Module1 BritishandAmericanEnglishGuidance:WhatarethedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish?Dothedifferencesmatter?Now,pleasereadthefollowingpassage.AstudentislearningtospeakBritishEnglish.Hewonders1:CanIcommunicate2withAmericans?Cantheyunderstandme?LearnersofEnglishoftenask:WhatarethedifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish?Howimportantarethesedifferences?Certainly!TherearesomedifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish.Thereareafewdifferencesingrammar.Forexample,speakersofBritishEnglishsay“inhospital”and“Haveyougotapen?”,whileAmericanssay“inthehospital”and“Doyouhaveapen?”.Pronunciationissometimesdifferent.Americansusuallysoundtheirsinwordslike“bird”and“hurt”.SpeakersofBritishEnglishdonotsoundtheirsinthesewords.TherearedifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglishinspellingandvocabulary.Forexample,“colour”and“honour3”areBritish;“color”and“honor”areAmerican.Thesedifferencesingrammar,pronunciation,spellingandvocabularyarenotimportant,however.Forthemostpart,BritishandAmericanEnglisharethesamelanguage.美文翻译一个学生在学习说英式英语。他想知道:我是否能与美国人交流呢?他们能听懂我说的话吗?英语学习者经常会问类似下面这样的问题:英式英语和美式英语有什么不同?这些不同是不是很重要呢?它们之间当然存在着一些不同。语法方面有点儿不同。比方说:讲英式英语的人说“inhospital”和“Haveyougotapen?”,而美国人会说“inthehospital”和“Doyouhaveapen?”。发音有时也会不同。像bird和hurt这样的单词,美音中通常包含“theirs”中的卷舌音,而英音中不包含卷舌音。拼写和词汇方面也存在一些差别。比如:“colour”和“honour”是英式英语,而“color”和“honor”是美式英语。然而,它们在语法、发音及拼写和词汇方面的这些不同不是那么重要。在很大程度上,英式英语和美式英语是相同的一种语言。词海拾贝1.wonderwndvt.对感到好奇;惊奇;感到诧异;想弄明白municatekmjunIkeItvi.传达;相通;交流3.honournn.荣誉;尊敬难句剖析Forexample,speakersofBritishEnglishsay“inhospital”and“Haveyougotapen?”,whileAmericanssay“inthehospital”and“Doyouhaveapen?”.while是连词,表示对比,意为“却;但是;然而”。句意:比方说,讲英式英语的人说:“inhospital”和“Haveyougotapen?”,而美国人说:“inthehospital”和“Doyouhaveapen?”。理解诱思1.AmericanEnglishandBritishEnglisharedifferentin.A.spellingB.pronunciationC.grammarD.alloftheabove2.Accordingtothispassage,BritishpeopleandAmericanshavedifficultyinunderstandingeachother.A.littleB.muchC.some D.great3.WhatdoyouthinkofthedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish?答案:1.D2.A3.Differentstudentshavedifferentanswers.Section Introduction,Reading&VocabularyPre-reading.写作词汇预习Introduction,Reading&Vocabulary部分的词汇,完成下列句子1.(显然)thatBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish(有很多共同之处)thoughsometimesthey(不同)insomeways.2.(口音)maybealittle(难懂的),buttheydont(影响)totheEnglish-speakingusers.3.Theoldmanisfullofenergy,anditmakeshim(四处走动并不费力).4.(比较)thetwostudents,youllfindthey(相似)eachother.5.Toomuchworkandtoolittlerestoften(导致)illness.答案:1.Itisobvious;havemuchincommon;differ2.Accents;confusing;makeadifference3.havenodifficultyingettingaround4.Comparing;aresimilarto5.leadto.阅读词汇阅读下列句子,说出黑体词的含义1.Thelinguistwenttostudytribal(部落的)languageinthefield.含义:2.Thequickestwaytogoroundthecityisbyunderground.含义:3.Hetookaflashlightlestitshouldgetdarkbeforehereturned.含义:4.Inwritingthereportyoumayomitallunnecessarydetails.含义:5.Heisgettingonslowlybutsteadilywithhiswork.含义:6.Whereisthelightswitch?含义:7.OneofhisforefatherswasanearlysettlerinAmerica.含义:8.Wesentupanotherman-madesatellitethismonth.含义:答案:1.语言学家2.地铁3.手电筒4.省略5.不断地;持续地6.开关7.移民;定居者8.卫星While-reading.阅读课文,选择正确答案1.ThefirstandmostobviousdifferencebetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishisinthe.A.spellingB.vocabularyC.grammarD.pronunciation2.WhichstatementistrueaccordingtoParagraph4?A.BritishEnglishspellingseemsalittlesimplerthanAmericanEnglishspelling.B.GeorgeBernardShawfocusedonthedifferencesbetweenthetwovarieties.C.ALondonerhaslessdifficultyunderstandingaScotsmanthanunderstandingaNewYorker.D.OnlyafewfactorshaveinfluencedAmericanpronunciationforabout400years.3.Whatmakesthetwovarietiesmoveclosertogether?A.Thatthetwonationsarebecomingmoreandmorefriendly.B.AmericanwordsandstructurespassingintoBritishEnglish.C.Steadyandcontinuouscommunicationsbetweenthetwonations.D.Thatscientistshavemadecommunicationseasierandeasier.4.WhatsthewritersattitudetowardsthedifferencesbetweenAmericanandBritishEnglish?A.Itissurprisingthatthesamelanguagehassuchgreatdifferences.B.Peoplecanwithoutdoubtunderstandeachotherinthesamenation.C.Differenceswithinalanguagearequitenormalinthesamenation.D.Someexpertsbegintoworryaboutthedifferenceslittlebylittle.5.Thepassageismainlyabout.A.thewidelyusedgloballanguageEnglishB.howBritishandAmericanEnglishgetcloserC.afewdifferencesbetweenthetwovarietiesD.thelanguagedifficultiesbetweentwonations答案:15BBCCCPost-reading.课文语篇填空BritishandAmericanEnglishdifferinmanyways.Thedifferenceinvocabularyisthemostobvious.Sometimes,thesamewordhasa1.(slight)differentmeaning,whichcanbe2.(confuse).Thereareafewdifferencesingrammar,too.TheBritishuseprepositionswhereAmericanssometimesomitthem.Theothertwoareasin3.thetwovarietiesdifferarespellingandpronunciation.Americanspelling4.(seem)simpler,andmanyfactors5.(influence)Americanpronunciationsincethefirstsettlersarrivedthere.Althoughtherearesomanydifferences,someexpertsbelievethatthetwovarietiesaremovingclosertogether.CommunicationsacrosstheAtlantichavedeveloped6.(steady)foroveracentury.Theexpertsthinkthisnon-stopcommunicationhasmadeiteasierforBritishpeopleandAmericans7