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课件网) Unit 2 Exploring English Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple To get more motivation in learning English and make progress To reflect the problems in English learning and propose new ways to learn English with critical thinking ability To understand a passage by predicting and finding topic sentence in each paragraph To read carefully so as to get important information and deal with the information properly Learning Aims Chart 1 Top 5 languages by number of native speakers ■Chinese 1,390 million Hindi-Urdu 590 million ■ English 530 millon 350 ■Arabic 470 milion □ Spanish 390 million According to Chart 1,which language has the largest number of native speakers According to the bar chart, we can see that Chinese has the largest number of native speakers. Look at the chart and answer the question Chart 2 Top 5languages by number of learners around the world 目 English 1,500 million French 80 million Chinese 30 million □ Spanish 15 million □German 15 million According to Chart 2,which language has the largest number of learners The pie chart shows that English has the largest number of learners. Look at the chart and answer the question What can you learn from Chart 3 As is shown in the pie chart,English learners in China have been increasing largely from 1993 to 2014. Why do you think many people in China learn English They want to learn a new skill; They want to learn English for travelling abroad; They want to learn English for business,because more companies are business partners with others from foreign countries and English has the largest number of learners globally.. Chart 3 English learners in China 50 On Look at the chart and answer the question 1993 2014 3002 Do you think English is a crazy language to learn Let's have a brekkie at Macca's Look at the title and the pictures. Guess what the passage is about. Pine Nor in Pineapple Neither Apple Skim the passage—get the author's Purpose the main idea (first and last paragraph) 1,Usually at the beginning of a paragraph, and before“for example”or“such as” topic sentence 2,Sometimes at the end of a paragraph 3,Sometimes in the middle of a paragraph and usually after“however”or“but” Skim the passage—the author's purpose The author wants 1,to tell us that English is very difficult to learn 2,to give advice on how to learn English 3,to show that English is interesting and creative 4,to explain how English was created English reflects the creativity of human race The author began to think how English canbe a crazy language to learn giving examples to show English is marvellous Beginning Para 1 ①neither..nor...表示“既不……也不……”,其含义是否定的，可 连接两个并列的成分。 She likes neither butter nor cheese.她既不喜欢黄油也不喜欢奶 酪。(连接两个宾语) ②当neither... nor...连接两个主语时，谓语动词遵循“就近原则”。 Neither my parents nor my brother is at home today.今天我父母和 哥哥都不在家。 ③当neither,nor 引导的分句是 ... ...
