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课件网) Unit 2 Exploring Lesson 1 Starting out Exploring Understanding ideas 任意的 1. Pre-reading: Prediction Look at the title of the passage and the pictures. Guess what the passage is about. food cooking plants fruit words pine + apple =pineapple hamburger ham eggplant egg 1. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage A. To tell us that English is 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. 2. Fast reading: Skim for main idea Read the passage quickly and answer the questions. Introduce the topic List some examples Draw a conclusion The author's opinion Learn to understand the structure. Topic The author explains his / her opinion ( English is interesting and creative.) by giving a lot of examples. Intensive reading: Find detailed information 3. Read the passage carefully and complete the notes with words from the passage. In order to support his idea, the author uses many examples that show the 1._____ madness of English. no egg in eggplant no ham in 2._____ neither pine nor apple in 3. _____ sculpt a sculpture paint a(n) 4._____ BUT take a photo Intensive reading: Find detailed information unique hamburger pineapple painting We can’t always understand a compound word by adding the meanings of the words it is made up of! Intensive reading: Find detailed information In order to support his idea, the author uses many examples that show the unique madness of English. seasick → sick at sea 5._____ → sick in the air 6._____ → sick in a car BUT 7. _____ → sick at home “Hard” is the opposite of “soft”. “hardly “ and “softly” are not a(n) 8._____ pair. airsick carsick homesick opposing The same rule doesn’t always apply to everything! Intensive reading: Find detailed information In order to support his idea, the author uses many examples that show the unique madness of English. “Harmless” is the opposite of “harmful”. Shameful and shameless 9._____ are the same. burn up → burn down fill in a form → 10. _____a form behaviors fill out Seemingly opposite words or phrases may have the same meaning! Intensive reading: Find detailed information In order to support his idea, the author uses many examples that show the unique madness of English. Stars are out . → They are visible. Lights are out. → They are 11._____. I wind up my watch. →It starts. I wind up the passage. → It 12._____. The reason is that English was invented by people, and it 13._____the creativity of the human race. invisible ends reflects The same words and phrases may have different meanings in different contexts. 6. Further reading: The origin of some words 1. The word “pineapple” developed from the Spanish word “pina”, which means pine cone. When it came to England, “apple” was added to show it is a kind of fruit. 2. The origin of “hamburger” was a hard beef steak called “Hamburg ... ...
