高中英语 English competition-part1 paragraph reciting课件 新人教版必修1

1、Part OneRules:1.Make sure you can recite the whole paragraph.2.You can get higher scores if you can recite it fluently, loudly, clearly, with facial expressions and gestures.3. To make it easier, you are allowed to go through the whole paragraph in one minute before reciting. Eliminate 8 contestants

2、.123456Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts? Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are going through? Anne Frank wanted the first kind, so she made her diary her best friend.OneOneFor example

3、, one evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven in order to have a good look at the moon by myself. But as the moon gave far too much light, I didnt dare open a window. Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk when the window was open. I did

4、nt go downstairs until the window had to be shut. The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power; it was the first time in a year and a half that Id seen the night face to face TwoTwoAt the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke En

5、glish. Nearly all of them lived in England. Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and because of that, English began to be spoken in many countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language than ever befor

6、e.ThreeThreeWhat is standard English? Is it spoken in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand? Believe it or not, there is no such thing as standard English. Many people believe the English spoken on TV and the radio is the standard English. This is because in the early days of rad

7、io, those who reported the news were expected to speak excellent English. However, on TV and the radio you will hear differences in the way people speak.FourFourGeography also plays a part in making dialects. Some people who live in the mountains of the eastern USA speak with an older kind of Englis

8、h dialect. When Americans moved from one place to another, they took their dialects with them. So people from the mountains in the southeastern USA speak with almost the same dialect as people in the northwestern USA. The USA is a large country in which many different dialects are spoken. Although m

9、any Americans move a lot, they still recognize and understand each others dialects.FiveFiveSeveral months before our trip, Wang Wei and I went to the library. We found a large atlas with good maps that showed details of world geography. From the atlas we could see that the Mekong River begins in a g

10、lacier on a Tibetan mountain. At first the river is small and the water is clear and cold. Then it begins to move quickly. It becomes rapids as it passes through deep valleys, travelling across western Yunnan Province. Sometimes the river becomes a waterfall and enters wide valleys. We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in China. After it leaves China and high altitude, the Mekong becomes wide, brown and warm. As it enters Southeast Asia, its pace slows. It makes wide bends or meanders through