新视界大学英语综合教程4Unit.ppt

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Warming up
Skimming
Digging
Critical thinking
Language in use
Unfamiliar words
Interpreting
Warming up
Watch the video clip about Michael Phelps learning Chinese, supposed you are his teacher, try to find out his problem and give some suggestion.
Warming up
Answer:
1 (a) 2 (c) 3 (e) 4 (b) 5 (f) 6 (d)
➊ Match the scripts with the languages.
Warming up
➋ Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
Which of the languages in Activity 1 do you think would be the easiest to learn? Why?
Which do you think would be the most difficult?
What is the easiest thing about learning English?
4 What is the most difficult thing about learning English?
Warming up
➊ Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
1 Why would speakers of English want to learn Chinese?
2 What difficulties do you think they might have?
3 What might they find easy?
4 How many characters do you think a foreigner needs to know to be able to read Chinese?
5 Do you think Chinese grammar is more or less difficult than English grammar?
Now read the passage and compare your answers
with the writer’s.
Skimming
Task
◇Browse the passage within 8 minutes to get a rough idea about it.
◇Answer the questions of Activity 2 and 3 on page 137.
Skimming
➋ Match the facts with the correct numbers.
Answer: (d) 2 (c) 3 (h) 4 (b) 5 (g) 6 (a) 7 (e) 8 (f)
(a) about seven
(b) no more than 20
(c) 40
(d) over 500
(e) about 480
(f) about 2,200
(g) about 5,000
(h) billion
Now work in pairs and discuss which fact you find most surprising, and why.
Skimming
➌ Answer the questions.
1 Why is the writer learning Chinese?
What is going to happen to English in the future?
What makes learning Chinese difficult for English speakers?
For her work in Beijing.
English will decline as a world language.
Having to learn thousands of characters, and the tone system.
Skimming
Why does the writer say that her teacher makes things difficult?
5 How does Chinese differ from English in its representation of meaning?
She does not adequately understand her students’ difficulties in learning Chinese.
In written form, a word / character primarily represents a meaning in Chinese, but in English a series of sounds.
Digging
Lessons to be learnt
译文
1 I’ve been spending several years learning Chinese for my work here in Beijing, so the latest news that there’s to be a new campaign to introduce the language into US schools, and a recent report estimating that over 500 schools in the UK are teaching it prompts me to tell you something which you may not want to hear: Learning Chinese is really,
really tough.
Background information