新时代大学英语第二册unit1Language.pptVIP

Read as many books as you can, and you can be master of the language as well. 译文：尽可能多读书，这样你也会成为语言大师。 Examples: 1) 我会尽力帮忙，但我所能做的也是有限度的。 I’ll help as much as I can, but there is a limit to what I can do. 如此……以至于…… 尽最大可能 也…… 1. How does a rabbit tell others when there is danger? Answer: It tell others by moving its tail up and down. 2. How does a bee tell others when it has found some food? Answer: It does a little dance in the air. 3. What does the fact that human speech has some words like “Oh” or “Ah” tell us? Answer: It tells us that a small number of words in human speech are held to phonetically resemble and represent some real sound. 4. What’s the difference between human language and the languages of animals? Answer: We human have a large number of words which have the meanings of things, actions, feelings or ideas. No animals have such words in their communication. 5. How did human beings learn to make words? Answer: No one knows exactly how they learned to make words. Perhaps they began by making sounds like those made by animals and those they heard around them. 6. Why language can be called “second nature” of human race? Answer: Because language is a pervasive cultural phenomenon. It is the best integrated and most often used medium of cultural expression. 7. How can one make his vocabulary bigger according to the passage? Answer: He should read as many books as he can. Summary Some animals say things by giving visual 1) ________ and some by making 2) ________. Human beings have a large number of words that no animal has to 3) ____________ with each other. No one knows how human beings began to make words, but with the development of history, more and more words 4) ________. Language is a common 5) ________ phenomenon that can be called second 6) ________ of the human race. Different language has different 7) _________. To 8) ________ a language, one should read as much as he can. signals sounds communicate appear cultu