Unit 2 English Around the World

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Unit 2 English Around the World

• Something about the culture difference

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Funny Joke

• Miss hello.
• Foreigner hi!
• Miss You have what thing?
• F Can you speak English?
• M If I not speak English, Im speaking what?
• F Can anyone else speak English here?
• M You yourself look. All the people are playing,
  no people have time, you can wait,you wait, you
  not wait, you go!

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FGood heavens. Anybody here can speak
English? M Shout what shout, quiet a little, you
on earth have what thing? F I want to speak to
your head!!! M Head is not zai! You tomorrow
come!!
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• Can you give me some examples like this?

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Guess the meaning

• I would like to powder my nose.
• Last night I went to visit John twice.
• I want to go and see my aunt.

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Read the dialogue with your partner,then find the
answers

• Where did Joe come from?
• How did he reach London?
• Did he have a good sleep?
• Why did Nancy give Joe a new towel?
• Where is the bathroom?
• What did Joe actually want?

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Speaking

• Read the dialogue and learn the useful expressions

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Useful expressions

• Can you spell that, please?
• Could you repeat that, please?
• What do you mean by..?
• Could you speak a bit slowly, please?
• I beg your pardon?
• How do you say in English?
• How do you pronounce ?
• What does mean?

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Practice(three-student group)

• John telephoned Mary. But Mary wasnt at home.
  John left a message to Marys mother. The mother
  had to tell Mary all the following

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• Go outing tomorrow
• meet at 8 oclock at the school gate
• Dont be late
• Wear strong shoes
• Dont bring snacks

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Homework

• Workbook
• Page 91 TalkingExercise 1
• Page 92 Practising Exercise 2

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Unit 2 English Around the World

• Reading comprehension

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Pre-reading( class discussion)

• Task 1 How many languages do you speak? Can you
  speak one sentence?
• Task 2 What situations do you speak English?
• Task 3 Why is it important to learn English?

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Explain the words

• native speaker
• total
• majority
• the working language
• international trade

• international organization
• businessmen
• popular music
• the Internet

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While-reading

• Find the topic sentence of each paragraph
• P1 English is spoken as the mother tongue and as
  a second language.
• P2 Many people learn English as a foreign
  language.
• P3 Many people communicate in English every day.

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While-reading

• How many people speak English as their mother
  language?
• List all the countries where English is their
  mother tongue.
• List all the countries where English is spoken as
  the second language.
• How is English used in China?

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Post-reading

• Why is it becoming more and more important to
  have a good knowledge of English?(your own
  opinion)
• Living in China you can use English every day in
  different situations. Give two examples.
  (group-work)

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Homework

• Page 11 Exercise 2 ( on your exercise-book)
• Page 11 word study (on your book)

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Unit 2 English around the world

• Language points

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mean

• I mean this one, not that one.
• My mother means much to me.
• Health means everything.
• He didnt mean to go.
• Reading English articles aloud means enjoying
  English.

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mean adj. He is so mean that he always thinks
about himself. n. meaning, means
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1.Native adj native language, native
speaker, native customs, native
ability n 1) a native of London.
2)When we were on holiday in Greece, we
lived like the natives.
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total

• n. What does the total come to?
• adj. I want total silence.
• You are totally wrong.
• In total, I can speak four languages.

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• The number of the students in the class ____
  forty, but a number of them_____ absent for
  different reasons today.
• A.were, was B.was, was
• C.was,were D. were,were

C
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a number of, the number of, a deal of
He owns a company and has _______ money.
____________ of money has come to nine million.
________ of poor children have been helped by
him.
The number
a deal of
A number
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except

• except for
• The room was very cold and, except for the
  chair,totally empty.
• except that
• I like English very much except that I hate
  remembering so many words.

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Communicate

• The police communicate with each other by radio.
• She is good at communicating with her classmates.
• n. Communication
• be in communication with sb

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• With doing
• The singer sang a popular song, with most of the
  audience standing there.
• With two students following him, the teacher came
  into the hall.

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1. She felt very nervous with so many people
   _______(look) at her.
2. With his head ________(droop) heavily, he cried
   sadly.
3. With his hands _________(tie) tightly, the thief
   came into the police office.

looking
drooping
tied
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Stay????????????

• It was so warm we stayed (out) in the garden
  until ten that night.
• Put a lid on the pan so the food will stay hot.
• The shops stay open until 9 o' clock.
• They stayed friends after they left each other.

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difficulty

• ?have(no, little, some, great, much)
  difficulty/ trouble (in) doing sth.
• We had little difficulty in finding his house.
• The students had some difficulty in answering the
  questions.

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