高中英语外研版高中必修5Module6AnimalsinDanger-预习单

1、Pre-reading for Multi-text Reading 群文阅读预习单Read the following passages and finish the tasks. Task 1: Write down the main idea of some paragraphs on the line followed. Task 2: Answer the questions, maybe you can underline the answers in the passages. Task 3: Please draw a mind-map(思维导图) for these thre

2、e passages. Task 4: Do you have any other questions about the three passages? If so, please write down your answers and well have a discussion in the class. Passage 1Endangered languages are languages that wouldnt exist any longer, much like endangered species of plants or animals. Languages are con

3、sidered to be endangered when parents are no longer teaching the language to their children and are not using it actively in everyday life. A language is considered to nearly disappear when it is spoken by only a few elderly native speakers.Main idea: (within 6 words)The world faces enormous challen

4、ges in order to protect different kinds of languages. Of the more than 6,912 languages, half may be in danger of disappearing in the next several decades.It is caused by many reasons: small numbers of speakers, the regular use of other languages, attitudes towards their languages, moving of the youn

5、ger population, government policies, and languages used in education and so on. A language may lack important things such as a body of literature, and people who read and write it. A language may also lack prestige (声望) and support of its speakers. Main idea (within 6 words)The survival of a languag

6、e is also threatened when speakers move to other areas where different languages are spoken, or when government policies improve the use of a specific language in school, official business and the media. These situations encourage people to learn the wider-known language and may cause them, especial

7、ly the young, to stop using their mother tongue. Often those speaking lesser-known languages will choose to learn a more prestigious language with the hope of greater economic opportunities. Most of the worlds parents are teaching their children English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian or

8、some other main languages instead of their own languages for social and economic reasons. Q: Why dont most parents teach their children their own mother language?Passage 2Experts say there are about 6,500 languages spoken throughout the world. But the United Nations guesses that about half of these

9、languages are in danger of disappearing. One organization seeking to save world languages is Wikitongues. It has a simple goal: to provide the tools and support that people need to save their languages. When a language disappears, many other things can go away as well. For example, parts of a commun

10、itys(社区的)culture. knowledge and identity can also be lost. Q: Why is it important to save endangered languages? Because of this, Udell, co-founder of Wikitongues, believes the process of bringing languages back must be done by community members themselves. he said. There is no way an outside organiz

11、ation can save someones language for them.” Q: Who are supposed to save the endangered language？Wikitongues was started in 2023 as an open Internet collection of world languages. The self-described community is operated by volunteers from around the world. The collection is in the form of language v

12、ideos that people speaking the languages add to the Wikitongues website. Udell says saving languages does count. There are many examples of languages that disappeared but later returned to use. Hebrew went extinct(灭绝的)in the 4th century BC, and was revived(复兴)in the 1800s. Now once again, its the mo

13、ther tongue of half of the worlds Jewish population.”Another example is a Native American tribe. The tribes language went extinct in the 1940s. But the tribe was able to successfully build up a language recovery in recent years. One of Wikitongues volunteers is Theron Kolokwe. who lives in Namibia.

14、His native language is Subiya. which is spoken by about people.I want the world to know about my language,” Kolokwe said. But his goal goes beyond just sharing his language with others through video. He is also working to create a dictionary and language teaching materials that can be used in school

15、s. Q: What do Wikitongues do to save languages? Why does the author mention Hebrew, the Native American tribe and Kolokwe? Passage 3 International Mother Language Day (IMLD)is celebrated on 21 February every year. This day shall remind us about many different languages that exist in the world. It is

16、 used to create awareness(意识) of the importance of our home languages.Languages help us communicate our ideas, understandings and feelings. We also use our language to share our identity which means our cultural traditions, our customs and beliefs. Q: How important is a language for its native speak

17、ers?Many languages are unique(独一无二的) to a country, although English is the most spoken language around the world by non-native speakers. Non-native speakers are all those who learn a language as their second or foreign language. Did you know that there are over 7,000 languages spoken in the world? T

18、hough only 5% of those languages are represented on the internet! The languages most used on the Internet are English, Russian and German. Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, English, Arabic and Hindi are the most spoken languages around the world but they are not represented in the same order in written t

19、ext. And not all languages exist in written form at all. Some languages in Africa such as Southern Ndebele only received their first written text in recent years.Many languages which are spoken worldwide only have few mother tongue speakers and some were never written. Languages with few speakers ar

20、e mainly found in Oceania, southern Asia, Africa and the Amazon area in South America. In fact, one language dies out every two weeks, as the language is not used any more. What are the most spoken languages around the world? What are the most used languages on the Internet? What speed do languages

21、disappear in one year in the world? What do the main endangered languages have in common according to the passage?Draw a mind-map to show the structure（结构) and the main ideas of these three passagesEndangered languages Studying PlanTask 1. Explore the following questions.Why do the authors write the

22、se passages?What attitudes do the three writers have towards the endangered languages?Why does the author mention Hebrew(希伯来语), a Native American tribe(部落) and Kolokwe in Passage 2?4. In Passage 3, the author says that “one language dies out every two weeks”, so _ languages die out every month and _

23、 languages die out every year.Based on this speed, half of 6,000-7,000 languages would die out in _ years. will happen when languages die out? does the author mean by saying “endangered languages” are much like endangered species and plants and animals in Passage 1?According to Passage 2, what peopl

24、e can do to protect these endangered languages?Task 2. Open your mindmeasuresTask 3. Homework Maybe you have better plans about protecting endangered languages. If so, you may write letters to the UNESCO to show your plans. reading:A popular TV host has reportedly invested about US$ 740,000 in a pro

25、ject to research, preserve and promote the Hunan provincial dialect (方言). Chinese TV presenters are required to speak Mandarin, or Putonghua, as part of their work, but should dialects be allowed on air?Bcnu (China): TV and radio stations have the right to decide whether dialects or Mandarin will be

26、 used in their programs. The popularity of some dialects in some areas will not challenge the leading role of Mandarin in the whole country.Rick N (US): TV and radio broadcasters should take the lead in popularizing Mandarin. To require hosts to speak standard Mandarin is not to oppress (压制) dialects, but it only