高中英语人教版02

[07:13.16]it is called a dialect.
[07:17.11]American English has many dialects,especially the midwestern,southern,
[07:24.87]African American and Spanish dialects.
[07:30.14]In some parts of the US,
[07:34.50]two people from neighbouring towns can have a little different dialect.
[07:41.58]American English has so many dialects
[07:46.63]because people have come from all over the world.
[07:51.30]Geography also plays a part in making dialects.
[07:57.26]Some people who live in the mountains of the eastern US
[08:03.00]speak with an older kind of English dialect.
[08:07.97]When Americans moved from one place to another,they took their dialects with them.
[08:15.33]So people from the mountains in the southeastern US
[08:21.50]speak with almost the same dialect as people in the northwestern US.
[08:28.34]The US is a large country in which many different dialects are spoken.
[08:35.89]Although many Americans move a lot,they still recognize each other's dialects.
[08:44.15]Lisitening
[08:56.29]Imagine that you are in Houston,Texas,a city in the American South.
[09:06.56]Listen carefully to the way the boy is talking.
[09:12.02]He is speaking with one kind of Southern dialect and accent.
[09:18.89]Hey,y'all,this here is Buford.
[09:24.14]I come from a big oil town in Taxas.
[09:29.18]Now,y'all need to understand that we ain't really a state,
[09:34.93]but a whole'nother country.
[09:39.08]Now let me tell ya a story'bout when I was just a pup.
[09:44.86]One hot summer's day I was swimmin'with my cousins Little Lester and Big Billy Bob
[09:54.00]We was jumpin'in the water and feelin'good.
[09:59.95]Then along comes this catfish'bout the size of a house.
[10:07.40]Well,alright,maybe a little smaller than that.
[10:13.56]Little Lester starts to thinkin'it's goin'to eat him sure'nough.
[10:19.73]Man,you shoulda seen him.
[10:24.59]He got outta the water fast as lightning and climbed up a tree.
[10:30.75]Big Billy Bob and I just laughed and laughed.
[10:36.68]To this day,Lester won't go near that place.
[10:42.04]Workbook
[10:51.10]LISTENING
[10:54.65]1.Listen to the tape.The speakers are using both British and American English.
[11:04.50]Write the American English words from the dialogue that have the same meanings
[11:11.56]as the British words listed below.
[12:27.02]2.Listen to the second conversation and answer the following questions.
[14:03.28]LISTENING TASK
[14:11.54]3.As you listen to the tape with your partner,
[14:18.38]try to guess the name of each student's country.
[17:23.02]READING TASK
[17:31.06]THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
[17:35.82]You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many,many centuries.
[17:43.55]The spelling of English has always been a problem
[17:49.48]but it was more of a problem in the days before a dictionary.
[17:55.54]Then people could spell words in different ways which you might find interesting.
[18:04.00]But it made reading English much more difficult.
[18:09.67]So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same.
[18:17.40]In fact,an English dictionary like the kind you use today
[18:24.46]wsan't made until the time of the Qing Dynasty.
[18:29.92]Three men did most of the important early work on dictionaries:
[18:37.28]Samuel Johnson,Noah Webster,and James Murray.
[18:44.65]These men spent nearly all of their lives
[18:50.29]trying to collect words for their dictionaries.
[18:55.65]For them,it wasn't only a job;it was a wonderful journey.
[19:03.51]The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary,
[19:11.56]or OED for short.
[19:16.41]The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857.
[19:25.66]Twenty-two years later,
[19:29.79]Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.
[19:38.57]Murray had never been to college.
[19:42.93]At the age of fourteen,
[19:47.19]he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while wording in a bank.
[19:55.34]Later he became a great teacher.
[19:59.99]After Oxford gave him the job,
[20:04.95]Murray had a place built in the garden behind his house to do his work.