文档介绍：Unit 7 Learning about English
Lan Yan
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The Assignment this Week
Next Week—
Prepare Unit 8
Review Unit 7
B. Find out as many loan words as you know.
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What animal sign were you born under?
These are the 12 animals used to symbolize the years:
They are the Rat, the Ox, the Tiger, the Hare,
the Dragon, the Serpent, the Horse, the Sheep, the
Monkey, the Cock, the Dog and the Pig.
A foreign language is a weapon in the struggle of life.
-- Karl Marx, German philosopher
-- 德国哲学家 K. 马克思
Grammar must be learned through language, and not language through grammar.
-- Johann G. Herdor, German philosopher
必须从语言中学习语法，而不是从语法中学习语言。
-- 德国哲学家 . 赫尔德
Don’t learn English just for examination purposes.
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Christmas ,New Year Greetings
Wishing you a song in your heart at Christmas and blessings all year long.
圣诞之际，祝你们心中有首快乐的歌，新年快乐！
Wishing you peace, joy and happiness through Christmas and the coming year. 在圣诞和新年来临之际，祝福你们平安、快乐、幸福！
Warmest greetings and best wishes from Ms. Lan
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The main idea:
Because of its tolerance for outside influences, English has become a great language.
English is a great language, but it is also a crazy language.
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Rhetorical Devices
Oxymoron
An oxymoron puts two contradictory terms together to puzzle the reader, luring him/her to pause and explore why.
The title, The Glorious Messiness of English, offers a good example of oxymoron.
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Examples of Oxymoron from Shakespeare ( translated by Zhu Shenghao)
An honorable murderer: 正直的凶手
An honorable villain: 庄严的奸徒
A damned saint: 万恶的圣人
Sweet pangs: 甜蜜的痛苦
Sweet knaves: