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九年级unit3.unit4课本范文 P60页： 3a Work in groups and find the answers to the questions on the Internet. Then share the information with your group members. Where is Chinese mainly spoken? How many people speak Chinese as their second language? Where are they from? How many people are learning Chinese as a foreign language? Why are they learning Chinese? 3b Write a passage based on the study in 3a. Nowadays Chinese is becoming more and more popular all over the world. It’s mainly spoken in China, and has the largest number of speakers in the world. Chinese is also the official language in China and Singapore and it is learned by more and more people as a foreign language. By the year of 2010, over 100 million people learned Chinese as their foreign language. People learn Chinese for various reasons. Some learn it for they believe in the rapid development of China. Some learn it because they love the Chinese culture and others learn it just because they like the language itself. With the development of China, the number of Chinese learners will be larger and larger. P68页： 3．Write a passage with the title Different Cultures, Different Meanings based on the table. You can add more items. Plant and animal In Chinese culture In western culture peacock goodness/ beauty/ peace pride bat long life/ happiness bad luck bamboo happiness/ peace wisdom / power … Some things usually have different meanings in different cultures. Here are some things that have different meanings between the Chinese and western cultures. In China, peacock is a beautiful animal that stands for beauty and goodness. Bats also have positive meanings in China, especially in the southern part of the country. They stand for life and happiness. However, for people in western cultures, they mean bad luck. Bamboo is a symbol of happiness and peace in China, but it means wisdom and power in western cultures. P76页： 3. Read Li Ming’s question in “ Ask About English” column from the website BBC Learning Engli