《Reading1高中英语模块三第二单元的课件(人民中学陈媛)》由会员分享,可在线阅读,更多相关《Reading1高中英语模块三第二单元的课件(人民中学陈媛)(21页珍藏版)》请在金锄头文库上搜索。
1、Reading I,Unit,2,English and its history,1. How many languages are there in the world nowadays?,There are nearly 6000 languages in the world.,2. Do you know other forms of language ? Give us some examples.,emoticons,sign language,Braille,animal language,Body language,Why are we learning English ?, I
2、t is the most widely spoken language in the world (45 countries). 50% of all business meetings are in English. 70% of all scientific articles and science textbooks are in English. More than 70% of the worlds mail and email is in English.,1.Since we have learned English for several years, what do you
3、 think is the most difficult part, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary or something else? Why ?,It is difficult to learn because English is made up of several languages from different countries. M3U2 Reading.mp3,How many parts can we divide the text into?,I_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ n,Old English Middle Eng
4、lish Modern English,n t r o d u c t i o,Why is English a language with a lot of confusing rules?,Introduction,languages,Old English,before mid-5th,then,end 9th,_,_,_,( ),_,_,_,_,by the 10th C,languages,_,_,Celtic,base of old English,Anglo-Saxon,Vikings,Scandinavian,Denmark,Norway,official language,3
5、 G tribes (A, S, J),Old English,Fill in the blanks: The development of old English Before the middle of the 5th century, people spoke Celtic. Then 3 Germanic t_ - the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes i_ Britain. Their language mixed with Celtic and became the b_ of Old EnglishAnglo-Saxon. At the end
6、 of the 9th century, the Vikings, people from the Scandinavian countries, i_ Denmark and Norway invaded Britain. And their language mixed with Anglo-Saxon and became what we now call Old English. By the 10th century, Old English was the o_ language of England.,ribes,nvaded,ase,ncluding,fficial,Middl
7、e English,What are the factors (因素)that contributed to(有助于) the development of middle English?,French,the Norman Conquest,similar words,words for animals & food,What are the words for animals/meat?,pork/ bacon,beef,mutton,These words were used by rulers (Normans).,pig,sheep,cow/ox,Middle English,Wha
8、t are the factors(因素) that contributed to the development of middle English?,German,Henry IV,French,similar words,words for animals & food,plural endings,official occasions,plurals,houses、shoes,men oxen feet teeth children,Modern English,When did Modern English appear?,During the Renaissance(文艺复兴) i
9、n the 16th century.,William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was the greatest writer of plays who ever lived. He was born in 1564 and died in 1616. Shakespeare wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets(十四行诗)(a sonnet is a kind of poem). His greatest tragedies are Hamlet哈姆雷特,Macbeth 麦克白,King Lear 李尔王 and Othello
10、 奥瑟罗. His friend & fellow playwright Ben Jonson said that Shakespeare was not of an age but for all time.,Modern English,What new factors(因素) are included in modern English?,Latin and Greek words and dialects and new words being invented.,Retelling,Please retell the development of English according
11、to the time.,before the middle of the 5th C,Celtic,3 tribes invaded,Anglo-Saxon,at the end of the 9th C the Vikings invaded,old English,by the 10th century,official language,in 1066,the Norman Conquest,by the latter half of the 14th C,English,in 1399,official occasions,during the Renaissance in the
12、16th C,modern English,Fill in the blanks with the words from the box.,There are many different _ of English depending on where people live. When Old English was developing, it _ an Anglo-Saxon base _ with many words from other languages. Before people could write, they used poems to record the histo
13、ry of England. Old English became the _ language of England in the 10th century. English _ has lots of similar words for the same thing and that is because so many different people from other,dialects,consisted of,mixed,Post-reading: E,consisted of vocabulary servants mother tongue official dialects
14、 meat mixed,official,vocabulary,Fill in the blanks with the words from the box.,countries came to England. Another thing that happened in English is that there are different words for animals and the _ which comes from them. This is because the English _ cooked for the French. King Henry IVs _ was E
15、nglish and he was the first king to use English after the Normans came to England in 1066.,meat,servants,mother tongue,Post-reading: E,consisted of vocabulary servants mother tongue official dialects meat mixed,Homework,Write a short summary of English history according to what we have learned today.,Thank you!,