Unit
2 Language Refresher
Words：
elevator petrol gas official voyage
native actually based gradually Danish vocabulary
spelling latter fluent Singapore Malaysia identity frequently usage command request expression African Spanish eastern southeastern northeastern
recognize lorry accent lightning block straight
Phrase:
because of at present make use of such as
play a part come up
even if/though a large number of instead of be based on than ever before
at the end of communicate with be different from
Sentence:
1.
Why not go by Underground?
2.
So why has English changed over
time?
3.
However, on TV and the radio
you will hear differences in the way people speak.
4.
Do you know that there is more
than one kind of English?
5.
Later in the next century,
people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and
because of that, English began to be spoken in many other countries.
6.
Shakespeare was able to make
use of a wider vocabulary than ever before.
7.
The latter gave a separate
identity to American English spelling.
8.
English is now spoke as a
foreign of second language in South Asia.
9.
Today the number of people
learning English in China is increasing rapidly.
10.
One reason is that English has
a large vocabulary.
11.
Believe it or not, there is no
such thing as standard English.
12.
Those who reported the news
were expected to speak excellent English.
13.
Geography also plays a part in
making dialects.
14.
She told us to go around the
corner on the left and keep going straight for two blocks.
15.
So people from the southeastern
USA speak with almost the same dialect as people in the northwestern USA.
