课件14张PPT。Unit 2 English around the world
第一学时 Reading and Comprehension?Task 1快速阅读课文The Road to Modern English, 用大约30词写出课文的概要。
温馨提示: 本文属说明文。写说明文的概要时要紧扣文章的话题,用浓缩的语言说明某一现象及其原因。
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________________________________________________________________________English's position as a world language has been confirmed, as more and more Asians and Africans speak English as a foreign or a second language.仔细阅读课文The Road to Modern English,根据课文内容选择最佳答案。
1.According to the text,which of the following statements 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.?Task 2答案:D2.From AD 450 to 1150,English sounded more like________.
A.French B.Chinese
C.German D.Russian答案:C3.Shakespear's English was spoken around________.
A.1400's B.1150's
C.450's D.1600's
答案:D4.Which country has the fastest growing number of English speakers in the world?
A.Australia. B.China.
C.India. D.Britain.答案:B5.What's the main idea of the passage?
A.China has the largest number of English learners.
B.Languages always change.
C.English is easy to learn.
D.The development of modern English.答案:D?Task 3答案:1.AD2.based3.Danish;language;vocabulary4.million答案:5.voyages6.America;Australia7.Settled答案:8.India;Singapore;Malaysia;South Africa9.changing;developing;all over?Task 4根据课文内容完成下列语法填空,注意单词拼写和词语用法。
At the end of the 16th century,English was only spoken by people from England.They were native speakers.Today,the largest number of people 1.________(speak)English may be in China.A lot of Chinese people speak English 2.________their foreign language.speakingas 3.________English language has changed quite a lot over the last four centuries.Old English sounds more 4.____less like German for it was 5._____(base)on German,but modern English sounds more like French than German 6.________England was once ruled by the French.
Two people had great effects on the English changes.One was Shakespeare,who 7.________(large)the 8._________;the other was Noah Webster, 9._______wrote a dictionary 10.__________gave American English its identity.Theorbasedbecauseenlargedvocabularywhothat/which