高中英语人教版高一上08

[00:04.60]Lesson 9   1 Dialogue

[00:10.66]Yang Mei is now studying in the States.

[00:15.41]She meets her new teacher,Sara,for the first time.

[00:20.45]SAra is an American.They are talking before the term starts.

[00:27.32]SARA:     So you are Yang Mei.Nice to meet you.

[00:31.87]Yang MEI:  How do you do ?I'm sorry.I know only a little English.

[00:38.74]I have some difficulty 1 in pronouncing some of the words in English.

[00:44.80]SARA:    No,you're doing fine.       Yang Mei:  Thank you.

[00:49.84]SARA:    And when do you take your next exams?   Yang MEI:  In June.

[00:55.41]SARA:    I see.What do you want to do next fall?

[01:00.16]Yang MEI:  Pardon?Would you please say that again more slowly?

[01:05.72]SARA:    What do you want to do next fall?

[01:09.59]Yang MEI:  Next what? I'm sorry I don't quite follow you.

[01:15.44]SARA:    What do you want to do next September? Do you have any plans?

[01:22.89]Yang MEI:  I'd like to study medicine and become a doctor.

[01:27.64]SARA:    Right.Nice meeting you,Yang Mei.bye.

[01:33.20]Yang MEI:  Goodbye.

[01:40.75]Lesson 10    Reading 2

[01:44.88]Read the passage quickly and find out some American English words and expressions 4.

[01:52.85]AMERICAN ENGLISH(1)

[01:57.11]Many students want to know about the differences between American English and British English.

[02:04.55]Written English is more or less the same in both Britain and America,

[02:10.61]though there are some spelling differences.

[02:14.69]For example,the words colour,centre and travelled

[02:21.14]are spelt color,center,and traveled in American English.

[02:27.91]   The differences in the spoken language are greater.

[02:33.47]For example,Americans say dance,and in southern England the say danse[da:ns].

[02:43.32]In America they pronounce not [nat];in southern England they say not[].

[02:51.26]However,most of the time,people from the two countries

[02:56.59]do not have any difficulty in understanding 5 each other.

[03:01.63]   How did these differences come about?

[03:05.78]There is no quick answer to this question.

[03:10.15]When people from England travelled to other countries,

[03:15.11]they took the English language with them.

[03:19.47]At first,the language stayed the same as the language used 6 in Britain,

[03:26.00]but slowly the language began to change from one part of the world to another.

[03:32.77]   Sometimes,the English spoken in America or Canada or Australia changed;

[03:40.21]but sometimes the language spoken in these places stayed the same,

[03:46.38]while the language in England changed.

[03:50.64]For example,300 years ago,the English talked about "fall".

[03:58.00]Today,most British people talk about "autumn".

[04:03.57]But Americans still talk about "fall"

[04:07.93]just as people do in some parts of western England.

[04:13.49]In the same way Americans use the expression 3 "I guess" (meaning "I think")

[04:20.47]just as the British did 300 years ago.

[04:25.43]A great many words and expressions have come into the language from American English,

[04:32.20]For example:movie,gas,store,mail,radio,right away (at once),

[04:42.25]way of life,and so on.

[04:51.50]Lesson 11

[04:54.77]1 Reading    AMERICAN ENGLISH(2)

[05:01.30]American English has changed over the centuries,too.

[05:06.02]There are several reasons for this.

[05:09.66]One of the reasons is that people travelled to America

[05:14.62]from all the European coutries and from other parts of the world,too.

[05:20.47]They started to use English,

[05:24.13]but they also brought in some words from their own languages.

[05:29.17]For example,the word "cent" in American money is from old French.

[05:36.43]One of the states in the USA is called "Florida";

[05:41.29]in Spanish 7 this means 8 the "land of flowers".

[05:45.84]There are a great many American Indian words,for example "to howl"means"to cry".

[05:53.38]And "cookbook 9" is a German word.