step y step book 2 Unit2 课件.pptVIP

Objectives: 1. Get some facts about world languages, and English in particular, and some idea of language learning styles. The students may reflect on their own learning styles in the hope that they may draw on what is discussed in the text to improve their way of learning English. 2. Selecting information and identify main points. The Tower of Babel Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one anothers speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the earth. - Genesis 11. Part I: Warming-up: A. Facts about languages Key Words: languages dialects official language. Vocabulary: 1.? disc or disk: flat thin round plate; small flat object of any shape 2.? Somalia: A country of extreme eastern Africa on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. Mogadishu is the capital and the largest city. Population: 8,020,000. Key to Task A 1. 2,700 languages 7,000 dialects regional pronunciation 2. official language 3. One billion; 20% 4. 40