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Module4LanguagesoftheWorld
PartOne:TeachingDesign
第一部分教学设计
Goals
Toimprovefastandcarefulreadingskills
Towidenvocabulary
Toimprovespeakingskills
Toimprovewritingability
Tolearnsomethingaboutlanguagesoftheworld
Period1:Introductionandreading
(TheWorld’sTopTenLanguages)
Procedures
StepⅠ:Warmingup
1.Warmingupbyintroducing
Helloboysandgirls.TodaywearegoingtolearnalessonLanguagesoftheWorld.AndI’llfirstintroducesomethingaboutlanguagesofChina.
Thereare236languagesinChina,235arelivinglanguagesand1isextinct.WeoftenhearofsuchdialectsasChineseMinBei,ChineseMinNan,ChineseMinDong,ChineseMinZhongandChineseYue.ButthemostspokenlanguageisChineseMandarin.About837,014,298peoplespeakChineseMandarinandtheyarefromthefollowingdistricts:northoftheChangjiangRiver,abeltsouthoftheChangjiangfromQiujiang(Jiangxi)toZhenjiang(Jiangsu),HubeiexceptthesouthwesterncornerofHunan,Sishuan,Yunnan,Guizhou,thenorthwesternpartofGuangxiandthenorthwesterncornerofHunan.
ItisalsospokeninBrunei,Cambodia,Indonesia,Laos,Malaysia,Mauritius,Mongolia,Philippines,Russia,Singapore,Taiwan,Thailand,UnitedKingdom,USAandVietNam.
It’salternatenamesare:Guanhua,BeifangFangyan,NorthernChinese,Guoyu,StandardChinese,PutonghuaandHanyu.
2.Warmingupbydiscussing
Well,asweallknow,inspiteofsomanydialects,nowmoreandmorepeopleonlyspeakChineseMandarin.DoyouthinkMandarinismoreimportantthandialects?
Doyouthinkdialectsshouldbepreservedandusedtothemaxiumbylocalpeople?
Tosomedegree,yes.Ofcourse,ifyoutalkwithnon-localpeople,speakingMandarincanshowyourrespecttothem.Butweknowthereareparticularculturesindifferentlocalcommunities.Dialectsareusedtopasstheculturesfromgenerationtogeneration.Ifadialectislost,thenaculturewillalsobedamagedbeyondrepair.
DoyouthinkMandarinshouldbelearnedandusedinmostcases?
Thatdepends.Ifyouareinyourowncommunitycommunicatingwithalocalperson,youcanuseyourdialectcompletely.Butifyouareoutofyourcommunityinaworkingenvironmentandyouneedtotalkwithpeoplefromdifferentplaces,youshouldspeakMandarinaspossibleasyoucantoshowy