English teaching how to strengthen the teaching of cultural background knowledge.docVIP

English teaching how to strengthen the teaching of cultural background knowledge 1, we must strengthen the teaching of cultural background knowledge Language is a special kind of social and cultural phenomenon, it is the people’s social life in the long established and accepted practice. Each language is in a particular social and historical environment, generated and developed, and therefore reflected in each language using the language of the country and the nation in different social and historical cultural phenomenon peculiar to the period. For example: in English “Ladies first, Thanksgiving, Homecoming, Girls LeagueDance, san dwich” and so on; Chinese in the “Young Pioneers, black five, stinking ninth category, one country two systems, to a new level” and so on, these are in a particular social and historical context generated. If the Chinese in the “Young Pioneers, the police uncle, moon cakes” translated into English is: “Young Pioneer, Uncle Poli ceman, mooncake”. These words are simple, common, but a foreigner is very difficult to understand, because they do not understand the cultural background. Similarly, we are learning English will encounter a similar problem. For example: “You are, indeed, a lucky dog” this sentence, if taken literally translated into English is: “You’re a lucky dog.” This is entirely a Chinese curse words. “Dog” is, in the Chinese appears to be pejorative, as we often say “running dog”, “Lai Pigou”, “pup”, “Goutoujunshi”, etc., used to describe the disgust people. However, in English, this sentence is to say, “You’re lucky.” “Dog” here used to refer to people not only do not curse the meaning, but also expressed a intimate relationship. In the United States “Dog” is the family members. It contains the praise that it is often the situation in good faith. Therefore, the same word in different cultural background is different in meaning. If we want to master and use a language, it is necessary to understand the language generated th