新人教必修一 Unit2 English around the World[单元课件]概要1.ppt

Br E Am.E The road to modern English What do you think the word “road” mean in the title? way □ development □ process □ Read and answer the following questions. e.g. How many people spoke English at the end of the 16th century? Read and find the main idea of each paragraph e.g. Para 1 Scanning or Skimming? Read Para 34 carefully and make a timeline of the development of English. About the passage The road to modern English  A. often B. not sudden C. the second of two things or people already mentioned D. a word for gas in British English E. long trip by sea or in space F. able to speak or write a language well G. who or what somebody or something is H. in fact Language focus : Find sentences which you have difficulty, or the ones you like a lot. Share with your friends. So why has English changed over time? …cultures meet and communicate with each other. The latter gave a separate identity to American English spelling. Only time will tell.  n.a) 礼物 This hook was a present from my brother.b) 现在 The film is set sometime between 1995 and the present. Present adj. a)出席的，现.场的 be ?present at (the meeting) （表和后定） Were you present when the news was announced?b)?目前的，现在的（前定） The new library will be double the size of the present one. v.?? 赠送，呈现,替交?? present? sb. with sth. / present sth. to sb.The president presented a cheque for ￡500,000 to cancer research. 8 . Shakespeare made use of a wider 　 vocabulary than ever before. 莎士比亚使用了比以前更为广泛的 词汇量。 　make (good/full…) use of 　好好/充分使用 Make the best use of 充分利用 善用 Make the most use of 充分利用,尽量利用 We could make good use of our resources. 我们可以好好地使用我们的资源。 6. a number of the number of Eg. 1) A number of books _____ (be) missing from the library. 2) The number of books missing from the library ____(be) large. are is 许多（后接可数名词复数，修饰主语时谓语用复数） ．．．的数量（做主语时谓语用单数） 只能修饰可数名词的： a large/ great/ good number of, a good/ great