人教修订版 高中一年级 ( 上 ) unit 2. 河北 马安庆 warming up & speaking

人教修订版 高中一年级( 上 )

Unit 2

河北 马安庆

Warming up &

Speaking

1. How many countries and regions

are there in the world?

About 200.

Let’s have a quiz.

2. How many languages are there in the world?

Perhaps more than five thousand, I remember. It was thought that there were more than three thousand before. But it is found in recent years that there are more than five thousand languages in the world. Only thirteen languages are used by above 55 million people.

3. How many languages are used as the

working languages of the United

Nations?

Five: Chinese, French, Russian,

English and Spanish.

Warming up

A bathroom or a toilet?

toilet

bath / bathtub

toweltap

basin

handle

A bathroom or a toilet?

mirror

1. What is Joe’s nationality? How about

Nancy? Joe is an American, while Nancy is

British.

2. What is it that Nancy thinks Joe wants?

Nancy thinks Joe wants to have a bath.

Discussion

3. What is their misunderstanding about ?In American English, the word “bathroom” means a place where there is a toilet and sometimes a bath or shower.

In British English, the word “bathroom” means a place where there is a bath or shower and sometimes also a toilet. Joe wants to go to the toilet, but Nancy thinks he wants to take a bath.

Joe is looking for a toilet.

4. What is it that Joe is looking for?

3) Karen told the teacher that Emily had

asked her

__________________________.

1. 1) Emily asked Karen

____________________________. how to pronounce “kilometer”

2) The teacher asked Karen and Emily

________________________________

_______.

if there was anything that wasn’t clear to them

how to pronounce “kilometer”

Speaking

3) He also asked her _________________________.

4) Ms. Smith told Harry not ___________________________________________.

2. 1) Ms. Smith told Harry __ ___________________________________________________________.

2) Harry asked Ms. Smith ______________________.if she could spell that name

if she could repeat the address

to take those two pizzas to Mr.Thompson on Broad Street, Number12

to forget to buy her some ketchup on his way back

requestsA asked B (not) to do...

A asked B whether or (if)...

orders A told B (not) to do...

A told B whether (if)...

Requests or Orders

Br.E Am.E

taxi

petrol

car park

secondary school

university

autumn

Do you know these words?

cabgasoline

parking lot

high school

college

fall

Br.E Am.E

holiday

flat

ground floor

lift

film

shop

movie

store

vacation

apartment

first floorelevator

Can you spell that, please?

Could you repeat that, please?

What do you mean by ...?

Could you speak a bit slowly, please?

Useful expressions

Can you say that in a different way?

Sorry, I didn’t follow you.

I beg your pardon?

How do you say ... in English?

How do you pronounce...?

What does ... mean?

Sample dialogues

Situation 1: Taking a message

A is visiting B, but B is not in, C takes a

message for B.

A: Is B at home?

C: Sorry, she isn’t in. She went out just

now.

A: Oh, could you do me a favor to take

a message to her? I am her workmate.

C: I’d be glad to.

A: Could you please tell her we have

decided to go out for an autumn outing.

Please ask her whether she’d like to

join us. My phone is 7500924.

C: Could you repeat that, please?

A: It’s 7500924.

C: Ok. I have taken it down. I’ll tell her

about it when she comes back.

Tom: Hello! This is Tom speaking.

Lucy: Is Mary in?

Tom: She is not in. Can I take a

message for you ?

Situation 2: Answering the telephone

Lucy is trying to call Mary, but

Mary is not in .Tom takes a message.

Lucy: It’s very kind of you. Henry

Potter is going to be put on in Ⅲ

the cinema at 3:00 pm this

afternoon. I have got two

tickets. If she wants to, please tell

her to send an e-mail to me

at noon. The address is

lucy _ pretty

123456@yahoo.com.

Tom: Could you speak a bit slowly,

please?

Lucy: lucy_pretty123456@yahoo.com.

Have you got it?

Tom: OK. Bye.

T: This afternoon we’ll do some

cleaning in our classroom at 4:00 pm .

Could you please tell the students about

it?

M: Certainly, I’d be glad to .

Situation 3: The teacher tells the monitor about the task this afternoon. And the monitor tells it to the rest of the students.

T: Please tell the students to bring some

cloth .

M: Sorry, I didn’t quite follow you.

What shall we do with it?

T: Oh, we’ll mainly clean the glass

and sweep the floor.

M: OK, I will tell the class about it.

1. Create and practice your own

dialogues.

Include other language difficulties such

as pronunciation, spelling, grammar,

uncertainty, misunderstanding and

inability to express what they mean or

want to say.

2. Finish Exercise 1 on Page 91 in the

TALKING part.

Homework