Unit2 Workbook(新人教版必修1)

6. What does Chen Peng’s teacher say about learning English? What does she mean? The teacher asks him to learn “little and often”. She means that he should
hard working, intelligent, determined, etc
James A. H. Murray
Read the passage and make notes about Murray’s life.
Note on James Murray’s life Country
Scotland
No formal education,taught Education himself while working
Job Worked in a bank before beginning to compile the OED
Note on James Murray’s life compiling the first edition of Most important the OED task Its difficulties: 1 worded in a shed in his garden and behind his house 2 very cold as it was one metre underground
published in parts online
Do you know who is the writer of
The Oxford English Dictionary? James Murray, Samuel Johnson, and Noah Webster.
Samuel Johnson (1709-84) Noah Webster
speak a kind of English that borrows words
from American English but is mos country is very small. In fact, it’s
really a city. It is in southeast Asia
S2: Well, 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
3 Listen again and answer the following questions.
1. What is Wang Ting going to do
this weekend?
Wang Ting is going to buy some
CDs to improve her English.
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 schools. Nowadays, we
高一人教新课标版必修一
Unit 2 English around the world
Workbook
2 Work out the name of each student’s country and find the hints that help you identify them.
Speaker Speaker 1 2 Country name Speaker 3 Speaker 4
Note on James Murray’s life
Most important task
Qualities needed: 1 commitment 2 perseverance 3 accuracy
Who worked At first just James Murray; later his two daughters; on the finished by others editors dictionary after his death
Date of completion
Other information
1928
First edition took fortyfour years to compile
Listening Task
2 Listen to what Wang Ting and Chen Peng have to say and find out how they improve their English. Write down the main idea. Wang Ting and Chen Peng are discussing how they improve their English listening outside class.
Does he watch them now?
No, he used to watch English films.
He doesn’t watch them now as he thinks
they are too hard without Chinese subtitles.
4. What does Chen Peng like watching on CCTV 9? He likes listening to Chinese people and reading the English subtitles. 5. What does Wang Ting ask Chen Peng to do? She asks him to listen to native speakers more often.
Reading Task
The Oxford English Dictionary 的历史
How it began
1857: The Philological Society of London calls for a new English Dictionary More work than they thought
rulers came. Now the old language is
spoken in only a few villages in the
western part of my country.
S3: My country has more than 7,000 islands.
Some of them are very large but most of them
South Asia
A country Western has more Southea Europe than 7000 st Asia islands
Hints
What these countries have in common?
They all speak English; they were all Non-English speakers before being conquered or colonized by Englishspeaking peoples.
Into the electronic age 1992: The first CD-ROM version of the OED is published The future has begun
The present: The OED is now being
fully revised, with new material
5. Go along the road for three blocks and then turn right. You will see the hospital on your left. 6. We have a lot of work to do, so we have to make good use of time. 7. He went straight to New York, without stopping in Hong Kong. 8. Rains are frequent in this city in early summer.
Listening text
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 languages. So we use English, which we got from British rulers hundreds of years ago. Of course, we have our own way of using English.
2. What does Wang Ting think about
listening to English songs?
She likes to listen to English songs to
learn idiomatic English expressions.
3. Did Chen Peng often watch English films?
1884: Five years into a proposed ten-year