雄辩是银 - 雄辩是银.ppt

Unit 7 Learning about English Proverbs and Quotations 1. Speech is silver, silence is gold. 2. Speech is the index/picture of the mind. 3. Speech shows what a man is. 雄辩是银,沉默是金。言为心声。听其言而知其人。 Proverbs and Quotations 4. A foreign language is a weapon in the struggle of life. -- Karl Marx, German philosopher 5. Grammar must be learned through language, and not language through grammar. -- Johann G. Herdor , German philosopher 外国语是人生斗争的武器。-- 德国哲学家 K. 马克思必须从语言中学****语法,而不是从语法中学****语言。-- 德国哲学家 . 赫尔德 Proverbs and Quotations 6. Speech is a mirror of soul; as a man speaks, so is he. -- Ephraem Syrus , American writer 语言是心灵的镜子;一个人只要说话,他说的话就是他心灵的镜子。-- 美国作家 Objectives to grasp the main idea and structure of the text and know the richness of English to understand some idiomatic English usages mentioned in the unit to master key language points and structures in the text to widen vocabulary by understanding the origins of words Text A: The Glorious Messiness of English Before We Read Warm-up Activities Now We Read Global Reading Questions to Think Detailed Reading After We Read Writing Genre Vocabulary File Before We Read: Warm-up Activities Brain Teasers with Puns : Why does time fly so fast? Why is a river so rich? When are people smartest? Why is the elephant always traveling? Who drives away all his customers? Which runs faster, heat or cold? Because so many people are trying to kill it. Because it has two banks. During the day, because then the sun shines, everything is brighter. Because it always has a trunk with it. Taxi drivers Heat, because you can catch cold. Before We Read: Warm-up Activities Why does Father Time wear bandages? What day in the year is mand to go forward? What fruit does a newly married couple resemble? Why is a watch dog larger by nights than by days? Because day breaks and night falls. March 4