外研版 英语选修8 Module 4 Which English课件（14张ppt)

Module 4 Which English

Teaching aims
Ability aims:
To improve listening, reading
and writing.
Affective aims:
Inspire students to like English.
Knowledge aims:
Know about the varieties of English and go over adverbials and adverbial clauses.



Step 1. Grammar
Step 2. Debate

curious (curiosity)
let sb down
as long as
complain about
be convinced
连词成篇

adverbials and adverbial clauses

There are three ways in which people learn English.
Native speakers learn English as a First Language . They have started learning it_____ hearing it and speaking it ________ they were born.
_______ your parents move to an English- speaking country, you learn English as a Second Language. In this case, even if you probably still speak your mother tongue at home, you have to speak English outside. This is quite an easy way to learn English_________ you hear it all the time.

by
since
When
because

___you are born in another country, and you only learn English as one of your subjects at school, you will learn English as a Foreign Language. ________ (how) much you are eager to communicate in English, you can seldom hear it outside the classroom. As ___ result, this is the most difficult way to learn a language.
To our delight, _____ the Internet available, _______ (create) opportunities of using English is so easy _____ we can make good use of them to learn English.

a
with
creating
that
However
If
as the Internet is available
Language experts say that speaking English was almost the same in America and Britain 200 years before. Americans began to change the sound of their speech after the Revolutionary War on 1776.
Webster wrote that the pronunciation of words should be base on their spelling. This is because Americans use “e-r” instead “r-e” to end a word. Compared with British English ,American English is much easy for foreigners to learn it. Settlers from other country also helped make American and British English differently.

spoken
ago
in
based
why
of
easier
countries
different
Would it be much easier if everyone in the world just spoke English?

1. Life would be more convenient, ______ all of us chose the same language to talk and write.
2. Business and politics would be easier, ____ communication could be done correctly.
3. There would be no need for translators, ______(make) International meetings faster and cheaper.
if
as
making

1. If everyone spoke just English, we would lose many colorful cultures, thus _____ (make) the world a less interesting place to live in.
2. If everyone spoke just English, people would lose their national identity (国民同一性).

making


Although it would make life convenient, it would also make the world a less interesting place to live in. We need cultural diversity(多样性) to make our life colorful.
conclusion
Write down a composition