Chinese Puts in a Good Word for EnglishMarch 3 高中进阶版 P4-5

Pre-reading

P2

How do Chinese and English influence

each other?

Can you come up with

some English words of

Chinese origin?

DISCUSSION

kungfu

mah-jong

taichi

tofu

typhoon

While-reading

P3

2. Chinese and English infiltrate each other because

_________________________________________________

________________________________________________.

1. Now, there are about ______ English words originating

from Chinese in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Complete each statement according to the article.

3. At present, most English words of Chinese origin are words

_________________________________________________

________________________________________________.

1,000

more native English speakers come to learn Chinese and

more native Chinese speakers come to learn English

that cannot find proper words in English to express the

original meanings in Chinese

While-reading

P4

3. The influence of English on Chinese is smaller

than the influence of Chinese on English.

1. The fact that more English words originate from Chinese is

very important in driving the globalization of Chinese.

2. Both chengguan and dama are English words

which originate from Chinese.

True or false

4. If two languages can infiltrate each other, more and more

people will choose to use both languages.

Culture bites

P5

Where did English and Chinese originate from?

Indo-European language family ( 印欧语系 )

Germanic languages ( 日耳曼语支 )

English

Sino-Tibetan language family ( 汉藏语系 )

Chinese

Mandarin, Cantonese …

Language study

P6

1. The Brits settled in New England, dispossessing (赶走 )

many of its __________ inhabitants.

2. Darwin generalized from many facts to reach his idea about

the __________ of man.

3. Asia is one of the places where mankind _________.

4. __________, we had intended to go to Italy, but then we

changed our mind and went to Greece.

Complete each sentence with the proper form of the

given words.

origin

originalorigin

originatedOriginal

ly

Language study

P7

1. Chaplin was not just a genius, he was among the

most ____________ figures in film history.

2. He ________________ by a high-school biology

teacher to take up the study of medicine.

Complete each sentence with the proper form of the

given words.

influence

influentialwas

influenced

Language study

P8

2. Is the human heart very weak in ____________

with the other organs?

Complete each sentence with the proper form of the

given words.

compar

e1. His progress at school is

unspectacular ____________

to his brother’s.

compared

comparison

After-reading

P9

What other impacts will Chinese

bring on English?

Do you think Chinese will be in common use as

English is in the future? Why?

Questions for further

Hints:

on vocabulary …/on grammar

…/on the mode of thinking …