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cultural munication being more and more frequent,the chance to contact foreigners,exported goods,international conferences,and so on,is more and the most widely used language,English is regarded as the language used in most international ,if we want to keep up with the times,we’d better master English and use it as a tool.Step 8 Summary and homeworkT:Today we’ve learned an article on “the road to modern English”.After class,you should read it again and again to get the idea of the text the exercises of prehending and try to tell your partner something about English in our own ’s all for is over.●板書設(shè)計(jì)Unit 2 English around the world The First PeriodNew words:Main idea of each paragraph:... ...... ...●活動(dòng)與探究This activity is to make research into differences between different kinds of world English and some words from other languages in English.Divide students into two groups to do research and fill the following table in their free time.DifferencesPronunciationSpellingMeaningUsage...Words from other languagesChineseJapaneseFrenchSpanishGerman...●備課資料Soon There Will Be No Such Thing As “Wrong” EnglishIn this article:Senior Indian journalist Gautaman Bhaskaran says that English is so flexible that one day there will be too many variations around the world.English is a victim of its own other day The Times in London displayed a cartoon showing an excited schoolboy flaunting his test scores:“I done good in English.”Days later,editors of the Oxford Dictionary of English rued the spread of what they termed “greengrocer’s English”.Grammar and syntax,they regretted,were going out of fashion.Others in England—in the Oxford University Press,the BBC and so on—said the incorrect use of cliches were marring the smooth flow of a great language whose ability to imbibe and absorb has been one important reason for its success.This success also stems from the language’s unique position of being the only one spoken in most parts of the ,English has no in countries such as Japan and China,which were not colonized by Britain,English is making a determined “conquest”.Unfortunately,such a conquest is not always wele because a language sometimes doubles as a political some point it ceases to be just a means of munication and English is a classic example of this.It has always led a troubled has been disliked,even hated,largely because the people who originally spoke English conquered,colonized and terrorized half the world,or just animosity to the language continues,at least in some places.The bitterness that the French,for instance,have for English is a good example of a language being giving a quasipolitical role in society.Fortunately,this aversion does not run as it did some years ago,and there is a growing realization that English is the lingua and Japan,among a host of other nations,have been making serious efforts to promote the language.Some months ago there was a hue and cry in Singapore over the spread of “terrible English” which the authorities called “Singlish”.“Down with it!” they said,and urged Singaporeans to learn correct English,the phenomenal flexib