Unit 2 Reading 1

Bike repairman Housewife pass away Bike doctor household executive（执行官） executive（执行官）
再看两个委婉语的例子: 再看两个委婉语的例子: Nowadays many weight-watchers would like to go to the weightgym. 如今有不少胖人喜欢到健身房去锻炼. 如今有不少胖人喜欢到健身房去锻炼. They are the culturally deprived. 他们是没有学识的人. 他们是没有学识的人.
Before the land of May Flower in America, Indians live there. The origin of Thanksgiving Day under the help of the Indians, the first Landers survived. The West Movement in American history it is the conflicting process between the white and the Indians. Indians lost most of their forests, rivers, mines, and land. Now still living in certain conservation place（保 place（保 BACK 留地／被人类学家称为人类动物园）
Fast reading
Assignment: pay attention to examples illustrated during each paragraph
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Para. 1 Byte, mouse, modem Para.2 Elderly senior citizen The handicapped Physically challenged Trashman sanitation worker Doorman attendant Janitor custodian Para4— Para4—７ Unmarried spinster Mailman mail carrier Watchman guard Lineman line repairer The man of the Year the newsmaker of the Year Stewardess flight attendant Laundress laundry worker
Background Knowledge
ⅠBlack movement: a big social problem; not a past but also still now The following poem was nominated by UN as the best poem of 2006, written by an African kid.
Civil War President Lincoln’s assassination Famous speech I Have a Dream , the addresser of Martin Luther King: I hope that one day the black and the white sit in the same classroom Gone with the Wind Uncle Tom’s Cabin BACK
Ⅱ. Changes in (2—3） attitude also (2—
affect the English language.
Ⅲ. The changing Para.4:It became necessary to change some job titles (4—7) role of women in referring to men in the past as women entered more and (4—
When I born, I black When I grow up, I black When I go in Sun, I black When I scared, I black When I sick, I black And when I die, I still black
And you white fellow When you born, you pink When you grow up, you white When you go in sun, you red When you cold, you blue When you scared, you yellow When you sick, you green And when you die, you gray And you calling me coloured?
Unit 2 Reading 1
Our Changing Language Made by Wu Yiwei
Language is an abstract concept , which is the system of human expression by means of words or a particular system of words, as used by a people or nation. Sometime, we say that language is the crust of thought. Language is created by human during the laboring process. Language functions as the message carrier of culture, literature, history, geography, science and the etc.. ——so, as the society goes ahead, ——so, language changes with it.
Assignment:
Intensive Reading
From the given language example, get the main purpose of illustrating these language phenomena Pay attention to the first sentence of each paras. finish the structure form on page 26
Inspire and enlighten yourself to recall some history events or literature works that reflect the black problem / race discrimination? LOOK
Ⅱ Indian
This is also a big social problem LOOK
After Reading
Point out language points for clear mastery and consolidation: Be sensitive to sth Be attached to sth Deserve respect Be proud of Proper word Changing role Be thought of as Make great achievement Refer to Add…to… In the past decade Influence on sth Realize that 从句
modern society has had great influence on the English language in the past decade.
more areas to take the jobs that men did. Para.5: Some job titles referring to women in the past have changed to include both men and women. Para.6:It takes people some time to accept some new words in the English language as a familiar part of everyday life. Para.7: Women have fought long and hard to be treated equally in language as well as in society.
translation
Translate the first sentence of each paras. The last sentence of Para 6: People often fight against until it becomes a familiar part of everyday life. 1. 人们往往要为这些变革进行斗争，直到它成为 我们日常生活中熟悉的一部分。 ２.人们往往要为这些变革进行斗争，直到它融入 我们的日常生活。 Analyze: 1为直译；２为意译 1为直译；２为意译 Assignment: finish Part C TRanslation
Text organization
Part
Ⅰ. (1)
Main Ideas
New inventions and changes in society cause changes in English language. Para. 2: Many of the words with negative feelings we once used have changed. Para.3: Many of the words we use to identify people have changed.