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* Reading -- The road to Modern English 厦大附中 朱丽影 1. With your partner, list the countries that use English as an official language? 2. Which country do you think has the most English learners? 3. Look at the title of the following passage and guess what it is about. Then read it quickly and see if you are right. Pre-reading Skim the text again and fill in the table. 1150 to 1500 Between AD 450 and 1150 Time The cause The road to modern English cultures communicate with one another things that happened less like German; more like French based on German Later In the 1600’s Shakespeare broadened the vocabulary. A big changed in English British people brought English to Australia Reading skills: For the first time you must read the text quickly in three minutes. Be sure not to read the text sentence by sentence. Read the key words and key sentences to gain a brief idea about the topic of the text. 找重点词、关键句理解文章大致内容 如何找主题句或关键句? (1) 顺承式段落多在第一句； (2) 转折式段落常是第二句带有 however, but的句子。 Using the reading skills, get the main idea of each paragraph. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever before. Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. However, they may not be able to understand everything. Para 1 Para 2 All languages change when cultures communicate with one another. English’s position as world language is yet to be clearly understood or defined. Para 3 Para 4 Read the passage again and answer the following questions. Why was English spoken in many other countries in the 17th century? Because people from England started moving to other parts of the world. 2. Do native English speakers hav