English Around the World

the USA

Canada

New Zealand

AustraliaSouth Africa

the United Kingdom

Ireland

Br E & Am.E

the prime minister of the UK.

the president

of the USA.

David William Donald Cameron

Shall we go to the pub to celebrate our agreement?

Wow, bar is a nice place.

Wow, I want a tin of Coke, some biscuits and sweets. What about you, Obama?

Well, I want a can of milk tea, some cookies and some candy.

Great. I like football match very much.

After that, let’s go and see a soccer game. It is very exciting.

Time to go. Let’s go to the elevator together.

Oh no, the lift must be full of people this time.

Chinese BrE AmElift elevator

petrol gas, gasoline

flat apartment

autumn fall

underground subway

university college

rubbish garbage

dustbin trash can

holiday vacation

fortnight two weeks

电梯汽油公寓秋天地铁大学垃圾垃圾箱假期两周

Do you know the American way ofsaying the following words

post mail

rubber eraser

I think I guess

toilet washroom

film movie

pen-friend pen-pal

football soccer

chemist’s drugstore

Go to the picturesGo to the movies

trousers pants

holiday vacation

1.vocabulary1.vocabulary

the ground floorthe first floor

Am E

neighborhood

labor

color

honorable

humor

favorite

theater

Kilometer

center

Br E

neighbourhood

labour

colour

honourable

humour

favourite

theatre

kilometre

centre

2.spelling2.spelling

Am E

realise

apologiseProgrammetraveler

Br E

realize

apologize

program traveller

BrE AmE

The differences between British English and American English.

vocabularyvocabulary

spellingspelling

3.pronunciation3.pronunciationdance [da:ns] dance[ddance [da:ns] dance[dæns]æns]askasknot [not] not [na:t]not [not] not [na:t]box box neither; either

4.grammar

• I haven’t got any ink. I don’t have any ink.

• Have you got a car? Do you have a car?

Unit Two: English around the world

(Reading)

The road to modern English

The Road to Modern English

?The __________of Modern Englishdevelopment

How modern English came into being.How modern English was born.

A.DevelopmentB.way

Skimming to get

general ideas

1. The writing style of the article______.

A. Narration （记叙文）B. Exposition （说明文）C. Argumentation （议论文）

2. The text is developed mainly by ____.

A. place B. time C. people

2 What is the topic sentence ?

Usually the first or the last sentence in the para…

Para 1

Many people all over the world speak English.

Skimming: fast reading for main idea

Para 1

Para 2

Para 3

Para 5

Many people all over the world speak English.

Native language speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English.

Why has English changed over time?

English is spoken as a foreign language or second language in South Asia.

Skimming ( 略读 )- topic sentence

Para 4 Finally by the 19th century the language was settled.

Task 2

time numbers places kinds

16th century

17th century

today

5-7 millionEngland

First language/

Native language/

Mother tongue

More than 7 million

Many other countries/other parts of the world

Second language

More peopleAll over the world

A foreign language

Para 1

Time How is English developed?

Between about ______ and _____

Spoken in ________ and based more on _____.

Between about _____and ____

_______and ______ enriched the English _______ and especially its ________

At the end of _____ century

About __________________ people spoke English

In the ____ century Used by more people as the result of the _______ to conquer other parts of the world

Later in the ___ century

Began to be spoken in ______ and ______

By the ___ century Settled by two _________

AD450 1150England

German

AD800 1150Danish French

language

vocabulary

16thfive to seven million

17thvoyages

18th AmericaAustralia

19th dictionaries

Para 3-5

Time How is English developed?

now Spoken in countries such as China,______, _________, ________ and __________ as a foreign or second language

In a word, English is ________ and _________ over time and is spoken ___________ the world.

India Singapore

changing

South Africa

developingall over

Malaysia

1.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

2. From AD 450 to 1150, English

sounded more like_____?

A. French B. Chinese

C. German D. Russian

3. Shakespeare’s English was spoken

around ______?

A. 1400’s B. 1150’s

C. 450’s D. 1600’s

4. Which country has the fastest

growing number of English speakers in

the world?

A. Australia

B. China

C. India

D. Britain

True (T) or false (F). Page 10

At the end of the 16th century, about seven million

people spoke English. Nearly all of them lived in

________ As people from England started ____

__ to other parts of the world ,English began to be

______ in many other countries. Now more people

speak English than ever_______. ________English

speakers can understand each other even ___they d

on’t speak _____same kind of English . _______, t

hey may not be able to understand everything.

Native

if theHowever

England. moving

spoken before

Retell the text by filling in the blanks.

All languages change when ________ communicaAll languages change when ________ communica

te with each other. Now American English and Ate with each other. Now American English and A

ustralian English have their own_______. ustralian English have their own_______.

English is also spoken in many other countries in English is also spoken in many other countries in

Africa and______, such____ South Africa, IndiaAfrica and______, such____ South Africa, India

n, Singapore and Malaysia. Today the number of n, Singapore and Malaysia. Today the number of

the people in China ___ increasing _______. In fthe people in China ___ increasing _______. In f

uture Chinese English will become one of the wouture Chinese English will become one of the wo

rld Englishes.rld Englishes.

cultures

identity

Asia

as

is rapidly

Samuel Johnson

Born: September 18, 1709

One of the English language’s most profound influences.

Two important persons

Noah Webster Born: October 16, 1758Died: 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.