Singaporeans speak out (P4)

山东烟台二中 赵娜娜

I. Lead-in 

1. What could we call the following English sentences? 

Chinglish

(English with Chinese features)

2. What do you know about “Singlish”? 

(English with Singaporean features)

Examples of Singlish: 

“why you so liddat??” (为什么这么这样）

“faster leh!” （快点！）

“don't anyhow say people lah!” (不要乱讲别人啦)

“how can one?!” （哪里可以的)

“he say he you can end early meh??” （他说他能早放工吗？）

“you say people, say yourself!” (讲别人，不如讲自己)

Watch the video and answer the questions. 

1.What four official languages does Singlish come from?

English, Mandarin, Tamil, Malay

2. How did Singlish come about?

Singapore is a melting pot of different cultures and different races. So when different languages come into contact, they mix.

3. What is the hostess’s attitude towards Singlish?

Supportive

II. While-reading 

Fast reading

Read the article quickly, and answer the question:

What’s the main idea of the passage?

Read the passage quickly again and finish the following match

Para. 1

introduction

Para.2-6

A definition and examples of Singlish

Para. 7-11

Controversies between the government and young Singaporeans over Singlish 

Careful reading

Part 1

Read Para.1 carefully, and fill in the blanks:

As an Asian country, Singapore ___ ___ ________ ___ being _____ _________(高度西方化的), with English among the country’s four____ ________. But a couple of signs found on local buses that have recently ____ _____ ____(在网上流行) may say otherwise.

Part 2

Read Para2-6 carefully, and answer the following questions:

1.Are the signs in Para2 in proper English? Why?

No, they are not. For example, “Here cannot go in!” should be “You cannot go in from here”, and “Here can charge phone!” should be “You can charge your phone here”. 

2.What is Singlish, according to the passage?

The language that resembles (类似) English is called Singaporean English, or “Singlish”. 

3.Why does the New York Times call Singlish a “patchwork (拼凑品)”?

Because Singapore consists of migrants from a variety of countries, including China, India and Malaysia, and they all speak their own versions of “English”.

4.How do you understand the phrase “Everyone who speaks it shapes it”？

For example, in Singlish you can easily recognize influences from Chinese. It includes vocabulary such as “mee siam” (米线，rice noodle) and “da bao” (打包，pack food to go). Sentence structures like “Toilet where?” instead of “Where is the toilet?” are also adapted from Chinese.

Part 3

Read Para7-22 carefully, and complete the table with different opinions.

Singapore’s governmentYoung Singaporeans

the dialect is lowering the country’s English standards and may affect the country’s relationship with foreigners.a sign of being cool and a way to identify themselves as a Singaporean

They are good at code-switching and can speak both languages

Read Para7-22 carefully again and explain the phrases in English using your own words.

wipe out/thrive/identify oneself as/abandon

give sb. credit for/code-switching/shortsighted 

III. Post-reading 

Discussion

Based on the passage, discuss with your partners and share your opinion about Singlish and Chinglish. 

Debate

As a Chinese person, do you think it is acceptable to speak Chinglish?

IV. Homework

Writing:

Write an article about your idea of Chinglish.

 

Fighting fake news (P5)

山东烟台二中 李欣桐

I. Lead-in 

Here are two storytellers:

Your favorite social media star / a world famous newspaper 

Whose words would you believe?

Can you list the reasons?

Would you rather believe a star's or a newspaper's story?

 

•trust whatever the person I like says

•believe the authority and the fact

•...

Media Insight Project

funded by the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that people’s trust in a piece of content (内容) on Facebook was stronger if they trusted the person who shared it, regardless of (不管；不顾) which organization published it. 

II. While-reading 

Activity 1 T or F （para1-3） 

1. Media Insight Project was not funded (资助的) 

2.In the study, scientists built a fake (虚假的) Facebook post about health news and showed it to about 2,000 Americans.  

 

Half of them got the post (n.帖子) from a sharer they said they trusted - a public figure (人物) such as TV star Oprah Winfrey. The others got it from a sharer they didn’t trust. 

Half of them were shown that the article was published by the news agency(新闻出版社), the Associated Press (AP), while the other half was shown a made-up news provider, Daily News Review. 

Activity 2 Question （para 4）

What mattered most according to the result? 

Whether the story was posted(v.发帖) by someone that people trust. 

More people thought the article was accurate (准确的) if the sharer was trusted but the article came from a fictitious (虚构的) news outlet

Activity 3 Words& Phrases （para 5-6）

•参与者

•更可能做某事

•和...互动

•多样的观点 

•对...怀疑

•participant (participate v.)

•(sb)be likely to do sth 

•engage with sb 

•diverse point of view

•be skeptical of

Activity 4 Blank-filling（para 7）

Does the same pattern also fit teenagers?

Teenagers are  _______＿ trusting of news from family members and teachers. 66 percent of them said they trust the information ＿＿＿from family, ______＿ with 25 percent for news organizations.

Activity 5 Critical Thinking（para8） 

What does this mean for social media users? 

“As citizens of information and consumers of information, we have to learn how to be critical (批判的) of the information that we consume (消费). Journalists have an important role to play in helping audiences navigate the news ecosystem (生态系统),” Claire Wardle, a digital media researcher from First Draft News said in an ABC TV debate on the rise of fake news.  

III. Post-reading 

The two storytellers:

your favorite social media star / a world famous newspaper

Who would you believe?

Debate

Please debating on the following issue.

1.Should we be skeptical (怀疑) of online posts?

2. What should we focus on while sharing information? 

 

NOW SUMMARIZE THE IMPORTANT LANGUAGE POINTS AND SHARE WITH YOUR PEERS.

What would you do to help spread the right information?

LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP...

IV. Homework

Writing:

Write an article about your point of view on this topic.

 

Drawing desires (P6)

辽宁沈阳市第二中学 常虹

I. Lead-in

Then can you guess the meaning of shopaholic? 

Can you believe that a girl bought all these lipsticks for 2 million yuan, which was taken from public funds illegally? 

And she never even used them.

They say being a shopaholic is a kind of mental disease. Do you agree? How would you solve this problem? 

II. While reading 

Scanning: 

Read the passage and answer the following questions.

1. Why did the author stop shopping?

She always used to go into stores and just buy things without thinking about it and it bothered her. 

2. What was her next problem?

In 2012, she noticed she had replaced this addiction with another - buying useless things on the internet.  

3. How did the author deal with it?

Instead of buying the things she wanted, she drew them. 

4.What is the author’s advice on shopping?

We should take some time to stop and think about why we want that shiny new thing. 

Read the article again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).  

1.The author stopped shopping from 2006 to 2012.

2. People in the world try to push you to buy beautiful things.

3. The author thought it was normal to want beautiful things.

4. All the effects of fast fashion on the world are not good.

5. People who can’t draw things they want will end up buying them.

Why did the author say ‘Just by looking at a pretty dress in a window, I somehow felt part of all this.’? (open) 

Language work

I would look at pictures of nice things on websites, and before I knew it, I'd have wasted an hour looking at - and sometimes buying - things I didn't need.         

高考链接: “没来得及的”before

Before本意为在。。。之前，但实际在中文的理解尤其是翻译的时候，需要灵活处理。使之更加符合汉语思维，同样我们解题时，通过这样的思维更容易确定before为正确答案。 

Translation:

1. It will be eight years before we meet again.

要过八年我们才会再见面。

2. It won’t be right years before we meet again.

用不了八年我们就会再见面。

3. The phone stopped ringing before I was able to pick it up.

我还没来得及接电话，电话响声就断了。

4. It won’t cost too much before you achieve success.

不用付出太多你就能够成功。

5. Kelman had a book published in the US more than a decade before a British publisher would touch him.

科尔曼在美国已经出版了一本书，十多年后英国的出版商才愿意出版他的作品。 

6. The economic numbers are likely to get worse before they get better. 

经济数据很可能先变得更糟才会变得更好。

7. Before Justin could catch up with the ball, Tom had beaten him to it.

贾斯汀还没来得及拿到球，汤姆已经先于他得到了。

III. Post-reading

Make up a story by observing this picture. 

Tell us 

•What is her name?

•What happens to her?

•How does she overcome it?

300 words or so.

IV. Homework

Draw a picture of what you’ve most wanted to buy recently.