《Exploring English》PPT下载

外研版高中英语必修一《Exploring English》PPT下载，共19页。

Warming-up

How many languages can you speak?

Which language do you think has the most speakers?

Activity 1 Read the following Charts and answer the questions.

According to Chart 1, which language has the largest number of native speakers?

Chinese has the largest number of native speakers in the world.

According to Chart 2, which language has the largest number of learners?

English has the largest number of learners.

What can you learn from Chart 3? Why do you think many people in China learn English?

More and more Chinese people are learning English.

Discussion

Why do you think many people in China learn English?

Learn the foreign culture

Communicate easily

Beneficial to work

Expand our horizons

Expand commercial market

Pre-reading: Prediction

Look at the title of the passage and the pictures. Guess what the passage is about.

While-reading: skimming

1. The passage is about:

2. The author ’s writing purpose is:

a. To tell that English is very difficult to learn.

b. To give advice on how to learn English.

c. To show that English is interesting and creative.

d. To explain how English was created.

After-reading: think & share

1. Do you agree with the author ’s opinion about English language? Give your reasons.

2. What do you find most challenging about learning English? How do you deal with it when facing all the craziness, complexity and creativity?

It is the craziness, complexity and creativity that makes a language unique, interesting and enjoyable to learn.

Take a positive attitude, be curious, patient and open-minded and keep on exploring the reasons behind a language.

Homework

Try to collect more words or expressions which are crazy, complex and creative.

Try to find more similar Chinese examples.