Unit5 Languages around the world

I want to learn …, because... The reason why.......is that... I’d like to travel to… /I like to know about... I am crazy about culture in... I enjoy..... do business with... work in transnational company (跨国公司) It is an international language.
Spanish
France ___3___ Russia ___4___ Germany ___2___ Spain ___6___ Canada___1___ India ___5___
Listen to a speech and tick the two languages with the most native speakers. Circle the official languages of the United Nations (UN).
Singapore English/ Chinese /Malay
Sydney Opera House)
Austrah other language(s) you want
to learn and why.
My father is doing business with Russians. I’d like to learn Russian so I can help him in the future.
电影院 theatre
公里 kilometre
AmE neighborhood labor color honorable humor favorite
theater kilometer
Chinese 电梯 汽油 秋天 地铁 大学 垃圾
垃圾箱 假期 两周
BrE lift petrol autumn underground university rubbish dustbin holiday fortnight
语言教育不再作为单纯的语言教学而存在，而是为 了保证公民能在多元文化背景下生存和发展，为了 保证公民能更快更好地利用信息化和全球化发展的 契机，实现创新，谋求更大的发展空间。 《普通高中英语课程标准（2017版）解读》
English, French
German
French
Russian
Hindi, English
AmE
apartment bar can
candy rubber game soccer movie
cab
2. How many languages are there in the world? Nearly 7000.
3. How many billion people speak the UN’s official languages as their native or second language? Around 2.8 billion.
1. Work in pairs. Read the words to each other and see if you pronounce them differently.
schedule hostile either
address
direct laboratory advertisement shone
Listen and pay attention to how the speakers pronounce them.
Listen to the paragraph read by two different speakers. Which speaker has a British accent and which has an American accent?
○ Russian
√○Chinese ○Korean ○ Japanese
○ √Spanish
○Arabic ○ English ○French
Listen to the speech again and answer the questions.
1. What is the main topic of this speech? Learning a foreign language.
American accent (man)
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→
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→
muffins 英[ˈmʌfɪnz] 杯状小松糕
sweetmeats [ˈswiːtmiːts] n.糖果; 甜食; 蜜饯; 果脯; sweetbreads [ˈswiːtbrɛdz]n.(食用的小牛或羊的)胰脏;
quicksand 英[ˈkwɪksænd]
dance not
AmE
fall tornado I guess color center traveler
dance not
Chinese
BrE
邻居关系 neighbourhood
劳动力 labour
颜色 colour
荣誉 honourable
幽默 humour
特别喜爱的 favourite 人（或物）
不了解外语的人也无法真正了解自己的语言。 —约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
掌握另一门语言，拥有第二个灵魂！ —查理曼大帝
英 [ˈkɒrɪˌdɔː]
One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.
Perhaps I should study French. I think it sounds beautiful, and I know it’s used in many countries.
I like watching Japanese cartoons, so I’d like to learn Japanese.
semester/term
n. 汽油；气味；燃气
gas/petrol
n. 汽油
restroom/toilet
subway/underground
n. 地铁
The differences between BrE & AmE.
vocabulary spelling pronunciation
BrE
autumn typhoon I think colour centre traveller
——Frank Smith
一种语言可以为人生开启一条走廊，两种语 言则会使这条人生走廊的沿途上处处开启大 门。
Language education is no longer a simple language teaching, but to ensure that citizens can survive in the multicultural background and ensure that citizens can make faster and better use of the opportunities of information and globalization and seek greater space for development.
n.流沙; 难以摆脱的困境; 危险局面;
boxing rings
英[ˈbɒksɪŋ rɪŋz]n.
拳击台
Guinea几内亚
Listen to the second part of the talk. What are the two pairs of words that the student is confused by? Tick them in the boxes.
English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invested in England or French fires in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. … We find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but…hammers don’t ham? (Richard Lederer) British accent (woman)
The United Kingdom English
America English
France
French
(the Canada’s Natinal Tower) Canada English\French
Japan Japanese
Red Square
India Hindi/ English Russia Russian
4. What is the attitude of the speaker towards foreign language learning? useful
Which other language do you want to learn and why?
COVID-19
List the name of the country and the official language.
Why do we need to learn English??
The limits of my language are the limits of my world.
语言的限制就是对我的世界的限制。
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
AmE elevator gas, gasoline fall subway college garbage trash can vacation two weeks
Chinese 公寓 酒吧 罐头 糖果 橡皮 比赛 足球 电影
出租车
BrE
flat pub tin sweets eraser match football film taxi