English-around-the-world

Unit2EnglishAroundTheWorldReadingCanadatheUSAAustraliaNewZealandTheUnitedKingdomIrelandIndiaMapoftheworldCanyouguesshowmanypeoplespeakEnglisharoundtheworldtoday?1)EnglishisoneoftheofficalLanguage.2)ManycountrieslearnEnglishastheirfirstforeignlanguage.WhyEnglishisusedsowidely?About1500millionpeoplespeakEnglishastheirfirst,secondorforeignlanguage.Pre-readingWhyshouldwelearnEnglishwell?TouseforbusinessTouseinschoolTotalktonativespeakersTotravelabroadTolistentoEnglishmusicandwatchmoviesToreadEnglishbooksWhyshouldwelearnEnglishwell?No,theyaren't.Englishchangeswhenpeoplecommunicatewithothersthroughtimes.SkimmingAmerica,AustraliaandEngland.ChinahasthemostEnglishlearners,becauseithasthelargestpopulationintheworld.ListthecountriesthatuseEnglishasanofficallanguage.AreEnglishessamearoundtheworldallthetime?WhichcountrydoyouthinkhasthemostEnglishlearners?(1)Englishhadthemostspeakersinthe17thcentury.(2)EnglishdevelopedwhennewsettlersandrulerscametoBritain.(3)Languagefrequentlychange.(4)Thelanguageofthegovernmentisalwaysthelanguageofthecountry.(5)EnglishisoneoftheofficallanguageusedinIndia.(6)ThispassagedescribesthedevelopmentofEnglish.FFFTTTSkimmingP1P2P3-4P5A.NativeEnglishspeakercanunderstandeachothereveniftheydon'tspeakthesamekindofEnglish.B.Today,morepeoplespeakEnglishthaneverbefore.C.EnglishisalsospokenasforeignorsecondlanguageinSouthAsiaandAfrica.D.Alllanguageschangeanddevelopwhenculturescommunicatewitheachother.Scanning----matchingkeysentencesEnglishwasmorebasedon________.AD450-1150AD800-1150Englishbecame______likeGermanbecausethosewho______EnglandspokefirstDanishandLaterFranch.____________madeuseofwidervocabularythaneverbefore.Inthe1600sSomeBritishsettlersmovedto________.Inthe1620GermanlessruledShakespeareAmericaMakingatimelineSomeBritishpeopleweretakento________.Englishisalsospokenasaforeignorsecondlanguagein_________,__________,______andsoon.Englishbecamethelanguagefor__________and_________.TheEnglishlanguagewassettled.Twochangesin_____________happened:SamuelJonhsonwrotehis_________andNoahWebsterwrote_________________________________________________.Laterinthe18thcentury1765-1947NowBythe19thcenturyAustraliagovernmenteducationEnglishspellingTheAmericanDictionaryoftheEnglishLanguagedictionarySouthAisaSouthAfricaChinaeg:他即使知道，他也不会说出那个秘密。虽然他知道，但是不会说出那个秘密。GrammarHewillneverletoutthesecretevenifheknowsit.Hewillneverletoutthesecreteventhoughheknowsit.NativeEnglishspeakerscanunderstandeachothereveniftheydon'tspeakthesamekindofEnglish.evenif=eventhough是连词词组，用来引导让步状语从句，意为“即使，尽管”。区别：evenif从句所说的不肯定，eventhough从句所说是事实。Laterinthenextcentury,peoplefromEnglandmadevoyagestoconquerotherpartsoftheworldandbecauseofthat,Englishbegantobespokeninmanyothercountries.GrammarHewaslateforworkbecausehegotuplate.becauseof后接名词或名词短语，because后面接句子eg:他上班迟到了，是因为起床迟了。Hewaslateforworkbecauseofgettinguplate.GrammarForexample,IndiahasaverylargenumberoffluentEnglishspeakersbecauseBritainruledIndiafrom1765to1947.anumberof......大量的......thenumberof............的数目(谓语动词用复数)(谓语动词用单数)eg:Thenumberofhomelesspeoplehasincreased.Alargenumberofstudentsareill.无家可归的人数增加了。很多学生都生病了。1)—Look!There___anumberofapplesonthosetrees.—Wow!Ithinkthenumberoftheapples___over100.A.is;areB.is;isC.are;isD.are;are2)—Howmanystudentsarethereinyourschool?—_____thestudentsinourschool_____overtwohundred.A.Thenumberof,isB.Thenumberof,areC.Anumberof,isD.Anumberof,arePracticeReviewHowdoEnglishchange?Alllanguageschangewhen_______communicatewithoneanother.TheEnglishspokenbetweenaboutAD450and1150was____________today._______,it__________more_____Germanthan________________.From800to1150,itbecamemorelikeFrenchbecausethosewho_____EnglandspokeFrench.Itbecame__________now.Inthe1600s,Shakespeare______________awider__________thaneverbefore.AfterNoahWebster'sdictionary,AmericanEnglishhas________________.Later,Australiahastoo.culturesdifferentfromActuallywasbasedonpresentEnglishmadeuseofclosertoruledvocabularyitsownidentityChinesehasalonghistoryandnowitbecomesaworldlanguagetoo.EnglishorChinese,whichonedoyouthinkcanbethelargestworldlanguageinthefuture?Why?DiscussionDiscussionEnglishhasbeenaworldlanguage,itisspokenallovertheworld,whileChinesespeakersaremostlyinChina.Chinahasbeenmoreandmorepowerful,andtheconnectionbetweenChineseandforeigncountriesbecomingmoreandmoreclosely.1.ReviewthenewwordsandwriteatimelineaboutthehistoryofthedevelopmentofChinese.Homework2.Writedownyouropinionsaboutthediscussion.