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变化中英语作业1参考答案 Make a presentation on how you feel about the regional varieties. There are different varieties of English that is spoken and understood in different parts of the world. There are regional varieties or regional dialects. Sometimes the differences of regional varieties are quite small. In some places the differences are so grate that there are real difficulties. Speakers of different-sounding English may simply not understand one another. While the two varieties: the Southern Educated British English and Educated American English also Network English are widely taught and learned just because that they are used and understood wherever English is in use. Usually we call these two varieties RP short for Received Pronunciation or BBC English. As an international user of English the best choice for us is to learn to speak RP English. RP short for Received Pronunciation or BBC English refers to the Southern Educated British English and Educated American English also Network English Make a presentation on why English is rich in synonyms. English has a very large vocabulary. There are about 450,000 separate entries in a large English dictionary. The vocabulary of English includes borrowings from a great variety of language languages. The core of English is Germanic; there are very many borrowings from French and from the classical languages Latin and Greek. This is just the shortest possible sketch that there is a great deal of overlap among English words. English has very many words with the same, or almost the same meaning. It has a very large number of synonyms. The synonyms have often come from different sources and they have been borrowed at different times. For example, rise, ascend, mount, climb; ask, question, query, inquire Make a presentation on how you feel about receptive and productive knowledge of vocabulary. 1). As an international user of English language, how many English words do you know? 2). If we recognize a word and k