译林牛津版必修3：Unit2Language（共21张PPT）.ppt

Unit2 Language;Let’s enjoy a song and a poem:;Auld lang syne;A red red rose Robert Burns ;Till a the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi the sun; I will luve thee till, my dear, While the sands o life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only luve, And fare thee weel a while! And I will come again, my luve, Tho it ware ten thousand mile. ;Why can’t we understand them?;Unit2 Reading English and its History;Fast reading:;True or false:;Language points --- sentence structures;1. The English language is made up of the rules and vocabulary each group of people brought to Britain with them. (p22 line3) 2. Middle English is the name given to the English used from around the 12th to the 16th century. (line24) 3. So, the words we use for most animals raised for food, such as ox, cow, sheep and pig, come from Old English, while the words for the meat people eat come from French: beef, mutton, pork and bacon. (p23 line39) 4. The question of whether English will continue changing in the future is easy to answer. (line55) 5. If a person from the south of England goes to the north, he or she may find it difficult to understand what people there are saying. (line57-58);The English language is made up of the rules and vocabulary each group of people brought to Britain with them. ;2. Middle English is the name given to the English used from around the 12th to the 16th century.;3. So, the words we use for most animals raised for food, such as ox, cow, sheep and pig, come from Old English, while the words for the meat people eat come from French: beef, mutton, pork and bacon.;4. The question of whether English will continue changing in the future is easy to answer.;5. If a person from the south of England goes to the north, he or she may find it difficult to understand what people there are saying.;Practice:;1. The language they created is what we now call Old English.;4