1、Unit 2Look 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?Location,climate,people,custom,history,places of interest,and so on.The name of each speakers countrySpeaker 1 is from India.Speaker 2 is from the US
2、A.Speaker 3 is from Jamaica.Speaker 4 is from Ireland.Speaker 5 is from Philippines.Speaker 6 is from Singapore.The hints that help to identify the speakerSpeaker 1 South Asia,a billion people,use English,British rulers Speaker 2 Fat Tuesday,New Orleans,Speaker 3 a beautiful island Speaker 4 a huge
3、green island in western Europe,British rulers Speaker 5 more than 7,000 islands,American rulers Speaker 6 very small,southeast Asia,very rich 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 langu
4、ages.So we use English,which we got from British rulers hundreds of years ago,to understand our neighbours.Listening textOf 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
5、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
6、in the streets all day and night.S3:Well,I dont 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.Its not the biggest island in the sea but its not the smallest island,either.We also got English from British rulers a long tim
7、e 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 dont agree.To us,its 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
8、 from English.Then the British rulers came.Now the old language is spoken in only a few villages in the western part of my country.Most of us speak a lovely kind of English that also sounds a little like our music.S5:My country has more than 7,000islands.Some of them are very large but most of them
9、are quite small.Hundreds of years ago the Spanish rulers changed the way we live.Much later the American rulers taught their own kind of English in our school.Nowadays,we speak a kind of English but is mostly our own.S6:My country is very small.In fact,its really a city.It is in southeast Asia and i
10、s very rich.People come from all over Asia to do business here.But our English comes from worker on the street.Some people in my country dont like the sound of this English.They would rather speak British English.Today,you can hear ourkind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships t
11、hat come here.The Oxford English DictionaryDo you know who is the writer of The Oxford English Dictionary?James Murray,Samuel Johnson,and Noah Webster.James MurrayNoah WebsterSamuelJohnsonNote on James Murrays lifeCountryEducation Job Most important task It difficulties:Qualities needed:Who worked o
12、n itDate of completionOther informationNotes on James Murrays lifeCountryBorn in ScotlandEducation No formal education;taught himself while workingMost important taskCompiling the first edition of the OEDIts difficulties:1.worked in a shed in his garden and behind his house2.very cold as it was one
13、meter undergroundNotes on James Murrays lifeMost important task3.no heating;he had to wear a coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm4.no electric light;he worked at night with candlesQualities needed:1)commitment 2)perseverance 3)accuracyWho worked on itAt first just James Murray;later his two d
14、aughters;finished by other editors after his deathDate of completion1928Other informationFirst edition took forty-four years to compile1.So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same.2.2.In fact,an English dictionary like the kind you use today was not made untilthe time of
15、the Qing Dynasty.3.These men spent nearly all of their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries.4.The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary,or OED for short.5.At the age of fourteen,he left his village school in Scotland and taught himselfwhile working in a ban
16、k.6.He worked on the dictionary until he was very old.I m sorry小张在公交车上不小心踏了老外的脚，心想咱不能给中国人丢脸，于是卯足了劲说了句英文：“Im sorry.”老外一想：在人家国土上咱不能不礼貌。于是忙点头道：“Im sorry too.”小张一听急了：以为我不会数数？咬牙道：“Im sorry three.”老外大惑不解：“what are you sorry for？”小张心想好啊连FOUR也出来了，老子和你拼了:“Im sorry five!”1.There are more than 42 countries whe
17、re the majority of the people speak English.2.More than 1.5 billion people can speak English in the world.3.Over 70%international trade is made by English.4.About 60%of the worlds radio broadcast use English.Memory challenge1.How many countries are there where the majority of the people speak Englis
18、h?2.How many people can speak English in the world?3.How many international trade is made by English?4.How many the worlds radio broadcast use English?Answer the following questionsEnglish is the language most widely_ and _ in the world.Itbecomes more and more important To have a good knowledge of E
19、nglish.spokenusedSummaryIm learning English now.GuessingWhy does YaoMing learn English?Come to the blackboard and write down your ideas,trying to use complete sentences,such as:If I learn English well,I can bring in the advanced foreign technology to China.So China will become much stronger.I decide
20、 to learn English well,in this case I can read many English novels,so I can translate them into Chinese,then more and more Chinese can study English.Write a short essay:Do we need to learn English?structureYour point of viewreasons and supporting ideasconclusion Do we need to learn English?I strongl
21、y think we not only need learn English but also learn it wellWhy should we learn itHow can learning English help China in the future?SoEnglish has become an international language.Many countries in the world use English.So I strongly think we should not only learn English but also learn it well.Do w
22、e need to learn English?Sample writing First,we have to learn English well to talk with foreigners.As we know,many foreign tourists visit China every year.If they cannot speak Chinese,they use English to communicate with Chinese people.Second,I like to study English to use for business.China has joined WTO.More and more foreign businessmen will invest in China in the near future.In a word,English is of great importance.
