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English around the world-reading

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高一 必修1

Unit 2

赞皇中学高一英语：赵某某

Reading

1. With your partner, list the countries that use English as an official language?

2. Which country do you think has the most English learners?

3. Look at the title of the following passage and guess what it is about. Then read it quickly and see if you are right.

Pre-reading

official 官方的

voyage 航行, 航海

native 本国的, 本地的

present 现在的、出席的

gradually 逐渐地

vocabulary 词汇、词汇量

New words

actually 事实上

latter 后者的

identity 身份

fluent 流利的

Singapore 新加坡

Malaysia 马来西亚

frequently 频繁地

1. English has/had the most speakers ___.

A. now

B. when the British ruled many

parts of the world

C. in the time of Shakespeare

D. in the 12th century

Scan the text and choose the best answer.

2.Which of the following statement is true?

A. Languages always stay the same

B. Languages change only after wars

C. Languages no longer change

D. Languages change when cultures

change

3. From AD 450 to 1150, English

sounded more like _____?

A. French B. Chinese

C. German D. Russian

4. Shakespeare’s English was spoken

around ______?

A. 1400’s B. 1150’s

C. 450’s D. 1600’s

5. Which country has the fastest

growing number of English speakers

in the world?

A. Australia

B. China

C. India

D. Britain

Skim the text again and fill in the table.

The road to modern English

cultures communicate with

one another

things that happened

less like German; more

like French

based on German

Shakespeare broadened

the vocabulary. A big

changed in English

British people brought

English to Australia

Reading skills:

For the first time you must read the text quickly in three minutes. Be sure not to read the text sentence by sentence. Read the key words and key sentences to gain a brief idea about the topic of the text.

找重点词、关键句理解文章大致内容

如何找主题句或关键句?

(1) 顺承式段落多在第一句；

(2) 转折式段落常是第二句带有

however, but的句子。

Using the reading skills, get the main idea of each paragraph.

Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever before.

Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. However, they may not be able to understand everything.

Para 1

Para 2

All languages change when cultures communicate with one another.

English’s position as world language is yet to be clearly understood or defined.

Para 3

Para 4

Read the passage again and answer the

following questions.

Why was English spoken in many other

countries in the 17th century?

Because people from England started moving to other parts of the world.

2. Do native English speakers have difficulty in understanding each other?

3. Does their English have differences? If so, can you show examples?

No, they don’t.

Yes. flat→ apartment

Read Para. 3 and find out why and how

English changed over time.

time

language related

reasons

AD450-

1150

German

ruled by

German

1150-

1500

French

ruled by

Norman(French)

1600‘s

a wider vocabulary

Shakespeare

American English

Noah Webster

Australian English

British went to

Australia

Read Para.4 and find out why India takes English as second language.

India

was ruled by Britain

South African English

Singapore English

Malaysian English

Hong Kong English

Do you know any other kinds of English

formed for this reason?

Samuel Johnson

Born: September 18, 1709

One of the English language’s most profound influences.

Two important persons

Noah Webster

Born: October 16, 1758

Died: May 28, 1843When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary. He did this because Americans in different parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used words differently.

Fill in the blanks with proper words according to the text.

The English between AD 450 and 1150 was based more on _______.

From AD 800 to 1150, those who ruled England spoke first _______ and later _______.

At the end of the 16th century, about _________________ people spoke English. Nearly all of them lived in England.

German

Danish

French

five to seven million

English is also spoken as a foreign or ______ language in many other countries in Africa and ___________.

Today, the number of people learning English in China is increasing _______. As a matter of fact, China may have the _______ number of English learners.

In 1620 some British settlers moved to ________. In the 18th century, some British people were taken to __________. English began to be spoken in both countries.

largest

America

Australia

second

South Asia

rapidly

Decide whether the statement are

True (T) or false (F) according to the

passage.

1. Chinese English has become one of the world Englishes.

2. Between about AD 450 and 1150, English was less like German, and more like French.

F

F

3. It is The American Dictionary of the

English Language that gives American

English spelling its own identity.

4. English is spoken as the first language

in Singapore and Malaysia.

F

T

Why did the writer decide to end the passage with a question?

“Will Chinese English become one of the world Englishes?Only time will tell.”

Further thinking:

According to the passage, languages change when cultures communicate with one another. So the writer intended to predict a possible road to modern English, that is, when Chinese culture communicates with English culture, English may change, too. So as time goes by, Chinese English may become one of the world English. That is what the writer intended to tell us about this passage. So the writer gave it the title-The Road to Modern English.

Some people say that Chinese is a

much more elegant language, so it is

more important for us to master it and

it is not so necessary to master foreign

language. Do you agree with this opinion and why?

Discussion

1. Do you know that there is more than

one kind of English in the world?

你知道世界上不止有一种英语吗？

more than one +名词单数, 后面的谓

语动词用单数。

More than one student wants to

go to swim.

Explanation

more than 还可以与名词、形容词、副词、动词、动名词连用，意为 “不只是，非常”

Both of them are much more than schoolmates. They are close friends.

他们俩远不只是同学, 他们是知心朋友。

more than 的反义短语是less than, 意为 “少于”

We advertised for pupils last autumn,

and got ___ 60.

A. more than

B. more of

C. as much as

D. so many as

高考链接

2. In some important ways they are very

different form one another.

在某些重要方面, 它们彼此有些差异。

inXXXXXway (s)/byXXXXXmeans 在XXXXXXXXXX方面

We should solve this problem in a

different way.

=We should solve this problem

by a different way.

都表示“相互，彼此”，在句中作动词

或介词的宾语，但不能作主语。

表示两个人或事物之间的相互关系用

each other, 表示三个或三个以上的人

或事物之间的相互关系时， 用each

other或one another都可以。

(2) one another/each other区别

Tom and Mary looked at each other.

We send card to one another/each

other every year.

我们每年都相互寄卡片。

3. because of后边加名词或动名词 >>>>>>内容过长，仅展示头部和尾部部分文字预览，全文请查看图片预览。<<<<<< （逐渐地）loved to live there.

8. He was the son of a(n) ______ （丹麦的）father and a British mother.

9. One can travel there by ship or plane.

Most people choose the _____（后者）.

10. She speaks ______ （流利的）though

not very correct English.

fluently

latter

gradually

Danish

1. Retell the passage.

2. Finish exercises in Learning about

language.

3. Find an example that shows the

difference between American English

and British English.

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