For auld lang syne, my friends, for auld lang syne, We'll take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne.
A red red rose Robert Burns
O, my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: O, my Luve's like a melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune!
1. The English language is made up of the rules and
2. vocabulary each group of people brought to Britain
2. Middle English is the name given to the English used from around the 12th to the 16th century. (line24)
3. So, the words we use for most animals raised for food, such as ox, cow, sheep and pig, come from Old English, while the words for the meat people eat come from French: beef, mutton, pork and bacon. (p23 line39)
Unit2 Language
Let’s enjoy a song and a poem:
Auld lang syne A red red rose
Auld lang syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne?
As fair as thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I: And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry:
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun; I will luve thee till, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run.
True or false:
F
1. Old English consisted of an Anglo-Saxon base plus
words from the languages of FDreennmcahrk and Norway.
2. The words for most animals come from old English
And fare thee weel, my only luve, And fare thee weel a while! And I will come again, my luve, Tho' it ware ten thousand mile.
Why can’t we understand them?
just because the animals were raised and cooked
by English servants. T
3. English was used for all official occasions after
HtheenrNyoⅣrmbaencaCmoentqhueeksitn.g of England.
English is changing all the time…
Unit2 Reading English and its History
Fast reading:
1.Where did the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes come from?
They came from the European mainland.
F
4. People from different places other though they both speak
English.
T
Language points --- sentence structures
1. The English language is made up of the rules and vocabulary each group of people brought to Britain with them. (p22 line3)
2. Why can similar pairs of words be found in the English language?
Because each word or phrase came from a different language
3. When did Modern English appear? During the Renaissance in the 16th century.
4. The question of whether English will continue changing in the future is easy to answer. (line55)
5. If a person from the south of England goes to the north, he or she may find it difficult to understand what people there are saying. (line57-58)