英语必修1Workbook.pptVIP

Unit 2;Listening;Look at the map showing some of the places in the world where English is spoken as an official language and guess what you will hear in the tape?;The name of each speaker’s country;The hints that help to identify the speaker;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,to understand our neighbours. ; Of course, we have our own way of using English. S2: One of my grandmothers speakers French. Her grandmother came from some place in Canada. I like to listen to her talk, although I don’t understand much of what she says. Her English is also hard to understand. She cooks ;delicious food, so I spend a lot of time in the kitchen with her whenever I visit her. I plan to see her again for a special holiday called Fat Tuesday. We will go to New Orleans, Which is near the sea. People will dance in the streets all day and night.;S3: Well,I don’t live very far from the last student who spoken to you. But I live on a beautiful island where the sun shines most of the year. It’s not the biggest island in the sea but it’s not the smallest island, either. We also got English from British rulers a long time age, and use it in a different way. ; I think our English sounds a little like our music. Some people say I speak a dialect of English,but I don’t agree. To us, it’s more like another language. S4: I live on a huge green island in western Europe. hundreds of years age 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 th