北師大版高中英語(yǔ)模塊7--Unit 19 Communication 1

北師大版高中英語(yǔ)模塊7--Unit 19 Communication 1 [00:03.24]Unit 19 Communication Culture Corner [00:08.30]English Around the World [00:10.65]Nowadays,there are around 400 million speakers [00:14.44]of English as a first language in countries [00:17.23]such as Australia,Britain,Canada, [00:19.48]Ireland,Jamaica,New Zealand, [00:21.67]South Africa and the United States. [00:24.37]In addition,there are many more millions [00:26.58]of people who speak English [00:28.35]as a second language, [00:29.75]that is,when English is used in government, [00:32.30]business and education. [00:34.75]Many countries where English is used [00:36.74]as a second language are ex-British [00:39.42]colonies such as India,Kenya,Nigeria, [00:42.16]Pakistan,Singapore,and Srilanks. [00:45.30]Furthermore,English is the most widely [00:47.51]studied foreign language in the world. [00:50.26]Sixteen hundred years ago, [00:52.00]the ancestor of "Engish" [00:53.77]was a language spoken by a few barbaric tribes [00:56.80]who had not even arrived in Britain. [00:59.09]How did it eventually become a world language? [01:04.12]British English [01:05.82]It was in Shakespear's lifetime [01:07.61]that English began to spread around the world. [01:10.79]In 1607,British rulers established [01:13.21]a colony in Virginia- [01:14.93]the first permanent English- speaking [01:17.01]settlement in North America. [01:18.88]By the time the Americans [01:20.42]won their independence from Britain [01:22.06]in the 1780s,there were thirteen colonies [01:25.36]and four million English-speaking people! [01:27.44]

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