英语必修一Workbook

The hints that help to identify the speaker
Speaker 1 South Asia, a billion people , use English, British rulers Speaker 2 Fat Tuesday, New Orleans, Speaker 3 a beautiful island Speaker 4 a huge green island in western Europe, British rulers Speaker 5 more than 7,000 islands, American rulers Speaker 6 very small, southeast Asia, very rich
I think our English sounds a little like our music. Some people say I speak a dialect of English,but I don’t agree. To us, it’s more like another language. S4: I live on a huge green island in western Europe. hundreds of years age my people spoke a very
S3: Well,I don’t live very far from the last student who spoken to you. But I live on a beautiful island where the sun shines most of the year. It’s not the biggest island in the sea but it’s not the smallest island, either. We also got English from British rulers a long time age, and use it in a different way.
Look at the map showing some of the places in the world where English is spoken as an official language and guess what you will hear in the tape? Location, climate, people, custom, history, places of interest, and so on.
I’ m sorry…
小张在公交车上不小心踏了老外的脚，心 想咱不能给中国人丢脸，于是卯足了劲说了 句英文：“I’m sorry.” 老外一想：在人家国土上咱不能不礼貌。 于是忙点头道：“I’m sorry too.” 小张一听急了：以为我不会数数？咬牙 道：“I’m sorry three.” 老外大惑不解：“what are you sorry for？” 小张心想好啊~~~连FOUR也出来了，老 子和你拼了~~~~~~: “I’m sorry five!!!!”
Do you know who is the writer of The Oxford English Dictionary?
James Murray, Samuel Johnson,
and Noah Webster.
Samuel Johnson
Noah Webster
James Murray
Note on James Murray’s life Country Education Job Most important task It difficulties: Qualities needed: Who worked on it Date of completion Other information
Of course, we have our own way of using English. S2: One of my grandmothers speakers French. Her grandmother came from some place in Canada. I like to listen to her talk, although I don’t understand much of what she says. Her English is also hard to understand. She cooks
Notes on James Murray’s life Most 3.no heating;he had to wear a importa coat and put his feet in a box to nt task keep warm 4.no electric light;he worked at night with candles Qualities needed: 1) commitment 2) perseverance 3) accuracy
Notes on James Murray’s life Country Born in Scotland Education No formal education;taught himself while working Compiling the first edition of Most important the OED Its difficulties: task 1.worked in a shed in his garden and behind his house 2.very cold as it was one meter underground
S6:My country is very small. In fact, it’s really a city. It is in southeast Asia and is very rich. People come from all over Asia to do business here. But our English comes from worker on the street. Some people in my country don’t like the sound of this English.
S5: My country has more than 7,000islands. Some of them 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 American rulers taught their own kind of English in our school. Nowadays, we speak a kind of English but is mostly our own.
Who worked At first just James on it Murray;later his two daughters;finished by other editors after his death Date of 1928 completion Other First edition took fortyinformation four years to compile
1. So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same. 2. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today was not made until the time of the Qing Dynasty.
different language from English. Then the British rulers came. Now the old language is spoken in only a few villages in the western part of my country. Most of us speak a lovely kind of English that also sounds a little like our music.
5. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself
while working in a bank.
6. He worked on the dictionary until he
was very old.
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,to understand our neighbours.
Memory challenge
1. There are more than 42 countries where the majority of the people speak English. 2. More than 1.5 billion people can speak English in the world. 3. Over 70% international trade is made by English. 4. About 60% of the world’s radio broadcast use English .