Unit 2 Reading

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Unit 2 Reading

Review the words

根据下列各句句意及所给单词的首字母或汉语提示，写出所缺单词的正确形式。

1. It was easy to tell the ______ (本地人)from the tourists.

2. There was no need to pay rent(租金) for an empty a________.

3. There are many s______ mistakes in your passage.

natives

spelling

apartment

4. We still don’t know the i______ of the man in the picture.

5. The student who is f_______ late for class is asked to stand outside.

6. Reading is one of the best ways of improving your __________ （词汇量）.

identity

frequently

vocabulary

7. As the weeks passed, I ________ （逐渐地）loved to live here.

8. His mother __________(命令) that he go home straight after school.

9. One can travel there by ship or plane.

Most people choose the _____（后者）.

10. She speaks ______ （流利的）though

not very correct English.

fluently

latter

gradually

commands/commanded

Leading-in

Tell the differences between

American English and British English.

British English

American English

flat

apartment

British English American English

pub

bar

British English

American English

tin

can

British English

American English

football

soccer

British English

American English

sweet

candy

British English

American English

lift

elevator

British English

American English

petrol

gas/ gasoline

The road to modern English

Part I Listen to the passage

and write down the main idea of each paragraph

Para1:

Para2:

Para3:

Para4:

Parta5:

The spread of English in the world

Native speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English.

English has changed when cultures communicate with each other.

Finally the language settled.

English is spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia.

Part II: Understand each paragraph carefully

About ________ million

people spoke English

and most of them lived

in________.

English began to be spoken

in __________________.

Read the first paragraph again and finish the form.

five to seven

England

many other countries

Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English.

even if= (even though)是连词， 用来引导让步状语从句，意为 “尽管；即使”。 不与but 连用

Paragraph 2 Recite the sentence

Even if he is a child, but he knows a lot.

\

Read Paragraph 3, find out why

English changed over time and match them.

time

AD450-1150

Based more on German

AD800-1150

Became more like French.

1600’s

Enrich a wider vocabulary

British settlers moved to America.

English was taken to Australia.

1620

feature(特点)

1700s

Samuel Johnson

Wrote his dictionary and English spelling happened.

Find out two important persons

Paragraph 4

Noah Webster When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary. He gave a ____________ to American English spelling.

separate identity

Read Para.5 and answer the questions.

India was ruled by Britain from 1765 to 1947.

China

2.In Which country have the largest number

of English learners?

1. why India takes English as second language.

Part III Discuss

Will Chinese English develop its own identity?

1. Retell the passage.

2. Finish exercises in Learning about

language.

Part IV Homework[全文已结束，注意以上仅为全文的文字预览，不包含图片和表格以及排版]

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