Senior English for Students Book 1A Unit 2 Reading No.66 Middle School

Senior English for Student’s Book 1A

Unit 2 Reading

No.66 Middle School

English Around The World

AmericaAmerica

IrelandIreland

ChinaChina CanadaCanada

The The U.k.U.k.

PakistanPakistan

PhilippinesPhilippines

South South AfricaAfrica

New New ZealandZealand

NigeriaNigeria

Native language:It is the language that one

or both your parents speak. You learn it as

your first language /your native language/mother

tongue.

English as a second language:

It is the language used by government,schools, newspapers and TV, but

people speak the language of their own

country at home.

English as a English as a foreign languageforeign language

It is the language learnt as a It is the language learnt as a school subject.school subject.

Pre-Pre-ReadingReading

What languages do people often use in the world?

How many languages do you speak? Which is your native language?

If you speak more than one language, in what situations do you use the languages?(I speak/ read/listen to/write English when I …….)

People often use English, French, Spanish,Russian, Arabic, Italian, Japanese and

Chinese.

I speak English when I meet people who can not speak Chinese. I read English when I visit web sites, read English newspaper…

….(Such situations might include :listening to pop songs, playing computer games, watching foreign films,VCD/DVDs,accessing so

ftware,chat room etc.)

number of speakers

example countries

working situation

the native language

the foreign language

the second language

more than 375 million

UK,USA,Canada,Australia

English is their native language

more than 750 million

China (HK),Japa-nese

Learn English at school

More than 375 million

India,Pakis-tan,Nigeria…

English is used by government,schools and media.

With so many people communicating in English every day, it will be become more and more important to have a good knowledge of English.

Living in the country, we had few amusements.

As it is Sunday, you need not go to school.

It being Sunday, you need not go to school.( 分词的独立主格结构，名词或代词主格做主语）

当 -ing 形式表伴随，主语常用 with 引出。

Post-readingPost-reading

Why is it become more and more

important to have a good knowledge of

English?

With more and more people using English around the world in trade, travel or international organisations, we need to be able to communicate using the English la

nguage.

In which countries do we find most native

speakers of English ? Give the names of three examples.

Most native speakers of English are found in

countries such as the United of America, the United Kingdom and

Australia(Canada, south Africa,Ireland or New

Zealand).

Predict the Predict the development of e.g. development of e.g.

English ,Chinese, English ,Chinese, Spanish,French and Spanish,French and Japanese over the Japanese over the

next fifty years, which next fifty years, which language will become language will become more important and more important and

why?why?

Thanks for your listenning!