NEW COLLEGE ENGLISH 全新大学 电子教案 综合教程 Home Unit 7 Before Reading Learning about English 1.Listen and Answer 2.History of English 3.Winston Churchill 4.Julius Caesar 5.Viking 6.Norman 7.William Caxton 8.Otto Jespersen 9.Renaissance Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading ☒去海外语教育出版共
Before Reading 1. Listen and Answer 2. History of English 3. Winston Churchill 4. Julius Caesar 5. Viking 6. Norman 7. William Caxton 8. Otto Jespersen 9. Renaissance
全新版△ 电子教案 棕合救程 Home Unit 7 Listen and Answer Learning about English Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions. 1.What is the passage about? English is a great language,but it is also a crazy language 2.Can you give one or two examples to illustrate the messiness of the English language? Yes.For example,the meaning of"your house burns up' is the same as that of "your house burns down",or "you fill in a form"is the same as "you fill out a form" Ⅱ·产 KBACK NEXT Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading 留其海外语教育出版社
Listen and Answer Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions. 1.What is the passage about? 2.Can you give one or two examples to illustrate the messiness of the English language? English is a great language, but it is also a crazy language. Yes. For example, the meaning of “your house burns up” is the same as that of “your house burns down”, or “you fill in a form” is the same as “you fill out a form” . II ■
NEW COLLEGE ENGLISH 全新大学英 电子教案 综合敕程 Home Listen and Answer Unit 7 English is the most widely used language in the history of Learning about English our planet.One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the world's books and three quarters of international mail are in English.Of all languages,English has the largest vocabulary -perhaps as many as two million words--and one of the noblest bodies of literature. Nonetheless,let's face it.English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant,neither pine or apple in pineapple and no ham in a hamburger.English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.Sweetmeats are candy, while sweetbreads,which aren't sweet,are meat. Sometimes I wonder if all English speakers should be sent to a madhouse.In what other language do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?Have noses that run and feet smell? BACK NEXT Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading 图左海外语教育出版社
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NEW COLLEGE ENGLISH 全新大学英语 电子教案 综合教程 Home Listen and Answer Unit 7 How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,while Learing about English a wise guy and a wise man are opposites?How can overlook and oversee be opposites,while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?You have to marvel at the glorious messiness of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down,in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which your alarm clock goes off by going on. English was invented by people,not computers,and it reflects the creativity of the human race,which,of course,isn't a race at all.That is why when stars are out they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible.And why,when I wind up my watch I start it,but when I wind up this speech I end it. PREV.BACK Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading ☒去海外语教育出版共
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全新版 电子教案 棕合救程 Home Unit 7 Listen and Answer Learning about English Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions. 3.Are you sure of all the idiomatic usages mentioned in the recorded passage? Some of the more confusing usages are explained here: 1)ship by truck send cargo by ship: The word"ship"can be used either as a verb or as a noun. The first"ship"means "send",the second one "a large boat" 2)noses that run feet that smells: The first expression refers to"have a running nose”(流鼻涕)， and the second refers to"have smelly feet'”(脚臭). PREV.NEXT Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading ☒上海外语教育出版社
Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions. 3. Are you sure of all the idiomatic usages mentioned in the recorded passage? Some of the more confusing usages are explained here: 1) ship by truck / send cargo by ship: 2) noses that run / feet that smells: The word “ship” can be used either as a verb or as a noun. The first expression refers to “have a running nose” (流鼻涕), and the second refers to “have smelly feet” (脚臭). The first “ship” means “send”, the second one “a large boat”. Listen and Answer
NEW COLLEGE ENGLISH 全新大学英 电子教案 综合敕程 Home Unit 7 Listen and Answer Learning about English Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions. 3.Are you sure of all the idiomatic usages mentioned in the recorded passage? Some of the more confusing usages are explained here: 3)a slim/fat chance:a remote possibility 4)a wise guy:(derogatory)a person who pretends to be much wiser than he/she really is a wise man:(commendatory)a really wise person 5)overlook:fail to see or notice,pay no attention to oversee:watch;observe;supervise KPREV.NEXT Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading 图左海外语教育出版共
Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions. 3. Are you sure of all the idiomatic usages mentioned in the recorded passage? Some of the more confusing usages are explained here: 3) a slim/fat chance: 4) a wise guy: a wise man: 5) overlook: oversee: a remote possibility (derogatory) a person who pretends to be much wiser than he/she really is (commendatory) a really wise person fail to see or notice, pay no attention to watch; observe; supervise Listen and Answer
NEW COLLEGE ENGLISH 全新大学英语 电子教案 综合教程 Home Unit 7 Listen and Answer Learing about English Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions. 3.Are you sure of all the idiomatic usages mentioned in the recorded passage? Some of the more confusing usages are explained here: 6)hot /cold as hell: extremely hot/cold 7)burn up: catch fire and flare up burn down: be destroyed by fire 8)fill in a form/fill out a form:write all the necessary information on a form KPREV.NEXT Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading ☒士海外语教育出版共
Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions. 3. Are you sure of all the idiomatic usages mentioned in the recorded passage? Some of the more confusing usages are explained here: 6) hot /cold as hell: 7) burn up: burn down: 8) fill in a form/fill out a form: extremely hot/cold catch fire and flare up be destroyed by fire write all the necessary information on a form Listen and Answer
电子教案 全新版 棕合救程 Home Unit 7 Listen and Answer Learning about English Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions. 3.Are you sure of all the idiomatic usages mentioned in the recorded passage? Some of the more confusing usages are explained here: 9)go off:start an action,usually accompanied by a great noise go on:continue doing something 10)when stars are out:when stars appear in the sky when lights are out: when lights are turned off 11)wind up a watch: tighten the spring of a watch wind up a speech: end a speech PREV.BACK Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading 贸去海外语教育出版社
Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions. 3. Are you sure of all the idiomatic usages mentioned in the recorded passage? Some of the more confusing usages are explained here: 9) go off: 10) when stars are out: when lights are out: 11) wind up a watch: start an action, usually accompanied by a great noise when stars appear in the sky when lights are turned off tighten the spring of a watch go on: wind up a speech: continue doing something end a speech Listen and Answer
NEW COLLEGE ENGLISH 全新版大学语 电子教案 综合敦程 Home Unit 7 History of English Leaing bEnish X XⅫ of English 20th Cent X English Histoi The Dev elopment a VI BACK Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading ☑海外语教育出版杜
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NEW COLLEGE ENGLISH 全新大学 电子教案 综合教程 Home Unit 7 The Root of English Learning about English English began as a west Germanic language which was brought to England by the Saxons around 400 A.D.Old English was the spoken and written language of England between 400 and 1100 A.D.Many words used today come from Old English,including man,woman,king,mother,etc But Old English was very different from modem English and only a few words can be easily recognized.In the 9th and 10th centuries,when Vikings invaded England,Old Norse words,e.g.sky,take and get and many place names, entered the language. >I■ BACK NEXT Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading ☒去海外语教育出版共
The Root of English English began as a west Germanic language which was brought to England by the Saxons around 400 A.D. Old English was the spoken and written language of England between 400 and 1100 A.D. Many words used today come from Old English, including man, woman, king, mother, etc. But Old English was very different from modern English and only a few words can be easily recognized. In the 9th and 10th centuries, when Vikings invaded England, Old Norse words, e.g. sky, take and get and many place names, entered the language. II ■