文档介绍：By Tsenor
The road to Modern English
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GUESSING GAME
GUESSING GAME
old English
(5th and 11th centuries)
middle English
(1100-1500)
modern English
(1500-present)
Pre-reading
THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH__
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development / way / process
发展
Fast-reading
SCAN THE PASSAGE_______________________
1. In how many countries mentioned in the passage English is spoken as their official language? List them.
2. Can people from different English-speaking countries understand each other?
7 countries. England, America, Australia, India, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa
China?
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foreign language
Yes.
Careful-reading
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More people speak English than ever before.
Native speakers can understand each other even they don't speak the same kind of English.
Why has English changed over time?
Finally by the 19th century the language was settled.
English is Now spoken wide in South Asia.
Introduction- main development- global English
When
Where
What
Why
AD 450-1150
England
AD 800 and 1150
English became less like German.
By the 1600s
England
1620
Some British settlers moved to America.
18th century
English began to be spoken in Australia.
1765-1947
English was spoken in India.
19th century
World
Today
World
Most changes in English happened when British people________ the
world and therefore cultures________ with each other.