Unit2EnglisharoundtheworldReadingAmEBrELookatthepictures.CanyouspeaktheminAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish?soccerfootballAmEBrEeraserrubberAmEBrEliftelevatorBrEAmEpetrolgasBrEAmEflatapartment

infact實(shí)際上,事實(shí)上now現(xiàn)在的、出席的govern統(tǒng)治words詞匯、詞匯量bydegrees逐漸地Newwordsactuallyatpresentrulevocabularygradually

官方的航行，航海本國(guó)的，本地的事實(shí)上后者的身份流利的頻繁的official

voyagenativeactuallylatter

identityfluentfrequently

以……為基礎(chǔ)文化、文明身份政府迅速地新加坡馬來(lái)西亞bebasedoncultureidentitygovernmentrapidlySingaporeMalaysia

Pre-readingReadthetitle“TheRoadtoModernEnglish”andpredict(預(yù)測(cè))whatthepassageismainlyabout?TheroadtomodernEnglishTheroadthedevelopmentofEnglishlanguageMoreandmorepeoplespeakEnglish.NativeEnglishspeakerscanunderstandeachotherbutnoteverything.Para1:Para2:SkimmingMainideasofparagraphsAttheendof…

Laterinthenextcentury…

Today…Englishischangingallthetime.

(cultures&places)Englishisspokenasaforeignorsecondlanguageinmanycountries.Para3-4:Para5:A.HowtolearnEnglishwellB.ThebriefhistoryofmodernEnglishC.ThewaytoEnglandD.ThedifferencebetweenmodernEnglishandoldEnglishChoosethemainideaofthetext.B

1.Attheendof16thcentury,___________spokeEnglish.2.EnglishbecamelesslikeGermanbutmorelikeDanishandFrenchbetweenabout________.3.Bythe____thCentury,Englishwassettled.4.TheAmericanDictionaryoftheEnglishLanguagewaswrittenby____________.5.IndiawasruledbyBritainfrom______to____.6.____mayhavethelargestnumberofEnglishlearners.Scanning:selectivelyreading5to7millionpoepleAD800to115019NoahWebster17651964ChinaCarefulreading:

Para1--DevelopmentofEnglishIfanAmericanistalkingtoanEnglishman,_______.A.TheywillhavealmostnodifficultyinunderstandingB.TheywillhavealotofmisunderstandingsbetweeneachotherC.TheAmericanfindsitdifficulttounderstandtheEnglishmanD.TheEnglishmanfindsitdifficulttofollowtheAmericanPara2A

WhydoesEnglishchangeovertime?Becauseofculturalcommunication.ReadPara3and

answerthequestion:

HowhasEnglishchangedovertime?AD450-1150In1620was

based

more

on

Germanmore

like

French

ShakespearemadeuseofawidervocabularyAmerican

English

Australian

EnglishPara3-4Inthe18thCentury

AD800-1150Inthe1600’sBythe19thCenturyEnglishwassettledNowSpokenasaforeignorsecondlanguageinsouthAsia.SamuelJohnson&NoahWebster

SamuelJohnsonBorn:

September18,1709

HewroteadictionarywhichinfluencedtheEnglishlanguageprofoundly.TwoimportantpersonsinPara4

NoahWebster

Born:October16,1758Died:

May28,1843

WhenNoahwas43,hestartedwritingthefirstAmericandictionary.HedidthisbecauseAmericansindifferentpartsofthecountryspelled,pronouncedandusedwordsdifferently.

WhyisIndiamentionedinthelastparagraph?A.BecauseIndiaisatypicalcountrywhospeaksEnglishasasecondlanguagebecauseofitslongbeingruledbyBritain.B.BecauseIndiahasaverylargenumberofEnglishspeakers.C.BecauseIndiaisacountrywhereEnglishplaysaveryimportantroleinsociallife.D.BecauseIndiahasalonghistoryofcommunicationwithBritain.Para5A

Thewritingstyleofthearticle______.A.Narration（記敘文）B.Exposition（說(shuō)明文）C.Argumentation（議論文）2.Thetextisdevelopedmainlyby____.

A.placeB.timeC.people1.

Englishhas/hadthemostspeakers____.nowwhentheBritishruledmanypartsoftheworldC.inthetimeofShakespeare

D.inthe12thcentury2.Whichofthefollowingstatementistrue?Languagesalwaysstaythesame.Languageschangeonlyafterwars.Languagesnolongerchange.Languageschangewhencultureschange.A

D

Choosethecorrectanswer.3.

FromAD450to1150,English

soundedmorelike_____.

A.

FrenchB.Chinese

C.GermanD.Russian4.Shakespeare’sEnglishwasspoken

around

_____.A.1400’sB.1150’sC.450’sD.1600’s5.Whichcountryhasthefastestgrowing

numberofEnglishspeakersintheworld?A.AustraliaB.ChinaC.IndiaD.BritainC

D

B

LanguagePoints1.NearlyallofthemlivedinEngland.nearlyadv.幾乎，差不多翻譯：盡管快80歲了，他還是十分活躍。Althoughheisnearly80,heisstillveryactive.翻譯：海灘幾乎是空蕩蕩的。Thebeachwasnearlyempty.nearly和almost的區(qū)別：(1)只用almost的場(chǎng)合

和any,no,nothing,none,never等否定詞連用時(shí)。翻譯：那里幾乎沒(méi)有人了。e.g.Thereisalmostnoneleft.(2)只用nearly的場(chǎng)合a.被very,not,pretty等修飾時(shí)。“notnearly”表示“遠(yuǎn)非，完全不”b.和具體數(shù)字連用時(shí)(nearly常用)。如:Nearly100studentsattendedthemeeting.用nearly或almost填空1.Hesaid______nothinginteresting.2.______1,000peoplewerehere.3.Therearenot_____enoughbooksforthewholeclass.4.Ihave_____nothingtodotoday.almostNearlynearlyalmost2.voyage

n.意為“旅行,航行”。v.航行，航海make/take/goonavoyage

進(jìn)行航行eg:翻譯：我希望進(jìn)行一次海上旅行。Ihopetomake/take/goonaseavoyage.voyage表示“到某地航行”時(shí)，加介詞to。eg:航行到英國(guó)要花一周時(shí)間。_____________________willtakeusaweek.ThevoyagetoEngland返航：thereturnvoyage試航：thetrialvoyage辨析：voyage,journey,tour,trip,travelvoyage指海上或者空中“旅行”，航行n,vjourney指遠(yuǎn)距離陸路“旅行”ntour指“觀光旅游，巡演，巡視”ntrip指“短途旅游，往返某地”ntravel指“長(zhǎng)距離旅行”,n,veg:Theshipsetoutonalong______.eg:Theywentonalongtrain

______acrossIndia.eg:Thesingersareonatwo-month___ofEurope.eg:OnThursdaywewentoutonaday___.eg:Hehadto____thecountryinsearchofwork.voyagejourneytourtriptravel3.becauseof

+名詞/動(dòng)名詞短語(yǔ)；

because

+句子。翻譯：因?yàn)槟愕年P(guān)心,我發(fā)現(xiàn)生活充滿了希望。Because

ofyourconcern,Ifindthatlifeisfullofhope.Becauseyouareconcernedaboutme,Ifindthatlifeisfullofhope.4.NativeEnglishspeakerscanunderstandeachothereveniftheydon’tspeakthesamekindofEnglish.evenif=eventhough“即使”,引導(dǎo)讓步狀語(yǔ)從句,但是evenif/though引導(dǎo)的從句不用將來(lái)時(shí)。翻譯：即使明天下雨，我們也要去北京。eg:Evenifitrainstomorrow,wewillleaveforBeijing.

evenif從句所說(shuō)的不那么肯定。

eventhough從句是事實(shí)。e.g.Evenifheispoor,sheloveshim.

(=Hemaybepoor,yetsheloveshim.)(Even)thoughheispoor,sheloveshim.

(=Heispoor,yetsheloveshim.)Whentalkingtoafriendoverthetelephone,youfeelthatyouareclose_______theactualdistanceisnotshortened.A.asifB.evenifC.soD.becauseB小試牛刀①Achildcameuptomeandshowedmethewaytothestation.②Thesuncomesupintheeast.

Newshootsofbamboowillcome

up

fromaroundtherootsoftheoldones.Yourquestioncame

e

up上來(lái),走近;發(fā)芽;被提出;升起走近,上來(lái)

升起被提出（2012浙江高考）---Alvin,areyoucomingwithus?----I'dloveto,butsomethingunexpected___A.hascomeupB.wascomeupC.wouldcomeupD.hadcomeupA6.ItwasbasedmoreonGermanthantheEnglishwespeakatpresent.當(dāng)時(shí)的英語(yǔ)更多的是以德語(yǔ)為基礎(chǔ)的,而現(xiàn)代英語(yǔ)不是。1)basev.

意為“以……為根據(jù),把基礎(chǔ)設(shè)在……”,常構(gòu)成短語(yǔ)basesth.on/uponsth。如：Thisnovelisbasedonfact.這部小說(shuō)是以事實(shí)為根據(jù)的。翻譯：這部影片是以戴赫勞倫斯的一部小說(shuō)為依據(jù)。ThisfilmisbasedonanovelwrittenbyD.H.Lawrence.[拓展]base還可用作名詞,意為“底部,基地,基礎(chǔ)”等。如:eg:ManylanguageshaveLatinastheirbase.翻譯：這座塔底部有一個(gè)門(mén)。eg:Thereisadooratthebaseofthetower.2)presentadj.

當(dāng)前的,現(xiàn)在的(作前置定語(yǔ))Didyouseethepresentnationalleaders?Canyoutellussomethingaboutthepresentsituation?出席的,在場(chǎng)的(作表語(yǔ)或后置定語(yǔ))Ourteacherwaspresentatthemeeting.Allthepeoplepresentagreetomyplan.

present

n.

目前,現(xiàn)在;禮物Whatpresentdidyoureceivefromyourparents?at

present:

now;atthistime/momenteg:She’sbusyat

presentandcan’tspeaktoyou.翻譯：目前他是劍橋大學(xué)的數(shù)學(xué)教授。At

presentheisaprofessorofmathematicsatCambridge.present

vt.

贈(zèng)與，給，提出presentsb.withsth.或presentsth.tosb.把……交給,頒發(fā),授予如:Motherpresentedagifttomejustnow.Onhisbirthday,hisfriendspresented

himwithaseriesofReaders.(送給他一套《讀者》)

presenteda