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1、外研版高二年級(jí)(必修5)Module1長(zhǎng)流中學(xué)吳紅英Module1BritishandAmericanEnglishSpeakingandwritingBritishEnglishAmericanEnglishWorldEnglishWorkingroups.ReadthenotesanddecidewhichisthebestvarietyofEnglishtolearn.TheGreatDebate:WhichEnglish?BritishEnglishthe“original”varietyofthelanguagethelanguageofShakespeareandot
2、hergreatwritersTheBBCandmanyinternationalnewspapersuseit.AmericanEnglishMostnativespeakersofEnglishuseanAmericanvariety.ThevarietymostusedininternationalbusinessMostEnglishlanguagefilmsareAmerican.WorldEnglishneitherAmericannorBritishEnglishdoesn’tbelongtoonegroupofpeople.Accentisnotimportant
3、ifpeopleunderstandeachother.Weneedtocommunicatewithnon-nativespeakersaswellasnativespeakers.TheOriginofChineseWhatisChinese?VarietiesofChineseReadtheparagraphinPart3.Choosethebesttitle.Collectinformationaboutthe3topicsandwritemoreparagraphs.1.TheWritingSystemAbout50,000characters/mostpeoplekn
4、owabout20,000/elementsofmeaningandinformationaboutpronunciation/2.VarietiesofChinese8mainvarieties/calleddialects/WenyanandBaihua/Putonghua-simplifiedChinese3.TheLanguageTodayPinyin,awritingsystemsince1958/helptousePutonghuaCulturalcornerNoahWebsterBorn:October16,1758Place:Hartford,Connecticu
5、tDied:May28,1848Place:NewHaven,ConnecticutDoyouknowthisman?NoahWebsterwasatrulyremarkableman,shrewd,passionate,learnedandenergetic.HewastheauthorofthefirstAmericanDictionary.Readquicklyandchecktheanswerswithdeskmates.1.Whatdoesthefirstparagraphtalkabout?2.WhatdoesitsayaboutthespellingofEnglis
6、h?BritishEnglishissocomplicated.Thespellingofwordsdoesnotalwaysrepresentthesound.3.What’stherelationbetweenthespellingandthesoundinEnglish?4.DoesEnglishspellingalwaysrepresentitssound?Thespellingofwordsdoesnotalwaysrepresentthesound.No,itdoesn’t.Readagainandanswerthefollowingquestions.1.Whatr
7、easonsdidWebsterhaveforwritinganAmericandictionary?HewantedtosimplifythespellingofEnglishandmakeitlookdifferentfromBritishEnglish.2.Whatwashisfirstwork?TheElementarySpellingBook,whichsuggestedsimplifyingthespellingofEnglishwordswasextremelypo
