Languages of the World教案
the key:
1. include 2. special status 3. furthermore 4. expanded 5. roots 6. romantic 7. established 8. overtake
step 5 difficult sentences.
1. chinese mandarin, or putonghua, to give its real name, is spoken by the vast majority of the population of china.
絕大多數的中國人都講官方標準語言， 或者確切地說， 講普通話。
2. it is estimated that more than 375 million people speak english as a first language, with possibly another 375 million speaking it as a second language.
據估計， 超過3.75 億人把英語作為第一語言，而大約另外3.75億人把它作為第二語言。
3. apart from the uk and the usa , there are native people speakers in a great number of countries of the world, including australia, south africa, canada, new zealand and many islands in the caribbean sea.
除了英國和美國以外， 全世界還有很多國家把英語作為母語， 包括澳大利亞。南非、加拿大、新西蘭以及加勒比海的很多島國。
apart from 除了……之外
there was nobody on the ship apart from the captain. 除了船長，整搜船再也沒有任何人。
4. it is predict6ed that the population of india could one day overtake the population of china, but the importance of english in india would prevent hindustani from becoming the most spoken language of the world.
據預測，將來印度的入口將超過中國，但英語在印度的重要性使得印度斯坦語無法成為世界上講得最多得語言。
5. furthermore, because arabic is the language of the koran, millions of muslims in other countries speak it as well.
而且， 由于《古蘭經》是用阿拉伯語寫的，其他國家數以百萬計的穆斯林也講阿拉伯語。
6. for instance, about 100,000 bengali speakers lived and work in the middle east.
例如，大約10萬講孟加拉語的人生活和工作在中東。
7. indonesian is actually one of many dialects of malay, but they’re all more or less based on the same root language.
印度尼西亞語實際上是馬來語的眾多發言方言之一，但這些方言幾乎都起源于同一種語言。
more or less 幾乎，或多或少
we are more or less finished. what about your group?
我們差不多完工了，你們小組呢？
module 4 reading practice
step 1 presentation
1) have you ever heard of the saying “knowledge is power”? do you know who said this? francis bacon
2) how much do you know about francis bacon? (what was his nationality ? what was he famous for ? what contribution did he make to science?
he was english. he was famous for his writing and he was a philosopher and a statesman. he developed a procedure of scientific inquiry which is still known as the baconian method.
step 2 read the first part of the text. francis bacon: an introduction and then answer the questions in activity 2.