2006年江苏地区高一英语Unit2 Module 3 Reading 新课标 人教版.pptVIP

ReadingUnit 2 Module 3 English and its history I. Lead-in * * God be with you! God be with ye! God bwye! Goodbye! Imagine one day if you talk with a person from ancient times, can you understand him easily? 1. As we know, language is very important in our daily life. Would you like to say something about the history of Chinese? 2. Besides Chinese, which do you think places a more important part in todays world, English or Russian? Why? 3. Do you know something about English and its history? 4. Though Chinese has a longer history than English, it is still not so popular as English today, why? II. Pre-reading Before you come to the text, talk about these questions with your partners. 1) Why is it difficult for us to understand Old English? 2) We know that many factors contributed to the development of Middle English. Would you like to give us some examples? 3) Why may people from different areas find it difficult to understand each other? III. While-reading 1. Read the text quickly and then answer the following questions. 1) Why is it difficult for us to understand Old English? III. While-reading 1. Read the text quickly and then answer the following questions. Because Old English was made up of different languages. It consisted of Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and the words or phrases from the language of Denmark and Norway. 2) We know that many factors contributed to the development of Middle English. Would you like to give us some examples? III. While-reading 1. Read the text quickly and then answer the following questions. Norman Conquest did not replace English wholly, but French still had an impact on the English language. More pairs of similar words and phrases resulted from it. Different people used different languages. Upper class people spoke French while common people spoke English. 3) Why may people from different areas find it difficult to understand each other? III. While-reading 1. Read the text quickly and then answer the fo