B1U5LanguagesaroundtheWorldListeningandSpeakingTheBabelTowerLead-inHerearepicturesoftheUNmembercountries,doyouknowwhich

countriestheyare?HelloBonjourBonjourHallo①②③Здравствыйте！④⑥Hola！⑤CanadaGermanyFranceRussiaIndiaSpainintheUNConferenceHall

Where?Itsofficiallanguages?ChineseEnglishSpanishFrenchRussianArabic〇Russian 〇Chinese〇Korean 〇Japanese〇Spanish 〇Arabic〇English 〇French1.Tickthetwolanguageswiththemostnativespeakers.CircletheofficiallanguagesoftheUnitedNations(UN).keywordsListeningskillⅠ1.Whatisthemaintopicofthisspeech？A.Learningaforeignlanguage.B.Introducelanguagesovertheworld.2.

Howmanylanguagesarethereintheworld？

________________3.Howmany

billionpeoplespeaktheUN'sofficialastheirnativeorsecondlanguage？

________________4.Whatistheattitudeofthespeakertowardsforeignlanguagelearning?A.PositiveB.Doubtable2.Listenandanswerthequestions.1.Whatisthemaintopicofthisspeech？A.Learningaforeignlanguage.B.Introducelanguagesovertheworld.4.Whatistheattitudeofthespeakertowardsforeignlanguagelearning?A.PositiveB.Doubtable

ListeningskillDonottrytorememberandtranslateeachwordyouhear,justfocusonthetextasawholetogetthemainidea.Inferordrawaconclusionthatisnotdirectlystatedinthetextbutissuggestedbythetext.ListeningskillLearningEnglishisveryuseful,butitiswisetolearnatleastoneotherforeign

language,ifpossible.2.Listenandanswerthequestions.2.

Howmanylanguagesarethereintheworld？

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________________3.Howmany

billionpeoplespeaktheUN'sofficialastheirnativeorsecondlanguage？

Therearenearly7,000languagesintheworld.Theyarespokenbyaround2.8billionpeopleastheirnativeorsecondlanguage.2.Listenandanswerthequestions.

They

thinkitmeansbetterjobchancesinthefuture.

They

arespokenbyaround2.8billionpeople...ReferencePronouns(it,

they,she,etc.)refertosomethingorsomebodymentionedearlier.Payattentiontothecontextofwordstohelpyouunderstandwhatthepronounsreferto.3.Whatdotheitalicisedwordsreferto?4.1They

thinkitmeansbetterjobchancesinthefuture.Listentothespeechagain.Whatdotheitalicisedwordsrefertointhesentences?'They'meansstudents;and'it'meansstudyingaUNlanguage.4.2Theyarespokenbyaround2.8billionpeople...'They'meanssixUNofficiallanguages.3.Whatdotheitalicisedwordsreferto?languagereasonschoosetolearnWorkinpairsorgroups.Discusswhichotherlanguage(s)youwanttolearnandwhy.Whatmisunderstandinghashappened?ZhouWeireferstopants,AmericanEnglishfortrousers.MartinexplainsthatpantsreferstounderwearinBritishEnglish.4:Readandrole-playtheconversation

Howdidtheyclearupthemisunderstanding?UsefulExpressions:AskingforclarificationDoyoumean...?Doesthatmean...?I’msorry.Whatdoes...mean?I’msorry.Wouldyoumindrepeating...?Ibegyourpardon.SoamIrightinsaying...?Sowhat

you'rereallysayingis...

5:

ChooseoneortwopairsofwordsinTask3andmakeaconversation

語用情境：當聽著沒聽清或者不明白時對方的內容時，可請求對方重復或解釋ExpressionsI’msorrybutI’mnotsure(that)Iunderstand.Sorry,I’mnotsure(that)Iknowwhatyoumean.SorrybutIdon’tquitefollowyou.ExpresslackofunderstandingInthislesson,welistenedtoandtalkedaboutdifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishandlearnedhowtoaskforclarificationwhenwedonotunderstandotherpeople.

AlthoughtherearesomecleardifferencesinpronunciationbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishaccents,theydono