新编英语教程4 unit 2.pptVIP

Contents l?????? Detailed study of Text I A, I B II l?????? Oral work: Role-play: showing an American tourist round the city; Interaction activities: the differences between British English and American English l?????? Guided writing: Basic writing techniques—expansion of ideas(2) Composition writing—exposition; Letter writing—letter accompanying a present Text I A l?Pre-reading activities What does the title mean to you? -Dialects -Registers -The title “Englishes”(in the plural form) refers to the various/a variety of styles of English. Styles of English The Five Clocks by Martin Joos (1962): frozen, formal, consultative, casual, and intimate Look at the following example: Frozen: Visitors should make their way at once to the upper floor by way of the staircase. Formal: Visitors should go up the stairs at once. Consultative: Would you mind going upstairs right away, please? Casual: Time you all went upstairs, now. Intimate: up you go, chaps. More examples A. “Five score years age, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow, we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of light and hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as the joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chain of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of property in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corner of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition …” (King, in Renshaw, 1975) ? More examples B. “I worked in Harlem and East Harlem for three years. There was ten, eleven cops and they we