British-and-American-English-课件

BritishandAmericanEnglishThestructureofthewholepassage1.ParagraphOne,Two,ThreeandFourtellthewaysinwhichBritishandAmericanEnglisharedifferent.2.ParagraphFive,SixandSevenpredictthefutureofthesetwovarieties.ReadthepassageandfindthefourwaysinwhichBritishandAmericanEnglisharedifferent.1.vocabulary2.grammar3.spelling4.pronunciationReadingandspeaking--skimmingPara1.Words,words,wordsPara2.ChipsorFrenchfriesPara3.HaveorhavegotPara4.ColourorcolorC.GrammarA.SpellingandpronunciationB.VocabularyMatchparagraphsReadthepassagecarefullyandfinishthefollowingexercises1.FindsomeexamplesofthedifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish2.CompletethesentenceswiththecorrectwordsorphrasesParagraph1~2:thedifferencesinvocabularyBritishEnglishAmericanEnglishcarsfreewaygasundergroundtaxitorchstandinlinechipsParagraph3:thedifferencesingrammarBritishEnglishAmericanEnglishHaveyougot…?Myfriendjustarrived.intheteam/attheweekendWritemesoon!Paragraph4.theDifferencesinSpellingandPronunciationBritishEnglishAmericanEnglishspellingcentreprogrammecolorpronunciationTheaccent,whichismostsimilartoBritishEnglish,canbeheardontheEastCoastoftheUS.Thereisprobablyasmuchofpronunciationwithinthetwocountriesasbetweenthem.1.Thereare____differencesbetweenAmericanandBritishvarietiesofEnglish.A.noB.afewC.lotsof2.Americans____understandwhattheBritisharesaying.A.sometimesB.usuallyC.never3.Thereare___differencesbetweenBritishandAmericangrammar.A.noB.manyC.notmany4.Americanspellingis__Britishspelling.A.thesamewayB.simplerthanC.harderthan5.ForaLondoner,anAmericanaccentmaybeeasiertounderstandthan___.A.aChineseaccentB.someBritishaccentsC.aCNNnewsreader6.TelevisionandtheInternethavemadeit___fortheBritishandAmericanstounderstandeachother.A.harderB.easierC.impossibleBritishEnglishAmericanEnglishcarsfreewaygasundergroundtaxitorchstandinlinechipsautomobilesmotorwaypetrolsubwaycabflashlightqueueupFrenchfriesParagraph1~2:thedifferencesinvocabularyBritish:chipsAmerican:FrenchFriesChinese:炸土豆条British:crispsAmerican:chipsChinese:炸土豆片BritishEnglishAmericanEnglishHaveyougot…?Myfriendjustarrived.intheteam/attheweekendWritemesoon!Doyouhave…?Myfriendhasjustarrivedontheteam/ontheweekendWritetomesoon!Paragraph3:thedifferencesingrammarBritishEnglishAmericanEnglishspellingcentreprogrammecolorpronunciationTheaccent,whichismostsimilartoBritishEnglish,canbeheardontheEastCoastoftheUS.Thereisprobablyasmuchofpronunciationwithinthetwocountriesasbetweenthem.Paragraph4.theDifferencesinSpellingandPronunciationcentercolourprogramvariationCompletethesentenceswiththecorrectwordsorphrases.1.Thereare____differencesbetweenAmericanandBritishvarietiesofEnglish.A.noB.afewC.lotsof2.Americans____understandwhattheBritisharesaying.A.sometimesB.usuallyC.never3.Thereare___differencesbetweenBritishandAmericangrammar.A.noB.manyC.notmany4.Americanspellingis__Britishspelling.A.thesamewayB.simplerthanC.harderthan5.ForaLondoner,anAmericanaccentmaybeeasiertounderstandthan___.A.aChineseaccentB.someBritishaccentsC.aCNNnewsreader6.TelevisionandtheInternethavemadeit___fortheBritishandAmericanstounderstandeachother.A.harderB.easierC.impossibleReadthepassageagainandcompletethefollowingsentences.1.BritishandAmericanEnglisharedifferent____________(在很多方面).2.TheBritishqueueup;Americans___________.inmanywaysstandinline3.ButithasalsoledtolotsofAmericanwordsandstructures__________(进入)BritishEnglish.4.ALondoner_________________________________(做某事有困难)aScotsmanfromGlasgowthanunderstandingaNewYorker.passingintohasmoredifficultyunderstandingLanguagepoints1.Prepositions,too,canbedifferent:compareontheteam,ontheweekend(American)withintheteam,attheweekend(British).介词也不同:把美国的ontheteam,ontheweekend与英国的intheteam,attheweekend比较一下。compare…with…把……进行比较compare…to…把……比作comparenotes(withsb)(与某人)交换意见、观点、看法comparedwith/to与……相比,常作状语Ifyoucompareherworkwithhis，you’llfindhersismuchbetter．要是把他俩的工作比较一下，就会发现她的好得多。Comparedwith/todriversinothercountries,Americansthinkthey’regooddrivers．同其他国家司机相比，美国人认为他们是不错的。Exercise：1)Mary’snewhouseislikeahugepalace,_______withheroldone.A.comparingB.comparesC.tocompareD.compared2)When_____differentcultures,weoftenpayattentiononlytothedifferenceswithoutnoticingthesimilarities.A.comparedB.beingcomparedC.comparingD.havingcompared2.ButithasalsoledtolotsofAmericanwordsandstructurespassingintoBritishEnglish,sothat……leadto(1)引起，导致。to为介词，后接名词/代词/动名词（的复合结构）。可用resultin替换（2）通向。to为介词。Thismisprintledtogreatconfusion.这个印刷错误造成很大的混淆。AllroadsleadtoRome.条条大路通罗马。Wefirmlybelievethatwarneversettlesanything.Itonlyviolence.A.runsintoB.comesfromC.leadstoD.beginswith3.ALondonerhasmoredifficultyunderstandingaScotsmanfromGlasgowthanunderstandingaNewYorker.伦敦的居民听懂来自格拉斯哥的苏格兰人的话要比听懂一个纽约人的话难得多。havedifficulty(in)doingsth.withsth.DoyouhaveanydifficultywithEnglish?Thegovernmenthadgreatdifficultyinpersuadingpeopletoleavetheirvillages.做某事有困难你英语方面有困难吗？政府很难说服人们离开他们的村庄。Asweknow,Englishiswidely____________(speak/use)aroundtheworld.ButcanallEnglish________________(speak/use)understandeachotherallthetime?Ofcoursenot.Eventhesamewordcanhavemanydifferent_________(mean).S