1、Unit 2 English around the worldWarming up,With economy globalization, English has become the best bridge to serve the purpose of people all over the world communicating with one another.,An international talk/meeting,In what situations is English used?,Doing international trade,At school,Listening t
2、o radio, watching TV,Singing English songs.,Seeing English movies,Countries speak English as their native language:,Britain,America,Canada,Australia,New Zealand,Ireland,South Africa,the USA,Canada,New Zealand,Australia,the United Kingdom,Ireland,How many people use English as their native language,
3、second language, or foreign language?,the whites,the blacks,the yellows,the browns,375 million,750 million,375 million,USA, UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand,China and many other countries,India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Philippines,Do you think the English spoken all around the wo
4、rld are all the same?,English,Canadian,Australian,English,British,World English,American,Indian,Caribbean,What are the two main groups of English?,British English and American English,Do you know the differences between American English and British English?,Br. E & Am.E,When you hear two native spea
5、kers of English, they may still not speak the same kind of English.,What? Do you mean this autumn?,A: Do you want to come to my apartment?A: Wow, the bar is a nice place. We can go.,B: Your flat? I dont think so. Can we go to the pub?B: Great. I want a tin of Coke and somesweets.,American? British?,
6、A: Well, I want a can of beer and somecandies.A: Ok. We can go and see a soccer game tomorrow.A: Ok. Lets go to the elevator together.,B: Hey, I like football match very much.B: Oh, time to go home, lets go to the lift.,Wow, I want some sweets. What about you, Bush?,Well, I want some _.,candy,Well,
7、lets go and see a soccer game. It is very exciting.,Great. I like _ very much.,football match,Time to go home. Lets go to the elevator together.,Oh no, the _ must be full of people this time.,lift,The differences between Br. E & Am. E.,vocabulary,spelling,pronunciation,autumn fall typhoon tornado I
8、think I guess,colour color centre center traveller traveler,dance da:ns dance dns not nt not na:t,Am E neighborhood labor color honorable humor favorite theater kilometer,Br Eneighbourhoodlabourcolourhonourablehumourfavouritetheatrekilometre,center flat colour lift gray honor petrol underground pict
9、ures eraser,grey centre apartment elevator honour color rubber gas movies subway,Match the words that have the same meaning.,1. Do you know that there is more than one kind of English in the world?你知道世界上不止有一种英语吗？more than one +名词单数，后面的谓语动词用单数。如:More than one student wants togo to swim.,Explanation,m
10、ore than 还可以与名词、形容词、 副词、动词、动名词连用, 意为 “不只是, 非常”。如: Both of them are much more than schoolmates. They are close friends. 他们俩远不只是同学, 他们是知心朋友。 more than 的反义短语是less than, 意为 “少于”。 no more than 仅仅 not more than 不超过,We advertised for pupils last autumn, and got _ 60. (98. 上海)A. more than B. more of C. as m
11、uch as D. so many as,高考链接,A,2. In some important ways they are very different from one another.在某些重要方面, 它们彼此有些差异。 1) inway (s)/bymeans 在方面We should solve this problem in a different way.=We should solve this problem by a different way.,都表示“相互, 彼此”, 在句中作动词 或介词的宾语, 但不能作主语。 表示两个人或事物之间的相互关系用 each other:
12、 表示三个或三个以上的人或事物之间 的相互关系时, 用each other或one another都可以。,2) one another/each other区别,Tom and Mary looked at each other. We send card to one another/each other every year. 我们每年都相互寄卡片。,Exercises,1. _ English is more or less the same in Both Britain and America.A. Speaking B. Writing C. Speak D. Written 2
13、. How did the differences come_?A. at B. to C. in D. about 3. The English _ in America changed sometimes.A. speaks B. spoken C. is spoken D. is speaking,D,D,B,3. Chinese is our _ language. The sentence means Chinese is our _ tongue.A. native; mother B. mother; nativeC. native; native D. mother; moth
14、er 4. His composition is excellent, _ some spelling mistakes.A. except B. except for C. besides D. but 5. Sound travels in the same way as light_.A. does B. do C. travel D. travelled,A,B,A,HomeworkReread the passage and list the reasons why English is spoken in many countries. Review the words and expressions in the passage and try to use it in the sentences with context.,
