Karl Marx Marx was born in Germany in In the 19th century,he led the worker’s movement. Together with Engels, in 1848, Marx wrote the book “Communist Manifesto”. In 1864, he founded the First Inter- national in London. He published “Das Kapital” in He devoted all his life to revolutionary cause. ( )

Friedrich Engels Engels was a German socialist and political philosopher. He spent most of his adult life in England as the manager of cotton mills.He met (1844) Karl Marx, and collaborated with him on many works, notably the Communist Manifesto(1848). He died in London in August,1895. ( )

How Marx Learned Foreign Languages 1. Which foreign languages did Marx study? 2. What work did Marx do? French,English,Russian He wrote articles and books.

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Note making Name: Karl Marx Born: Studied at: Live in: Moved to London in: Wrote (books): Wrote articles about: Studied (languages): Political ideas: May 5th,1818;Germany high school,a university Germany,France,Belgium,England 1849 The Civil War in France;Manifesto housing,hard life of … French,English,Russian Communism

True or False statements 1. Karl Marx was born in Belgium. ( ) 2. He was forced to leave his homeland when he was young. ( ) 3. Marx was good at learning foreign languages. ( ) 4. In one of his books, Marx gave some advice on how to learn English. ( ) False True False

Reading Comprehension 1. What was Marx’s native language? 2. Why did he leave Germany? 3. Why did he go to London? 4. What did Engels do when he found Marx had made rapid progress in English? 5. When did Marx start to learn Russian?Why? 6. What advice did Marx give on how to learn a foreign language?

Discussion 1.Do you think it important to learn a foreign language? Why? 2. How can we learn English well? A foreign language is a weapon in the struggle of life.--Karl Marx

Fill in the blanks: Karl Marx was born in _______.When he was young, he was ______ to leave his homeland for _________ reasons. He had to _____ from one country to another. At last he came to England and ____ London the base for his revolutionary work. Marx ___ ______ some English before he came to London, but he ______ his English was limited. He ______ working hard to improve it. He made ____ rapid progress ____ before long he Germany forced politicalmove made had learnt found started such that

Fill in the blanks: could write articles in English.Engels wrote him a letter to _______ him for it. Engels’ letter had greatly _________ him,and from then on, Marx ______ even harder at his English. He mastered English ___ well _____ he could write one of his great works The Civil War in France in English. When Marx was in his fifties, he _____ to learn Russian,because he thought it was important to study the situation in Russia. praise encouraged worked sothat began

Language points 1. force sb. to do sth.;be forced to do sth.; force sb./sth. +prep.phr./adv. 2. for some reasons;for some reason 3. before long;(not) long before 4. make + Object. + do/p.p./adj./n. make it + n. + to do sth. 5. be sure of/about;be sure to do;be sure that; make sure of/to do sth.;for sure/certain It’s certain that ….

Language points: 6. so+adj. (+a+n.)+that; such a (+adj.) + n. +that such+adj.+n.(pl.)+that; such +adj.+n.(u)+that so many/much/few/little + n. + that … But: such little children 7. praise sb. for (doing) sth. 8. encourage sb. to do sth.;encourage doing sth. 9. keep (on) doing sth. 10.find + Object. + n./pron./adj./doing/p.p.