高中英语必修5Module1Period1WordswordswordsandothersWord格式.docx

1、 To learn about British English and American English To learn to read with strategiesProceduresWarming up by learning about the English languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that originates from England and is spoken in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland

2、, South Africa, and many other countries. English is now the third-most spoken native language worldwide （after Chinese and Hindi）, with some 380 million speakers. It has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of t

3、he British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid-20th century to the present. Through the global influence of native English speakers in cinema, airlines, broadcasting, science, and the Internet in recent decades, English is now the most widely

4、learned second language in the world. Many students worldwide are required to learn some English, and a working knowledge of English is required in many fields and occupations.Before you readBefore we take up the text please go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciatio

5、n of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling.While you readWhile reading the text try to cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives.After you readAfter reading you may copy all the useful e

6、xpressions into your Expression Book and make your own sentences with them.Words, words，wordsBritish and American English, be different in many ways, the first and most obvious way, in the vocabulary, hundreds of different words, be used on the other side of the Atlantic, be used with a different me

7、aning, drive automobiles down freeways, fill up with gas, drive cars along motorways, fill up with petrol, as a tourist, use the underground in London or the subway in New York, prefer to get around the town by taxi （British） or cab （American）Chips or French fries?use a flashlight, queue up, stand i

8、n line, have a slightly different meaning, pieces of hot fried potato in Britain, in the States, be sold in packets, French fries, on the other side of the AtlanticHave or have got?a few differences in grammar, pare with, on the team, on the weekend （American）, in the team, at the weekend （British）,

9、 use prepositions, omit themColour or color?The other two areas in which the two varieties differ are spelling and pronunciation. American spelling seems simpler: center, color and program instead of centre, colour and programme. Many factors have influenced American pronunciation since the first se

10、ttlers arrived four hundred years ago. The accent, which is most similar to British English, can be heard on the East Coast of the US. When the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw made the famous remark that the British and the Americans are two nations divided by a mon language, he was obviously think

11、ing about the differences. But are they really so important? After all, there is probably as much variation of pronunciation within the two countries as between them. A Londoner has more difficulty understanding a Scotsman from Glasgow than understanding a New Yorker.of the Atlantic.Turn on the TVmo

12、ve closer together, for more than a century, munications across the Atlantic, develop steadily, since the 1980s，with satellite TV and the Internet，listen to British and American English, at the flick of a switch, non-stop munication, make it easier forto do, understand each other, lead to, lots of A

13、merican words and structures, pass into British English, turn on , speak with different accents, the best-known faces, grow up speaking Chinese, the international dimension, in the future, two main varieties, users of English, understand each other Reading again to transfer informationYou are to rea

14、d the text once again to plete the table with necessary information from it.British and American EnglishHow are British and American English different in the vocabulary?Some of these words are well known - Americans drive automobiles down freeways and fill up with gas；the British drive cars along mo

15、torways and fill up with petrol.But other words and expressions are not so well knownAmericans use a flashlight, while for the British，its a torch. The British queue up; Americans stand in line.How are British and American English different in grammar?The British say Have you got？while Americans pre

16、fer Do you have ？An American might say My friend just arrived, but a British person would say My friend has just arrived. Prepositions, too, can be different: pare on the team, on the weekend （American） with in the team, at the weekend （British）. What about spelling and pronunciation in which the two var