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1、Unit 7,Learning about English,After-7_1,Proverbs and Quotations,1. Speech is silver, silence is gold.,2. Speech is the index/picture of the mind.,3. Speech shows what a man is.,雄辩是银，沉默是金。,言为心声。,听其言而知其人。,After-7_2,Proverbs and Quotations,4. A foreign language is a weapon in the struggle of life.- Kar
2、l Marx, German philosopher,5. Grammar must be learned through language, and not language through grammar.- Johann G. Herdor, German philosopher,外国语是人生斗争的武器。- 德国哲学家 K. 马克思,必须从语言中学习语法，而不是从语法中学习语言。- 德国哲学家 J.G. 赫尔德,After-7_3,Proverbs and Quotations,6. Speech is a mirror of soul; as a man speaks, so is h
3、e.- Ephraem Syrus, American writer,语言是心灵的镜子；一个人只要说话，他说的话就是他心灵的镜子。- 美国作家 E.塞拉斯,Objectives,to grasp the main idea and structure of the text and know the richness of English to understand some idiomatic English usages mentioned in the unit to master key language points and structures in the text to wid
4、en vocabulary by understanding the origins of words,Text A: The Glorious Messiness of English,Before We ReadWarm-up Activities Now We ReadGlobal Reading Questions to Think Detailed Reading After We ReadWriting Genre Vocabulary File,Before We Read: Warm-up Activities,Brain Teasers with Puns : Why doe
5、s time fly so fast? Why is a river so rich? When are people smartest? Why is the elephant always traveling?Who drives away all his customers? Which runs faster, heat or cold?,Because so many people are trying to kill it.,Because it has two banks.,During the day, because then the sun shines, everythi
6、ng is brighter.,Because it always has a trunk with it.,Taxi drivers,Heat, because you can catch cold.,Before We Read: Warm-up Activities,Why does Father Time wear bandages? What day in the year is a command to go forward? What fruit does a newly married couple resemble? Why is a watch dog larger by
7、nights than by days?,Because day breaks and night falls.,March 4th (forth).,A green pear.,Because at night he is let out, and in the day he is taken in.,Now We Read: Global Reading,Text Analysis : Write down the paragraph numbers of each part and its main idea.,Part 1: Massive borrowing from other l
8、anguages is a major feature of the English language.,How do you understand “typically one of massive stealing from other languages”? What is the French peoples attitude to borrowing foreign words and why? What do you think of it? What does the writer try to explain with “walkman”? Who are “us”? Why
9、has English become the first global language?,Part 2: The history of the English language from the Indo-European parent language to modern English.,Paras 4-6 What is the core of English? What kinds of words are they? What are their features? How are this kind of language used by great speakers? How
10、do you feel about the quotes from Winston Churchill? How does the writer feel about mixing words from different background in English?,Part 2,Paras 7-9 Who were the early inhabitants of Britain? What language did they speak and what do you know about its origin? What is the theory of the origin of W
11、elsh? How was it discovered? What is the parent language of English and what do you know about it?,Part 2,Paras 10-13 What is Anglo-Saxon society? How has it influenced the language of English? What has English borrowed from Christianity? What do you know about Vikings? What did they bring to Englis
12、h?,Part 2,Para. 14 What happened in 1066? How did it change the English language? Why are words “kingly”, “royal” and “sovereign” mentioned? What is Middle English?,Part 2,Para. 15-16 In what background did Latin and Greek words pour into English? When did English start to have two different sources
13、? Why does the writer say “Fortunately their idea has never been put into practice”?,Part 3: Qualities of the richness of the English language.,How does the tolerance for change represent ideas of freedom? What do you learn from the quote from Otto Jespersen? How do you like it? Why is English the t
14、ongue of the common man?,Questions to think,What are the stages of the development of English language? What does the title The Glorious Messiness of English mean? (oxymoron) What do you think has made English “the first truly global language”?,English is messy, but the messiness reflects some comme
15、ndable qualities of English, such as tolerance, the love of freedom, and the respect for others right.,Detailed Reading : Structure (I),(L9) so they invent a word, balladeur, which French kids are supposed to say instead be supposed to: be expected to, should e.g. What is a college student supposed
16、to learn?What are you supposed to do in an English class?,Detailed Reading: Structure (II),(L57) They must have enjoyed themselves because they gave us the word laughter. must do/ have done sth.: What will you say if your friend tells you she spent 1,000 dollars to fill a hollow tooth? What would yo
17、u think if you saw a man crying?,Detailed Reading: Sentences,(L1) The story of our English language is typically one of massive stealing from other languages. (metaphor) The history of English language is typically the history of borrowing words in large amount from other languages. massive: unusually large or powerful e.g. massive increase in sth.,
