Unit2Workbook课件（新人教版必修1）.ppt

Unit 2 English around the world Workbook;Listening in page 48:;2 Work out the name of each student’s country and find the hints that help you identify them.;What these countries have in common?;S1: I live in South Asia. My country is thousand of years old and now has more than a billion people. Unlike many other countries, our people speak a lot of languages. So we use English, which we got from British rulers hundreds of years ago. Of course, we have our own way of using English. ;S2: Well, I live on a huge green island in western Europe. Hundreds of years ago, my people spoke a very different language from English. Then the British rulers came. Now the old language is spoken in only a few villages in the western part of my country. ;S3: My country has more than 7,000 islands. Some of them are very large but most of them are quite small. Hundreds of years ago, the Spanish rulers changed the way we live. Much later, the American rulers taught their own kind of English in our schools. Nowadays, we speak a kind of English that borrows words from American English but is mostly our own. ;S4: My country is very small. In fact, it’s really a city. It is in southeast Asia and is very rich. People come from all over Asia to do business here. Today, you can hear our kind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that come here. ;P49: Translation ;5. Go along the road for three blocks and then turn right. You will see the hospital on your left. 6. We have a lot of work to do, so we have to make good use of time. 7. He went straight to New York, without stopping in Hong Kong. 8. Rains are frequent in this city in early summer.;The Oxford English Dictionary;The Oxford English Dictionary 的历史 ;One step at a time 1884-1928: The Dictionary is published in fascicles(分册) Keeping it current 1933-1986: Supplements to the OED Making it modern 1980s: The Suppleme