1. Learning about English
Unit 7
Learning about English

2. kindergarten? primary school? middle school?
How much do you know about English?

3. Teaching Objectives Knowledge Objective Culture Learning
Lexical and Syntactical Learning
Rhetorical Learning
Ability Objective
Reading and Comprehension Ability
Appreciation and Interpretation Ability
Writing Ability
Emotional Objective
Appreciate the glamour of language
Realize that the tolerance for change represents deeply rooted ideas of freedom

4. Teaching Procedures
Background Information: the big events in the history of the UK
Structure Analysis
Language Points
Homework Assignment

5. The Glorious Messiness
of English

6. The big events in the history of the UK:
Puritans landed North America
the Celts
Roman Invasion
William Caxton
the Germanic Tribes
the Normans

7. The big events in the history of the UK:
BC, the Celts moved westwards.
BC, the Celts inhabited the land
(forced by the Germanic tribes).
today, they survive mainly as Welsh.
55BC, Julius Caesar invaded Celts.
43AD, Claudius conquered Britain.
culture, custom, and language(Latin)

8. The big events in the history of the UK:
449~1066 AD, Angles and Saxons settled in Britain.
farming; Christianity (from Greek and Latin)
Old Norse(Vikings from Scandinavia)
the descendant of Vikings
1066, conquered England
French, Latin and English
what's the extraordinary thing in the 15th century?

9. The big events in the history of the UK:
1476, the first printing press
the new thinking from the European Renaissance
Latin words came in with the translation of Greek and Roman classics
William Caxton
1620, puritans landed in North America by May Flower
English found itself with two sources: Amerian and British

10. G R _ Part Division of the Text 1
Parts
Para(s).
Main Ideas
Massive borrowing from other languages is a major feature of the English language. 1
1~3 2
4~16
Tells about the history of English from the Indo-European parent language to modern English.

11. G R _ Part Division of the Text 2
Parts
Main Ideas
Para(s).
Tolerance, love of freedom, and respect for the rights of others — these qualities in the English-speaking people explain the richness of their language. 3
17~19

12. D R _ Sentence THE GLORIOUS 1
THE GLORIOUS MESSINESS OF ENGLISH
英语中绚丽多彩的杂乱无章现象。
What kind of rhetorical device is used in the title?
oxymoron (矛盾修饰法)
It puts two contradictory terms together to puzzle
the reader, luring him/her
to pause and explore why.
“Glorious” commendatory(褒)
“Messiness” derogatory(贬)

13. D R _ Sentence 2 … which
… which French kids are supposed to say instead – but they don’t.
Paraphrase the sentence.
French children are expected to say the word “balladeer” instead of “Walkman” but they don’t say it.

14. D R _ Sentence 5 … “We … “We shall fight … surrender.”
What kind of rhetorical device is used here? And what’s the function of it?
The rhetorical device used here is called parallelism (排比法). With this device the sentences become more powerful and will leave a deeper impression on listeners or readers.

15. D R _ Sentence 6 … French
… French for the nobles, Latin for the churches and English for the common people.
What kind of rhetorical device is used here?
The rhetorical device used here is called metonymy (转喻). Here the word “churches” stands for religious institutions and those who are involved in religious practices. Another example, in the sentence “The kettle boils.”, the word “kettle” stands to “the water in the kettle”.

16. D R _ Sentence 7 Translations of Greek
Translations of Greek and Roman classics were poured onto the printed page,
What is the Chinese version of this part?
希腊罗马经典著作的译文纷纷印成书册。
What kind of rhetorical device is used here?
The author used personification (拟人法) in this part.

17. D R _ Sentence 11 Consider that … around
Consider that … around their language.
What kind of rhetorical device is used in these sentences?
metaphor.
the cultural soil, the first shoots sprang up, … grew stronger, build fences around their language.
the English language plants,
the various cultures influencing it the soil,
users of English gardeners.
core of English (Para. 4),
another flood of new vocabulary (Para. 14),
the special preserve of grammarians (Para. 19).

18. Assignment to Students before This Class
1. Finish the exercises of this unit.
2. write a short passage about the brief history of the language of English.

19. Thank you!