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2LearnEnglishisfun!Lesson2AmazingEnglish1WarmingupLet’senjoyavideo.1Answertheriddlesbycirclingtheletters.Whatdoyoucallabearwithoutanear?Whatletterisyoureye?Whatletterisabodyofwater?Whatletterisaquestion?Thereareonly26lettersinEnglish,butthe26letterscanmakemorethanonemillionwords.Lookatthisword:level.Youcanreaditlefttorightorrighttoleft-it’sthesameword!Thewordthereinhastenwordsinit.Youdon’tevenneedtomoveanylettersaround.Howmanywordscanyoufind?2

Readthepassageandcompletethemindmap.Doyouknowthemeaningofthephraseapieceofcake?Itmeanseasy.Thissentenceusesall26letters:Thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog.TherearemanymoreamazingfactsaboutEnglish.HavefunwithEnglish!26morethanonemillionwordsameThequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog.sentenceThewordthereinhastenwordsinit.easy2LanguagePointsonlyadv.只有；僅僅

adj.

唯一的；僅有的（1）用作形容詞時，與the連用，意為“惟一的”，作定語。（2）用作副詞時，常位于所修飾的動詞、短語或從句前，意為

“只是、僅僅”。（3）用作并列連詞時，意為“但是、可是、可惜、不過”。1Thereareonly26lettersinEnglish,butthe26letterscanmakemorethanonemillionwords.英語中只有26個字母，但是這26個字母可以組成一百多萬個單詞。morethan多于相當于over，常用于數(shù)詞前，后接數(shù)字時表示超過這個數(shù)量。例如：Thereareover1,200studentsinourschool.我們學校有一千二百多名學生。反義短語為lessthan“少于”Ittakeslessthan15minutestomakeagoodpaperfan.制作一把好的紙扇需要不到15分鐘。2Youdon’tevenneedtomoveanylettersaround.你甚至不需要移動任何字母。needv.&n.需要；必需（1）作實義動詞時，有人稱和數(shù)的變化。needtodosth.需要做某事needsb.todosth.需要某人做某事（2）作情態(tài)動詞時，沒有人稱和數(shù)的變化，后接動詞原形。（3）作名詞時，可用于thereisnoneedtodosth.“沒有必要做某

事”結構中。Letusbringsummerback.讓我們把夏天帶回來吧。show...around意為“帶……四處逛逛”。Canyoushowmearoundthefactory?你能帶我參觀一下這家工廠嗎？movearound四處移動。around是副詞，動詞+副詞組成的短語，賓語為代詞時，代詞應放在中間。例如：Theboxisveryheavy,youcan’tmoveitaround。箱子很重，你移動不了它。拓展與move相關的短語movein/into搬進moveout搬出move(from…)to…（從……

）搬到……3apieceof一片；一塊；一段常用來表示不可數(shù)名詞的量，如果表示的量超過一，要用piecesof。Papercuttingturnsasimplethinglikeapieceofpaperintoabeautifulpieceofart.剪紙把一件簡單的物品，比如一張紙，變成一件精美的藝術品。Doyouknowthemeaningofthephraseapieceofcake?你知道apieceofcake這個短語的意思嗎？

Thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog.

敏捷的棕色狐貍跳過懶惰的狗。jumpover跳過Thedogjumpedoverthefence.狗跳過了柵欄。4拓展與jump相關的短語jumpup跳起來jumpinto跳進jumpdown跳下來jumpupanddown跳來跳去3

Readthepassageagainandanswerthequestions.

A.Howmanywordscanyoufindinthewordtherein?Whatare

they?Ten.Theyare:the;there;therein;he;her;here;herein;ere;rein;in.

B.Canyoufindawordthatreadsthesamelefttorightorright

toleft?Whatisit?Yes,Ican.It’slevel.C.Readthesetwosentences:Icannotdance.Ihavetwoleftfeet.

Whatdoeshavetwoleftfeetmean?Itmeans“notgoodatdancing”.4

Readtheconversationsandguessthemeaningsofthephrasesinyellow.dcba

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Workingroups.FindmoreinterestingfactsaboutEnglishontheInternetandsharethemwithyourgroupmembers.InterestingfactsaboutEnglish☆Oneletter,like“a”,canbeanEnglishword.Andjustoneword,like“Go”canbeasentence.☆Thephrase“smallpotatoes”meanssomethingorsomeonethatis

not

important.3Summary重點詞匯only/???nl?/只有；僅僅||唯一的；僅有的than/e?n/比

million/?m?lj?n/一百萬

level/?levl/水平；標準；級別therein/?ee?r??n/在那里；在其中even/?i:vn/甚至need/ni:d/需要；必需phrase/fre?z/短語；詞組piece/pi:s/片；碎片；一件sentence/?sent?ns/

句子quick/kw?k/快的；迅速的fox/f?ks/狐貍lazy/le?z?/懶惰的fact/f?kt/事實；現(xiàn)實morethan多于movearound四處移動apieceofcake小菜一碟jumpover跳過重點句型Whatletteris

…?什么字母是……Doyouknowthemeaningof…?你知道……的意思嗎？Whatisthemeaningof…?

……是什么意思？Itmeans…這意味著……4Practice根據(jù)句意及漢語提示填空。1.這26個字母能夠組成一百多萬個單詞。The26letterscanmake________________________words.2.你可以正著讀或者反著讀—它是同一個單詞。Youcanreadit__________________or__________________—

it’sthesameword.3.你甚至不需要移動任何字母。Youdon’teven__________________anylettersaround.4.這個句子用了全部的26個字母。__________________all26letters.5.關于英語還有許多令人驚奇的事實。There