精品課件歡迎下載高中英語外研版必修1Module1IntroductionReadingandspeakingIntroduction-1.ReadingReadthequotationsandtellwhetheryouagreeordisagree.A.WehavereallyeverythingincommonwithAmericanowadays,exceptofcourse,language.---OscarWilde,

19thcenturywriterBWithacenturyBritishandAmericanEnglishspeakerswillnotbeabletounderstandeachother.

---HenrySweet,19thcenturylinguistC

AmericaandEnglandaretwocountriesdividedbyacommonlanguage.

--GeorgeBernardShaw,20thcenturywriterD

Itdoesn’tmakemuchofadifferencewhetherateacherspeaksBritishorAmericanEnglish.

--DaveSperling,founderofDave’sESLCafe

ReadthequotationsandanswerthequestionsinPart1.1.Whatisthetopicofthequotations?ThedifferencebetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish.2.Whoseopinionisthemostoptimistic?

DaveSperling.3.Whoseopinionisthemostpessimistic?

HenrySweet.4.Which(ifany)doyouthinkarefunny?

open5.WhichisgoodnewsforstudentsofEnglish?

D6.CanyouguesswhichquotationsarefromBritishpeople?

ATalkaboutyourexpectationsofthetwovarietiesofEnglish.WhatdoyouexpectBritishandAmericanEnglishtobelike?2.AreyouoptimisticorpessimisticabouttheBritishandAmericanEnglish?3.ReadtheemailsontheandsaywhichisAmericanandwhichisBritish?(pointoutthereason)BritishEnglishAmericanEnglishMumMomprogrammeprogramtheatretheaterrealiserealizewritetomewritemeKeytotheanswersThesecondwriterisAmerican.Someofthereasonsweknoware:ReadingandSpeaking-2.SkimmingReadthetitlesandthefirstsentencesofeachparagraphandfindfourwaysinwhichBritishandAmericanEnunciationReadingcarefullyandfind

thedifferencesinvocabularyBritishEnglishAmericanEnglishcarsfreewaygasundergroundtaxitorchstandinlinechipsautomobilesmotorwaypetrolsubwaycabflashlightqueueupFrenchfriestheDifferencesinGrammarBritishEnglishAmericanEnglishHaveyougot…?Mheteam/attheweekendWritemesoon!Doyouhave…?Myfriendhasjustarrivedontheteam/weekendWritetomesoon!theDifferencesinSpellingandPronunciationBritishEnglishAmericanEnglishspellingpronunciationcentre,colourprogrammecenter,colorprogramOrganizationofthetextParagraphOne,Two,ThreeandFour.ParagraphFive,SixandSeven.Couldyoutellthestructureofthewholepassage?1.WhichparagraphstellthewaysinwhichBritishandAmericanEnglisharedifferent?2.Whichparagraphspredictthefutureofthesetwovarieties?Checkthetruestatements.PeoplefromHongKongcanunderstandpeoplefromBeijing.

Open2.PeoplefromShanghaisoundthesameaspeoplefromXi’an.FReadthepassagecarefullyanddothefollowingexercises.3.ChinesecharacterscanbeunderstoodbyallspeakersofChinese.4.AmericanEnglishisverydifferentfromBritishEnglish.5.PeoplefromBritaincan’tunderstandpeoplefromAmerica.FFTThereare____differencesbetweenAmericanandBritishvarietiesofEnglish.A.noB.afewC.lotsof

Completethesentenceswiththecorrectwordsorphrases.2.Americans____understandwhattheBritisharesaying.A.sometimesB.usuallyC.never3.Thereare___differencesbetweenBritishandAmericangrammar.A.noB.manyC.notmany4.Americanspellingis__Britishspelling.A.thesamewayB.simplerthanC.harderthan5.ForaLondoner,anAmericanaccentmaybeeasiertounderstandthan___.A.aChineseaccentB.someBritishaccentsC.aCNNnewsreader6.TelevisionandtheInternethavemadeit___fortheBritishandAmericanstounderstandeachother.A.harderB.easierC.impossibleHowmanymainvarietiesofChinesearethere?Inwhatwaysaretheydifferent?DoChinesepeoplefromdifferentregionshaveproblemsunderstandingeachother?WhatwillhappentoChineseinthefuture?Discussthefollowingquestions.Readthepassageagainandcompletethefollowingsentences.BritishandAmericanEnglisharedifferent____________(在很多方面).2.TheBritishqueueup;Americans_____________.inmanyways

standinline

3.ButithasalsoledtolotsofAmericanwordsandstructures__________(進入)BritishEnglish.4.ALondoner_________________________________(做某事有困難)aScotsmanfromGlasgowthanunderstandingaNewYorker.passinginto

hasmoredifficultyunderstandingItdoesn’tmakemuchofadifferencewhetherateacherspeaksBritishorAmericanEnglish.

makea/no/some/muchdifference(tosb./sth.)

對（某人/某事）有（沒有，有一些，很大）影響LanguagepointsItdoesmakeadifferencetouswhetherwecanspeakEnglishfluently.我們能否流利地說英語的確對我們有影響。Itwon’tmakemuchdifferencewhethershecomesornot.她來不來沒有太大影響。

Itmakesnodifferencewhetherheisrichornot.他是窮還是富沒有什么影響。詞匯擴展：differvi.與…不同，相異；不同意，意見相左，常與from搭配differentadj.不同的，相異的，各種各樣的常用的修飾詞有：verymuch,quite,entirely,totally練習：Customsofwesternersdiffermuch____orientalinanumberofways.A.betweenB.betweenthoseC.fromD.fromthoseof2.Prepositions,too,canbedifferent:compareontheteam,ontheweekend(American)withintheteam,attheweekend(British).介詞也不同:

把美國的ontheteam,ontheweekend與英國的intheteam,attheweekend比較一下。compare---to---把......比作

compare---with---把......進行比較comparenotes(withsb)交換意見、觀點、看法comparedwith(to)“和……比較”，常位于句首或句尾，作狀語Ifyoucompareherworkwithhis，you’llfindhersismuchbetter．

要是把他倆的工作比較一下，就會發現她好得多。

Comparedwith(to)driversinothercountries,Americansthinkthey’regooddrivers．同其他國家司機相比，美國人認為他們是不錯的。Wesawtheplayseparatelyandcomparednotesafterwards．

我們各自看了那出戲，后來交換了意見。擴展：bycomparison相比之下bycomparisonwith與---相比Bycomparisonwiththelivelyteenagers,theadultswereajoylesslot.和活潑的年輕人比起來，成年人是沒有歡樂的群體。練習：1)Theproductionofgrainroseby25____thefirstthreemonthsoflastyear.A.comparingto

B.comparewithC.comparedto

D.tocomparewith2)When_____differentcultures,weoftenpayattentiononlytothedifferenceswithoutnoticingthemanysimilarities.(09浙江）A.Compared

B.beingcomparedC.Comparing

D.havingcompared3.Afterall,thereisprobablyasmuchvariationofpronunciationwithinthetwocountriesasbetweenthem.畢竟,兩個國家境內的發音的差別可能跟兩國之間的發音差別一樣多。

afterall畢竟;仍然:Wechosetotakeaplaneafterall.

我們仍然選擇乘飛機。終究;最終:Ithasturnedouttobeanicedayafterall.

天氣終于轉晴了。2)asmuchas意思是“多達……,……之多”,as…as中間常接形容詞或副詞原形,即as+adj./adv.+as。Thecostofthetripisasmuchas50,000yuan.這次旅行的費用高達50,000人民幣。as…as…在否定句中也可將第一個as換成so。Mikeisnotsocleverashissister.邁克不如他姐姐聰明。4.ALondonerhasmoredifficultyunderstandingaScotsmanfromGlasgowthanunderstandingaNewYorker.倫敦的居民聽懂來自格拉斯哥的蘇格蘭人的話要比聽懂一個紐約人的話難得多。havedifficultyindoingsth.withsth.DoyouhaveanydifficultywithEnglish?你英語上有困難嗎？Thegovernmenthadgreatdifficultyinpersuadingpeopletoleavetheirvillages.政府很難說服人們離開他們的村莊。干某事有困難TrytocollectmorewordsorexpressionswhicharedifferentinBritishandAmericanEnglishinthe4ways.(vocabulary,grammar,spellingandpronunciation)Homework–Taskofthelesson精品課件歡迎下載長度單位與面積單位