Presentation_skills 视听说 Book 4 Unit 9 Words of wisdom 教学课件.ppt

Presentation skills 1 Work in pairs. Imagine that in your region no  one spoke Chinese anymore but spoke another  language and discuss what effects this would  have on: Example answer knowledge specific to the  Chinese culture, for example, acupuncture, herbal medicine Chinese traditions and culture your self-esteem and feelings  about your culture 2 Work in pairs. You will give a talk about the  importance of preserving disappearing  languages. Number the stages of the talk in  the order you think best. Example answer 4-7-2-5-3-6-1 Stage 1 4 Explain why a language disappears. Stage 2 7 Say why it is important to study  languages. Stage 3 2 Explain ways in which, if a language  dies out, the knowledge of the  language can be preserved. Stage 4 5 Give statistics about disappearing  languages. Stage 5 3 State that languages are  disappearing. Stage 6 6 Explain what can be done to  revitalize a language. Stage 7 1 Give examples of disappearing  languages. Example Stages of the Talk 3 Work in pairs. Match the statements with the  stages of the talk in Activity 2. Answers d-g-c-a-f-b-e (d) Many native Indian languages of America  and most Arctic indigenous languages. (g) We can record people speaking a language. (c) More than one-third of today’s languages  are expected to disappear in the next  hundred years. (a) Smaller cultures get absorbed into larger cultures. Explain why a language disappears. Give examples of disappearing languages. Explain ways in which, if a language dies out, the knowledge of the language can be preserved. State that languages are disappearing. (f) One per cent of the world’s languages are  spoken by 80 per cent of the world’s population. (b) The remaining speakers of a language can be