use “surrender” instead of “give in” according to the author? Questions for Para. 5 & 6 it is one of the lovely -- and powerful -- opportunities of English that a writer can mix, for effect, different words from different backgrounds.

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Questions for Para 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?

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Words & Expressions resemble: vt. be like or similar to He resembles his mother more than his father.

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Words & Expressions 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.

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie The Glorious Messiness of English para

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Let’s Draw! Anglo-Saxon English Let’s draw a picture together to illustrate the history of English~!

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© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Let’s Draw! Anglo-Saxon English Christianity – Greek and Latin

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© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Let’s Draw! Anglo-Saxon English Christianity – Greek and Latin the Vikings - Old Norse

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© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Let’s Draw! Anglo-Saxon English Christianity – Greek and Latin the Vikings - Old Norse the Normans - French

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Do You Know? pig sheep ox pork mutton beef EnglishFrench

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© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie The Glorious Messiness of English What is Renaissance? II ■

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Let’s Draw! Anglo-Saxon English Christianity – Greek and Latin the Vikings - Old Norse the Normans - French European Renaissance – Greek and Latin

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie The Glorious Messiness of English para. 16

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Let’s Draw! Anglo-Saxon English Christianity – Greek and Latin the Vikings - Old Norse the Normans - French European Renaissance – Greek and Latin United States – American English

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Let’s Compare! British EnglishAmerican English prononciationsdance, butter, factory spellingsmetre, colour, realisemeter, color, realize words appartment, lovely, angry flat, cute, mad

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie The Glorious Messiness of English Part III: para

© TAMMY LI Li Xiaojie Let’s Draw! Anglo-Saxon English Christianity – Greek and Latin the Vikings - Old Norse the Normans - French European Renaissance – Greek and Latin United States – American English ---English--- the tongue of the common man

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