英语泛读教程2unit 9

• Words Shakespeare Invented • http://www.shakespeareonline.com/biography/wordsinvented.ht ml
Homework
(1)Search for more information about the history of English (2)Preview Reading Skills on P185 (3)Finish Unit 10
Invented Words
English
4/5: Anglo-saxon; Germanic; French 1/5: Names(Proper Nouns) Imitative words: buzz; bang; hum Invented words: Compound words: prefix, suffix, root Nonsense words: lad, lass, chat, job Blend: smog, motel Borrowed words
How do you understand the title, Invented Words? What information can you get from the title? (the topic, the different ways English words are invented)
Some important person
• Lewis Carroll ：Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll ), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand.
Fast Reading
Passage 3:
(1) d. (2) b. (3) b. (4) a. (5) a.
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Pre-reading Discussion
Main Idea & Text Structure
Invented Words
Pre-reading Discussion New words appear in English every day. Do you know how these words are born?
• Humpty Dumpty ；Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English language nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world.1 He is typically portrayed as an egg and has appeared or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture. • Humpty Dumpty and Alice. From Through the Looking-Glass. Illustration by John Tenniel. • Humpty appears in Lewis Carroll‘s Through the Looking-Glass (1872), where he discusses semantics （语义）and pragmatics（语用） with Alice.
• Humpty Dumpty
Winston Churchill
• Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders and served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
Unit 9
Fast Reading Text 1 Invented Words Homework
Fast Reading
Passage 1:
(1) d. (2) a. (3) d. (4) c. (5) b.
Fast Reading
Passage 2:
(1) b. (2) a. (3) c. (4) b. (5) d.