一、课前自主预习——课文重建
根据本单元reading 课文在下面短文空格中填入所缺单词(每空一词)。
People from many different countries and cultures have lived together in Britain all 1. _______ history. That is why English has so many 2. _________ rules.
English 3. _______ of three types, namely Old English, Middle English and Modern English. The original language 4. _______ in England was Celtic. Many factors 5. ___________
to its development. One factor is 6. ____ the foreign invaders took 7. _______ of Britain and brought with them their languages, 8. ______ had a great influence on the changes in the English language. By the latter half of the 14th century, English had come into widespread 9. ___ among all classes in England.
English is changing all the time. The English we speak nowadays includes many Latin and Greek words. It is 10. _______ that English will continue changing in the future.