Whichlanguagedoyouthinkisthemostwidelyusedlanguageintheworld?2.DoyouthinkChinesecanbeaworldlanguage?Why?3.CanyounameanycountrieswhereEnglishisspoken?Freetalk
U.K.U.S.A.CanadaAustraliaNewZealandSouthAfricaEnglish-speakingcountries
English-speakingcountriesUK,USA,Australia,Canada,NewZealand,SouthAfrica,Irelandmothertongue/nativelanguageofficiallanguageIndia,HongKong,Singapore,thePhilippines,etc.
Doyouknowthemeaningof“Englishes”?FreetalkRegionalandnationalvarietiesoftheEnglishlanguageusedinplaceswhereitisnotthemothertongueofthemajorityofthepopulation.NewEnglisheshavecertainformalproperties(lexical,phonological,grammatical)thatdifferfromthoseofBritishorAmericanStandardEnglish.ExamplesofNewEnglishesincludeNigerianEnglish,SingaporeEnglishandIndianEnglish.
Born:September18,1709OneoftheEnglishlanguage’smostprofoundinfluencesTwoimportantpersonsSamuelJohnson
SamuelJohnsonfinishededitingTheDictionaryoftheEnglishLanguagein1755.Formorethan150years,thisdictionaryisthemostauthoritativeuntiltheearly20thcenturywhenTheOxfordEnglishDictionarycameout.
NoahWebsterBorn:October16,1758Died:May28,1843
WhenNoahwas43,hestartedwritingthefirstAmericandictionary.HedidthisbecauseAmericansindifferentpartsofthecountryspelled,pronouncedandusedwordsdifferently.
Americanlexicographer(辞典编纂者),textbookauthor,spellingreformer,wordenthusiast,andeditorThefirstpersontowriteadictionaryofAmericanEnglishandpermanentlyalterthespellingofAmericanEnglishFatherofAmericanScholarshipandEducation
In1783~1785,hewroteabooknamedAGrammaticalInstituteoftheEnglishLanguage.Thisbookdividedinto3parts,“aspellingbook”(1783),“agrammar”(1784)and“areader”(1785).
In1824,withhissonWilliamtoaidhim,hevoyagedtoEuropetocompletethedictionary.