Book One,Unit 4,Book One,Content,Warming-up,Reading,Writing,Text A,Text B,Book One,Lead-in questions,2. IndiaIraqJordanKuwaitYemenLibyaNigeriaPhilippinesSingaporeSudanTanzaniaUganda,Book One,Lead-in questions,British English aeroplane booking office carat Christian name exhaust pipe trousers queue railway station motorway ground floor,American English airplane ticket office karat given name tailpipe pants,slacks line train station freeway, expressway first floor,Book One,Lead-in questions,British English mixed school graduation lift financial year fish monger primary school timber single ticket return ticket compulsory subject post-graduate student lorry, van holiday,American English co-education school commencement elevator fiscal year fish dealer elementary school lumber one-way ticket round-trip ticket required subject graduate student truck vacation,Book One,Questions: 1) Which kind of English are you studying now, American English or British English? What are the differences between them? 2) In which aspests does American English attracts you? Through what channels does American English spread to the rest of the world? Offer some examples. 3) Chinese is increasingly popular outside China, do you see any possibility that Chinese will become the most prevailing language throughout the world in the future? Why/why not?,Group discussion,Book One,THE FUTURE OF ENGLISHH. L. Mencken,Book One,ReadingText A,Text Study,Main Idea & Structure,Sentence Analysis,Language Points,Useful Expressions,Text Translation,Book One,Main Idea and Structure,First reading: Scan the text and try to catch the main idea. The following words are for your reference to organize the idea:English most prevailing succinctness and simplicityAmerican English resisted developing conquer,Second reading: read the passage again and try to identify the structure of this passage.,For your reference,For your reference,Book One,English is the most prevailing language throughout the world and wins by its succinctness and simplicity. Though resisted by the English, American English is developing and surpassing British English, and it will eventually conquer the world.,Main Idea,Book One,Structure,Para. 4-7,Main idea: English is the most prevailing language and its worldwide spread is due tothe extraordinary dispersion of the English-speakingpeople.,Main idea: English wins by its advantagesin vocabulary,pronunciation and arrangment. Its succinctnessand simplicityare especially attractive toforeigners.,Main idea: Though resisted by the English, American English is developing fast. Its reasonable to predict that American English will eventually conquer the world.,Para. 8-14,Para. 1-3,Book One,Text Study,Book One,1 In the middle of the sixteenth century, English was spoken by between four and five millions of people, and stood fifth among the European languages, with French, German, Italian, and Spanish ahead of it in that order, and Russian following. Two hundred years later, Italian had dropped behind but Russian had gone ahead, so that English was still in fifth place. By the end of the Eighteenth Century English began to move forward, and by the middle of the nineteenth it had forced its way into first place. Today it is so far in the lead that it is probably spoken by as many people as the next two languagesRussian and German combined. 2 How many people speak it today? It is hard to answer. Besides those to whom English is their native tongue, there are people who, though born to some other language, live in English-speaking communities and speak English in their daily business. More importantly, English is now spoken as a foreign language throughout the worldvery often, to be sure, badly, but nevertheless understandably. It has become a platitude that one may go almost anywhere with no other linguistic equipment and get on almost as well as in New York.,Para.1-2,Book One,Para.3-4,3 In part, of course, its spread has been due to the extraordinary dispersion of the English-speaking peoples. They have been the greatest travelers of modern times, and the most adventurous merchants, and the most assiduous colonists. Moreover, they have been, on the whole, poor linguists, and so they have dragged their language with them, and forced it upon the human race. 4 But there is more to the matter than this. English, brought to close quarters with formidable rivals, has won very often, not by force of numbers, but by the sheer weight of its merit. “In wealth, wisdom, and strict economy,” said the eminent Jakob Grimm a century ago, “none of the other living languages can vie with it.” To which the eminent Otto Jespersen was adding only the other day: English is simple, it has clear sounds, it packs its words closely together, it is logical in their arrangement, and it is free from all pedantic flubdub.,Book One,Para. 5-6,5 When American pedagogues speak of the virtues of English they almost always begin by hymning its enormous vocabulary, which is at least twice as large as that of any other language. But this is not what enchants the foreigner; on the contrary, the vast reaches of the vocabulary naturally alarm him. The thing that really wins him is the succinctness and simplicity of the language. We use, for all our store of Latin polysyllables, a great many more short words than long ones, and we are always trying to make the long ones short. What was once puniligrion is now pun; what was gasoline only yesterday is already gas. No other European language has so many three-letter words, nor so many four-word sayings. “First come, first served”that is typically English, for it is bold, plain, and short. 6 The English psychologist, Dr. Ogden believes, indeed, that 850 words are sufficient for all ordinary purposes, and he has devised a form of simplified English, called by him Basic, which uses no more. Of his 850 words no less than 600 are the names of things, which leaves only 250 for the names of qualities and actions, and for all the linguistic hooks and eyes that hold sentences together.,