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新人教高一英语必修一课本听力与视频材料原文Unit 5

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新人教高一英语必修一课本听力与视频材料原文Unit5
LanguagesAroundtheWorld
ListeningandSpeaking
Tosomestudents,itseemsthattheonlyforeignlanguagetolearnisEnglish.Thereare,however,near7,000languagesintheworld.AfterChinese,thelanguagewiththemostnativelanguagespeakersisn’tEnglish----it'sSpanish!LearningEnglishisveryuseful,butitiswisetolearnatleastoneotherforeignlanguage,ifpossible.
Therearemanyreasonswhypeoplelearnaforeignlanguage.ManystudentschoosetostudyoneofthelanguagesthatarespokenattheUN.Astheythinkitmeansbetterjobchancesinthefuture.TheUNhassixofficiallanguages:Arabic,Chinese,English,French,Russian,andSpanish.Theyarespokenbyaround2.8billionpeopleastheirnativeorsecondlanguages.
Somestudents,though,choosetostudyalanguagebecauseoffamilyorfriends.OneAmericangirlchosetolearnDanishbecausehergrandparentswerefromDenmark.Whenshewaslittle,hergrandpausedtoreadletterstoherinDanishfromtheirrelativesinDenmark.AnotheryoungladystartedlearningFrenchbecauseshehadseveralfriendsfromAfricancountrieswhereFrenchisspoken.
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Whatdoyouthink?Whichotherlanguagewouldyouchoosetostudyandwhy?
ListeningandTalking
LISTENNGPART1
AsmanycountriesspeakEnglishasafirstlanguage,therearemanydifferentkindsofEnglisharoundtheworld:BritishEnglish,AmericanEnglish,AustralianEnglish,andmanyothers.SomeEnglishlearnersmightask,"CanEnglishspeakersfromdifferentcountriesallunderstandeachother?"Theanswerisyes.Peopleinthesecountriescanusuallyunderstandeachotherwithveryfewproblems.Therearedifferencesinvocabulary,pronunciation,andgrammar,butthoseareusuallynotbigproblems.Howeverthosedifferencescancauseconfusionfornon-nativeEnglishspeakers.Forexample,astudentwhohaslearntBritishEnglishmightnotbefamiliarwiththedifferentvocabularythatanAmericanmightuse.ListentothisconversationbetweenaforeignlanguagestudentandherAmericanclassmate
LISTENINGPART2
Amy:ThankyouverymuchforhelpingmewithmyEnglish
Betty:You'rewelcome!Whenareyoufreetomeet?Thissemester,I’mfreeonTuesdayandThursdayafterlunch.
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