Unit 2

English around the world

Let’s discover more about English!

Period One Warming up & Listening

Warming up

1. How many countries and regions are there in the world?

About two hundred.

2. How many languages are there in the world?

Perhaps more than five thousand.

Warming up

Warming up

3. How many languages are used as the working languages of the United Nations?There are five . They are Chinese , French, Russian, English and Spanish.

Look at the following pictures, and try to find what the man wants to do?

What is it that Joe can’t find in the bathroom?

Why can’t he find it?

toilet

A toilet

Why can’t he find it?

bathroom = toilet (A.E.)

(B.E.) the place where you take a bath.

Because the meaning of “bathroom” is different in Br.E and Am.E.BE: A room there is a bath.

AE: A room with a toilet.

landlady

Mr Browna woman who owns and rents houses.

Can you guess the relationship between them?

Pre-Listening

crazy, set foot into, midnightthe umbrella stand, shower, lock the door, turn down,walk the dog, tenant

Listen carefully to the tape. Mr. Brown’s landlady has many house rules. Write down five of them.

Listening

The landlady asked Mr Brown:1. to put his coat on a peg

2. to take off his shoes3. to put his umbrella in the umbrella stand4. to lock the door if he comes home after midnight.

Listening

5. to be quiet after 9 p.m.6. not to shower after 9 p.m.7. not to smoke in the bathroom8. to walk the dog.9. to turn down the radio.10. to speak quietly on the phone.

Listening

11. to return the key of the front door.

12. to help her find a new tenant for the flat.

Listening

Example: The landlady asked Mr Brown to put his coat in the closet.

The landlady asked Mr Brown:

1._________________________________.

2._________________________________.

3._________________________________

———————————————— .

4._________________________________.

5._________________________________.

to put his coat on a peg

to take off the shoes

to lock the door if he came back after midnight

to be quiet after 9 o’clock in the evening

not to shower after 9’clock in the evening

Post-Listening

Are rules necessary? Why?

If the head teacher ask you to do and not to do something at the beginning of the term, what’s your opinion?

Language points1. make sentences:这是他第一次来这里。

This is the first time he came /has been here.

Tom was invited to an important ball forthe first time in his life.

汤姆生平第一次应邀出席一个重要的舞会。

2. have a good flight 航行愉快 have a good time have a good journey

3. must 一定是，准是，想必是（推测，常用在肯定句中） must do: 对现在的推测。e.g. He must be a student, isn’t he?

Language points

4. be/get tired be tired of sth./doing sth. 讨厌某事 或做某事 ; 因……劳累 / 疲倦

e.g. He is tired of reading novels. I’m tired from/with doing housework.

Language points

5. at all ( 否 )“ 一点也不”( 疑 )“ 到底 , 究竟”(if 条件句中 )“ 既然 , 即使”

e.g. I’m not tired at all. Have you done your homework at all? If you do it at all, do your best.

Language points

6. Clear a. adj. easy to understand You must do washing now, is that clear?

b. 清除 , 晴朗 , 偿清… After the heavy rain the sky cleared.

Language points

He cleared all the rubbish from his room.How I wish I could clear this debt.

7. else: otherwhat/when/where…/nothing/something/anything … else( 用于疑问词或不定代词后 )e.g. What else do you want to eat? Where else could I buy this kind of pen?

or else( otherwise) 否则 , 要不然 , 不然的话e.g. Hurry up, or else you will be late for school.Do what I say, or else.

Language points

1. Oral: If you have a week holiday, Where are you going to travel? And how to travel ？

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