最新英美报刊选读Unit 1 Focus Return Passage 1 Preserving Languages Is About More Than Words Canguage Features Background Information Warming-up Questions Organization Analysis Detailed Reading Post-Reading
Preserving Languages Is About More Than Words 最新英美报刊选读_Unit 1 Focus Background Information Language Features Detailed Reading Post-Reading Passage 1 Organization Analysis Warming-up Questions
最新英美报刊选读Unit I Focus Return Canguage Features 新闻关语中动词的生动性 在报刊新闻中,恰到好处地使用动词,能增强 报道的新鲜感、现实感和直接感。语言表述也更为 生动形象。 A墨U
最新英美报刊选读_Unit 1 Focus Language Features 新闻英语中动词的生动性 在报刊新闻中,恰到好处地使用动词,能增强 报道的新鲜感、现实感和直接感。语言表述也更为 生动形象
本文中使用生动的动词举例: emblazoned (on green T-shirts 十分醒目地绘制(在绿色T恤衫) echoing(through pubs)(在酒吧中)回响 launched (an online atlas of endangered languages) 首次推出(颜危语言在线地图册) labeling(more than 2,400 at risk of extinction) 标注(2,400多种濒临消失的语言) partnering (with National Geographic) (与国家地理杂志)联手 (when hunter-gatherers)transitioned (to agriculture) (当采猎)转向(农业时)用 (using digital equipment to)document (their elders'voices) (使用数码设备)记录(长辈的声音)
emblazoned (on green T-shirts ) 十分醒目地绘制(在绿色T 恤衫) echoing (through pubs) (在酒吧中)回响 launched (an online atlas of endangered languages) 首次推出(濒危语言在线地图册) labeling (more than 2,400 at risk of extinction) 标注(2,400多种濒临消失的语言) partnering (with National Geographic) (与国家地理杂志)联手 (when hunter-gatherers) transitioned (to agriculture) (当采猎)转向(农业时)用 (using digital equipment to)document ( their elders' voices) (使用数码设备)记录 (长辈的声音) 本文中使用生动的动词举例:
较为常见的且使用较好的动词: ·dive from the car ·纵身跳下.(强调动作之利落) rocket down a side street 。飞驰..(形容速度之快,犹如火箭一般) A 4-foot Santa Claus doll towers over the cash register.... 远远高过.(强调高大程度) Vans of well-meaning doctors regularly barrel down from San Antonio and Houston 。…飞奔…(形容行驶速度极高且无法控制) The central bus station lay in ruins,still choked with the wrecks of several buses. ·…塞满…(强调废墟中残骸之众多和凌乱)
• dive from the car • 纵身跳下…(强调动作之利落) • rocket down a side street • 飞驰… (形容速度之快,犹如火箭一般) • A 4-foot Santa Claus doll towers over the cash register. … 远远高过…(强调高大程度) • Vans of well-meaning doctors regularly barrel down from San Antonio and Houston • …飞奔… (形容行驶速度极高且无法控制) • The central bus station lay in ruins, still choked with the wrecks of several buses. • …塞满…(强调废墟中残骸之众多和凌乱) 较为常见的且使用较好的动词:
最新英美报刊选读Unit I Focus Return Background Information How many languages are endangered? Most linguists agree that there are well over 5,000 languages in the world.A century from now,many of these languages may be extinct.Some linguists believe the number may decrease by half. Some say the total could fall to mere hundreds as the majority of the world's languages-most spoken by a few thousand people or less-give way to languages like English, Spanish,Portuguese,Mandarin Chinese,Russian,Indonesian, Arabic,Swahili,and Hindi.By some estimates,90%of the world's languages may vanish within the next century
最新英美报刊选读_Unit 1 Focus How many languages are endangered? Most linguists agree that there are well over 5,000 languages in the world. A century from now, many of these languages may be extinct. Some linguists believe the number may decrease by half. Some say the total could fall to mere hundreds as the majority of the world's languages— most spoken by a few thousand people or less—give way to languages like English, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Indonesian, Arabic, Swahili, and Hindi. By some estimates, 90% of the world's languages may vanish within the next century. Background Information
最新英美报刊选读Unit I Focus Return Background Information How do languages become extinct? 1.Outright genocide--When European invaders exterminated the Tasmanians in the early 19th century,an unknown number of languages died. 2.Languages become extinct when a community finds itself under pressure to integrate with a larger or more powerful group. 3.The people learn the outsiders'language in addition to their own--in Greenland,a territory of Denmark,Kalaallisut is learned alongside Danish 4.The community is pressured to give up its language and even its ethnic and cultural identity--ethnic Kurds in Turkey,are forbidden by law to print or formally teach their language.Younger speakers of Native American languages,as recently as the 1960s,were punished for speaking their native languages at boarding schools
最新英美报刊选读_Unit 1 Focus How do languages become extinct? 1. Outright genocide -- When European invaders exterminated the Tasmanians in the early 19th century, an unknown number of languages died. 2. Languages become extinct when a community finds itself under pressure to integrate with a larger or more powerful group. 3. The people learn the outsiders’ language in addition to their own -- in Greenland, a territory of Denmark, Kalaallisut is learned alongside Danish. 4. The community is pressured to give up its language and even its ethnic and cultural identity -- ethnic Kurds in Turkey, are forbidden by law to print or formally teach their language. Younger speakers of Native American languages, as recently as the 1960s, were punished for speaking their native languages at boarding schools. Background Information
最新英美报刊选读Unit 1 Focus Return Background Information What Can be done to Preserve Endangered Language Modern Hebrew was revived as a mother tongue after centuries of being learned and studied only in its ancient written form. Irish has had considerable institutional and political support as the national language of Ireland,despite major inroads by English. In New Zealand,Maori communities established nursery schools staffed by elders and conducted entirely in Maori,called kohangareo,language nests'. In Alaska,Hawaii,and elsewhere,this model is being extended to primary and in some cases secondary school. In California,younger adults have become language apprentices to older adult speakers in communities where only a few older speakers are still living
最新英美报刊选读_Unit 1 Focus Background Information What Can be done to Preserve Endangered Language Modern Hebrew was revived as a mother tongue after centuries of being learned and studied only in its ancient written form. Irish has had considerable institutional and political support as the national language of Ireland, despite major inroads by English. In New Zealand, Maori communities established nursery schools staffed by elders and conducted entirely in Maori, called kohangareo, 'language nests'. In Alaska, Hawaii, and elsewhere, this model is being extended to primary and in some cases secondary school. In California, younger adults have become language apprentices to older adult speakers in communities where only a few older speakers are still living
最新英美报刊选读Unit I Focus Return Warming-up Questions Look at the following pictures and the captions. Find out the facts and the reasons concerning the language extinction. Why Do Languages Die Out?
最新英美报刊选读_Unit 1 Focus Look at the following pictures and the captions. Find out the facts and the reasons concerning the language extinction. Why Do Languages Die Out? Warming-up Questions