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课件网) for Senior 1 12-13学年第36-37期总第515期 Speaking in tongues (P1) Which languages can you speak 2. Do you think it is good to be able to speak more than one language Warming up 3. How do you learn foreign languages 4. Do you believe it’s possible for a person to speak more than 20 languages Scanning Complete the sentences below with words from the reading passage. 1. Timothy Doner is _____ years old. 2. Doner is a student at the Dalton School in _____. 3. Doner’s first foreign language was _____ . seventeen New York City Hebrew 4. When school was out, he would spend up to _____a day teaching himself languages. 5. Doner received _____ after he posted videos about his language-learning experiences on YouTube . 15 hours lots of messages 1. How many languages can Doner speak 2. Who taught him the languages 3.What tools did he use to learn foreign language basics Comprehension: Answer the questions below Twenty-three. He taught himself. Movies, TV dramas, instructional books and apps on his iPhone. Using information from the passage, write T for true and F for false. 1. Timothy Doner doesn’t like getting an after-school snack from a street vendor.( ) 2. He found it that memorizing song lyrics and repeating them helped him learn languages. ( ) 3. English is his native language. ( ) F T T 4. Doner never practices languages by speaking with cab drivers. ( ) 5. Doner and his father had a fight with the three diners who made insulting comments about them in Hebrew. ( ) 6. Doner thinks that interest is very important in learning foreign languages. ( ) F F T Practice to learn Doner’s first foreign language was Hebrew, which he decided to learn at the age of 13 because he loved Israeli hip-hop. Doner的第一门外语是希伯来语，因为他喜欢以色列的街舞，所以在13岁时，决定学习希伯来语。 其中which he decided to learn at the age of 13 because he loved Israeli hip-hop作定语，修饰前面的语言Hebrew。 Study the sentences and make new ones: Ted周末来时，仅仅穿着短裤和t恤，在这样的天气穿这样真是一件愚蠢的事。 这是你们刚才谈论的电影吗？ Ted came for the weekend wearing only some shorts and a T-shirt, which is a stupid thing to do in the cold weather. Is this the movie which you were talking about just now 2. After about six months of this, it became easier for him to have fluent conversations with people. 这样六个月后，和人们进行流利的对话变得更容易。其中it +系动词+形容词+for sb. to do sth.是固定句型“干……对某人来说怎么样”。 学好英语对他来说太简单了。 我发现和父母交流变得越来越困难了。 It is easy for him to learn languages. I find it’s becoming more difficult to communicate with my parents. 3. Doner also practices his language skills in the real world by speaking with cab drivers and talking with people at restaurants. Doner也通过和出租车司机交流、和在饭店的人们谈话，在现实生活中练习他的语言技能。 其中by doing sth. 是通过某种方式或手段。 又如:他妈妈通过卖报纸某生。 His mother makes a living by selling new ... ...
