高中Unit 2 Exploring English免费学案设计

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Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple

Have you ever asked yourself why people often have trouble learning    (learn) English? I hadn’t, until one day my five-year-old son asked me whether    there was ham in a hamburger. There isn’t. This made me realize that there’s no egg in eggplant either    (也). Neither is there pine nor    apple in pineapple. This got me thinking     (think) how English can be crazy language to learn.

For example, in our free time we can sculpt a sculpture    (雕塑) and paint a painting    (画画), but we take a photo     (拍照). And when we are traveling we say that we are in    the car or the taxi, but on    the train or bus! While we’re doing all this traveling, we can get seasick at sea, airsick     (晕机) in the air and carsick      (晕车) in a car, but      we don’t get homesick when we get back home. And speaking      (speak) of home, why aren’t homework and housework the     same thing?

If “hard” is the opposite      (反义词) of “soft”, why are “hardly” and “softly” not an opposing (相反的) pair? If harmless      (无害的) actions are the opposite of harmful     l (有害的) actions, why are shameless and shameful behaviors      (行为) the same?

When we look out of the window and see rain or snow, we can say “it’s raining” or “it’s snowing”. But when we see sunshine, we can’t say “it’s sunshining”.

Even the smallest      (small) words can be confusing      (令人困惑的). When you see the capitalized      (大写的) “WHO” in a medical report (医疗报告((医学报告), do you read it as the “who” in “Who’s that?” What about “IT” and “US”?

You also have to wonder at the unique      (独特的) madness of a language in which a house can burn up as it burns down, in which      you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm is only heard once it goes off      (铃响)!

English was invented     (invent) by people, not computers, and it reflects     (反映) the creativity      (create) of the human race. That is why when the stars are out, they are visible     (看得见的), but when the lights are out, they are invisible      (看不见的). And that is why when I wind up      (上弦) my watch, it starts, but when I wind up this passage, it ends.

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pineapple（菠萝）里也没有pine和apple

（菠萝≠松树+苹果）

你有没有问过自己为什么人们学英语时经常会遇到困难？我以前没有问过，直到有一天我五岁的儿子问我hamburger（汉堡包）里是否有ham（火腿）。没有。这使我意识到eggplant（茄子）里也没有egg。pineapple（菠萝）里也没有pine和apple。这让我思考为什么英语是一门让人学起来发狂的语言。

例如，在空闲时间，我们可以雕一个雕塑，画一幅画，但是我们说拍一张照。当旅游时，我们说在小汽车或出租车里，但却说在火车上或公交车上！当我们旅行时，我们在船上可能会晕船，在飞机上会晕机，在车里会晕车，但是当我们回到家时，却不会homesick（想家）。提到家，为什么homework和housework意思不一样呢？

如果hard是soft的反义词，为什么hardly和softly不是反义词呢？如果harmless actions和harmful actions相反，为什么shameless和shameful却意思相同呢？

当我们看窗外，看到雨或雪时，我们可以说“it’s raining”或 “it’s snowing”。但是当我们看到阳光时，我们不能说“it’s sunshining”。

甚至更短的单词也可能令人迷惑。当你在一份体检报告上看到大写的“WHO”时，你会像在“Who’s that?”这个句子里一样把它读作“who”吗？“IT”和“US”呢？

你也可能会对一门语言独特的反常现象感到疑惑，就像当一座房子burn down（烧毁）时，也可以说它burn up，当你fill in（填）表格时，也可以用fill out，而一个闹钟只有它go off（用于机器时表示停止运转）时，你才能听到它发出的声音。

英语是人发明的，而不是电脑，它反映了人类的创造性。那就是为什么当星星out时，它们是可以看得见的，但是当灯out时，灯则是看不见的。那也是为什么当我wind up我的手表时，它开始运转，但当我wind up本段时，本段则结束了。