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Learning about English

Learning about English. Li Ling. Play on words (pun). I was arrested at the airport. Just because I was greeting my cousin Jack! All that I said was " Hi Jack ", but very loud. You earn your living and you urn your dead.

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Learning about English

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  1. Learning about English Li Ling

  2. Play on words (pun) • I was arrested at the airport. Just because I was greeting my cousin Jack! All that I said was "Hi Jack", but very loud. • You earn your living and you urn your dead. • Women have a wonderful sense of right and wrong, but little sense of right and left. • Customer: Have you got any chicken's legs? Waiter: No, sir, I always walk this way!

  3. Which can run faster , heat or cold ? Heat. Because everyone can catch cold. 2. Why is the bride always unlucky on her wedding ? • What is the worst kind of fish? Because she can never marry the best man. Selfish.

  4. The Glorious Messiness of English

  5. Agenda • A lecture on the history of English • Discussion: • Why is English the most widely-used language in the world today? • Why do we learn English? What’s the benefit or harm? • Would you please share with us how you plan to learn English in college? • Listening Practice

  6. Historic English text samples 1. Old English Beowulf lines 1 to 11, approximately AD 900 Hwæt! Wē Gār-Denain geārdagum,þēodcyninga,þrym gefrūnon,hū ðā æþelingasellen fremedon.Oft Scyld Scēfingsceaþena þrēatum,monegum mǣgþum,meodosetla oftēah,egsode eorlas.Syððan ǣrest wearðfēasceaft funden,hē þæs frōfre gebād,wēox under wolcnum,weorðmyndum þāh,oðþæt him ǣghwylcþāra ymbsittendraofer hronrādehȳran scolde,gomban gyldan.Þæt wæs gōd cyning!

  7. 2. Middle English From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 14th century Whan that Aprill, with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the rooteAnd bathed every veyne in swich licour,Of which vertu engendred is the flour;Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breethInspired hath in every holt and heethThe tendre croppes, and the yonge sonneHath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,And smale foweles maken melodye,That slepen al the nyght with open eye(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages

  8. 3. Early Modern English From Paradise Lost by John Milton, 1667 Of man's first disobedience, and the fruitOf that forbidden tree, whose mortal tasteBrought death into the world, and all our woe,With loss of Eden, till one greater ManRestore us, and regain the blissful seat,Sing, Heavenly Muse, that on the secret topOf Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspireThat shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed,In the beginning how the Heavens and EarthRose out of chaos: or if Sion hillDelight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowedFast by the oracle of God, I thenceInvoke thy aid to my adventurous song,That with no middle Flight intends to soarAbove the Aonian mount, whyle it pursuesThings unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

  9. 4. Modern English Taken from Oliver Twist, 1838, by Charles Dickens The evening arrived: the boys took their places; the master in his cook's uniform stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out, and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared, the boys whispered each other and winked at Oliver, while his next neighbours nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger and reckless with misery. He rose from the table, and advancing, basin and spoon in hand, to the master, said, somewhat alarmed at his own temerity— "Please, sir, I want some more."

  10. History of English

  11. Old English (400-1100 A.D.) Anglo-Saxon & Vikings:be, water, strong, dream, man, woman, king, mother • Middle English (1300-1500) Old French VS. Anglo-Saxon • beef vs. cow; pork vs. pig; sheep vs. mutton; • royal, sovereign, jury, verdict, court, legal, … • doom & judgment; wish & desire

  12. Early Modern English (1500-1800) 1.Latin&Creek: physics, species, architecture, encyclopedia, hypothesis… 2. Shakespeare: vanish into the air, pedant flesh and blood, critical…

  13. Late-Modern English (1800-present) 1.Industrial Revolution & Technology: oxygen, protein, nuclear, vaccine , horsepower, airplane, typewriter, byte, cyber-, bios, microchip 2. Borrowing: from Indian: pundit, shampoo, pajamas from Finnish: sauna from Japanese: tycoon, tofu, judo from Chinese: taiji, chow mien, wok, mahjong, cheog sam, mandarin

  14. Discussion • Why is English the most widely-used language in the world today? • Why do we learn English? What’s the benefit or harm of doing this? • Would you please share with us how you plan to learn English in college?

  15. The Glorious Messiness of English • Listen and take notes about the idiomatic usages mentioned. • What do they mean? 1)ship by truck / send cargo by ship 2)noses that run / feet that smell 3)a slim / fat chance

  16. 4)a wise guy / a wise man 5)overlook / oversee 6)hot / cold as hell 7)burn up / burn down 8)fill in a form/ fill out a form 9)go off / go on

  17. when stars are out / when lights are out • wind up a watch / wind up a speech

  18. Task for all of you next time • Read Unit 2 Text A carefully, I’ll ask you questions during class to check your understanding next time. • Write an article beginning with “Had I the opportunity, I would most want to spend a whole night talking with xxx…” , and send it tovalerie.ling@yahoo.com.cn by 2010.10.28

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