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Speaking&Writing&CulturalcornerBritishEnglishAmericanEnglishWorldEnglishSpeakingandwritingReadthenotesinpart1andworkingroupstodecidewhichisthebestvarietyofEnglishtolearn.TheGreatDebate----WhichEnglish?BritishEnglish(addmoreinformation)The“original”varietyofthelanguageThelanguageofShakespeareandothergreatwritersTheBBCandmanyinternationalnewspapersuseitAmericanEnglishMostnativespeakersofEnglishuseanAmericanvariety.ThevarietymostusedininternationalbusinessMostEnglishlanguagefilmsareAmerican.WorldEnglishneitherAmericannorBritishEnglishdoesn’tbelongtoonegroupofpeople.Accentisnotimportantifpeopleunderstandeachother.Weneedtocommunicatewithnon-nativespeakersaswellasnativespeakers.Dividetheclassinto3groupsanddebate.GroupA:BritishEnglishisthebestvarietytolearn.GroupB:

AmericanEnglishisthebestvarietytolearn.GroupC:

WorldEnglishisthebestvarietytolearn.TheOriginofChineseWhatisChinese?VarietiesofChineseReadtheparagraphinPart3.Decidewhichisthebesttitle?AndWhy?Collectinformationaboutthe3topicsandwritemoreparagraphs.1.TheWritingSystemAbout50,000characters/mostpeopleknowabout20,000/elementsofmeaningandinformationaboutpronunciation/2.VarietiesofChinese

8mainvarieties/calleddialects/WenyanandBaihua/Putonghua-simplifiedChinese3.

TheLanguageToday

Pinyin,awritingsystemsince1958/helptousePutonghuaNoahWebster

Born:October16,1758Place:Hartford,ConnecticutDied:May28,1848Place:NewHaven,ConnecticutDoyouknowthisman?CulturalcornerNoahWebsterwasatrulyremarkableman,shrewd,passionate,learnedandenergetic.Hewastheauthorof

thefirstAmericanDictionary.Fast-readingReadquicklyandchecktheanswerswithdeskmates.1.Whatdoesthefirstparagraphtalkabout?

2.WhatdoesitsayaboutthespellingofEnglish?BritishEnglishissocomplicated.Thespellingofwordsdoesnotalwaysrepresentthesound.3.What’stherelationbetweenthespellingandthesoundinEnglish?4.DoesEnglishspellingalwaysrepresentitssound?Thespellingofwordsdoesnotalwaysrepresentthesound.No,itdoesn’t.Readagainandanswerthefollowingquestions.1.WhatreasonsdidWebsterhaveforwritinganAmericandictionary?HewantedtosimplifythespellingofEnglishandmakeitlookdifferentfromBritishEnglish.2.Whatwashisfirstwork?TheElementarySpellingBook,whichsuggestedsimplifyingthespellingofEnglishwordswasextremelypopular.1.ForAmericansthingsarealittlebiteasier,thankstotheworkofNoahWebster,…對美國人來說,事情稍微好辦些,這多虧了一位叫諾亞·

韋伯的人,……Languagepointsthanksto

由于,因?yàn)?幸虧,多虧常位于句首,表感謝或諷刺意味。

Thankstoyourhelp,wefinishedtheworkheadoftime.

多虧你的幫助,我們提前完成了任務(wù)。

Thankstothebadweather,thematchhadbeenputoff.

多虧這倒霉的天氣,比賽推遲了。2.duetosth./sb.

某人[某事物]引起的;

由于某人[某事物]Theteam’ssuccesswaslargelyduetoherefforts.

該隊(duì)的成功在很大程度上是由于她的努力。Theyarrivedlateduetothestorm.

他們由于風(fēng)暴而來遲。3.owingto:由于;因?yàn)?/p>

Owingtotherain,themeetinghastobeputoff.

會議因雨而推遲了。Icouldn’tattendthemeetingowingtoillness.

我因病不能出席會議。becauseof

用在句首或句子后面，表示原因Becauseoftheheavyrain,thesportsmeethasbeenputoff.Icamelatebecauseoftheheavyrain.4.短語比較：compare…with…把……和……進(jìn)行比較compare…to…把……比作……compared…to/with與……相比(固定搭配,常作狀語)1.Lifeisoften____________voyage.2._________________thesizeofthewholeearth,thebiggestoceandoesnotseembigatall.3.Hebeganto________paredtoComparedto/withcompare5.單詞比較：adopt/adaptadopt采取;

采納;

吸收

過繼,

收養(yǎng)(as)adapt使適應(yīng),

使適合(to)

改編,

改寫(for)1.Aftermuchdeliberation,thepresid