福建省厦门华兴实验学校高中英语 第八周 Unit 2 English around the world 课文翻译导学案 新人教版必修 1The Road to Modern English（通往现代英语之路）At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke English. Nearly all of them lived in England. 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. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever before. 16 世纪末期大约有五至七百万人讲英语。几乎所有这些人都生活在英国。后来，在 17 世纪英国人就开始航海征服了世界其他地区。于是，许多别的国家开始说英语了。如今说英语的人比以往任何时候都多，他们有的是作为第一语言来说，有的是作为第二语言或外语。Native English speakers can understand each othe r even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. Look at this example:British Betty: Would you like to see my flat?American Amy: Yes. I’d like to come up to your apartment.以英语为母语的人，即使他们所讲的语言不尽相同，也可以互相交流。请看以下例子：英国人贝蒂：“请到我的公寓（flat）来看看，好吗？”美国人艾米：“好的。我很乐意到你的公寓（apartment）去。”So why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and communicate with each other. At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. It was based more on German than the English we speak at present. Then gradually between about AD 800 to 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoke first Danish and later French. These new settlers enriched the English language and especially its vocabulary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to make use of a...
