ExploringEnglishUnit2B1U2Startingout&Understandingideas1.Lookatthechartandanswerthequestion.Why?BecauseChinahasthelargestpopulation

intheworld.MandarinChinesehasthelargestnumberofnativespeakers.以普通話作為母語的人最多。短語：accordingto根據(jù)，按照thenumberof...的數(shù)量AccordingtoChart1,Whichlanguagehasthelargestnumberofnative

speakers?以哪種語言為母語的人數(shù)最多？根據(jù)母語人數(shù)排列的前五種語言English.1,500million.Lookatthechartsandanswerthequestions.2、AccordingtoChart2,Whichlanguagehasthelargestnumberoftotalspeakers?說哪種語言的總?cè)藬?shù)最多？Howmanyarethere?根據(jù)說英語總?cè)藬?shù)排列的前五種語言WhatcanyoulearnfromChart3?ThenumberofEnglishlearnersinChinaisincreasing.WhydoyouthinkmanypeopleinChinalearnEnglish?Touseitforbusiness.Totalkwithnativespeakers.Towritetoforeignfriends.ToreadEnglishbooks.TolistentoEnglishmusicandwatchEnglishfilms.中國英語學(xué)習(xí)者Activity21.WhichcountriesmentionedinthevideohaveEnglishastheirfirstlanguage?2.WheredoathirdofEnglishwordscomefrom?Whatexamplesaregiveninthevideo?TheUK,Ireland,theUSA,Canada,NewZealand,Australia.French.

Fruit,table,crocodile,invasion.Module2ExploringEnglish

UnderstandingideasThereisneither

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.UnderstandingideasInclusivenessWidely-usemooncake（月餅）eggplant（茄子）mooncakeeggplantneither...nor...既不...也不...;hamhamburgerThereisnohaminahamburger(漢堡）.confusingquestions?NeitherPinenorAppleinPineapple+=pineapplepineapplepineappleThereisneither

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pineapple.Accordingtothepicturesandthetitleabove,whatdoyouthinkthepassageisabout?

A.foodB.cookingC.wordsD.plantsE.fruit√neither...nor...既不...也不...;1HaveyoueveraskedyourselfwhypeopleoftenhavetroublelearningEnglish?Ihadn’t,untilonedaymyfive-year-oldsonaskedmewhethertherewashaminahamburger.Thereisn’t.Thismademerealizethatthere’snoeggineggplanteither.Neitheristherepinenorappleinpineapple.ThisgotmethinkinghowEnglishcanbeacrazylanguagetolearn.2Forexample,inourfreetimewecansculptasculptureandpaintapainting,butwetakeaphoto.Andwhenwearetravelingwesaythatweareinthecarorthetaxi,butonthetrainorbus!Whilewe’redoingallthistraveling,wecangetseasickatsea,airsickintheairandcarsickinacar,butwedon’tgethomesickwhenwegetbackhome.Andspeakingofhome,whyaren’thomeworkandhouseworkthesamething?

3If“hard”istheoppositeof“soft”,whyare“hardly”and“softly”notanopposingpair?Ifharmlessactionsaretheoppositeofharmfulactions,whyareshamelessandshamefulbehaviorsthesame?你有沒有問過你自己為什么人們產(chǎn)常常覺得學(xué)習(xí)英語有困難我沒有直到有一天我五歲的侄兒問我漢堡包里面有沒有火腿答案是沒有這讓我意識到茄子里面也沒有雞蛋而菠蘿里面既沒有松樹也沒有蘋果這讓我陷入思考對學(xué)習(xí)者而言英語到底可以由多瘋狂例如閑暇時我們可以雕一座雕像畫一幅畫但只能拍一張照片。我們旅行時坐汽車或出租車時是說坐在里面坐火車或公共汽車時卻要說坐在上面同樣，旅行時，我們會在海上暈船在飛機里暈機，在車里暈車但回到家里卻不會暈家（因為homesick的意思是想家的說到家為什么家庭作業(yè)和家務(wù)不是一回事呢如果說hard(硬）是soft（軟）的反義詞為什么hardly(幾乎不）和softly(柔和的）卻不是一對反義詞呢如果說harmlessactions（無害行為）和harmfulactions（無害行為）意思相反為什么shamelessbehaviors無恥行為和可恥行為shamefulbehaviors反而是一會是呢4Whenwelookoutofthewindowandseerainorsnow,wecansay"it'sraining"or"it'ssnowing".Butwhenweseesunshine,wecan'tsay"it'ssunshining".5Eventhesmallestwordscanbeconfusing.Whenyouseethecapitalized"WHO"inamedicalreport,doyoureaditasthe"who"in"Who'sthat?"Whatabout"IT"and"US"?6Youalsohavetowonderattheuniquemadnessofalanguageinwhichahousecanburnupasitburnsdown,inwhichyoufillinaformbyfillingitout,andinwhichanalarmisonlyheardonceitgoesoff!7Englishwasinventedbypeople,notcomputers,anditreflectsthecreativityofthehumanrace.Thatiswhywhenthestarsareout,theyarevisible,butwhenthelightsareout,theyareinvisible.AndthatiswhywhenIwindupmywatch,itstarts,butwhenIwindupthispassage,itends.當我們看向窗外，看到雨或者雪時，我們會說，it'sraining正在下雨或者it'ssnowing正在下雪我們看到sunshine太陽時卻不能說it'ssunshining正在下陽光就算是最小的單詞也讓人費解如果你在一篇醫(yī)學(xué)報告中看到大寫的WHO你會把它讀成Who'sthat中的who嗎？那么IT和US又該怎么讀呢英語這門語言獨有的瘋狂不得不讓你感到驚奇在英語里房子燒成灰燼的時候，可以說burnup(燃燒上去)也可以說burndown填表格時，你可以fillinaform(字面意思填入表里）也可以filloutaform（填到表外)（燒下去）而且只有鬧鐘走了以后才可以聽到鈴聲英語是人創(chuàng)造的不是計算機發(fā)明的它反映了人的創(chuàng)造力這就是為什么當starsareout（星星出來）的時候我們能看到星星而lightsareout（燈滅了）的時候我們看不見燈光但當我給手表上緊發(fā)條它開始走但當我將本文收尾這篇文章就結(jié)束的原因Readthepassage

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Part1.(Para1)A.Examplesofsomeconfusingexpressions.Part2.(Para2-6)B.ThereasonwhyEnglishissocrazy.

Part3.(Para7)C.Englishisacrazylanguagetolearn.Readingtips:Payattentiontothefirstsentenceofeachparagraph.ReadformainideaActivity3Choosetheauthor’spurposeinwritingthispassage.1

TotellusthatEnglishisverydifficulttolearn.2

TogiveadviceonhowtolearnEnglish.3ToshowthatEnglishisinterestingandcreative.4ToexplainhowEnglishwascreated.√1.WhatmadetheauthorthinkEnglishisacrazylanguage?A.MeetingtroublelearningEnglish.B.Thequestionfromtheauthor'schild.C.Findingnoeggintheeggplant. D.Needingahamburgertofeedthechild.2.Whydoestheauthormentionthewordsphotoandhomesick?A.ToshowhowcrazytolearnEnglish. B.Totellusthedifferencesbetweentheirusages.C.Toanalyzetheformationofthewords. D.Tosharehowtolearnacrazylanguage.