1、Unit2 English around the worldThis unit seeks to give us a better understanding of how English developed and how it is spoken in the world.A JokeTwo mice sat in their hole watching Cat lurk outside.I know how to make Cat go away,said the first mouse.How?the second mouse asked in surprise.Watch!Bow,w
2、ow!barked the first mouse.Peering through their hole in the wall,they saw Cat running away in fear.Ah,see the benefit of knowing another language!QuestionsWhich language do you think is the most widely used language in the world?Do you think Chinese can be a world language?Why?Do you know the meanin
3、g of “Englishes”?Varieties of English There are many varieties(分类）of English around the world such as American English British English Australian English Canadian English Indian English Caribbean EnglishQuestionWhy do we have so many Englishes?Br E Am.EWhen you hear two native speakers of English,th
4、ey may still not speak the same kind of English.British English American English Chinese flat apartment 公寓 pub bar 酒吧 toilet bathroom 厕所，洗手间 tin can 罐头 lift elevator 电梯 mum mom 妈妈 rubber eraser 橡皮 Student1:I live in South Asia.My country is thousands of years old and now has more than a billion peop
5、le.Unlike many other countries,our people speak a lot of languages.So we use English,which we got from British rulers hundreds of years ago,to understand our neighbours.Of course,we have our own way of using English.IndiaStudent2:One of my grandmothers speaks French.Her grandmother came from some pl
6、ace in Canada.I like to listen to her talk,although I dont understand much of what she says.Her English is also hard to understand.She cooks delicious food,so I spend a lot of time in the kitchen with her whenever I visit her.I plan to see her again for a special holiday called Fat Tuesday.We will g
7、o to New Orleans,which is near the sea.People will dance in the streets all day and night.USAStudent 3:Well,I dont live very far from the last student who spoke to you.But I live on a beautiful island where the sun shines most of the year.Its not the biggest island in the sea but its not the smalles
8、t island,either.We also got English from British rulers a long time ago,and use it in a different way.I think our English sounds a little like our music,Some people say I speak a dialect of English,but I dont agree.To us,its moue like another language.JamaicaStudent 4:I live on a huge green island i
9、n western Europe.Hundreds of years ago my people spoke a very different language from English.Then the British rulers came.Now the language is spoken in only a few villages in the western part of my country.Most of us speak a lovely kind of English that also sounds a little like our music.IrelandStu
10、dent 5:My country has more than 7,000 islands.Some of then are very large but most of them are quite small.Hundreds of years ago the Spanish rulers changed the way we live.Much later the American rulers taught their own kind of English in our schools.Nowadays,we speak a kind of English that borrows
11、words from American English but is mostly our own.PhilippinesStudent 6:My country is very small.In fact,its really a city.It is in southeast Asia and is very rich.People come from all over Asia to do business here.But our English comes from workers on the street.Some people in my country dont kike the sound of this English.They would rather speak British English.Today,you can hear our kind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that come here.SingaporeDiscussion:Why do you think English is spoken in so many places around the world?Learning English学英语报社组织制作学英语报社组织制作2005，8
