Social Expressions with something to imply (I) 1. Gender a. Way of talking: tone, register, tenderness, color preference and language, topics of conversation, cursing words

The Definitions of Pragmatics speaker listener context social interaction functions of language

Culture is thought to be the thing only humans have. Studies of animals however, show that chimpanzees can make and use tools like man. Monkeys can learn to do something from each other. Apes can even be taught some forms of language. We find that certain animals do culture similar to that of human beings and the line dividing us from them is not as clear as we used to think

Unit siⅸ Text A I. Pre-Reading Task 1. What makes human beings different from animals? A. The ability to use tools. B. The learning and sharing of behavior . The use of language. 2. Do you think animals have a culture? If yes, give an example

Unit 5 Language structures Dialogue 1 Dialogue 2 Reading1&2

General Organization Comprehension Language points Interaction activity

Teaching outline Duty report dictation Practice of the key sentence patterns Retell dialogue工 Role-play: Traffic problems in a big city Background information about language famil Questions for group discussion Passage analysis Weekly quiz

Teaching Outline Background information Pre-reading questions Passage analysis Style and structure Spellings Word derivations Language points Useful expressions Weekly quiz

Grammar is the structural system of a language. The grammar of English is organized into five ranks: the sentence, the clause, the phrase, the word and the morpheme. Each rank is composed of one or more than one grammatical unit of the immediate lower unit. A full sentence can generally be segmented rank by rank down to its smallest constituents---the morphemes

I. Explain the italicized words or phrases in the following sentences. (20%) 1. All languages are dynamic rather than static, and hence a\rule\in any language can only bea statement of contemporary practice