高中英语必修5Module1Period1WordswordswordsandothersWord格式.docx

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●TolearnaboutBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish

●Tolearntoreadwithstrategies

Procedures

▇WarmingupbylearningabouttheEnglishlanguage

EnglishisaWestGermaniclanguagethatoriginatesfromEnglandandisspokenintheUnitedKingdom,UnitedStates,Canada,Australia,NewZealand,Ireland,SouthAfrica,andmanyothercountries.Englishisnowthethird-mostspokennativelanguageworldwide（afterChineseandHindi）,withsome380millionspeakers.Ithaslinguafrancastatusinmanypartsoftheworld,duetothemilitary,economic,scientific,politicalandculturalinfluenceoftheBritishEmpireinthe18th,19thandearly20thcenturiesandthatoftheUnitedStatesfromthemid-20thcenturytothepresent.ThroughtheglobalinfluenceofnativeEnglishspeakersincinema,airlines,broadcasting,science,andtheInternetinrecentdecades,Englishisnowthemostwidelylearnedsecondlanguageintheworld.ManystudentsworldwidearerequiredtolearnsomeEnglish,andaworkingknowledgeofEnglishisrequiredinmanyfieldsandoccupations.

▇Beforeyouread

Beforewetakeupthetextpleasegooverthewordlistforthismodule,payingattentiontothepronunciationoftheword,therelationshipbetweenitspronunciationanditsspelling.

▇Whileyouread

Whilereadingthetexttrytocut/thesentencesintothoughtgroups,blackenthepredicates,underlinetheusefulexpressionsanddarkentheconnectives.

▇Afteryouread

AfterreadingyoumaycopyalltheusefulexpressionsintoyourExpressionBookandmakeyourownsentenceswiththem.

Words,words，words

BritishandAmericanEnglish,bedifferentinmanyways,thefirstandmostobviousway,inthevocabulary,hundredsofdifferentwords,beusedontheothersideoftheAtlantic,beusedwithadifferentmeaning,driveautomobilesdownfreeways,fillupwithgas,drivecarsalongmotorways,fillupwithpetrol,asatourist,usetheundergroundinLondonorthesubwayinNewYork,prefertogetaroundthetownbytaxi（British）orcab（American）

ChipsorFrenchfries?

useaflashlight,queueup,standinline,haveaslightlydifferentmeaning,piecesofhotfriedpotatoinBritain,intheStates,besoldinpackets,Frenchfries,ontheothersideoftheAtlantic

Haveorhavegot?

afewdifferencesingrammar,pare…with…,ontheteam,ontheweekend（American）,intheteam,attheweekend（British）,useprepositions,omitthem

Colourorcolor?

Theothertwoareasinwhichthetwovarietiesdifferarespellingandpronunciation.Americanspellingseemssimpler:

center,colorandprograminsteadofcentre,colourandprogramme.ManyfactorshaveinfluencedAmericanpronunciationsincethefirstsettlersarrivedfourhundredyearsago.Theaccent,whichismostsimilartoBritishEnglish,canbeheardontheEastCoastoftheUS.WhentheIrishwriterGeorgeBernardShawmadethefamousremarkthattheBritishandtheAmericansaretwonationsdividedbyamonlanguage,hewasobviouslythinkingaboutthedifferences.Butaretheyreallysoimportant?

Afterall,thereisprobablyasmuchvariationofpronunciationwithinthetwocountriesasbetweenthem.ALondonerhasmoredifficultyunderstandingaScotsmanfromGlasgowthanunderstandingaNewYorker.

oftheAtlantic.

TurnontheTV

moveclosertogether,formorethanacentury,municationsacrosstheAtlantic,developsteadily,sincethe1980s，withsatelliteTVandtheInternet，listentoBritishandAmericanEnglish,attheflickofaswitch,non-stopmunication,makeiteasierfor…todo…,understandeachother,leadto…,lotsofAmericanwordsandstructures,passintoBritishEnglish,turnon…,speakwithdifferentaccents,thebest-knownfaces,growupspeakingChinese,theinternationaldimension,inthefuture,twomainvarieties,usersofEnglish,understandeachother

■Readingagaintotransferinformation

Youaretoreadthetextonceagaintopletethetablewithnecessaryinformationfromit.

BritishandAmericanEnglish

HowareBritishandAmericanEnglishdifferentinthevocabulary?

Someofthesewordsarewellknown--Americansdriveautomobilesdownfreewaysandfillupwithgas；

theBritishdrivecarsalongmotorwaysandfillupwithpetrol.

Butotherwordsandexpressionsarenotsowellknown．Americansuseaflashlight,whilefortheBritish，it'

satorch.TheBritishqueueup;

Americansstandinline.

HowareBritishandAmericanEnglishdifferentingrammar?

TheBritishsayHaveyougot…？

whileAmericanspreferDoyouhave…？

AnAmericanmightsayMyfriendjustarrived,butaBritishpersonwouldsayMyfriendhasjustarrived.Prepositions,too,canbedifferent:

pareontheteam,ontheweekend（American）withintheteam,attheweekend（British）.

Whataboutspellingandpronunciationinwhichthetwovar