1. English and its history
M3 U2 Reading
English and its history

2. William Shakespeare
a brilliant English poet and playwright during Renaissance (文艺复兴)

3. Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? you 我能否将你比作夏天？
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
you
我能否将你比作夏天？
are
You
你比夏天更美丽温婉。
a date.
狂风将五月的蓓蕾凋残，
夏日的勾留何其短暂？
has

4. Please go through the Reading strategy and tell me how to read a history article.

5. history a ______ article Reading strategy (P23) order
1. Notice ______ and _______
dates
years
time chart
2. Make a _________, listing______________
important information
order
3: Help you understand the ________of
events and how pieces of information
____________ the rest of the text.
relate to

6. Skim over the text in 2 minutes and answer the 3 questions on page 22.
通过基于问题任务的快速文本浏览，掌握文本的主体大意，为进一步阅读建立框架。
让学生带着问题听，避免了盲目，同时也对个别细节更为关注。 6

7. Fast reading 1. What is the article about? English and its history.
2.What are the three kinds of
English discussed in the article?
Old English, Middle English
and Modern English.
3. Is what way is English still changing?
English is still changing in many way, such as in vocabulary and pronunciation.

8. Comprehension How many parts can we divide the text into?
Introduction
Old English
Middle English
快速浏览课文的小标题，实际是一种阅读策略的输入。“授人以鱼不如授人以渔”，因此让学生掌握方法、技能、策略也是教学应当关注的课题。在阅读过程中，教师有意识地加入策略培训，有助于学生实现更为有效的阅读。
Modern English 8

9. Why does the English language have so many rules that confuse people?
Introduction
Why does the English language have so many rules that confuse people?
Because it is made up of the grammar and vocabulary that people from different countries and cultures brought with them to Britain.

10. Careful reading Old English(L5-L22)
Task 1: Find and say something about the words.
Celtic:
the Angles and the Saxons:
the Vikings:
L8 :a language spoken by people in Britain
before the middle of the 5th century
L9 :two Germanic groups from the
European mainland
L14: people from Northern European countries

11. Time Events Before the middle of the 5th century
People in Britain all spoke _____________________.
During the period from the middle of the 5th century to the end of the 9th century
___________ developed from the mixing of the languages of three Germanic tribes --the Angles,the Saxons,and the Jutes with Celtic.
At the ___ of the 9th century
The Vikings_______________
_________________________.
By the 10th century
Old English was the________language of England.
a language called Celtic.
Anglo-Saxon
end
invaded Britain
and brought their language.
official

12. Time chart Old English events language before 5th then end of 9th 10th
occupied by the two Germanic groups
the Vikings began to move to
became official language
Spoke Celtic
before 5th
then
end of 9th
10th
language
Old English

13. the 5th century

14. the 9th century

15. Languages of Angles and Saxons
Old English
Languages of Angles and Saxons
Celtic
Languages of
Vikings

16. Middle English French’s influence on English:
What are the factors that contributed to the development of middle English?
French’s influence on English:
1. More words with
similar meanings
2. Words for meat and animals
3. French ways of
making plurals

17. reply answer More words with similar meanings. Old English Old French
the same meaning (回答）
reply
answer
Old English
Old French

18. Why ? French beef mutton pork/bacon English ox/cow sheep pig Words for
Examples
Words for animals
Words for
their meat
English
French
ox/cow
beef
Why ?
mutton
sheep
pig
pork/bacon

19. Making plurals Examples Germanic way French way house shoe man child
housen
houses
shoen
shoes
men
children

20. French’s influence on English:
What are the factors that contributed to the development of middle English?
French’s influence on English:
1. More words with
similar meanings
2. Words for meat and animals
3. French ways of
making plurals
Henry IV
official occasions
Middle English

21. Time chart events Middle English language latter half of 14th 1066
appeared during the Renaissance
events
Henry Ⅳ became King and used
Normans defeated and took control
had come into widespread use
keep on changing
latter half of 14th
1066
1399
16th
Modern
English
Middle English
language

22. Modern English(L51-L58) Task 1:
Read together and answer the following questions
1.When did Modern English appear?
2.Why does Modern English include many
Latin and Greek words?
3.What also changed a lot in Modern English?
4. What will people keep doing?
During the Renaissance in the 16th century.
Because of the Renaissance.
Pronunciation
People will keep inventing new words and new ways of saying things.

23. Latin and Greek Middle English Modern English
How was Modern English formed?
Latin and Greek
Middle English
Modern English

24. English and its history
Consolidation
English and its history
Old English
In the middle of the 5th century, the language 1.________ in Britain was Celtic. Then Britain was 2.________ by the Angles and the Saxons, who brought their language into Old English.
At the end of the 9th century, the Vikings created Old English, 3._______ their languages with Anglo-Saxon.
By the 10th century, Old English, had become the 4.________ language of English.
Middle English
In 1066, England was 5._______ by the Normans, but French didn’t take the 6._____ of English as the first language.
By the latter half of the 14th century, English had been 7.________used among all classes in England.
8.________ English
Vocabulary and pronunciation also went 9._________ great changes during the Renaissance. It is 10.________ that English will continue developing in the future.
spoken
occupied
mixing
official
defeated
place
widely
through
Modern
certain

25. Retelling

26. What may affect a language?
Discussion
What may affect a language?
wars
cultures
3. the differences of dialects(方言)
4. modern science and technology …

27. Group activity
Suppose one of your group is a linguistic expert（语言学家）and the other three are journalists, we will hold a press conference…

28. Tips for experts
Make a brief introduction of English language, and please focus on times and events.
Useful sentence patterns. e.g. it’s my great honor to …;
What I am going to talk about today is…;
thank you for …;

29. Tips for journalists
Ask the expert some questions focused on features of the different period.
Useful sentence patterns. e.g. thank you for…;
I’d like to ask you…;
As you just mentioned…, what do you think of…?

30. Time for discussion

31. Time for presentation

32. History of English language
appeared during the Renaissance
had come into widespread use
became official language
spoke Celtic
Henry Ⅳ became King and used
occupied by the two Germanic groups
the Vikings moved to
Normans defeated and took control
French didn’t replace
keep on changing
latter half of 14th
5th
then
9th
10th
1066
1316
1399
16th
Old
English
Middle
English
Modern
English

33. Homework
Write a short summary of English and its history according to what we have learned today.
通过课后的写作，一方面巩固所学知识，另一方面弥补写的技能训练。 33

34. Thank you!