西电研究生英语视听说UNIT 1.ppt

01 UNIT 1 Daily Communication Section A Warming Up Lead-in questions 1.How many languages are there all over the world? 2.Which language is likely to be the global language?why? 3.What body languages do you often use in face-to-face communication? 1.The actual number of languages spoken in the world is difficult to calculate. One of the problems is that of the definition of what constitutes a language. This leads to the following range in answers: According to the National Virtual Translation Center(NVTC), there are about 6,900 languages in the world. The Ethnologue(民族语) organizations current