2

文本研讀課Unit2English

around

the

worldPeriodWordsBrEnglishAmEnglish電梯汽油公寓秋天地鐵大學垃圾垃圾箱假期兩星期liftpetrolflatautumnundergrounduniversityrubbishdustbinholidayfortnightelevatorgasapartmentfallsubwaycollegegarbagetrash

canvacationtwo

weekstheUSACanadaNew

ZealandAustraliaSouth

AfricatheUKSkimmingTHE

ROAD

TO

MODERN

ENGLISHThe

passage

is

mainly

about

the

history

and

development

oftheEnglishlanguage.Para.1:Many

people

all

over

the

world

speak

English.Para.2:Native

speakers

can

understand

each

other

evenif

they

don’t

speak

the

same

kind

of

English.Para.3:Why

has

English

changed

over

time?Para.4:Finally

by

the

19th

century

the

language

wassettled.Para.5:English

is

now

spoken

wide

in

South

Asia.ScanningHow

did

English eworldwide?In

17th

century,

people

from

Englandmade

voyages

to

conquer

other

partsof

the

world

and

then

English

began

tobe

spoken

in

many

other

countries.go

take

controltravelling

by

of

sth.

bysea

force在17世紀英國開始航海征服了世界其他地區(qū)。于是，許多別的國家開始說英語了。Careful

readingTimeEventsAD

450~1150English

was

based

moreon

German.Between

about

AD800

and

1150By

the

1600’sIn

1620Later

in

the

18th

century1765-1947By

the

19th

centuryNowTimeEventsAD

450~1150English

was

based

more

on

German.Between

aboutAD800

and

1150It

was

less

like

German

more

French;Vocabulary

enriched.By

the

1600’sA

wider

vocabulary

was

used.In

1620Settlers

moved

to

America.

Englishwas

spoken

there.Later

in

the

18thcenturyBritish

people

were

taken

to

Australia.English

began

to

be

spoken

there.1765-1947Britain

ruled

India.By

the

19thcenturyEnglish

was

settled;

two

big

changesin

English

spelling

happened.NowEnglish

is

spoken

as

a

second

or

foreign

language

in

South

Asia.1.

It

was

based

more

on

German

than

theEnglish

we

speak

atpresent.以…為基礎be

based

on

sthbase

sth.on

sth.Practice:這部電影是根據(jù)真實故事改編的The

film

is

basedon

a

true

story.2.

English

became

less

like

Germanbecausethose

who

ruled

England

spokefirstDanish

and

later

French

.Translation英語不那么像德語了，因為那時的英國的統(tǒng)治者起初講丹麥語后來講法語。The

Road

toModernEnglishA

Brief

HistoryOfEnglishP1

More

and

morepeople

start

to

speakEnglish.①

at

the

end

of

…②

in

the

next

century…③

today…other

in

some

ways.P2

World

English

are

①…Howeverdifferent

from

each②

For

exampleP3

English

haschanged

over

time①

AD

450—1150②

1150--1500③

1600’sP4

English

is

also

spoken

in

many

other

countries.ConsolidationCracking hard

pointsWhich

sentence

in

the

text

is

the

closest

inmeaning

to

thefollowing?1.

American

English

spelling

came

from

TheAmerican

Dictionary

of

theEnglishLanguage.The

latter

gave

a

separate

identity

to

AmericanEnglishspelling.

2.

More

and

more

people

begin

to

learn

Englishin

Chinaat

present.Today

the

number

of

people

learning

English

inChina

isincreasingrapidly.

DiscussionWhydidthe

writerdecideto

end the

passagewitha

question?Why should

we

learn

English?HomeworkRetell

thepassage

again

inyour

ownwordsWrite

a

short

passage.

(120

words)Why

should

we

learn

English?to

use

forbusinessto

talk

to

nativespeakersto

write

to

p