1、Unit2 English around the worldThis unit seeks to give us a better understanding of how English developed and how it is spoken in the world.Unit2 English around the worlA JokeTwo mice sat in their hole watching Cat lurk outside. I know how to make Cat go away, said the first mouse. How? the second mo

2、use asked in surprise. Watch! Bow, wow! barked the first mouse. Peering through their hole in the wall, they saw Cat running away in fear. Ah, see the benefit of knowing another language! A JokeTwo mice sat in their QuestionsWhich language do you think is the most widely used language in the world?D

3、o you think Chinese can be a world language ? Why?Do you know the meaning of “Englishes”?QuestionsWhich language do youVarieties of EnglishThere are many varieties(分類）of English around the world such as American EnglishBritish EnglishAustralian EnglishCanadian EnglishIndian EnglishCaribbean EnglishV

4、arieties of EnglishThere are QuestionWhy do we have so many Englishes?QuestionWhy do we have so manyBr E Am.EWhen you hear two native speakers of English, they may still not speak the same kind of English.Br E Am.EWhen you hear two nBritish English American English Chinese flat apartment 公寓 pub bar

5、酒吧 toilet bathroom 廁所，洗手間 tin can 罐頭 lift elevator 電梯 mum mom 媽媽 rubber eraser 橡皮 中小學優質課件the-world-around-us-reading課件中小學優質課件the-world-around-us-reading課件Student1:I live in South Asia. My country is thousands of years old and now has more than a billion people. Unlike many other countries, our peopl

6、e speak a lot of languages. So we use English, which we got from British rulers hundreds of years ago, to understand our neighbours. Of course, we have our own way of using English. IndiaStudent1:I live in South Asia.Student2:One of my grandmothers speaks French. Her grandmother came from some place

7、 in Canada. I like to listen to her talk, although I dont 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 wi

8、ll go to New Orleans, which is near the sea. People will dance in the streets all day and night.USAStudent2:One of my grandmotherStudent 3:Well, I dont live very far from the last student who spoke to you. But I live on a beautiful island where the sun shines most of the year. Its not the biggest is

9、land in the sea but its not the smallest island, either. We also got English from British rulers a long time ago, 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 moue like another language.J

10、amaicaStudent 3:Well, I dont live vStudent 4:I live on a huge green island in western Europe. Hundreds of years ago my people spoke a very different language from English. Then the British rulers came. Now the language is spoken in only a few villages in the western part of my country. Most of us sp

11、eak a lovely kind of English that also sounds a little like our music.IrelandStudent 4:I live on a huge greStudent 5:My country has more than 7,000 islands. Some of then are very large but most of them are quite small. Hundreds of years ago the Spanish rulers changed the way we live. Much later the

12、American rulers taught their own kind of English in our schools. Nowadays, we speak a kind of English that borrows words from American English but is mostly our own.PhilippinesStudent 5:My country has more Student 6:My country is very small. In fact, its really a city. It is in southeast Asia and is

13、 very rich. People come from all over Asia to do business here. But our English comes from workers on the street. Some people in my country dont kike the sound of this English. They would rather speak British English. Today, you can hear our kind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that co