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aroundtheWorldB1U5ListeningandSpeakingOthercountries:India:________America:________theUK:

_______Arab:_________ExplorelanguagesaroundtheworldFrance:

________Russia:________Germany:_______Spain:________Canada:________Denmark:_______AmericaEnglishiswidelyspokenbymanycountries.Itplaysanimportantpartincommunicatingwithothercountries.FrenchRussianGermanSpanishEnglish&FrenchDanishEnglishEnglishEnglishArabicFrance____Russia____Germany____Spain____Canada____Denmark____342615Beforeyoulisten,matcheachphotowiththecorrectcountryname.thendiscusswhichlanguagesarespokeninthesecountries.Englishisthe______onewiththemostnativespeakersthirdVarietiesofEnglishdialectsLanguageisthebloodofthesoulintowhichthoughtsrunandoutofwhichtheygrow.—OliverWendellHolmes

Theimportanceofknowingmorelanguages?4Onelanguagesetsyouinacorridorforlife.Twolanguagesopeneverydooralongtheway.---FrankSmithJourneyoflifeOpportunitiesandpathsIfyoutalkamaninalanguageheunderstands,thatgoestohishead.Ifyoutalktohiminhisownlanguage,thatgoestohisheart.-----NelsonMandelaListeningskillsListeningskillsHowmanylisteningskillsdoyoustillremember?AReviewinglisteningskillsListeningformainideasListeningfordetailsListeningformainideasFocusonthetextasawholetocatchthemainideas.Don’ttrytorememberandtranslateeachwordyouhear.ListeningfordetailsDonottrytocatcheveryword.Instead,listenforkeywordsandphrases:numbers,people,places,reasons,languages,heUNConferenceHall

Where?Itsofficiallanguages?ChineseEnglishSpanishFrenchRussianArabicAActivity1listenandchoose

mainideasWhatisthemaintopicofthisspeech?ALearningEnglish.BLearningaforeignlanguage.COfficiallanguagesoftheUnitedNationsPayattentiontothefirstsentenceTipsMarkthekeywordsbeforelistening.Takenoteswhilelistening.AActivity2listenandanswerquestions

Listentothespeechagainandanswerthequestions.1.Howmanylanguagesarethereintheworld?2.CircletheofficiallanguagesoftheUnitedNations.RussianChineseKoreanJapaneseSpanishArabicEnglishFrench3.HowmanybillionpeoplespeaktheUN'sofficiallanguages?astheirnativeorsecondlanguage?Nearly7,000.Around2.8billion.

WhichtwolanguageshasthemostnativespeakersWhatistheattitudeofthespeakertowardsforeignlanguagelearning?A.ObjectiveB.SkepticalC.SupportiveD.UnconcernedWiseandUsefulAActivity3listeningfordetailsListentothespeechagainandfillinthetablebelow.WhoLanguage(s)Why

ManystudentsOneoftheUN'sofficiallanguagesItmeans________________

AnAmericangirl

________HergrandparentswerefromDenmark.

Anotheryounglady

________Shehadseveral________fromAfricancountrieswhere________isspoken.betterjobchances.DanishFrenchfriendsFrenchWhyisFrenchspokeninAfricancountries?

Tosomestudents,itseemsthattheonly_________tolearnisEnglish.Thereare,however,nearly________languagesintheworld.After________,thelanguagewiththemost_____languagespeakersisn’tEnglish—it’sSpanish!____________isvery________,butitiswisetolearn________oneotherforeignlanguage,

___________.foreignlanguage7,000ChinesenativeLearningEnglishusefulatleastTipsPredictaccordingtothecontextbeforelistening.ifpossibleEnglishvs.

foreignlanguagesActivity4.Listenandfillintheblanks.Therearemany________whypeoplelearnaforeignlanguage.Manystudents________tostudyoneofthelanguagesthat

arespokenat_________.Astheythinkit

means__________________inthefuture.TheUNhassix_______________:Arabic,Chinese,English,French,Russian,andSpanish.They____________byaround2.8billionpeopleastheirnativeor_________languages.reasonschoosetheUNbetter

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chancesofficiallanguagesarespokensecondreasonsforlearningforeignlanguagesWhatdo“they”and“it”referto?

Somestudents,though,____________alanguagebecauseoffamilyorfriends.OneAmericangirl_____to___________

becausehergrandparentswerefromDenmark.Whenshewaslittle,hergrandpausedtoreadletterstoher__________

fromtheirrelativesinDenmark.Anotheryounglady________________FrenchbecauseshehadseveralfriendsfromAfricancountrieswhere_______isspoken.Whatdoyouthink?Whichotherlanguagewouldyouchoosetostudyandwhy?choosetostudychoselearn

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learningFrenchreasonsforlearningforeignlanguagesTipsPredictaccordingtothecontextbeforelistening.InthepastJapanalsowantedtomakeJapaneseoneoftheofficialUNlanguages.Theysubmittedtheapplication(遞交申請）,buttheUnitedNationsrefusedJapan’srequest.Inyouropinion,whatmaybethereasons?

In1999theUnitedNationsEducational,ScientificandCulturalOrganization(UNESCO)(聯(lián)合國教科文組織

）decidedtosetFebruary21stasInternationalMotherLanguageDay.What’stheimportanceofsettingsuchaday?NowmoreandmorepeopleindifferentcountriesarelearningandspeakingChinese.MaybesomedayChinesewillbecomethenextinternationallanguagelikeEnglish.W