Book5_Module1 British and American English language points.ppt

Read the titles and the first sentences of each paragraph and find four ways in which British and American English are different. The Differences in Grammar Part 3 The Differences in Spelling and Pronunciation Part 4 How many main varieties of Chinese are there? In what ways are they different? Do Chinese people from different regions have problems understanding each other? What will happen to Chinese in the future? 10. While Americans prefer Do you have… prefer v. 喜欢 a. prefer doing 喜欢 e.g. Jack prefers swimming. b. prefer to do 宁愿，更喜欢 e.g. I prefer to go out this afternoon. c. prefer doing to doing 两者间更喜欢 e.g. He prefers sailing to surfing. 比起冲浪他更喜欢航海。 d. prefer to do rather than do 宁愿……而不…… e.g. He prefers to stay rather than go out. 他宁愿呆着也不愿外出。 e. prefer doing rather than doing 宁愿……而不…… e.g. She prefers remaining single rather than having a family. 她宁愿单身也不愿组成家庭。 Try to collect more words or expressions which are different in British and American English in the 4 ways. vocabulary, grammar, spelling and pronunciation 句型讲解与操练 It was very easy for me to make myself understood. I _________________ in making myself understood. Tom is very good at writing. His brother is very good at speaking. Tom is very good at writing_________ his brother is very good at speaking * had no difficulty while 认真分析下列句子，并补全所缺内容。 1. When the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw made the famous remark that the British and the Americans are two nations divided by a common language, he was obviously thinking about the differences. P2 分析 a. 这是一个_________句。 b. when引导的是_________从句。 c. that引导的是_______从句，进一步说 明remark的具体内容。 d. divided by a common language是过去 分词短语作__________，修饰nations。 主从复合 时间状语 同位语 后置定语 2. But it has also led to lots of American words and structures passing into British English, so that some people now believe that British English will disappear. P3 Detailed understanding Read the text carefully again and decide whether the following statements are True T of False F