3.Why is the writer enchanted with both types of languages? 4.What influence does the writer's experience exert on her perception of language? 5.What is language?How does language acquire its meaning? 6.Introduce Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to the students and guide them to comment on the relationship between language and thought. Sapir argues that: Human beings do not live in the objective world alone,nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood,but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.The fact of the matter is that the real world is to a large extent unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group.No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds:not merely the same world with different labels attached...We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. 7.Peer work:to conduct a comparative linguistic study between Chinese and English to explore their difference and similarity in expressing the same object in the real world. 8.To conduct a corpus-driven study on synonyms.3. Why is the writer enchanted with both types of languages? 4. What influence does the writer’s experience exert on her perception of language? 5. What is language? How does language acquire its meaning? 6. Introduce Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to the students and guide them to comment on the relationship between language and thought. Sapir argues that: Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the real world is to a large extent unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group. No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds; not merely the same world with different labels attached…We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. 7. Peer work: to conduct a comparative linguistic study between Chinese and English to explore their difference and similarity in expressing the same object in the real world. 8. To conduct a corpus-driven study on synonyms