高级英语第二册Pub_Talk_and_the_King’s_English

Background Information
• 3. In 449, Angles, Saxon, and Jutes from Northwest of Germany , conquered the most part of England • English --- old English • 4. 9th century, Scandinavian conquest Danish (language) • 5. 11th century Norman Conquest for 400 years French (language) Middle English • 6. British people conquered the conquest again. English won its recognition. Modern English • 7. American English has become the dominant world variety.
5.
To appreciate the language features
Teaching Contents
• 1. Background information • 2. Text analysis • 3. Detailed study: Vocabulary and structure, paraphrase • 4. Stylistic features & Rhetorical devices • 5. Exercises
Background Information
The History of Britain • 1.The native people in Britain – --- Celt (language) • 2. Roman Conquest 43 AD, ruled for 400 years – Latin (language)
Procedures
Pre-reading While-reading Post-reading
Pre-readixt
Exercises
Background information
Warm-up
• What is the nature of language? • How is language related to culture, politics, and society? • This unit will provide you with the opportunities to explore some of these issues.
• The development of printing helped establish standards of spelling and grammar, but there remained a lot of variation. Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) was the first authoritative treatment of English. It defined about 40,000 words and gave examples of their use.
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Early Old English (450 — c. 850)
• Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain in c. AD 499 when Romans left. Settlers brought a variety of Germanic dialects from mainland Europe. First English literature appeared in c. AD 700. English borrowed many words from Latin via the church.
Modern English developed from the Middle English dialect of the East Midlands and was influenced by the English used in London, where a printing press was set up by William Caxton in 1476. English changed a great deal from this time until the end of the 18th century. During the Renaissance, many words were introduced from Greek and Latin to express new ideas, especially in science, medicine and philosophy. They included physics, species, architecture, encyclopedia and hypothesis. In the 16th century several versions of the Bible helped bring written English to ordinary people. The Elizabethan period is also famous for its drama, and Shakespeare’s plays were seen by many people.
Unit 1
Pub Talk and the King’s English
Aims
1. 2. 3. 4. To learn the methods in developing an expository writing, esp. the use of examples To know how to make good conversation To learn the differences between “pub talk” and the King’s English To analyse the features of spoken English
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Later Old English (c. 850 — 1100)
• There were extensive invasions and settlements from Scandinavia. In the 9th and 10th centuries, when Vikings invaded England, Old Norse words, e.g. sky, take and get and many place names, entered the language. • In the north of England dialects of English became strongly influenced by Scandinavian languages. In the south King Alfred arranged for many Latin texts to be translated.
• In the 16th century several versions of the Bible helped bring written English to ordinary people. The Elizabethan period is also famous for its drama, and Shakespeare’s plays were seen by many people.
5.Early modern English (c. 1450 — 1750)
• This age includes the Renaissance, the Elizabethan era and Shakespeare. The role of the church, of Latin and of French declined and English became a language of science and government. Britain grew commercially and acquired overseas colonies. English was taken to America, Australia, and India. Slave trade carried black speakers of African languages to Caribbean and America, giving rise to English Creoles. English acquired a typographic identity with the rise of printing. There were many attempts to "standardize and fix" the language with dictionaries and grammars.
4.Middle English (c. 1100 — 1450)
• From the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 12th century English was replaced as the official language by Norman French, though English was still used by the lower classes. • English vocabulary and spelling were now affected by French, which became the official language of England. Educated English people were trilingual: French, Latin, and English.