[名校联盟]山西省怀仁县巨子学校高中英语必修五《Module1BritishandAmericanEnglish》SectionⅠ课件.pptVIP

Section Ⅰ Introduction Reading andVocabulary—Warming Up[来源:Zxxk.Com]; ;预习多维感知;Step Two：Fast reading 1．Scan the text and do some true or false questions. (1)There’re a lot of differences in grammar between British and American English.(　　) (2)Vocabulary is the first and most obvious difference between the two.(　　) (3)British people say “write me” and “on the team”．(　　);(4)There’s not much variation in language within the country.(　　) (5)Television and Internet have made it easier for the British and Americans to understand each other.(　　) (6)In the future，there’ll be only one kind of English.(　　) 答案：(1)F　(2)T　(3)F　(4)F　(5)T　(6)F;2．Choose the best answer according to the text. (1)This passage is mainly about ________. A．how the British brought English into the New World B．the tourists’ difficulties in the two countries C．the use of the world official language—English D．the obvious differences between British English and American English 答案：D;(2)What is the writer’s attitude toward the differences between British English and American English? [来源:学科网ZXXK] A．People can understand each other in the same nation however great the differences are. B．Differences within a language are quite normal even in the same country. C．George Bernard Shaw believed that English would grow better. D．It is surprising that the same language has such great differences. 答案：B;(3)The paragraph Colour or Color？tells us that ________. A．people on the East Coast of the US speak a much similar English to the British B．differences between languages often cause international problems C．American English seems better than British English D．spelling and pronunciation differences no longer exist in the same language 答案：A;(4)What causes “the two varieties are moving closer together”？ A．That the two nations are becoming more friendly. B．American words and structures passing into British English. C．Steady communications between the two nations. D．That scientists have made communications much easier