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1、Book 8 Module 4Which EnglishReading and Vocabulary vocabulary Reading summary Which EnglishVocabularyinstantlyrecognisabledialectcockneytellapartmatteradv. 立即,马上立即,马上adj. 能认出的能认出的n. 方言,地方话方言,地方话n. 伦敦东区土话伦敦东区土话 区分开区分开v. 重要,要紧,有关系重要,要紧,有关系as long ascounttraceuniquelie inintonation只要只要v. 很重要,很有价值很重要,很有
2、价值n. 痕迹,踪迹痕迹,踪迹adj. 独一无二的,独特的独一无二的,独特的在于在于n. 语调语调authorancestorapostrophelinkrhythmbilingualdebaten. 作家,作者作家,作者n. 祖先,前辈祖先,前辈n. 表示所有格的撇号表示所有格的撇号n. 联系联系n. 节奏,韵律节奏,韵律adj. 双语的双语的n. 讨论,辩论讨论,辩论1. In how many countries is English used as a native language?2. In how many countries is English used as a secon
3、d language?3. Is English spoken in English-speaking countries the same or different?ReadingWant to check your answer? Lets read this passage.Tip:Pay attention to the title. Listen to the tape of prat1 the fist three paragraph in the text and summary the main idea of each paragraphScanningI.Which sta
4、tement express the general idea of each paragraph at the beginning of the text.1.Para. One: A. Everybody is unique. B. One can be recognized by his use of English. C. English varies from speaker to speaker. D. Every language has different speaker. 2. Para. Two: A. English is officially spoken. B. En
5、glish varies from place to place. C. English accent reveals ones identity. D. Different countries speak different Englishes.3. Para. Three: A. Standard English varies with speakers. B. Everyone English is correct. C. The English-speaking situation is confusing. D. In English, correctness gives way t
6、o communication.(a) How many varieties of English are there? Many. There are varieties of more than 60 countries where English is the official language, plus many other local and regional varieties within those countries.(b) In how many countries is English an official language? More than 601. What
7、makes a person instantly recognizable through a phone call? It is the quality of someones voice and the choice of words that make him/her recognizable.2. Why is it impossible to say which English is correct and which is incorrect? Because there is not a standard form that everyone can agree on. Engl
8、ish spread across the world for many reasons and this process produced many varieties of English. Whats important is not correctness but understanding each other. Listen the tape of the part2 Australia. and try you best to get the useful information.Skimming1. Which of the following did NOT con-trib
9、ute to Australian English? A. The Irish accent. B. Cockney. C. The Aboriginal English. D. American English.2. Which is an example showing the Australian way of word choice? A. Gday! Dya speak Strine? B. Emma Chissit. C. To Emma Chissit, with best wishes. D. How much is it?word choice ?NOTII. Answer
10、the questions3. Where did the first Australian English speakers come from? Most of them came from all over Britain, especially from Northern Ireland and London area.4. What are the differences between Australian English and other varieties of English? Is it easy to understand? Sounds and intonation
11、patterns, which make it difficult to understand. Listen the tape of the part3 Jamaica and Singapore. and try you best to get the useful information.Skimming1. What are the grammatical features of Jamaican English? One feather is that there is often no apostrophe or link verb or article. Another feat
12、ure is the different rhythm.2. What has influenced Singlish? Singlish has been influenced by Malay and the Chinese dialect Hokkien.Intensive readingIII. Find the paragraph where each of these idea comes from (Activity 3 on page 46). Sentence 1 comes from paragraph Sentence 2 comes from paragraph Sen
13、tence 3 comes from paragraph Sentence 4 comes from paragraph Sentence 5 comes from paragraph Sentence 6 comes from paragraph Sentence 7 comes from paragraph53716421. You can tell where someone comes from by the way they speak.2. Most people agree there is only one correct way to speaking English.3.
14、British English is spoken in more than 50 countries across the world.4. Australian English is only about 200 years old.FTFnot60THow many varieties of English are there? Many. There are varieties of more than 60 countries where English is the official language, plus many other local and regional vari
15、eties within those countries.How many countries use English as official language?More than 60. V. Read the passage again and check the true statements and correct the fault ones.QuestionQuestion5. There are some Aboriginal words on English.6. Australian English is easy to understand.7. The grammar o
16、f Jamaican English is the same as that of British English.8. Singlish is the official language of Singapore.9. Singlish contains words of Chinese origin.TTFFFdifficultnotsecond1. Why has English become an international language with so many varieties? Because of hundreds of years of trade, explorati
17、on and business.2. Why does the writer think communication is more important than correctness? Because its more important that people understand each other than they speak grammatically correctly.3. Why did How much is it sound like Emma Chissit to the English author? Because the Australian pronunci
18、ation is different to the British pronunciation of English.4. Why do you think the Speak Good English movement was created in 1999?Because officials were worried that Singlish was becoming too far away from British English to be understandable.summaryI. Fill in the blanks with the words and phases c
19、oming from the text. When we _ (接到一个电话), we can recognize a person from _ _(音质和他的用词). _ (在这个意义上),we say everyones use of language is different. There are _ (多种英语) or any other for that matter, as there are speakers of it. English is spoken as an _ (官方语言) in more than 60 countries, and it can _ _ (因地
20、方的不同听起来非常不同). It is easy for us to _ (区分英国英语与美国英语).receive a phone callthe quality of his /her voice and the choice of wordsIn this senseas many varieties of Englishofficial languagesound very differentfrom place to placetell British English and American English There is not really a _ (标准形式) that e
21、veryone can _ (同意), and English is _ (广泛地使用), so it is hard to tell which English is correct and which is incorrect. _(只要) speakers can understand each other, correctness _ (无关紧要). Australian English has traces of both Irish and cockney speech patterns, because the first speakers were prisoners who
22、_ (来自不列颠各地). Many of the Aboriginal words _ (成为的一部分) the language.standard formagree on Widely spokenAs long asdoesnt mattercome from all over Britainpassed into But the main differences _ (在于) individual sounds and intonation patterns. In Jamaica, _ (情况不同). The variety of English has some of the _
23、(语法特征) of the African language. In Singapore, English is spoken by about _ (半数人口). Sentences often _ (以结束)the word lah. Singlish has been influenced _ (尤其)by Malay and the Chinese dialect Hokkien. lie inthis is not the casegrammatical featureshalf the populationend within particularRevisionWhat have we learn in this lesson?gotten some useful information. learnt some new words.practiced reading skill.We have
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