人教版九年级英语Unit 12 第五课时.pptVIP

Unit 12 Youre supposed to shake hands. 第五课时 You’re supposed to write quickly! 山西省太原市清徐县杨房中学 畅素平 Example: F2F- face to face. How R U? CU! BTW CUL8r How are you? See you! By the way See you later. BRB CU2morrow ASAP I’ll be right back. See you tomorrow! as soon as possible is a new kind of written English that is being used to save time. meaning abbreviations homophone punctuation marks types Can you write an example of each on your own ? Read the passage quickly and answer the following questions. 1.Why is e-mail English used? 2.Is CUL8r a homophone? 3.What can you do by using punctuation marks besides in the traditional way? 4.When or where can you use e-mail English? 5.What do you think of e-mail English? It is used to save time. Yes, it is. I can use them to show the emotion I am feeling. It is like writing riddles/good/rude... When I am e-mailing a friend or sending a message to a friend on a mobile phone. Complete the chart and discuss your answers with your partner. Do these two on your own: 1.I had a great weekend. And you? 2.Oh no！I am going to be late. My e-mail English ideas Do these two with a partner: 3.I have seen that movie four times. It’s great. 4.Excuse me. Could you please help me? Our e-mail English ideas Read for fun We use the Internet for many things: business, shopping, writing letters, talking to people, finding information and so on. In recent years, a new kind of English has grown on the Internet .Theres no real word for it yet, so well call it e-talk. People dont like typing too much. To save time, they turn phrases into a few letters ( called acronyms). Acronyms are often used in chat rooms. Some of them are: BTW (by the way) ;BRB (be right back); LOL (laughing out loud) ;IMO ( in my opinion) People also use many abbreviations. They are shortened forms of words. Some common abbreviations are: Info (information) ; puter (computer); pic (picture) ;sec (second) We usually dont