大学英语综合教程 第二册 unit 7A

[11:14.51]Language Sense Enhancement
[11:17.72]2 Read aloud the following poem
[11:21.74]Languages                       Carl Sandbury
[11:26.73]There are no handles upon a language Where by men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance
[11:37.21]It is a river,this language,Once in a thousand years Breaking a new course Changing its way to the ocean.
[11:47.27]It is a mountain effluvia Moving to valleys And from nation to nation Crossing borders and mixing.
[11:58.16]3 Read the following quotation.Learn them by heart if you can. You might need to look up new words in a dictionary.
[12:08.82]The English language is the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. Ralph Waldo Emerson
[12:20.65]Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers         Georqe Orwell
[12:32.14]England and America are two countries separated by the same language.   Georqe Bernard Shaw
[12:43.06]4. Read the following joke and see if you can tell what caused the misunderstanding of the  technician's words by the woman.
[12:54.32]You might need to look up new words in a dictionary.
[12:59.81]An office technician got a call from o user. The user told the technician that her computer was not workling.
[13:09.11]She described the problem and the technician concluded that the computer needed to be brought in and serviced.
[13:17.62]He told her to "Unplug the power cord and bring it up here and I will fix it”