1.Withyourpartner,listthecountriesthatuseEnglishasanofficiallanguage?2.WhichcountrydoyouthinkhasthemostEnglishlearners?3.Lookatthetitleofthefollowingpassageandguesswhatitisabout.Thenreaditquicklyandseeifyouareright.official官方的voyage航行,航海native本国的,本地的present现在的、出席的gradually逐渐地vocabulary词汇、词汇量actually事实上latter后者的identity身份fluent流利的Singapore新加坡Malaysia马来西亚frequently频繁地1.Englishhas/hadthemostspeakers___.A.nowB.whentheBritishruledmanypartsoftheworldC.inthetimeofShakespeareD.inthe12thcentury2.Whichofthefollowingstatementistrue?A.LanguagesalwaysstaythesameB.LanguageschangeonlyafterwarsC.LanguagesnolongerchangeD.Languageschangewhencultureschange3.FromAD450to1150,Englishsoundedmorelike_____?A.FrenchB.ChineseC.GermanD.Russian4.Shakespeare’sEnglishwasspokenaround______?A.1400’sB.1150’sC.450’sD.1600’s5.WhichcountryhasthefastestgrowingnumberofEnglishspeakersintheworld?A.AustraliaB.ChinaC.IndiaD.BritainScanningInthe1600’sThemainideaofeachparagraph.Para3Readthepassageagainandanswerthefollowingquestions.WhywasEnglishspokeninmanyothercountriesinthe17thcentury?WhydoesChinahavethelargestnumberoftheEnglishspeakers?DonativeEnglishspeakershavedifficultyinunderstandingeachother?DoestheirEnglishhavedifferences?Ifso,canyoushowexamples?ReadPara.4andfindoutwhyIndiatakesEnglishassecondlanguage.SamuelJohnsonBorn:September18,1709OneoftheEnglishlanguage’smostprofoundinfluences.NoahWebsterBorn:October16,1758Died:May28,1843WhenNoahwas43,hestartedwritingthefirstAmericandictionary.HedidthisbecauseAmericansindifferentpartsofthecountryspelled,pronouncedandusedwordsdifferently.SomepeoplesaythatChineseisamuchmoreelegantlanguage,soitismoreimportantforustomasteritanditisnotsonecessarytomasterforeignlanguage.Doyouagreewiththisopinionandwhy?1.DoyouknowthatthereismorethanonekindofEnglishintheworld?你知道世界上不止有一种英语吗？morethanone+名词单数,后面的谓语动词用单数。Morethanonestudentwantstogotoswim.morethan还可以与名词、形容词、副词、动词、动名词连用，意为“不只是，非常”Bothofthemaremuchmorethanschoolmates.Theyarec