By Tsenor The road to Modern English 次罗 GUESSING GAME GUESSING GAME old English (5th and 11th centuries) middle English (1100-1500) modern English (1500-present) Pre-reading THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH__ ↓ _____ development / way / process 发展 Fast-reading SCAN THE PASSAGE_______________________ 1. In how many countries mentioned in the passage English is spoken as their official language? List them. 2. Can people from different English-speaking countries understand each other? 7 countries. England, America, Australia, India, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa China? → foreign language Yes. Careful-reading STRUCTURE OF THE PASSAGE______________ Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 5 More people speak English than ever before. Native speakers can understand each other even they don't speak the same kind of English. Why has English changed over time? Finally by the 19th century the language was settled. English is Now spoken wide in South Asia. Introduction- main development- global English When Where What Why AD 450-1150 England AD 800 and 1150 English became less like German. By the 1600s England 1620 Some British settlers moved to America. 18th century English began to be spoken in Australia. 1765-1947 English was spoken in India. 19th century World Today World Most changes in English happened when British people________ the world and therefore cultures________ with each other.
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