高一新课标参考课件：世界语言探讨与英语概览.pptx

Whichlanguagedoyouthinkisthemostwidelyusedlanguageintheworld?2.DoyouthinkChinesecanbeaworldlanguage?Why?3.CanyounameanycountrieswhereEnglishisspoken?Freetalk

U.K.U.S.A.CanadaAustraliaNewZealandSouthAfricaEnglish-speakingcountries

English-speakingcountriesUK,USA,Australia,Canada,NewZealand,SouthAfrica,Irelandmothertongue/nativelanguageofficiallanguageIndia,HongKong,Singapore,thePhilippines,etc.

Doyouknowthemeaningof“Englishes”?FreetalkRegionalandnationalvarietiesoftheEnglishlanguageusedinplaceswhereitisnotthemothertongueofthemajorityofthepopulation.NewEnglisheshavecertainformalproperties(lexical,phonological,grammatical)thatdifferfromthoseofBritishorAmericanStandardEnglish.ExamplesofNewEnglishesincludeNigerianEnglish,SingaporeEnglishandIndianEnglish.

Born:September18,1709OneoftheEnglishlanguage’smostprofoundinfluencesTwoimportantpersonsSamuelJohnson

SamuelJohnsonfinishededitingTheDictionaryoftheEnglishLanguagein1755.Formorethan150years,thisdictionaryisthemostauthoritativeuntiltheearly20thcenturywhenTheOxfordEnglishDictionarycameout.

NoahWebsterBorn:October16,1758Died:May28,1843

WhenNoahwas43,hestartedwritingthefirstAmericandictionary.HedidthisbecauseAmericansindifferentpartsofthecountryspelled,pronouncedandusedwordsdifferently.

Americanlexicographer(辞典编纂者),textbookauthor,spellingreformer,wordenthusiast,andeditorThefirstpersontowriteadictionaryofAmericanEnglishandpermanentlyalterthespellingofAmericanEnglishFatherofAmericanScholarshipandEducation

In1783~1785,hewroteabooknamedAGrammaticalInstituteoftheEnglishLanguage.Thisbookdividedinto3parts,“aspellingbook”(1783),“agrammar”(1784)and“areader”(1785).

In1824,withhissonWilliamtoaidhim,hevoyagedtoEuropetocompletethedictionary.