unit 2 English around the world

课件18张PPT。Integrating skills and writingUnit 2 English around the worldThe word “bathroom” in British English means
________
While in American English it means ____________toileta place for showerAMERICAN ENGLISHANDBRITISH ENGLISHQuestions:
1. When did America become an independent
country?
2. Where did the word “fall” (meaning" autumn” ) first come from?
3.Who wrote the first American dictionary? And when?
In 1776Noah Webster in 1828Fast reading The word “fall” first came from England.George WashingtonAmerican War of Independence (1775---1783)George Washington was the commander（指挥）of the American army during the Revolutionary War Time:Noah Webster
(1758—1843)American Dictionary of the English Language
(published in 1828 )Main idea of the text:
The text mainly tells the differences between American English and British English in ________ _________ and ___________.vocabularyspellingpronunciationCareful readingEnglishwordswaysfallI thinktornadocolorcentretravelerAmerican EnglishBritish EnglishvocabularyspellingpronunciationVocabularyapartmentflatelevatorliftvacationholidaysubwayundergroundfirst floorground floor
gas/gasolinepetrol collegeuniversitykidchildcandysweetstwo weeksfortnightpantstrouserssoccerfootballmoviefilm1.After independence from England, _________________________________________________________________________.
2.At the same time, both started _____________________________
__________________________
3.Noah Webster__________________________________________________________.the language in America stayed the same, while the language in England changed.borrowing words from other languages, published his dictionary to make American English different from British English.How did these differences come about?ending up with different words.Fill in the following chartAmerican Englishwordborrowed fromcentFloridahowlcookbookold FrenchSpanishIndiaGermanCan you guess from which Chinese words do these English words borrow?台风
中国功夫
风水
荔枝
豆腐
太极
麻将
炒锅typhoon
kungfu
fengshui
litchi
tofu
taichi
mah-jong
wokFill in the blanks
There are some differences between American English and British English in vocabulary, ______ and _____________. Sometimes, the same word means different things just like the word “______”, sometimes different words mean the ______ thing like the words “______” and “autumn”, and sometimes the same word has different _________ like the word “dance”.
spellingpronunciationbathroomsamefallpronunciationHow did these differences ______ ______? Because languages are changing and so ______ English. American English has changed ______ the centuries. It’s really a mixture(混合）of different languages. Most of the words and expressions come from ______ English, some are from Webster’s ________ and some are from other languages such as _________ , Spanish or ______. If we know the differences, we can learn English better.
Germanold FrenchdictionaryBritishoveriscome aboutWrite a short passage, comparing American and British English or comparing Putonghua and the dialect in your hometown.Writing The structure of this composition:
Title What are you go to write about?
Paragraph 1 Introduction: Are the differences
big or small?

Paragraph 2 Differences in Grammar and
Vocabulary. Give some examples
Paragraph 3 Differences in Pronunciation.
Add a conclusion.See you!