NeitherPinenorAppleinPineappleUnderstandingideasLookandThink_______hasthelargestnumberofnativespeakers.ChineseActivity1:_______hasthelargestnumberoflearnersaroundtheworld.EnglishLookandThinkThenumberofEnglishlearnersinChinais___________.increasingLookandThinkThinkaboutit:WhydoyouthinkmanypeopleinChinalearnEnglish?1.Englishhasthelargestnumberoflearners

aroundtheworld.2.LearningEnglishisabasicskillformodernpeople.3.LearningEnglishcanhelpushaveabetterunderstandingofothercultures.Activity2WhichcountriesmentionedinthevideohaveEnglishastheirfirstlanguage?2.WheredoathirdofEnglishwordscomefrom?Whatexamplesaregiveninthevideo?TheUK,Ireland,theUSA,Canada,NewZealandandAustralia.Morethan

athirdofEnglishwordscomefromFrench.Forexample,

“fruit”,“table”,“crocodile”and

“invasion”.Watchthevideoandanswerthequestions.activity3老婆餅松鼠桂魚獅子頭夫妻肺片NeitherPinenorAppleinPineappleUnderstandingideasBeforereading:Lookatthetitleofthepassageandthepictures.Tickwhatyouthinkthepassageisabout?hamhamburger+=pineapplepineappleNeitherPinenorAppleinPineappleeggplantseggs√Choosetheauthor’spurposeinwritingfromthepassage.A.TotellusthatEnglishisverydifficulttolearn.B.Togiveadviceon

howtolearnEnglish.C.ToshowthatEnglishisinterestingandcreative.D.ToexplainhowEnglishwascreated.Activity1:Fastreading:Activity3:

ReadforStructureReadparagraph1andunderlinethetopicsentence.

Whydoyouthinkso?Isthisanopinionorafact?Anopinion.Activity3:

ReadforStructureReadthelastparagraphandunderlinethetopicsentence.

reasonIntroduction：Englishisacrazylanguagetolearn.Inordertosupporthisopinion,theauthorusesmanyexamplesthatshowtheuniquemadnessofEnglish.ThereasonisthatEnglishwasinventedbypeople,anditreflects

thecreativityofthehumanrace.

Readthepassagequicklyandsilently

andthenmatchthemainideawitheachpart.

Part1.(Para1)Part2.(Para2-6)

Part3.(Para7)Readingtips:Payattentiontothefirstsentenceofeachparagraph.A.Examplesofsomeconfusingexpressions.B.ThereasonwhyEnglishissocrazy.C.Englishisacrazylanguagetolearn.(1)Thefirstparagraphisintendedto______.

A.introduceEnglishisinterestingandcreativeB.tellusEnglishisdifficulttolearnC.directourattentiontothewordformationD.leadtothetopicofdiscussionActivity2:

Carefulreading

Readthepassagecarefullyandchoosethebestanswer.(2)How

does

the

author

support

his/her

idea

in

thepassage?

A.

By

listing

numbers.B.By

makingcomparison.C.

By

giving

some

examples.D.Byusingsomeresearchresults.3)WhichofthefollowingstatementsisNOTtrueaccordingtothepassage?

A.Whenwearetravelingwesaythatweareinthecarorthetaxi,butonthetrainorbus!B.Whenwelookoutofthewindowandseerainorsnow,wecansay“it’sraining”or“it’ssnowing”.C.Whenweseesunshine,wecansay“it’ssunshining”.D.Whenyouseethecapitalized“WHO”inamedicalreport,youcan’treaditasthe“who”in“Who’sthat?”4)WhatdoesEnglishreflectaboutthehumanrace？A.Craziness

B.InstinctC.WisdomD.CreativityIntensivereading:FindthedetailedinformationCompletethenoteswithwordsfromthepassage.Inordertosupporthisidea,theauthorusesmanyexamplesthatshowthe1._______madnessofEnglish.noeggineggplantnohamin2.____________neitherpinenorapplein3._____________

unique

hamburger

pineapplesculpt

asculpture

painta(n)4.________

BUTtakeaphoto

paintingCompletethenoteswithwordsfromthepassage.seasick---sickatsea5.________---sickintheair6.________---sickinacarBUT7.__________--/-sickathome

airsick

carsick

homesick“Hard”istheoppositeof“soft”“Hardly”and“softlyarenota(n)8.____________pairopposing

burnup---burndownfillinaform---10.___________aformStarsareout.---Theyarevisible.Lightsareout.---Theyare11.______________.

fillout

invisible

Iwindupmywatch.---Itstarts.Iwindupthepassage---It12.______

endsThereasonisthatEnglishwasinventedbypeople,andit13.___________（reflect)thecreativityofthehumanrace.

reflectsHave

you

ever

asked

1.__________

(you)

whypeople

often

havetrouble2._________(learn)

English?

I

hadn’t,

until

one

day

my

five-year-oldsonasked

me

3.__________there

was

ham

in

a

hamburgeror

not.

This

got

methinking

how

Englishcan

be

acrazylanguage4._________(learn).Even

thesmallest

wordscan

be5._______(confuse).You

also

have

to

wonderat

the

uniquemadness

of

alanguagein

6._______a

house

canburn

up

asit

burns

down,and

in

which

an

alarm7._________(hear)

once

it

goes

off!

English

8._______________(invent)

by

people,

notcomputers,and

it

reflects

the

creativity

of

the

human

race.That

is

why

when

the

stars

are

out,

theyarevisible,

but

when

the

9.______(light)areout,theyareinvisible.

And

that

is

why

when

I

windup

my

watch,

it

starts,

10.___