英语必修一Workbook.ppt

Unit 2 Look at the map showing some of the places in the world where English is spoken as an official language and guess what you will hear in the tape? Location, climate, people, custom, history, places of interest, and so on. The name of each speakers country Speaker 1 is from India. Speaker 2 is from the USA. Speaker 3 is from Jamaica. Speaker 4 is from Ireland. Speaker 5 is from Philippines. Speaker 6 is from Singapore. The hints that help to identify the speaker Speaker 1 South Asia, a billion people , use English, British rulers Speaker 2 Fat Tuesday, New Orleans, Speaker 3 a beautiful island Speaker 4 a huge green island in western Europe, British rulers Speaker 5 more than 7,000 islands, American rulers Speaker 6 very small, southeast Asia, very rich S1: I live in South Asia.My country is thousand of years old and now has more than a billion people. Unlike many other countries, our people speak a lot of languages.So we use English, which we got from British rulers hundreds of years ago,to understand our neighbours. Listening text Of course, we have our own way of using English. S2: One of my grandmothers speakers French. Her grandmother came from some place in Canada. I like to listen to her talk, although I dont understand much of what she says. Her English is also hard to understand. She cooks delicious food, so I spend a lot of time in the kitchen with her whenever I visit her. I plan to see her again for a special holiday called Fat Tuesday. We will go to New Orleans, Which is near the sea. People will dance in the streets all day and night. S3: Well,I dont live very far from the last student who spoken to you. But I live on a beautiful island where the sun shines most of the year. Its not the biggest island in the sea but its not the smallest island, either. We also got English from British rulers a long time age, and use it in a different way. I think our English sounds a little like our music. Some people say I speak a dialect of English,but I dont agree. To us, its more like another language. S4: I live on a huge green island in western Europe. hundreds of years age my people spoke a very different language from English. Then the British rulers came. Now the old language is spoken in only a few villages in the western part of my country. Most of us speak a lovely kind of English that also sounds a little like our music. S5: My country has more than 7,000islands. Some of them are very large but most of them are quite small. Hundreds of years ago the Spanish rulers changed the way we live. Much later the American rulers taught their own kind of English in our school. Nowadays, we speak a kind of English but is mostly our own. S6:My country is very small. In fact, its really a city. It is in southeast Asia and is very rich. People come from all over Asia to do business here. But our English comes from worker on the street. Some people in my country dont like the sound of this English. They would rather speak British English. Today, you can hear our kind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that come here. The Oxford English Dictionary Do you know who is the writer of The Oxford English Dictionary? James Murray, Samuel Johnson, and Noah Webster. James Murray Noah Webster Samuel Johnson Note on James Murrays life Country Education Job Most important task It difficulties: Qualities needed: Who worked on it Date of completion Other information Notes on James Murrays life CountryBorn in Scotland Education No formal education;taught himself while working Most important task Compiling the first edition of the OED Its difficulties: 1.worked in a shed in his garden and behind his house 2.very cold as it was one meter underground Notes on James Murrays life Most importa nt task 3.no heating;he had to wear a coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm 4.no electric light;he worked at night with candles Qualities needed: 1) commitment 2) perseverance 3) accuracy Who worked on it At first just James Murray;later his two daughters;finished by other editors after his death Date of completion 1928 Other information First edition took forty- four years to compile 1. So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same. 2. 2. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today was not made until the time of the Qing Dynasty. 3. These men spent nearly all of their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries. 4. The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short. 5. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. 6. He worked on the dictionary until he was very old. I m sorry 小张在公交车上不小心踏了老外的脚，心 想咱不能给中国人丢脸，于是卯足了劲说了 句英文：“Im sorry.” 老外一想：在人家国土上咱不能不礼貌 。于是忙点头道：“Im sorry too.” 小张一听急了：以为我不会数数？咬牙 道：“Im sorry three.” 老外大惑不解：“what are you sorry for ？” 小张心想好啊连FOUR也出来了，老 子和你拼了: “Im sorry five!” pThere are more than 42 countries where the majority of the people speak English. pMore than 1.5 billion people can speak English in the world. pOver 70% international trade is made by English. pAbout 60% of the worlds radio broadcast use English . Memory challenge 1. How many countries are there where the majority of the people speak English? 2. How many people can speak English in the world? 3. How many international trade is made by English? 4. How many the worlds radio broadcast use English ? Answer the following questions English is the language most widely _ and _ in the world. It becomes more and more important To have a good knowledge of English. spokenused Summary Im learning English now. Guessing Why does YaoMing learn English ? Come to the blackboard and write down your ideas , trying to use complete sentences, such as : If I learn English well , I can bring in the advanced foreign technology to China. So China will become much stronger. I decide to learn English well , in this case I can read many English novels , so I can translate them into Chinese, then more and more Chinese can study English . Write a short essay : Do we need to learn English? structure Your point of view reasons and supporting ideas conclusion Do we need to learn English? I strongly think we not only need learn English but also